I'm glad I'm not the only weirdo who wears them... I never see anyone else with them on :) and thank you
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I almost bought a feather headband yesterday - the only thing that stopped me was that I can wear them for about 2 hours before I get a serious headache - that makes me very sad b/c I love hair accessories :(
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Aww I have a feather one too but I dont like it that much...it blends in too much with my dark hair... some of them give me headaches but some dont I've always been big on the headbands and hair scarves and stuff.. my fav headband is gold and glitery :)
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Haley, here's one of the munchkins I spend every day with. We started out babysitting him and now he's our surrogate nephew/grandson. I took these pictures of him last week.
http://i995.photobucket.com/albums/a...osing/8x10.jpg http://i995.photobucket.com/albums/a...HappyHands.jpg http://i995.photobucket.com/albums/a...ng/SadFace.jpg |
omg too cute!!
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Don't you just love the pout? All the kids I babysit call me Tay (a variant of Kay Kay, which my best friend's daughter started). When I took that picture he said "No more cheese, Tay! I am tired."
He's truly one of the smartest/funniest two year olds I have ever met. His mother was laid off in October so we see him so much less now. She drops him off Saturday mornings and picks him up Sunday nights. Here is a video of him dancing. Ignore the bad singing and clatter from my family... and the mess of our yard! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4633rY81lM |
That has got to be the most adorable thing I've seen. He's SO CUTE! lol
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Just some recent family photos! :hug:
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haha its a moose!! cute pic =)
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Here's my Charlotte Russe dress and a few pictures from my ski trip:
http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/c...j/IMG_3011.jpg http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/c...j/IMG_3013.jpg http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/c...j/IMG_3122.jpg I made a hat on the way up to wear on the slopes lol. I LOVE it :D http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._2208927_n.jpg http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._4517307_n.jpg http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._6780189_n.jpg Next year when I (hopefully) reach goal I'm definitely going to need a new jacket and new pants, I'm swimming in these lol. The jacket used to be snug but now I can wrap it so the zipper reaches my sides lol http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs055...._2016188_n.jpg http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._6904263_n.jpg My hat matches the gloves I made when we rented the chalet last year haha |
omggg teach me how to knit, mary! NOW!!! haha where did you learn??
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Varsity - LOL! I taught myself :) and I watched some youtube videos (if you search learn to knit or how to knit there's some good ones on there) and http://knittinghelp.com has great videos that helped me get started. Looking at books didn't really help me, so I watched videos. Do it! I always think everyone should knit hehehe :D It keeps your hands off of the cookies!
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Haley - Those headbands are adorable! I just bought one with a huge rhinestone on it :) hahaha
Platformnine - I can only knit a scarf. You should sell your stuff on Etsy! That dress is amazing. What a cute holiday dress :) |
Garstar - Thanks lol! I do sell some things on Etsy, some handspun yarn and stuff, but I never knit fast enough to sell handknit stuff hehehe :D
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I finally got a haircut (and I already posted this in General Chatter and on my Facebook, so I apologize for anyone who had to see these twice). I got about 6 inches off the length and got a few layers and very long, gentle side bangs. It's very bouncy and I think I like it.. but the true test will come when I wash it and see what it looks like after I'VE styled it, and not the stylist. Hopefully it'll still look good!
Pictures: http://s194.photobucket.com/albums/z...e/Haircut1.jpg http://s194.photobucket.com/albums/z...e/Haircut2.jpg http://s194.photobucket.com/albums/z...e/Haircut3.jpg http://s194.photobucket.com/albums/z...e/Haircut4.jpg |
Meg Your hair looks beautiful! I too have VERY curly and thick hair and I've never been able to let it grow really long because its heavy, lol. Your hair will have more bounce because its not weighted down. It looks very healthy and nice!!!
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Mary- Love the hat and matching gloves--so cute! And you look awesome in that dress.
Megwini- Love the hair cut! You've inspired me to actually start wearing my hair air dried without brushing it, bc I have kind of similar hair, and it's been an interesting experience so far. |
Meg your hair looks fantastic! I love it! I need a cut sooo bad, I have to get like 4 inches taken off lol!
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forestroad: What's it been looking like? You should post pictures of it! I'm finding that I do need SOME kind of product, or my curls are separating and breaking apart and frizzing too easily as the day goes on, but that a lot of products seem too heavy for me. So it seems like it's all about experimenting!
But I will NOT brush my hair out again once it's dry and go out in public... not now that I know better! It DEFINITELY looks worse that way. I did it last night with my current haircut just for laughs... aw man. Nope. Never again. I wish someone would have told me earlier. :lol: http://s194.photobucket.com/albums/z...edOutSmall.jpg http://s194.photobucket.com/albums/z...5911-small.jpg I think I was born in the wrong decade.. because they would've loved me in the 80's! :lol: |
Ooh Meg I love the new hair cut :)
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megwini- Gosh it has so many variations that I wouldn't really know where to start. If I blow dry it, I can get it straight. If I comb it and then let it air dry, it gets wavy/poofy/frizzy/curly, and if I brush it out dry depending on its mood it could look like yours in the pic above or it could go kind of straightish. And if I wash it, towel dry it, don't comb it, and let it dry, it gets pretty curly but not too poofy, but frizzy. The curls are mostly loose ringlets but not as curly as yours in the pics of your new hair cut. The image I posted a couple weeks ago here is after combing it and letting it air dry in a low chignon, on a good day.
Here it is in the process of drying (after getting out of a lake so I believe no combing): http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-...90748_5966.jpg Usually if it air dries it's much poofier/frizzier but this is lake water and it's still a little damp. Me on the right, after brushing out the curls: http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-...878408_422.jpg This is a better representation of how it looks when I shower, shampoo, condition, and comb it wet then let air dry: http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-...77302_1654.jpg Sometimes it does this: http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-...85295_5999.jpg Or this: http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-...585276_995.jpg Yikes, this is a frequent occurrence: http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-...52874_4531.jpg And I ended up finding a pic of the good haircut I had where I could actually let it air dry curly and have it look good: http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-...21160_9906.jpg here's another shot of that haircut I actually liked (please ignore the drunk people): http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-...01265_9416.jpg I've only done it a couple times without combing and don't have any pics of how that looks. |
Mine's a lot wavier if I don't scrunch it at all. I'm finding that of all things, THAT is making the biggest difference. If I don't do it, my hair looks completely different. Have you tried that? (and not combing after you've scrunched it either). If you scrunch with an old t-shirt (not a towel, that creates frizz) instead of towel drying it, you can partially dry your hair this way.
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I will definitely try the t-shirt idea. I used to scrunch it after combing with scrunching gel, but that made it pretty crispy and not that great. I also used to do rollers (not hot rollers, never tried those) but it was a lot of work for very inconsistent results. Sometimes it works to put some gel/cream in it and twist the ringlets myself, then let them air dry or blow dry them with a diffuser. I haven't experimented that much bc my go to style is flat ironing it...I can get it pin straight if I blow it out and then straighten it, so it's the easiest thing to do with it to get it to look nice. Day to day I usually just wear it up.
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Just for giggles have you tried scrunching it (with a t-shirt) out of the shower with NO product in it, not combing it afterwards, and let it dry (without touching it)? That might be what it could look like if you got the proper amount of product in it.
I've found that if I use too much gel, the curls dry.. 2-dimensionally. They curl, but instead of being round, they are flat like a piece of paper. If I scrunch them once they are dry, it removes the crispiness (you HAVE to do that or it will be crunchy!). I'm not sure if there's a proper way to do it, but once dry I've just been taking each curl/wave that feels stiff and bending it in various places until it isn't stiff anymore. This works really well. Apparently gel is SUPPOSED to make your hair a little crunchy, and then you scrunch it out. But if you add too much gel, it's not good. So if you try scrunching without any product, maybe you'd have an idea of how your hair would look with just the right amount of product. Spray gel is supposed to be lighter and more evenly distributed, too, if you haven't tried that. My hair looks the same either way, it's just that without any product, I find it not LASTING throughout the day, and breaking up. I dunno. I'm still trying to figure out the best way to do it. But that seems to be working pretty decently for me so far, so it might be worth a shot. Perhaps someone with more experience can jump in and lend some advice. |
So I am new here, just joined, I'm 19 :) and thought I'd post on what you guys posted.
Starry night- Your before and now pictures are awesome. Your face looks so much thinner now and you're gorgeous! Stellarosa- I love your plaid shirt! It looks great on you :) |
Oh wow, I am feeling old and out of touch. I commented on the very first page of things that were going on.. Interesting hair scrunching conversation though guys :) My hair is pretty straight naturally, and it's a challenge to get it to curl
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Everyone is so gorgeous! Megwini, I love your new haircut, very classy. And Forestroad, I'm jealous of your volume. I can get straight hair if I blowdry, but if I try to comb and air dry, it's just flat and ratty.
Here are a few of me, I've posted them in a few places, but this will be my official picture reveal, haha. Here are my "before" pictures. At my highest, around 183ish. That's my wonderful boyfriend, Sean. He's a Field Artillery officer in te Army...currently in Iraq. http://hphotos-snc1.fbcdn.net/hs116...._4528155_n.jpg Us at the military ball http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._2661080_n.jpg http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._5913242_n.jpg And these are more recent. Taken a week or two ago. I'm (hopefully) a few pounds down from these. http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/b...g?t=1261892000 http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/b...g?t=1261892053 And this one is just for fun. I got this outfit because I couldn't believe I was fitting in a size 10 dress. I normally do NOT wear such...skanky clothes, haha. I kind of love this outfit, but I doubt I'll ever grow a chest hair to actually wear it somewhere. http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/b...g?t=1261891573 Just one of my Sean, lol. I miss him so much and he's so handsome. Although, he does look like a bionic turtle in this picture. http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._4734261_n.jpg |
That black dress is HOT!!! You are looking great :D
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Wow mkendrick you look awesome! And that dress isn't skanky!
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That's not skanky!! I just tried on a similar one in fire engine red. The top had a peek a boo black bustier. I almost bought it but it was $248 (stupid bcbg) and unless there's a written guarentee that it will be accompanied by great sex, I'm not paging that much for a dress.
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Haha, I got mine at TJ Maxx, so it was only $40 (marked down from $99, woot!). I'd like it in red, too...I kind of look washed out in black, so bright red is usually my sexy/formal color as opposed to black. But I do like the dominatrix thing going on with the boots and stuff.
Haha, no great sex will result from wearing this dress for about 9 more months until the bf comes home. But, I sent him some pictures and he definitely approves of this outfit, haha. I suppose it's not skanky, just more...edgy than my usual clothes, even for going out. |
This is what I tried on.
http://www.bcbg.com/product/index.js...entPage=family As I said, it looked HOOOOOOOT, but yeah...$248...I'm not rich... |
This is what I tried on.
http://www.bcbg.com/product/index.js...entPage=search As I said, it looked HOOOOOOOT, but yeah...$248...I'm not rich... (ugh, its draped jersey dress - for some reason the links not working) |
Now $178!
(not that I have $178 to throw into a dress, but that's not a bad deal) Hot dress! |
Yeah, I wound up buying 2 dresses from Express for $100. when I get back to MD I'll model outfits and post pictures.
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so a somewhat recent pic of me...halloween
My bf and i were a mobsters. I made my costume out of a size 18 pair of dress pants (used to be my faves, but since i'm a 12, i couldn't figure out how to make them work)...and i LOVED it. http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/i...6/IMG_3064.jpg for those of you who never saw a before pic of me...this was about 50 lbs and 15 months ago http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/i...o06/mecnay.jpg and for those of you who do know me...i recently went back to my natural hair color (no more bad highlight jobs for me!!!) http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/i...6/IMG_3086.jpg ...i forgot how much i loved being a true redhead:) |
We had our 2nd Annual Ugly Christmas Sweater Party this past week (so much fun!!). Well I decided to go back and look at the pictures from the party last year--and OMG! I can't see the difference in my body so much (mostly because it's partially blocked in the pic from last year), but MY FACE!!! Even though the recent picture isn't as close and is kinda blurry (my hubby doesn't know how to work a camera lol), the difference is pretty obvious!
http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p...1yearlater.jpg And just for fun, here are a couple more pictures from the party last week :) http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p...h0des/ucsp.jpg Being goofy w/one of my best friends: http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p...0des/ucsp2.jpg Me & Hubby: http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p...0des/ucsp3.jpg |
Oh, Amba you look adorable! No more double chin!! :lol:
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Aww amba and amy you guys look awesome!
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