Thank you. I will sleep better now that I can put my OCD to bed.

That is beautiful but the order is wrong and triggers my OCD

JHC what is wrong with these folk!? Talk about micro-managing. What happen to the party of personal freedom? I guess that only applies to corporations now days.

Before the ear incident.... Please don't give my son ideas. I think the blue mohawk is sufficient.

If he had a dimple in his chin, that would be flat out freaky. We went to see my son this weekend and his normally blue hair was its natural color of red and he was scruffy. I tried keeping myself quiet but could not stop from blurting out, "Has anyone told you that you look like Van Gogh?"

Oddly that looks more like a canal than river. Beautiful color.

Wildly amazing. Since all the other characteristics have been covered I will point out that you have the perfect chin and cheek bones for this as well.

I would edit the post and say "strange plant" . Nothing strange about the path.

Is this in the Lady Bird section?

Sorry you feel it necessary to suggest I am lying. I am sharing my experiences and my thoughts. Not my business to make decisions for other people. That is their business.

Keep in mind I grew up during a time when women with straight hair often had their hair 'permed' even as children. So I remember having frizzy, poufy hair and loving it. Of course it ruined your hair and once when I had been using lemon juice on my hair followed by a perm, the lightened hair (it was a streak - 60s ;) ) turned to goo and broke off. For the women I knew with very curly hair they got hours back in their life when they gave up straightening it. In the opposite direction I got hours back in my life when I stopped wearing make up and curling my hair. Those hours can be a real pleasure and entertainment for people. I remember when it was for me. I am more curious though why in general we are not satisfied with who we are and pick opposites of ourselves to model ourselves on. Just curiosity. No criticism meant.

Yeah, so it seems. I envy the dense curly hair because I don't have it and never had to fight with it. I still think it is beautiful though.

What is wrong with frizz? I love frizz. It is what you would expect an angel to have. A lovely halo. I also love some straight hair. Hell, I would be happy to have a thick head of hair of either type (mine is mousey brown, thing and supper fine). So I guess we all want what we don't have. I also don't get fake eyelashes but I might have when I was in my 20s. Mostly they look like a bug crawled onto someone's eye. Tastes are very individual.

I don't believe I said that or implied that. It is not as bad now as it was when I was growing up but when I was a child I loved my friends hair which was very curly and white blond. The first thing she did when she got old enough was to straighten her hair so she looked like the 'cool kids'. My hair was straight as could be and my family gave me permanents to make it curly. When I grew up I then move to the other side of the country and made friends with a women who would not go out in the rain or damp, spent hours making her hair straight and was never happy with it. Then after years of this she said screw it , let it go natural it was beautiful.

Men do this with losing hair. To me the worse thing in the world is a comb over, while bald can be very attractive.

This is MY take on things. Not telling ANYONE what they should do. I just have always found it a bizarre human characteristic. Not sure why people are pissy about this opinion.

Edit: Oh WOW! I just now learned that this was a medical problem for Black women! Seriously I had NO idea. The only women I knew who did this were white women and the black women I know/knew went natural. No wonder people are pissed at what I said. My apologies! I am leaving it up because it is important reminder that far too often we just don't know what we don't know and we should NOT respond to a title without reading the article.

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[I have never understood why women who have curly hair straighten it and women with straight hair curl it.]

Edit: seems that all sorts of people are taking great offense by this. I never said that women should NOT do either one of these things. Yes I know TV, movies, advertising shows women as Barbie dolls and we have swings in when curly hair or straight hair is seen as 'beautiful'. So in some ways it is about what is 'fashionable' but there is also this underlying push to be dissatisfied with who you are. That is what I am curious about. I am disappointed that people chose to be offended rather than wonder what it is that seems to push us to do what we do. My hair is a bother. Why don't I just shave it off? Why don't men do what we do (with the exception of comb overs)? Or maybe they do and I don't know about it.