Beauty

[just bee]

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@just bee-I can't even imagine how hard those Maybelline red eyeliners must be. I remember being a teenager having to use a lighter to soften the ends of them before we could even apply them. How crazy was that? 

Maybe I'm just being too picky, but I have a couple of Physicians Formula liners that glide on so smoothly, I can't hardly even tell that I'm touching my eye. They're great, I love them. That's why I bought so many of them, different colors, but the more recent ones aren't that good. Neither is anything else I've been able to find. They're ok, just not quite as good. Maybe they're old, maybe I need to sharpen them down some to get the old part off and see if they're softer underneath. I haven't tried that yet. 

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@rnmom

Aaaarrrrgggghhhhh!!!!

I remember watching my best friend set fire to her Maybelline pencil before she used it.  I was mortified!

Oh, they're concrete, all right.  But you have to remember that I'm still using the ones I ordered from drugstore.com!

I've looked at PF products and have been tempted, but it will be a very long time before I buy more eyeliner pencils.  You're right: The wet 'n wild are looooong -- and they hold up to my sharpener.

I remember buying pencils at Sally's and I sharpened them down to nubs.  Couldn't use them because there was nothing left.  The wet 'n wild sharpen up with a couple twists and I'm done.

[just bee]

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@geezerette- I think that's what I'm going to try to do with food for now at least. Try to substitute some healthier foods for junk, crackers for chips, yogurt for pudding, apples and bananas if they'll eat them. I've already noticed their enthusiasm waning. They were really gung ho a couple of weeks ago, but I still have bananas and yogurt left from the store last weekend. 

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@rnmom

Yogurt is tricky because there are so many products out there and most of them are c__p.  Watch the ingredients.  Yogurt should be milk and bacteria.  No maple syrup or high fructose corn syrup.  So much of the yogurt in the stores is awful.

Like fruit juices.  POM is all sugar.  And it's expensive!

[just bee]

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@geezerette- I think that's what I'm going to try to do with food for now at least. Try to substitute some healthier foods for junk, crackers for chips, yogurt for pudding, apples and bananas if they'll eat them. I've already noticed their enthusiasm waning. They were really gung ho a couple of weeks ago, but I still have bananas and yogurt left from the store last weekend. 

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@rnmom, My one brothers kids are so much like yours. Extremely picky.  It’s such a shame how they limit themselves. I tell them all the time. But, it is challenging for my brother.  He is at a loss most of the time.  He will make food thinking they will like it and they end up not touching it. They would starve before eating something they either don’t like or are not in the mood for.  All he can do is keep trying. 

I am so glad I liked most things as a kid. Food can be fun. And I ate some weird things.  But, you know, I had my snubs.  Like brains and intestines. I drew the line. 🤣  Intestine soup is traditional on the eve of Easter. Um, no thank you, mom.  More for you.   Only maybe one kid liked it.  She learned not to make it after awhile. 

But kids do miss out on a lot when they are so picky. 

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@aprilskies

@rnmom

I was lucky because my first ten years were in Chicago -- the food capital of the world -- and my mother worked in restaurants.  We tried everything.

I've told the story before about how my brother's friends came over and stared at our bowls of fruit as if they'd never seen fruit before.  They hadn't!

My mother encouraged them to try whatever looked interesting.  When their mother came to pick them up she scolded my mother: "Don't waste good food on them!"

That has stuck with me.

Even my sister's first husband would come over and stare at our food.  He had never tasted watermelon.

There are very few things I won't eat.  Tripe is one.  I tend to avoid veal.  And no balut, thank you.

ETA:

I guess you could add brain, tongue, lung, heart, kidney and face/eyeballs to that list.

[rnmom]

@just bee-I'm not sure if the Ulta coupon is still good, I got it a few days ago, so maybe the promotion is over already I've been sorely tempted to hop on over to the site but I'm really trying to avoid it because I always try to order $50 worth to get free shipping of course, and I just don't need $50 worth of stuff right now. I love Ulta, such a great selection and such reasonable prices, it's so easy to get carried away and then I'll have 10 more things sitting here waiting to be used. When I do get new stuff I want to use it right away, not just put it away. I'm sick of that. 

[just bee]

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@just bee-I'm not sure if the Ulta coupon is still good, I got it a few days ago, so maybe the promotion is over already I've been sorely tempted to hop on over to the site but I'm really trying to avoid it because I always try to order $50 worth to get free shipping of course, and I just don't need $50 worth of stuff right now. I love Ulta, such a great selection and such reasonable prices, it's so easy to get carried away and then I'll have 10 more things sitting here waiting to be used. When I do get new stuff I want to use it right away, not just put it away. I'm sick of that. 

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@rnmom

I've been deleting a lot of their email -- and Dermstore's, too.  If I don't look I'm better off.

And I'm cheap.  I like to buy Lumene at rock bottom prices.  I can pass on 20%.

[KaySD]

Ooh, @just bee, "nebulous borders." That sounds kinda magical. Like the back of the wardrobe in "The Lion, The Witch and the..." The kids got in among the coats, and the back wall sort of thinned out as they pushed through. 

Would that be fun? Or would you just start to use Narnia as a big storage closet...

Carpet layers either move the furniture to one side, or to another room if they can, as they do each room. You still have to take out all the things yourself--everything on surfaces, shelves, etc., and all the small stuff like little tables and ottomans (ottopersons? ottopeople?). It's a big job. But I found out the hard way that the carpet cleaners don't move things at all, they just clean around them. I hate carpet too. 

[just bee]

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Ooh, @just bee, "nebulous borders." That sounds kinda magical. Like the back of the wardrobe in "The Lion, The Witch and the..." The kids got in among the coats, and the back wall sort of thinned out as they pushed through. 

Would that be fun? Or would you just start to use Narnia as a big storage closet...

Carpet layers either move the furniture to one side, or to another room if they can, as they do each room. You still have to take out all the things yourself--everything on surfaces, shelves, etc., and all the small stuff like little tables and ottomans (ottopersons? ottopeople?). It's a big job. But I found out the hard way that the carpet cleaners don't move things at all, they just clean around them. I hate carpet too. 

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@KaySD

You know -- the rooms that aren't neat squares or rectangles that end at a door that separates them from other rooms so you can easily carpet and paint them.  Instead, many of us have those wandering floorplans where rooms push their borders and "flow."

I'm looking at a wall.  There's a huge arch separating two rooms.  If I paint the wall green, I'll have to paint the arch green.  But the arch ends on a wall that's in another room.  I don't necessarily want that wall green.  See, this is why the entire house was painted with one interior color on the walls when it was built.

We should have rented.

[just bee]

I'm browsing online, looking for a new washer.  This is unpleasant.  I can't seem to find a machine that has the dimensions I need.

I also can't seem to find one that I want to pay for.

[lil spot]

@just bee  Is this the foundation you are looking for? I so want to try it.

[just bee]

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@just bee  Is this the foundation you are looking for? I so want to try it.

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@lil spot

I found two tubes on Dermastore's website and they expire in one year.  Lumene still features it on their website, but it seems to be discontinued here.  Amazon might have it.

I have a year.  Maybe it will reappear in new packaging at Walgreens one day.