This is some savagely good stuff and your visiting my blog today has completely elevated me from the eye of a hurricane of misunderstanding to what is probably the only laugh I’ve had today and I needed it. Thank you so much! 🙂 If you don’t come back and visit my blog it will be a damn loss for myself and all the poets. May I put you on my blog roll?
Ha ha! I stay clear of all that stuff. No moisturizer or makeup or any of that for me. It must be boring to think about these things as much as many women do.
Moisturizer isn’t too bad if you just find a good cheap one that soaks in properly.
I tend to dry out to the point of discomfort after swimming or bathing though, and my dad (yes, dad) is even worse – his skin will literally try to crack after so much as a five-minute shower. That’s when you actually need a moisturizer. 🙂
Likewise, those gritty particles they advertise as “exfoliators” do actually feel kind of nice and scrubby on the skin, especially if you’ve been sweating or have a lot of dirt on you for some reason.
But I would never pay like $90 for a fancy brand of “exfoliating scrub” and “moisturizer”, when I can buy them at the dollar store 😛
Are you saying you don’t waste your time with all the psudo-science they use to sell women more beauty products? Are you suggesting there are better things for women to do with their lives? It’s true, you’d never make it in the industry! 🙂
This makes me sad because it reminds me of work. There’s a neat little section where they have kits for kids, including a lot of science and making-stuff kits. You know, grow your own crystals, pretend dinosaur digs, that kind of thing?
But there is a shelf of pink-packaged “chemistry kits” marketed to girls… which I wouldn’t find off-putting at all except for the fact that ALL of them are to make beauty products with! I’m not kidding! There’s kits to make bath salts, soap, moisturizer, lip balm, and nail polish, and that’s about it for the girl-aimed toys. I’m like, seriously? You think that’s all little girls are interested in?
I get that there is social pressure to be girly and that kits like this are probably seen as a “clever” way to get around that and still introduce chemistry to girls, and that’s great I suppose, but all I can think of is being a little girl myself and getting one of those kits and feeling kind of insulted because I didn’t get a kit with a microscope. 😉
Luckily my parents understood me better than that. I GOT the kit with the microscope, which was a gender-neutral toy 😉
I’d probably have preferred the “girls” kit myself. Maybe then I’d have made something useful, rather than stunting the growth of several trees in an attempt to make silly putty.
I want to sat that as a man who has never used, purchased or worked with make-up, moisturizer, or any other such product in his life, even I know that a Beta-Hydroxy Complex isn’t a thing. The fact that they could have a three hour conversation on this beauty product techno-babble amuses me on so many levels. Good joke.
This is some savagely good stuff and your visiting my blog today has completely elevated me from the eye of a hurricane of misunderstanding to what is probably the only laugh I’ve had today and I needed it. Thank you so much! 🙂 If you don’t come back and visit my blog it will be a damn loss for myself and all the poets. May I put you on my blog roll?
Of course!
Ha ha! I stay clear of all that stuff. No moisturizer or makeup or any of that for me. It must be boring to think about these things as much as many women do.
Moisturizer isn’t too bad if you just find a good cheap one that soaks in properly.
I tend to dry out to the point of discomfort after swimming or bathing though, and my dad (yes, dad) is even worse – his skin will literally try to crack after so much as a five-minute shower. That’s when you actually need a moisturizer. 🙂
Likewise, those gritty particles they advertise as “exfoliators” do actually feel kind of nice and scrubby on the skin, especially if you’ve been sweating or have a lot of dirt on you for some reason.
But I would never pay like $90 for a fancy brand of “exfoliating scrub” and “moisturizer”, when I can buy them at the dollar store 😛
The hell is a beta-hydroxy complex?
I’d fail as a model. D:
Are you saying you don’t waste your time with all the psudo-science they use to sell women more beauty products? Are you suggesting there are better things for women to do with their lives? It’s true, you’d never make it in the industry! 🙂
Yes woman are now allowed to be interested in science, but only when it’s science that has to do with making them look more attractive to men!
This makes me sad because it reminds me of work. There’s a neat little section where they have kits for kids, including a lot of science and making-stuff kits. You know, grow your own crystals, pretend dinosaur digs, that kind of thing?
But there is a shelf of pink-packaged “chemistry kits” marketed to girls… which I wouldn’t find off-putting at all except for the fact that ALL of them are to make beauty products with! I’m not kidding! There’s kits to make bath salts, soap, moisturizer, lip balm, and nail polish, and that’s about it for the girl-aimed toys. I’m like, seriously? You think that’s all little girls are interested in?
I get that there is social pressure to be girly and that kits like this are probably seen as a “clever” way to get around that and still introduce chemistry to girls, and that’s great I suppose, but all I can think of is being a little girl myself and getting one of those kits and feeling kind of insulted because I didn’t get a kit with a microscope. 😉
Luckily my parents understood me better than that. I GOT the kit with the microscope, which was a gender-neutral toy 😉
That reminds me of this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g032MPrSjFA
I’d probably have preferred the “girls” kit myself. Maybe then I’d have made something useful, rather than stunting the growth of several trees in an attempt to make silly putty.
I want to sat that as a man who has never used, purchased or worked with make-up, moisturizer, or any other such product in his life, even I know that a Beta-Hydroxy Complex isn’t a thing. The fact that they could have a three hour conversation on this beauty product techno-babble amuses me on so many levels. Good joke.