/hb/ - Health & Beauty

I went no-make up for about a year. It was really freeing. You save so much time, money, and mental space. Good luck, Nona!

>>Gets soaking oily in 1-2 days
Well yeah you're supposed to take a shower every day

>>22483
Every other day actually,unless you want your skin to be 120 grit sandpaper

>>22484
You don't have to shower and use soap on every square inch of your body but thin hair will never be able to go days and days without being washed or using product to help it not look greasy. You'll probably have to wash thin hair every day to maintain volume.

>>22490
That was my point in the op. That there's no workaround having fine hair and it getting greasy fast because it's like this by design
But >>22483 made it sound like you're supposed to shower every day regardless of your hair type or how oily your skin is

>>22490
As someone with thin light hair I find that the longer it gets, the better it holds up not getting shampoo'd. I shower twice daily, but I only used to wash my hair twice a week when it was below my shoulders. Day 2 and day 3 hair feels conditioned and easier to handle.

>>22452
Also sounds like that red liquid is a certain form of vitamin B that not everyone absorbs well for various reasons. Plus it's probably maintenance dose?
What I personally take is just a normal pill, but it's super high dosage that's supposed to raise vitamin B levels real quick. This might be why our experiences differ.

>>22454
yeah because of your vitamin b post i’m going to ask about it at an upcoming appointment, i’ve never had prescribed any vitamin except iron and everything else they’ve just told me take over the counter. but now that i know it’s an option i’m going to pursue it. i’ve been pretty good about taking various brand magnesium supplements over the years. i stayed with the one i use now cos drink powders can be a chore and i hate the huge chalky white square oval pills they sometimes sell them as. my current ones are purple capsules they’ve tapered to be easier to swallow. seriously massive horse pills a lot of the time in the US at least. i also usually take vitamin D but i’ve been slacking. if you take those i know you should eat or take a calcium supplement at the same time because your body absorbs those together!

>>22455
The doc will probably want to have an issue to solve before they prescribe you strong vitamin pills.
I literally got vitamin B because of my hearing issues being connected to neurology/vascular issues.
That said vitamin B deficiency has a lot of symptoms, so I'd try to complain about those (if you have them) or just take the blood test even. If you have a strong deficiency the doc will prescribe something 100%

btw, funny thing is, it was the ENT who prescribed me vitamin B, not a neurologist or anyone else. They had 30 years of exp. Wise doc.

I personally think it's more of a flex to look good without all of that. if you need fillers/extreme makeup/etc to look good then you don't actually look good. that's why I invest much more in my skincare and personal grooming.

>>22387
>What would be the point of brainwashing someone to do that

Because it aligns with the broader programming we receive; the more converging factors there are, the harder it is to break that programming. The general message we're sent is "you are a unique individual, and the way you express that individuality is by buying something someone else made." Tattoos are one of many commodities we can buy to supposedly express individuality, except that standards have slipped enough that the only way a tattoo can stand out now is if you get it on your face.

Another theory of mine is that tattoos make you a lot easier to identify, so it probably helps law enforcement when you get tattoos.

I feel like the motivation to get tattoos comes from the same part of the brain that makes people give their children shitty names like tragedeigh
like it's a semi permanent way to show "individuality" that's more important to the person than the negatives, such as broader social disapproval (which is what makes it trashy)

But it isn't always trashy. Tattoos can be culturally consistent and be appropriate for certain groups. Yakuza are an extreme example but I wouldn't cringe if it's congruent with whatever the person does. I think it also has to be a bit of a flex to break social norms while still being tolerated or accepted - it actually requires more social skill than most have. Which is also when it's less trashy.

>>22386
its like cigarettes
they were marketted as rebelious and signaling freedom or some bullshit
when historically they were used to brand cattle and criminals lol

>>22413
tattoos are honestly cheugy now and i’m so glad they’ve been out for a while. i’ve genuinely always wondered how women with large tattoos cope. a couple cute little ones are one thing, but taking up your upper thigh or shoulder or upper arm with a tattoo is as bad of self harm as blacking out your face to me im sorry. especially when all of them are bad and ugly. i see good ones on the internet but i assume they’re photoshopped or brand new.

>>22067
That's horrible advice. IMO you should grow LONGER bangs. The kind that reach your lips or beyond so no one ever really sees your eyes and you look demented as fuck.

Consider the pippi look too with bangs

hey ur really pretty :)

>>22064
Your bangs are lovely

No ur super cute its fine bae leave the bangs

I never got it KEK

>>18711
Non-vaxxie sisfist

>be me in '16
>for 23 fucking years no cold has ever lasted more than 3 days
>everytime I get sick I get like a 2 day long severe fever and wreck the living shit out of every virus
>get summer job at the hospital
>need to vaxx for hep B
>3 doses in my antibody count remained low so they give me one last booster halfway into my contract
>4 years later develop MS at 27
>learn that concerns existed about the vaxx causing MS
Fuck vaccines
Fuck medicine
I don't care anymore I'm not taking anything even if I die I don't want to be a labrat anymore
Fuck this

>>18711
same girl!

>>11172
Yes, I have about a dozens of vaccines in me right now.
…Of tested, developed over decades vaccines based on making the body associate a sing of the ilness with an antibody response.
I do not have any untested experimental gene therapy inside me.

>>22384
They're probably just holding the pudge back with their stomach muscles. I have a flat stomach while lying down, but standing up there's a little bit of pudge unless I hold it back (which I do bc I'm self-conscious of it as well).

flat stomach girl here, straight up its from not eating. i take adhd meds which makes me forget to eat/it does some weird metabolic shit and drink a lot of coffee which makes me shit after eating. no woman’s stomach is gonna be flat like a man’s due to where the uterus is also how is your posture?

The only time I had a flat stomach was when I was dangerously underweight. It's just not possible for some of us.

Have to keep working more and losing more, you just need more muscle holding the other tissues, i think leg ups while alternating sides helped me, but i still see it when i sit down.

Weird question, but do you poop fully? My tummy will have some "pudge" right before I go and will stay puffy during the days right before my period when I get a little constipated and it doesn't fully empty. My tummy is literally only flat when it's totally empty cause when you're skinny, any amount of food, bloat, or poop is visible pretty much. If you don't fully empty or your schedule means you poop right before a meal, you may never get the totally flat tummy look. Models will poop and not eat right before a shoot to keep themselves flat for it. Also some girls seem to have some extra womb pudge there that never goes away, there's this creepy surgery you can get to remove it. Iirc Grimes was the celeb I learned it from and it looked odd. It's probably there as some biological trait for protection of the organs or something like that.
Another thing is maybe you're skinnyfat? If so then working out your abs will help tone it up. It won't remove womb chub if that's what it is, but sometimes it will look chubby when it's just lacking muscle. At least I felt like my belly would flop about and looked almost chubby before i started working out my abs.

I struggled filling them down to size but got them on! The other hand's nails look a little worse on the nail bed cause I filled a little too agressive but still they look really nice! They're thin so they don't really look like bad quality acrylics like you'd get done in a mall. Up close you wouldn't say they're customs but they're really cute
>>20068
I got them at a local African beauty store. They're a brand I've seen around called Miss Yes that's under 10$
>>20070
You can buy press on nails by real nail artists. They're real acrylics just done to your size on a mannequin then applied later by the artist or you at home. Imo they're a better idea than getting the acrylics done on you cause it's the same quality and will actually last if you remove them carefully. As for mass produced press ons they're nothing like they used to be in the 00s, I think they're better than a cheap nail artist now cause they're thin and come in nice designs you'd be paying so much extra for to get done. Tbh they beat a lot of "artists" in my city from seeing pics online unless you jump to 150$ minimum but I couldn't imagine paying for that to be applied temporarily instead of getting a set to keep at that price

>>20085
how cute! I recommend brush on nail glue, i can link the one I use. super strong. also you should have pushed back you cuticles and put the nails further up so they looked more real

>>20089
I would really appreciate the glue recommendation, I used these stickers it came with but the nails popped off by night haha. It did come with glue too but it's probably not great.
Should I cut a bit of the cuticles do you think? I pushed them as back as I could but they're a little long so they moved back into place onto the fake nails. I've had a lifetime nail biting habit (partially why I got the nails) so I don't really know anything to do with nail care lol.

Hope I chose the right thread cause I wanted to show these off. Wore these for an office Christmas party tonight. Technically Halloween themed due to the Ghostface but ah well, nobody noticed that part. Only that they matched my earrings. I got a few compliments on them so I think I'm getting the hand of press ons. I will say, I was so happy to have press ons now that I've left. So satisfying to pop them off and let my fingers breathe now before bed. Also could get them cute and long without worrying about practicality!

>>22430
Inserted the wrong pic, here's a hand before I started removing the nails

>>22004
Did you at least like the orange hair?

They lie to you about the prices.

>>21884
I went to check out some hair salons, saw the prices, noticed that they'd charge me more for being a woman, then I left and asked one of my friends to cut my hair instead. She did a good job.
I later found a salon that has equal pricing, no further problems.

>>21884
How do I find one that doesn’t rip me off

Decided to try out this fancy hair salon (on my ex's dime thankfully). Omg was it a waste of money.
The guy didn't spend any time to know what I actually wanted so he got it totally wrong. I wanted multi-colour hair but he just picked one random colour out of the hair samples I showed him without communication and I didn't realise until it was too late. A very awful bright pink that looked horrendous on me. Out of all the colours he picked the worst if he was going to choose to give me one colour. He also fried the shit out of my hair when he bleached it to then put on the pink (it was like he'd never worked with semi dark hair, he basically tried turning it white before adding the colour) and that hair colour was the scourge of my hair dye adventures for the next 5 or so years until I could cut all of it off. And it turned out to be one of those shitty expensive salons that make you pay extra/buy a slot for a basic dry off after the dye but they didn't make it clear beforehand nor let you add a blowout afterwards. I was practically in tears when he shoved me out the door with wet trashy pink dangerhair. A random woman outside could tell my sorrow and tried cheering me up but honestly it looked so crap.
Thankfully within the next months I found my dream hairdresser and I followed her across town whenever she changed stores. She and I clicked so well and she actually spent the time to know what I wanted and would work with the shitty former dye (it mixed harshly with new colours) to make it look good and best of all, she made sure to pick colours and dyes which faded out well. She also perfected giving me a "melt" hairstyle as she called it which left my roots intact and the new colours looked like they melted out of my hair so the roots came in nicely and I didn't have to come get it fixed every few weeks. She was also at one of the cheapest spots in town at the start which meant my crazy hairstyles would come out to be under 200$ for like 6+ hours of work.
Honestly after that I refuse to see hoity toity gays for my hair. Give me a plump mom or lesbian who loves to work with hair any day. It has never led me wrong since then. They also go nuts if you have a crazy idea, they actually love it vs begrudgingly doing their job

sometimes уоu want tо show оff your lеgs, nоt the entirety of your crotch.

>>22302
then wear shorts

>>22409
that would be inappropriate at the evening show or whatever bullshit
although maybe the woman in the op thread would benefit from safety shorts

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