Speaking of tv and facial hair, I *just* saw a commercial on tv for Vaniqa, which is a prescription cream to reduce facial hair for women. The constantly repeated tagline was "Unwanted facial hair? With vaniqa, no one needs to know"
It's a cream that has to be applied twice a day and a tiny tube of it is more expensive than my fancy electric razor. It's just ridiculous. Side effects include skin irritations such as redness, stinging, burning, tingling, acne or rash. The website is interesting too. There are lots of photos of women covering their faces with their hands in an embarrassed fashion. Except for the page that tells you how to get Vaniqa, on that page the photo is of a woman with a big smile and with her hands away from her face.
What I do appreciate is that in the section on unwanted facial hair, they have a statistic of how many women in America remove facial hair. They can't say how many women have facial hair because everyone has facial hair to some degree, the only thing that it could be even possible to quantify is how many women do something about their facial hair.
Anyway, I think I'm doing my part by talking about it. It should be another thing that's out in the open. The actual hair or its removal actually does not bother me at all, it's just the taboo around it that I don't like. Just like no one blinks twice that women color their hair when they start getting grey hairs, and really the assumption is that most adult women do have grey hair, it's just that the majority choose to do something about it. It's not a taboo.
However, funnily enough, I suspect my hair pigmentation is unusually strong, and I'll be like my father, who's only now *starting* to get a few grey hairs here and there, and he's in his 50's. A couple years ago I witnessed my grandmother plucking out a grey hair from her hairline. I was shocked and amazed to see that because if most other women in their 70's did that they'd probably have no hair left. However, the truly hilarious thing is that when I asked her about she was kind of defensive about plucking out a grey hair. Come to think of it, her facial hair also wasn't grey. Anyway, my grandmother is very beautiful and I'm happy that I definitely resemble her.
It's a cream that has to be applied twice a day and a tiny tube of it is more expensive than my fancy electric razor. It's just ridiculous. Side effects include skin irritations such as redness, stinging, burning, tingling, acne or rash. The website is interesting too. There are lots of photos of women covering their faces with their hands in an embarrassed fashion. Except for the page that tells you how to get Vaniqa, on that page the photo is of a woman with a big smile and with her hands away from her face.
What I do appreciate is that in the section on unwanted facial hair, they have a statistic of how many women in America remove facial hair. They can't say how many women have facial hair because everyone has facial hair to some degree, the only thing that it could be even possible to quantify is how many women do something about their facial hair.
Anyway, I think I'm doing my part by talking about it. It should be another thing that's out in the open. The actual hair or its removal actually does not bother me at all, it's just the taboo around it that I don't like. Just like no one blinks twice that women color their hair when they start getting grey hairs, and really the assumption is that most adult women do have grey hair, it's just that the majority choose to do something about it. It's not a taboo.
However, funnily enough, I suspect my hair pigmentation is unusually strong, and I'll be like my father, who's only now *starting* to get a few grey hairs here and there, and he's in his 50's. A couple years ago I witnessed my grandmother plucking out a grey hair from her hairline. I was shocked and amazed to see that because if most other women in their 70's did that they'd probably have no hair left. However, the truly hilarious thing is that when I asked her about she was kind of defensive about plucking out a grey hair. Come to think of it, her facial hair also wasn't grey. Anyway, my grandmother is very beautiful and I'm happy that I definitely resemble her.
Presents!
27/12/2011 04:16:42 PM
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I received a GPS unit for my car.
27/12/2011 04:33:40 PM
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Did you get your egg separator?
27/12/2011 04:38:04 PM
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I did!
27/12/2011 05:08:36 PM
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Ha! Just make sure you wash your eggs before cracking them.
27/12/2011 05:33:52 PM
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What? Why would you wash an egg? I've never heard of this. *NM*
27/12/2011 11:33:57 PM
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This is news to me too.
28/12/2011 12:30:00 AM
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Ha, don't listen to me, I know nothing about this.
28/12/2011 01:36:34 AM
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That's a relief. You can't eat raw egg in this country anyway, so I don't need to change any habits.
28/12/2011 10:37:47 AM
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Is there a law?
28/12/2011 03:29:39 PM
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What I mean is that everybody considers it unsafe to eat raw eggs.
28/12/2011 06:37:17 PM
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It is suggested in the US that you cook the yolk to solid too.
30/12/2011 11:58:10 AM
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That sounds ridiculously over-cautious to me.
30/12/2011 05:48:56 PM
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Me!
27/12/2011 05:08:51 PM
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I'm scared of those.
28/12/2011 07:14:55 AM
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That logic is interesting
28/12/2011 06:06:48 PM
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Fascinating: Vaniqa and hair in general
30/12/2011 06:04:58 PM
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It's often the best plan. I've got a nice list I let Tim pass out to people.
27/12/2011 05:23:08 PM
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Boiled egg and toast soldier set???
27/12/2011 05:32:15 PM
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I kid you not.
27/12/2011 05:37:49 PM
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That is hilarious.
27/12/2011 09:18:42 PM
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I got an ipad.
27/12/2011 05:51:39 PM
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Awww awesome.
27/12/2011 05:57:53 PM
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No but
27/12/2011 06:56:50 PM
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I didn't ask for it.
27/12/2011 07:06:47 PM
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Re: No but
27/12/2011 07:19:51 PM
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You must share ways to make it more useful.
27/12/2011 07:09:18 PM
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Use Calibre (or other, similar, software) to convert PDF to MOBI.
27/12/2011 08:08:26 PM
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Hm.
27/12/2011 09:07:48 PM
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A lump of coal.
27/12/2011 06:26:43 PM
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Re: A lump of coal.
27/12/2011 07:43:16 PM
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Which Перелетные птицы?
27/12/2011 08:40:48 PM
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Everything I wished for
27/12/2011 07:39:17 PM
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You had a foursome with Scarlett Johanson, Angelina Jolie and Jessica Biel? *NM*
27/12/2011 09:40:13 PM
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I got a suit.
27/12/2011 08:40:40 PM
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My Immediate Family will celebrate Little Christmas on New Years Day...
27/12/2011 09:11:36 PM
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Camcorder + case + SD card, coffee grinder, ball bearing maze puzzle with money trapped inside.
27/12/2011 11:40:52 PM
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Anastasia doesn't tell you what she wants?
28/12/2011 12:29:31 AM
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It can be difficult, but only if you don't know what you're doing.
28/12/2011 01:18:31 AM
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I didn't see that one!!
28/12/2011 07:11:10 AM
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I think accessories are wonderful. And I had a kickass gift season.
28/12/2011 04:36:21 PM
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My Christmas gift: my 6-week old son slept for 6 hours straight through the night. *NM*
28/12/2011 01:26:12 AM
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a Pressure Cooker ...
28/12/2011 02:41:00 AM
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What does it do?
28/12/2011 02:43:58 AM
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It makes meats n veggies super tender ... faster than average ...
28/12/2011 03:25:38 AM
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That's awesome..
28/12/2011 03:35:41 AM
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The newer ones are much safer, so long as they are cleaned and maintained ...
28/12/2011 03:42:15 AM
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I love mine for brown rice. It cuts cooking time in half. No explosions in 2 years. *NM*
30/12/2011 12:07:20 PM
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The vodka fairy was very good this year.
28/12/2011 02:10:21 PM
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