How vain are you?

barbe1958

I have a horrid cowlick back there that people say "You're losing your hair!" Um,no, it's a part, idiot! I guess that's why I'm super conscious about seeing other ladies with hair smooshed to one side where they napped on the couch.... 

SelenaWolf

 "Grandma - your hair looks like a cat's butt!"

ROTFLMAO!!!

Once, when my nephews were young and staying over for the weekend, the eldest looked at me as I stumbled bleerily from our bedroom first thing in the morning, "... auntie, your hair looks like you've been sucked by a camel..."

Out of the mouths of babes, indeed...

Anonymous

LOL - reminds me of the day I was walking near my new ( thought not so new now) house in this rural area, and as I was walking past the field full of cows who are my nearest neighbors, I noticed several LICKING their backs, and creating - I LOVE IT - cowlicks.  Honest, I never knew that's where the word came from.  I too have several, and I don't even have to lick them to get them, they're just there ;-)

DeliriumPie

my hair has been so long and heavy for years that I only recently discovered my back cowlick. I have to check it and comb it at least three times before leaving the house now!  I've also decided that I'm pretty sure almost positive that I now have a mullet. Which is quite disturbing. I haven't wanted to cut any of the precious new hair off though and the top has not grown as fast as the back.  

Surgery tomorrow and the preop instructions actually say no makeup of any kind this time. Drat!  I'm still going to wear foundation though. They can't stop me. And maybe a lip stain...

Ariom

Oh DP, I wish you all the very best for tomorrow, and I so, understand wanting to wear your foundation and lip stain, I have always done that too! a little cream blush and clear mascara, just to keep them from pointing in different directions:)

I think I have had that written on my "orders for the day" as well, but I have never been asked to remove it. It is just a subtle coverage, not a full blown face of makeup.

We will be waiting to hear how you're doing, hugs to you! M x

barbe1958

I've had to remove nail polish before which I think is bull! If you can't tell my oxygen levels with that thingy on my fingertip or the machines beeping behind me, then I'm pretty sure it'll be too late when my fingernails turn blue. 

Ariom

Ha ha! Barbe, that is so true!

SelenaWolf

Good luck, DP, we'll be thinking of you...

Anonymous

thinking of you, DP.  Tinted moisturizer is always allowed

pupmom

DP good luck with your surgery! My cheating has always involved coloring in my eyebrows! Nobody has ever mentioned it. 

SelenaWolf

Tinted moisturizer!  I didn't think of that!  And, yes, a smidge of eyebrow pencil and a nude lip balm.  Absolutely.

Anonymous

speaking of eyebrows, of which I don't have many, and the ones I do have gone Andy Rooney on me, so have to trim the ends, what do you all do when they go GRAY.  Yup, lotsa gray. Well, white, really.  Hair is lovely gray in front along waves, almost looks streaked, and I do like it, reast is sorta muddy brown, golder in summer.  DONE WITH HAIR COLOR.  Such a relief...but white eyebrows?  I dunno bot dat....still lotsa brown, but thinking ahead...

Spookiesmom

I just drove past a salon had a sign out front, eyebrow threading. What is that? Never heard of it, didn't have time to stop. Maybe an answer for us?

pupmom

Sunny, that's why I always have my handy dandy eyebrow shadow and/or pencil at the ready. No little operation is gonna stop this vain lady from coloring her gray eyebrows! Regarding Andy Rooney growths, God created tweezers to take care of them!

Ariom

Hi Spookiesmom. threading is, I think, and old European method for removing hair at the roots. The operator uses cotton thread stretched between her fingers that see saws and rolls together picking up every tiny hair. It works really well to remove hair. I have friends who use this method for their eye brows, never tweezers. There are lots of demos of it on YouTube.

Ariom

Sunflowers, I get quite a few greys in my brows, I usually just remove them, but there is brow mascara that tones them down. I have used Mirenesse which tames the brow into shape and gives a bit of color, but I love my Smashbox  brow Tech, which has brow powder and wax in the same pot. It covers them really well. 

Ariom

Yorkiemom, I saw a cool contraption for sale just recently, for doing the Andy Rooneys. It comprised of a tiny comb attached to a pair of baby fine scissors. You combed the brows upward and then just snipped the unruly hairs with the scissors.

pupmom

Ariom, truth is I've always had Andy Rooney eyebrows. Inherited them from both parents. Good news is that my eyelashes are very long too. I really don't have many eyebrows left as I have tweezed them all my life and destroyed most of the hair roots there. Your eyebrow powder sounds like mine. I use Jane Iredale Bitty Brow Kit.

Anonymous

Ariom - that's what I've been doing for years, as I've always had long ( LONG!) eyebrow hair, but NOW the andy rooneys are a real joke.  I use a little "mustache comb" and my embroidery scissors ( the ones shaped like a bird) - works well.  If I plucked the grays, I wouldn't have any brwos left.  Would be funny to "color" them with a pencil, as my hair is gray in front too...will have to check out darker grey pencils?

Ariom

Sunflowers, What a great idea, the mustache comb and fine scissors! This little gadget that I saw looked like it would be awkward to use with the 2 attached.

As you can see in my picture, I have platinum white hair, but the brows I have left, are still dark, with the odd white one appearing now and then. My hair was almost Black when I was young, so the change is huge for me. I use a taupe/grey brow color and it seems to work. I too, over plucked as a youngster and they never grew back properly.

SelenaWolf

".... but I love my Smashbox  brow Tech..."

So do I!  I love this stuff!  It's becoming as necessary as lipstick.

 

Anonymous

Taupe grey - on my shopping list.  You women are THE BEST.  I'll be vain yet ;-)  

and YES, the little mustache comb and my embroidery scissors are very effective.  You comb up the eyebrow, and the andy rooney's really stick up, clip, clip clip - voila, gorgeous!  Don't forget to smile at the mirror:-)

elimar86861

Guilty of overplucking the brows in my youth too, and now that they have thinned with age they don't look so good anymore.  I picked up a couple brow pencils when I was on chemo and lost about half of my brow hairs.  Use them still for a little fill-in.  I have a nice Oil of Olay brand pencil that "Look Good, Feel Better" gave to me.

-------------------------

Here's a topic I don't think you vainies have touched on yet...the Driver's License photo.  I once had a really good one that took off about 10 years of age.  Then last year I had to renew while on chemo...eeeeww, not good and I'm stuck with six years of it.  I had posted about this on another thread and a woman said she had paid once just to get a better photo.  I then realized while I was vain enough to be disgruntled by my less than prime look, I was more cheap than vain in that I probably would not pay just to get a better looking one. 

Anyone get a DL photo redo just to get a better looking one?

SelenaWolf

I have been known to have my driver's license photo taken twice (at different MTO offices) because there was no way in hell that I was going to look at a horrible photo for five years.  Did, indeed, have my passport photos done three times until I had one I could live with.

 

Momine

Eli, easy, I don't drive

macatacmv

I'm the one that has gotten a new license just to get a new picture. At the time I was wondering if this topic would make it to this thread. My appearance had really changed from that of a worn out middle aged woman to a woman who cared enough to have her hair colored and styled, lost some weight and got contacts. I did not look like that old picture anymore. I was waiting for hours at a RMV for my DD to get her license reinstated and decided to spring for a new license. The woman that took the picture said she was amazed I had gotten younger! Made my day!

Of course, that was before bc. Now I have worked really hard to get healthy again and I'll be damned (can I say that?) if I'm gonna look sick!

I just have the woman at the salon put some dye on my eyebrows while she is doing my hair. (probably against the law or something) lol 

Anonymous

Damn right you can say that....

from your location, I think you're getting SNOW.

  Western MA is about 10 degrees...so, hidden in scarves, I do look younger too!

macatacmv

yep, we had a blizzardcane. Things are coming back to normal now. no boats running yet, but soon!

elimar86861

Although I referenced her anonymously in my previous post, I see mac outed herself.  

Blessings2011

I think the best drivers license picture I ever got was about 30 years ago, when I ducked into the DMV bathroom to freshen up my makeup prior to having my picture taken.

There was another woman in there, and from what I could tell, she was, well, er, let's just say she either had the world's oldest profession, or was an exotic dancer. She was doing her makeup, too.

Well, we got to talking, and before I knew it I was troweling on MY makeup like she was. I walked out of there looking like I was ready to hit the streets, if you get my drift.

But that must have been the secret to not getting a washed-out, horrible DL picture... I looked GREAT!!!