I would have very sweetly and without a hint of bitchiness in my voice said, “Well, I’m the expert here, and I think she’d look beautiful in this lipstick. I bet her sister will be super jealous!” But we have a lot of leeway at our store when it comes to ish like that.

This. 100%. They give out awards at our store meetings and one time I won the award for having passion for the client, and I literally burst into tears because it was unexpected and super meaningful for me. I think it’s pretty easy to sum up how I feel about my job: I want people to leave happier than when they came…

I’m so sorry this stupid illness caused you so much disruption in your life. It’s a bitch to manage. PS, you’ll be glad to know we do not have headsets anymore. ;)

I am one of those people.... I absolutely cannot leave my house, for any reason short of an ambulance showing up, without a full face of makeup.

Yaaaas girl. Same here. My best friend in the world was married to a complete and utter piece of garbage who never “let” her buy makeup, unless she took it out of the grocery “allowance” he “gave” her (PS she earned more money than he did). When she finally left him, she came to stay at my house until her apartment…

My child suffers from severe depression and has been cutting/suicde trys. It’s not as easy as people think. Getting her to take care of herself is a daily struggle. Every little thing she does in regards to bathing , hair combing is a win when she actually does it.

As someone who has struggled with severe depression for 2 decades: taking showers and maintaining basic physical hygiene is key to keeping going. My basic response to a bout of depression is: just keep showering. Shower everyday. It doesn’t matter if everything else blows. Just shower and you’ll feel a little better.…

Sara, sweetie, because of your courage in talking about this and because of this little girl’s courage to go and get help (instead of just shaving her head in pain at home), I’m going to share my story too. So fewer of us can feel alone. And I’ll tell the whole truth because fuck it.

I think its important emphasize that you can’t make a teenager do much, in a physical sense. Sure, you can attempt to leverage behavior out of them but you can’t force their hands in a literal sense the way you might a smaller child or toddler.

I feel you on teeth. Mine are a mess because I had long period when I got behind on caring for them due to being in a toxic situation (coupled with my soda habit that I’m trying to cut down on significantly). As I said to my dentist when I went back for the first time in a while, when one is focusing on just…

The Trump era has really fucked me up. I need to get my shit together and take better care of my teeth. The rest is cosmetic...but I kinda need my teeth. :/

I’ve lived with pretty severe bipolar disorder I since I was 14 (diagnosed only at age 28, but the symptoms set in far, far earlier than that). I know the pain of being so depressed you can’t get out of bed for days at a time, so much that even the thought of showering is too exhausting to accomplish. I know how it…

This is at least the third article I’ve read in a similar vein — about depressed people neglecting their self-care — in the last month or two. I don’t know what has caused this emergence, but I welcome it. I work from home so I’m not worried about what I look/smell like to other people, so my depression wins most…

I have pretty big nipples. They always look ready to cut glass. And I’m Canadian. There is nothing like a Canadian winter to ensure that my nipples are always ready to salute.

I had no idea Jennifer Anniston and I had something in common, but I too suffer from Pointy Nipple Syndrome, whereupon one’s nipples are literally always erect. Those afflicted have two choices—exclusively wear heavy duty bras that will conceal this and never ever go braless no matter how tiny your boobs may be, or…

On why the front of her skirt was not lifted:

I’m mostly annoyed by how inaccurate it is. Just like, with obvious basic facts. No, Black people who were born in other countries and don’t speak English are not African fucking American. Black does not automatically equal African American. How hard is that to understand?

I.... have no idea where you’re going with that headline or this article?

This, so much this. A woman knows when she’s been groped. Even as we’re second-guessing ourselves, we know.

oh girl. it’s the worst. and it takes so long to shake. you can still feel the touch long after the incident is over.