How vain are you?

Mspharoah, isn't that Maybelline concealer great?i just hit under my eyes & red areas of my face then top with loose powder. No foundation.

"I find that - the more I learn - the more stuff there is that I don't
know. It's scary how much we will never know compared to what we will
learn!  That's also a great buffer to being intellectually vain; one becomes humbled by what one will never know."

Too true, Selena Wolf!  I second that emotion.

MsPharoh, just doin' my job, ma'am.  (That's a reference to what I put in my profile under occupation.) 

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Don't get me started on the reading glasses.  I vainly struggled not to need them, and then when I finally had to break down and get a pair, I chose ones that were conspicuously garish.  That was my way of conceding defeat.

What a great bunch of women!

Welcome, Leah.  A dear friend of mine just came back from taking her 13 year old about to be Bat Mitzvahed granddaughter on her first trip to Israel.  She brought me back the "pebble" I requested, and said probably all the trees our respective grandmothers planted for our own birthdays are probably gone   BTW, love how you've described the "RIGHT" way for a good friend to share information.  With understanding, compassion, and caring. Not much of which is found in those trying to put "the answer" on your plate ( but then, I'm the bully who knows a shortage of coffee beans is gonna really crimp the enema business)

Anyhooooooo...elimar - whatever vanity helps us get thru the day, and doesn't hurt anybody else, I'll try that one next.

MsPharoah - "rockin' the chemo-do" - YOU ROCK ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Betcha' look gorgeous - heck, works for charlize theron

MOMINE - from another thread on what to eat to....meant to say, you gotta get someone coming to visit you to stop first at Costco, and buy some of the almond butter they sell in HUGE plastic jars - very cheap compared to what is in most stores. Deeeeeelicious....has totally replaced peanut butter in my, ah, diet..( that last word is a snark, btw) - sign in my little kitchen, "stressed spelled backwards is desserts." 

Melissa.....sadly I can't skip the foundation. (Sigh)  Yes, I love the Age Rewind Dark Circle Concealer that was recommended on this thread.  I am now a fan.

Best men's cologne is Abercrombie and Fitch "Woods".  A man with that scent is just not safe near me.  Grrrrr!

MsP

Selena, definitely. But when I say I am vain in this way, I mean more that I REALLY want to understand and that it is not unlike REALLY wanting to find that perfect pair of shoes for an outfit

I reply to myself.  I am actually trying to get my vanity back.  I think that is one of the points of this thread.  In fact, I was just debating whether or not to do my own pedicure, and then I stopped myself and thought, Absolutely not.  You are going to have the best pedicure in town.

Elimar, is laser hair removal plastic surgery?  After the very hurtful and unkind video of the British lady and waxing, I am thinking of switching over to laser hair removal.  

bobogirl, laughing so hard it's making me cough!

OK - plastic surgery, as requested, aren't we all eager to please.  Don't care about the dark circles, tho I will get the Maybelline as soon as enuf of the snow melts so we can BEGIN to see the surface of the roads - BUT, it's about the eyelids.  PLURAL.  Eyelids.  More than one, on each eye, which if you stretchy the skin together can almost cover the eyelashes ( which are LONG, speaking of vanity) - I wear rimless glasses, gut still, th LIDS.

Idea, I'm serious, I actually thought of this, and no elimar I wasn't smokin' anything, of breaking a toothpick to the right size, squeegying it into the corners of the glasses, and using the other end to prop up the eyelids.  Ya think I might be ready for plastic surgery!  It's the $$$$, damn, it's relly expensive, and I'm cheap.  

Can a woman still be on the thread if she's more cheap than vain?

Also, I expect many of the posters/lurkers on this wonderful thread also have a JAWLINE.  Just wait... ;-))))))))))

Once upon a time I got regular Botox injections around my spine for pain relief. Other than a runny nose, no sx. It's good for that, why not facial areas?

:-)  Melissa - I know, but they only cover the eyelashes if I pull on'em.  Other that that, they are just there to make me look like I'm half asleep, or very tired.  I do know a woman who "qualified" - and other women who have had "work" done, and some have that dreaded deer in the headlights look....so hard to tell how it's gonna' look.

Bobo, I NEVER pick fights with Eli, because I would lose!

aaaauuggghhhhheli's being "bullied" - OH, MY, OH, MY the sky is falling - tee, hee..."sell sky."

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ok momine, I was joking, you know :0)  about it all, think Selena had her tongue firmly in cheek too ;-)

I know, I know! But it is really fun...If you know you like, for example, amber based scents, you can order whole sets of different classic or modern perfumes samples that are variations on that theme. I started reading the reviews and then finding all kinds of things I wanted to try.

I feel like my face has aged 10 years since my cancer diagnosis. I'd love to have a filler for the lines around my mouth, and those dimples at the corners of my mouth. Sometimes I pull up slightly at the sides of my face and I look so much younger! Maybe I need to wear a really tight ponytail?