as someone who does all three of those things, I still had horrible skin problems until my 30s as a result of a genetic issue inherited from both sides of my family. and I tried literally everything - it took medicine, regular trips to the dermatologist, and learning the art of make-up actually to give me the…

And then make it trendy for men to wear makeup. Also pantyhose, Spanx, and heels.

You’re sure she’s using tinted moisturizer and maybe something in her brows hahaha

I know makeup because I love it. So I don’t have to squint to detect a full, complete face of makeup.

Because women are praised most unreservedly for artifice or acts of achieving artifice—even though men have their own standards of vanity, beauty, and peacocking plumage—and the best sort is “effortless” or “natural,” either the result of great affluence or creepy eugenics or the illusion of both.

I mean, if you’re talking about Kim Kardashian, she’s sure as shit wearing makeup. But more importantly, if celebrities insist that they’re not wearing makeup when they almost certainly are, it creates an impossible beauty standard whereby average women are expected to look flawless without any sort of corrective aid.…

I don’t wear make-up and people don’t think I’m brave or cool or edgy. They do frequently comment on how tired I look.

Please please please make no make-up a thing. Maybe my persistent unwillingness to put forth the effort would read as trendy instead of lazy.

not a single person deserves the kind of treatment she received

This left me feeling gross. She’s a kid for fucks sake. She shouldn’t be saving her family from bankruptcy.

True, I just threw my 2 cents savagely without caring if they poked someone’s eyes out.

I am the only one among the people I know with a spreadsheet to keep track of everything.

It’s especially strange that a subscription you shouldn’t need for more than a few years is so hard to cancel. Even if you loved the service, your child is eventually going to grow out of diapers.

I love hearing about how creators choose their names (except the obviously focus grouped ones). I wish we could get the real story behind this one.

If you know you can’t afford it, then don’t sign up for a trial.

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So are you saying the behavior by this company - to create an extremely inconvenient process for subscription closeout, one that is borderline unbreachable by your customers - is acceptable?

“wrongly associated with a plastic toy that is a known choking hazard that risks harming small children”

Or you could just shut the fuck up.

“For most of history this was the only way to have noodles, or pasta.”

I would doubt the need for another nurse.