I use those for exactly one thing dotting white shadow on the inner corner of my eye. The tip of those things is perfect. I don’t clean them as often as I should, but a little dawn and a good rise and a thorough drying gets it clean until it gets ratty and goes in the trash. For other stuff, though, I agree that…

If it doesn’t break you out (it does me if I use it on consecutive days), the E.L.F. mineral infused primer is supposed to be close. It’s silicone based too, but I found the Smashbox one not as thick. I’m currently on the hunt for a non silicone based one or even a moisturizer with SPF that can do double duty since my…

E.L.F. runs sales all the time, so it’s worth it to sign up for emails from them. I usually don’t order anything from them unless they have free shipping or a good sale. I ordered my fave dirt-cheap highlighter from them a few weeks ago when they would ship anything for free with no minimums.

Good. When my then 3 yo niece wanted to be Peter Pan,there was some hand wringing about why she wanted to wear a “boy costume” even though: a) Who cares? Let her be what she wants and b.) even if for some odd reason this might bother you, Peter Pan was played by a woman onstage. Plus, how is it more of a stretch that…

Good on you. I wish my parents had followed this, and I try to do it with my niece and nephew. My mom was always trying to “catch” us in lies, and she also had read somewhere that kids believed their own lies, so if she thought we were lying and we insisted we weren’t, she’d tell us we were starting to believe our own…

Could be worse. I somehow got Rand Paul.

I don’t know. I don’t remember what movie I picked. They all looked vile, but I got Rand Paul too.

Science majors are just as capable of saying dumb pandering crap as everyone else. Ben Carson says silly things about climate change all time. Rand Paul is just absurd. Both of them got all the way through med school and competitive internships and residencies. Ben Carson is an acclaimed neurosurgeon. Bobby Jindal,…

My cat smacks my face and meows at me in the middle of the night until I move my head. Apparently, he feels the need to sleep right in front of my pillow instead of literally anywhere else.

I got teased so much in college about wooder by all of those snotty wahter people, but they had never had PB tastycakes or butterscotch krimpets, so

That describes my jury duty experience except you could have electronic devices. You couldn’t get a free WiFi network, but you could have phones, tablets, laptops. There was just nowhere convenient to use them. It also was hot as hell and we were piled on top of each other. I couldn’t even concentrate enough to read,…

I have a formalin sensitivity and forced myself to deal with things like lost voice, nosebleeds, dizzy headaches and other things for a solid year and then for periods beyond that to finish school. It’s absolutely awful to have to make choices like that, and every time I see things like this, I think of the workers…

There is pretty much nothing that would induce me to try anything that I knew had any kind of potentially significant amount of formalin in it if I had any choice. Then again, I have a formalin sensitivity and spent my entire first year of vet school with nosebleeds, eyes that felt covered with sandpaper, burning…

That is such an irritating attitude. I also cannot deal with how everyone feels the need to tell you how to straighten your hair if it is curly. Do people honestly not think it is insulting to tell you how you can and should change change something pretty major about your appearance? Is curly hair such a hideous…

I don’t know. If she had a little boy in a tutu and tape or body paint, I’d still feel like it was a bad idea. Like, I don’t care if people run around topless everywhere, and naked or partially naked little kids seem normal, but posing topless in pasties with a 2 yo of either sex in a matching costume as a business…

I almost broke the TV by throwing things at it when I watched him smarmily explain vaccines and antibiotics in a way that showed he was both ignorant of high-school-level science and a raging hypocrite. I am no longer allowed to watch Bill Maher.

I thought it was all white guys when I glanced at the picture quickly. When the article mentioned them, I thought it odd they hadn’t been pictured and then went back and looked and found them.

Times Square is the worst. I was terrified of costumed characters as a child, and I sometimes get panic attacks in extremely crowded places. Times Square is pretty much hell. My mother guilted me into going there last year as part of a day trip to see a matinee, and never again.

At my 19th birthday dinner, my mom screamed at the waiter filling my water glass that I wasn’t 21 and couldn’t have wine*. She actually held her hand over it so he couldn’t pour anything in it. My father told him that I was not a Mogwai so could have the water. I’m pretty sure my mother and this girl’s mother are from…

Weirdly, I don’t care about height in guys at all but only tend to be into women at least little taller than me. It’s not really a conscious thing, but looking back, it’s a definite preference.