I’m home with my parents for the holidays and that means being back in a country with Sephora...heaven on earth. Finally got some Too Faced Born This Way foundation, because I’d heard great things but didn’t want to buy without swatching. Also got a new Kat Von D liquid lipstick in ‘Berlin’- haven’t been gravitating…

Ya got me. I’m a creepy monster who goes around asking EVERYONE to spill their business! And then I cackle like a witch!

I definitely think there are some parallels and I can see why you thought of it! But I think there’s something unique about being in a woman-only space which might be the only time your abuser leaves you alone that could make it a good time for such a talk.

Which is why hairdressers won’t be mandated reporters, but will rather be given the tools to initiate conversations that women might not start on their own.

Well, it probably wouldn’t be about a drug problem, but rather domestic violence, which is pretty different? Plus hopefully the training would include much more tactful ways of bringing it up. Just, ‘is everything okay with your husband?’ could open the door for someone who feels like no one is there to listen, maybe.

The most vile posts about this (which seem to belong exclusively to my Instagram recommended feed) are memes listing Kanye as ‘just another one of the men the Kardashians have ruined’, after ‘Bruce, Lamar, Rob’. Come for the blatant misogyny of blaming women for men’s problems, stay for the incredible ignorance and…

Tiffany is exactly the sort of gaudy, classless shit I bet Trump LOVES.

Right, here are my tips!

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Oh the scalp scabs are SO real. I’m currently sat with my dream silvery lilac locks, getting so many compliments, and little do they know that I literally feel like a disgusting, crusted-over medieval plague victim because I have CHEMICAL BURNS! They tend to go away within a few days, although mine are definitely…

I see where you’re coming from, but I actually think it’s quite an important distinction. If you tell people it’s a known fact that vaping is no safer than smoking cigarettes, then some heavy smokers may end up discounting a valuable way to quit, before there’s evidence to actually make a decision either way.

Yes, exactly. That’s why your comment “I just wish people knew that it’s really no safer to vape” is not correct because it hasn’t been proven either way.

When I was a teenager with a C cup, the bandeau-under-a-slouchy-tank look was trendy...so I’d wear a slouchy tank over a bandeau over a proper bra. It wasn’t my best time.

I completely agree with this, your second comment, but it contradicts your first, where you say with confidence that it’s ‘really no safer to vape’. Lots more testing definitely should be done and caution makes sense in the meantime, but that’s as far as I’d take it.

I’ve been making this point for several days on various articles and have hit a complete brick wall each time. People are just genuinely seeing something completely different to what I’m seeing, or being totally disingenuous in saying ‘no HE’S homophobic and she’s the perfect feminist queen!’

Um, what. Quote from my original post: “Kanye’s tweets were worse.” No one disagrees with this. Literally no one is defending his misogyny or his ego. You don’t get to shut down homophobia and kink-shaming by saying that the object of it is a bad person who did worse things. The reason I chose to focus this was…

Oh come on. It’s embarrassing for anyone to have a sexual kink shared in a very very public way. Add to that the fact that ass-play is often considered gay or effeminate for straight men- I don’t think it’s fair to say he’s kink-shaming himself, at all. Put aside the context and how vile Kanye has been to her- I’m not…

I definitely get that perspective. And hey, I’m a white woman who doesn’t live in the US- I can’t definitely speak to how others will perceive Amber’s comment. But there are so many other ways to go after Kanye (his ego, his fairly crappy recent singles, his ego, his reality TV participation, his ego) that would’ve…

I totally agree- I don’t think Kanye deserves *anything* better. But I think she’s above this kind of comment.

You’re a really good writer and I’m too scared to go upstairs now.