As a Houstonian, where it is beastly hot and humid, I find I can still get my shoulder length middy into a pony tail. Side combs are your friends. You can use them at the back of the head to keep hairs from falling down.
I recently started using NYX Soft Matte Lip Creams in Monte Carlo (a deep blue red) and Amsterdam (a corally tomato red). They go on like a gloss, with a doe foot applicator, and dry to a nice matte finish. The formula is quite moisturizing for a matte lipstick and because it has to set, I can...
My 96 year old grandmother swore by Ponds. She also religiously wore her sun hat when she worked in the yard or garden. Her skin looked better than the other younger ladies in the family.
I wore a plastic bra shaped plate, lovingly refered to as my "bumper", under my fencing jacket. They aren't terribly uncomfortable. It was better than all the sabre bruises.
semi-:offtopic: I saw an example of one with toy patterns printed on them. You bought the flour sack, and cut out the doll or bear pieces, and sewed them together per the instructions.
http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2010/07/feedsack-mania.html
I'm trying to talk my grandmother into...
I had two marks removed from my face about 10 years ago, because they were starting to change color.
I was fortunate enough to have a dermatologist who was willing to refer me to a plastic surgeon. With makeup you can't see them at all.
I'd snap a picture for you, but the lighting in my...
I have one of those. They do look rather ridiculous. I find I have to stick a folded bit of tissue underneath the elastic, or I have a line around my face in the morning.
Soup has become my new best friend.
Slightly amusing result of the whole endeavor.
I was boiling turnips last night, for tonight's dinner, when my mother called. She asked what I was doing, and I replied "making dinner for tomorrow." Naturally she asked "what are you making?"
"Mashed...
No offense taken. I just don't want to be viewed as a presumptious Yank with a Marguerite Patten cookbook.:)
I went to school for anthropology and history, and find myself in a Legal Library. I'm happy to have my job, and I like it. However, I needed an intellectual outlet, so I threw...
I am in no way trying to romanticize the experiences of the people during that era. People of that generation were appear to be made from much stronger stuff than my own generation. I hold them in very high esteem. That they were able to do so much with so little amazes me.
I do not harbor...
I actually own a fainting sofa...though it is not currently in my possesion. Grandma found it in a chicken coop in the 1960s and had it recovered in a lurid acid green velvet.
Now I just have to convince my will-be husband, to buy a house with room for it so I can steal it back from my parents.
Lucky for me, there have been so many Marys, Margarets, and Marthas that I have no trouble finding "M" hankies.
Incidentally, I find dish soap to be extremely effective for getting make up stains out, particularily the grease cutting dish soaps. It was one of the few things that could get...
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