I have naturally curly thick hair. When I was in middle school I begged my mom to let me have it chemically straightened because I so desperately hated my hair at the time. (When you have an afro as a child in the suburbs of Colorado, you learn all about how kids are mean as hell)

Can we do fashion?

OMFG. I can't believe I forgot this one - when I was like, 15, I started shaving my pubes into shapes. Like hearts and stars. I used to outline the shape with eyeliner before I got into the shower to make sure I got it right. I wasn't even sexually active, just really ambitious with my little baby bush.

I am a *winner* alright.

I think you are the winner.

My mom and I permed my hair 3 times at home over the course of my third grade year.* It never took until the last go-round and I had hair as big as a lion mane. It took until 5th grade for both of us to admit it did not, in fact, look good. I went to my first professional haircut and the stylist said, "Good Christ, I…

Reading these responses, it sounds like someone needs to invent an eyebrow merkin.

Parents, teach your daughters about shaving their legs before they try to teach themselves.

I have dark black hair. Long dark black hair. But when I was a teenager I was not happy having long dark black hair. However It's hard to lighten black hair when you don't know what you are doing and silly me I thought you could bleach your hair with actual bleach. So I went to the cupboard and got the javex and…

When I was about 15, I dyed my hair jet black. Which made me look like I was not only dead, but in advanced stages of decay. After a few months and a few inches of my natural (dark-blond) color growing in at the roots, I tried bleaching all of it platinum.

It's TWO sweatbands. Both neon. One blue, one pink. I was very into Miami Vice.

But it would look so nice! And would it hurt you to smile, and use a little blush?

I have stick straight hair and wore it long with bangs from age 3-13. In the late 80s/early 90s my mother thought it would be cute to perm just the bangs. I repeat: just the bangs. She did this to me and my younger sister not once but twice and still defends the decision to this day. The pictures are too atrocious to…

I'll just leave this here....

THIS IS THE BEST NEWS!! so excited for this sideblog.

"I almost foam at the mouth in disgust, but I try to be pleasant."

It's also a by-product of the oil drilling industry. They rig workers originally started using it to heal cuts and burns.

I literally gasped when I read this comment. That's fucked. I won't even put Vaseline on my *skin* unless it's an emergency, b/c, as zoegraphic points out, it is a petroleum product.

Since Vaseline is a byproduct of crude oil, NO THANKS. lol.

That's why you get a dog. The dog alerts you to the intruder. Fuck, they've been domesticated for almost 30,000 years to do this. Not rocket science.