Girls thread cont.

Nah - it's tons of different stuff. There are boards for pretty much . . . everything? Clothes, crafts, health, travel, photography, art, pets - lots of stuff.

i think i'll just stay here

Ha I just tried to explain Pinterest this morning and spent a few minutes at lunch telling Jeff about all the ways I dislike/don't get Tumblr.

I like Pinterest in theory but I rarely do any freeform web browsing (just follow links from Twitter or from blogs I already read via Google Reader) so I don't know what I would "pin."

well, that's just it: you are looking at everyone else's pins (the analog would be 'tweets') and repinning stuff you like. of all my pins, probably only 10% are 'original' pins i found elsewhere, the rest is all 'repins'.

i don't either? i pretty much cover my bases with a running email to myself that i keep in drafts called "stuff"
beyond that i feel like it's just fodder for me being obsessive/hoardy of information (a trait i do NOT want to nurture in myself)

for instance -- i instantly delete any email from online clothing retailers unless it is a huge 50% off or more sale on something i already want
sure i could find things i like and "save them for later" but then what -- i buy them? eh. would rather just not. sometimes i feel like anything trying to sell me anything is borderline predatory.

SO otm. For me it's most a place for getting new ideas for things i want to make food and craft wise. I like that it's all in once place and now that I've figured out how to pin on my Ipad I will prob do it more. I also like the visual aspect. I repin a lot and that's led to to finding some really cool new sites and ideas. I mean - i totally get why it's not for some people but I've enjoyed it a lot when I remember to use it!

Is there an iPhone/iPad app?

good for gift ideas, too. although, like lexy, i have an amazing list of DIY crafts but haven't actually done any of them. i DID buy the frame/pegs/string/prints to make a really cool display for some of our better wedding photos... i just haven't gotten round to actually putting it together.

the most annoying thing about pinterest is seeing the same thing repinned over and over and OVER again - wish there was an option to 'hide this story'

breaking news: i haven't washed my hair in 4 days and it looks fine, bc i found a hair blog through pinterest that may have solved some hair issues for me

even thinking about pinterest makes me feel disorganized and overwhelmed!

I made some polymer clay bangles I found on there that came out pretty neat and, like I said earlier, some recipes.

I think there's a mobile app. There is for Android at least. The thing I was talking about for Ipad was a bookmarklet which let's you pin stuff from anywhere which doens't exist but I found a tutorial on how to create one using code in your bookmarks. OK that prob doesn't make any sense at all.

i guess the bottom line is that if i had a list of things that would be cool if i did them, but i kept not doing them for whatever reason, that --> feeling bad about myself for not-doing things, which --> basically pinteres sounds like (for me) a recreational automatic self-loathing machine --> dnw

every waking minute becomes "oh i should be doing THIS!" and really i have enough of that with work
part of that is just the way i am though

i think my brain just doesn't work in a way conducive to using something like that.

i found a hair blog through pinterest that may have solved some hair issues for me

link plz?

i feel like i have to physically see/sense something irl for it to make an impression - or at least motivate me enough to "file it away for later." which is probably good in some ways, because i'm less prone to impulse internet shopping, but at a bricks and mortar store ... i'm probably their dream customer tbh

tumblr helped me find these gems, and I am super happy about it

http://img3.etsystatic.com/il_570xN.291895195.jpg

those are nice skivvies

do you wear them to goth clubs? please say yes.

well I havent ordered them yet. They have to be custom made... BUT OF COURSE I'LL WEAR EM TO A GOTH CLUB once i get em!

you could wear them anywhere because they are skivvies

julia - hdofblog.com

the girl who writes it is super adorable and reminds a lot of robyn and some other lady ilxors.

anyway, bc i'm sure you're all really interested: my hair is quite fine but lots of it, and bc it's long, all of that is conducive to really flat limp boring hair, and from this blog i learned that i need to TEXTURIZE by just doing a teensy bit of backcombing/teasing at the root of each section and then using this new conical curling wand i got to curl it. the result isn't really curls, but my hair looks more wavy and just "bigger" and it lasts for days. like, today, day 4 of no washing, it should look pretty sad, but it still looks pretty poufy and good. also: she recommends really scrubbing the shit out of your scalp when you shampoo, shampooing twice (first with small amount, then with slightly more, and bc this gets your scalp so much cleaner it gets less greasy, which seems to be working for me.

My very favorite foundation is mousse. I talk about mousse all the time, but I don’t know that I ever get much more specific than saying that it is great for volume. The truth is, mousse is the world’s greatest foundation product. Note: sometimes my clients are shocked to see that I might use two or three handfuls of mousse in their hair. That is when I don’t have time for nonsense (or misbehaving hair).

I like her already. I am a firm believer in mousse. I actually use a foaming wrap spray made for black hair that acts like a mousse but is not as stiff it is awesome. It failed me today though because it was hot on the bus and I was sweating (yes, even my head) and now i'm in flat hair city. Oh well.

Anyway, I'm gonna follow this lady now. Thanks Justine.

I just started using bumble and bumble grooming cream and it is pretty great. I have a crap load of little cow licks going all the way around my hairline that make the hair on one side of my hair flip out and just a bit of the grooming cream makes it not really do that. Instead it makes the cowlicks work to make my hair more poofy and wavy and pretty. I don't even have to use a hair dryer.

Jeff uses that so when I need a little something I use his.

yeah i am def getting on the volumizing mousse band wagon. she also reps for garnier's wonder waves, so i might try that too.

My hair is quite fine but super curly, so it tends to be kinda limp without a good cut and/or product. bumble has a curls-something mousse (cant quite think of the name) that is *awesome*. Their thickening spray is pretty rad too.
Fuckers are $$$ but they're the best products I've found for my hair.

registered 2 days ago to sympathise with VG re the bf/male friends ignoring recommendations thing, and then forgot about it by the time the sandbox activation email arrived.

so, bit late for mentally-composed epic post now, but 1. hi and 2. VG, I sympathise

have been a bit scared of volumising product since my hair was accused of being "bouffy" in high school, but it's a lot more flyaway/frizzy these days, so maybe it's time

oooh the other thing i like about that girl's blog is that she is all FRIZZ IS OK

she is even into actually embracing and encouraging a little frizz

my hair is like my voice - i generally need to reduce its volume

<3

never stop booming, sarahel.

So I am all glitzed up for my work holiday part and not to brag or anything, but I look awesome.

BOUFFANT UP-DO
SWEETHEART NECKLINE + MESH SLEEVES/NECK BODYSUIT
HIGHWAISTED GOLD AND BLACK SKIRT
GIANT PURPLE BELT WITH GOLD BUCKLE
DANGLY EARRINGS
SPIKED GOLD BRACELET
CRAZY ASS BRONZE AND BLUE EYESHADOW

move over sheena easton.

Photograph?

^^^

yeah goddammit, PICS!

This bumble grooming cream sounds ideal
I was reading mindy kaling's book today in urban outfitters (er...) while waiting for a friend who was returning stuff, and in one chapter she's taking about guy style and says bumble and bumble for hair, khiels for face, to which I was like, well, that's pretty limiting and unfair, but she is so funny, and also otm tbh

haha. that was more about complaining about how easy it is to be a together dude than endorsing specific products iirc. at least i hope.

I have heard khiels is friggin awesome for face stuff though. I want to get some moisturizer soon. I've been using aveeno spf and it's aiight.

khiels is just ok

Yeah, I think it's a little overrated for what it is.

I have liked whateer B&B stuff I've used but it's just so $$$.

I think one of the things dudes love from Kiehls is the shaving cream, though, because they had like 3 different specially-formulated gentle blah blah kinds before the whole metrosexual/grooming thing. I think other parts of skin care are way less important to men than shaving.

Just got a really disappointing moisturizer from Kiehls. It's the SPF15 one and I didn't look closely enough before I bought to realize that you're not supposed to use it around your eyes - stings like hell. I like slap-it-on moisturizers.

I really enjoyed supporting Kiehls before they were bought by Revlon or whomever, it was nice to give my money to a family even if they were rich and semi-famous and not exactly starving artists or w/e. That part of the mystique totally worked on me! Then they sold the company (to retire, I think?) and the main store closed for a while, and now they sell more stingy things and their samples police is less liberal.

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