I have full lips already and I had a terrible allergic reaction to a Neutregena lip balm a couple of years ago. It was insane how my lips puffed up for 2 days, I looked like I had plastic surgery gone awry. Then stupidly a week later I tried it again to see if it really was that balm. Turns up, yep it was.

this look is not for people who will be eating.

In 3rd grade I decided to chop all my hair off but for a long rat tail down the back. I was mistaken for a boy for a year at least. Then when I was 16 I had long curly waist length hair. I hated how excessively feminine it was and how people made assumptions about me and treated me (due to the hair I thought) so I…

Are the naked pallets worth it? I've been thinking of buying one for a year now...maybe I just need to do it.

Really interesting comments. I'm struck by how many different ways there are to approach money within a marriage that work well depending on the couple. Also struck by how early life experiences shape what one is comfortable with. I'm Probably being captain obvious here...

oh wow I would hate that. Cool that it works for you.

I know my husband has probably spent way more than that on a guitar. His money his business as long as he's putting his share into our household why should he tell me? Why should I care?

yeah I make way more than hubs but we both contribute the same percentage of our income into joint accounts and we use that to pay for kid stuff. Works out fine. We check in and discuss quarterly or so to make sure everything is ok.

We do almost the exact thing. I want to be able to splurge on an expensive show or on getting sessions with a trainer or what not. And Papagabriel wants to get expensive musical equipment. This way we can take care if household business and have some private spending money too.

I have curly hair. The few times in my life that it's been straight (when someone who cuts my hair straightens it) I don't even recognize myself.

Yeah my husband wanted to get me a diamond engagement ring. I preferred to use money for a trip to Mexico. He ended up buying a mismatched simple small diamond plus two simple diamond bands at the pawn shop down the street from our house that I'm pretty sure was a drug money laundering business and is now a legit pot…

I offered the ring back but he told me to keep it. Granted it was not at all traditional or expensive. It has sat in a box of other miscellaneous jewelry ever since. This makes me think I should do something with it. Not sure what that would be.

Yes but it's worth it if it means that the sluts are punished. I mean, I font really think it's about working or not but about punishing and controlling women as much as possible. If it were really about saving babies wouldn't the logical tactic be to create free universal healthcare, free daycare, free birth control?

I agree. I think about the incredibly intense feelings I had for my son as a baby, and even now. The only thing comparable is an intense romantic crush. I can see how those intense feelings for an adult would be so similar as to be interpreted as extreme lust. I hope that makes sense and doesn't make me sound creepy...

My 3 year old son and I got a ton of baking stuff for Christmas. He decided that we should try it all out by making a lemon cake with pink frosting. Sooooo delicious!

That and also it taps into and explores their greatest fears—of parents dying.

One thing that bears mentioning is that women are perturbed as less dangerous by everyone they encounter therefore I can see how they might get more help. Personally I'd be more inclined to give a ride to a woman hitchhiker than a man. I think this plays a big part in who gets help.

Good advice. My in laws were making the most terrible racist comments last Christmas (aimed at Arabs who apparently it is ok to openly and overtly slam) and I froze. I need a stock phrase...

Good for you for having these kind of conversations. I just can't do it without getting upset. So I just avoid the topic which makes me part of the problem. I wish I could buck up and have conversations like these.

This is so well said! Plus the term "racist" is so loaded that white people shut down when it comes up and can't see when they themselves are being prejudiced. Honestly it's the white people who brag about being color blind who are the wirat because they are so enamored with their own denial ...