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to want to let myself go?

88 replies

Cicatrice · 29/08/2008 21:07

I'm bloody sick of makeover shows. It all looks far too much like hard work to me. I find myself looking at the before ladies, thinking "Mmm, thats a nice comfy looking jumper/warm fleece" and then they get all gussied up and it just looks hard.

Wouldn't it be a step forward to

-not wax/or shave anything
-except have all my hair shaved and buy a wig instead
-have wash and wear work clothes that I will wear till they fall to bits, when I will replace them with same.
-never wear make up
-never wear contacts
-have all my teeth pulled and replace them with falsers

I put this to my DH from time to time and he just says"I have no opinion, because I know it will be wrong". You have an opinion don't you? Tell me!

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Ronaldinhio · 30/08/2008 00:52

How though and I though I was the great unwashed

Kimi · 30/08/2008 00:55

Ronaldinhio I am a porno babe, long dark hair, long (fake) nails and a 38F chest

anniemac · 30/08/2008 00:56

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ravenAK · 30/08/2008 00:58

Maybe it does!

I prefer mine shaved but increasingly don't bother on a daily basis (my bath tends to get invaded by dc).

Just, y'know, of all the reasons to worry about the state of one's armpits, the risk of fungus in hairy pits would be low on the list.

I'm guessing that very few men worldwide shave their armpits, & probably a minority of women...

Ronaldinhio · 30/08/2008 00:58

That sounds like quite a bit of upkeep.

All the girls in my office have white tipped square fake nails and they all look as though they should be handling something belonging to a mousachioed (sp?) gent

Or are yours like the late great flo jo?

Kimi · 30/08/2008 01:05

Small square white tipped

/kimi hangs head and heads to primark

Joolyjoolyjoo · 30/08/2008 01:05

I'd LOVE to be one of those well-groomed and coordinated mums, but I just don't seem to find the time! I am aware that I have let myself go- I am strictly jeans/ T-shirts and trainers most of the time, but I recently got caught on video when I dropped my dd1 off at her dancing show and OMG- I was horrified!! There I was like a bag lady among the sculpted and well-coutured, and I was mortified!! Have to say it did make me think, but only realy urged me into enough action to buy a few more cheap T-shirts, Lol!

Kimi · 30/08/2008 01:06

In my defence in the 80s I was a model

suedonim · 30/08/2008 01:07

I accidentally acquired false nails last month. It was a traumatic experience, not least because dh had to pull my drawers down for me to go to the loo!

Kimi · 30/08/2008 01:11

LOL sue, first time I had fake nails I could not do my jeans

I kind off got used to them now.

I hide behind it all. Went to Cornwall, to DP parents and looked like shit for two weeks but was happy.

In the 80s it was a case of not leaving the house with out being perfect...two kids and 5 stone later who gives a fuck

psychomum5 · 30/08/2008 01:11

I get higher maintenence the older I get.....

I just wish that there was a day that I could head for that was my day to stop caring.

DH's grnadma however, never stopped caring, even at the age of 96!!!. If a 96yr old is still vain, what hope do we all have?????

Kimi · 30/08/2008 01:13

I was a glamour model in he 80s
but I walk out in jeans no make up and greasy hair now and it is bliss

Ronaldinhio · 30/08/2008 01:16

ohhh did you know Heather Mills??

suedonim · 30/08/2008 01:16

Dh's mum is 88 and still wears loads of make-up. With age she's lost her eyebrows so she pencils in these huge, thick wide brows halfway up her forehead. She uses tons of mascara and bright red lipstick. Bless

Ronaldinhio · 30/08/2008 01:17

Glamour model sounds more interesting than stablehand...that's what I did in the 80's and I probably presented better then

Ronaldinhio · 30/08/2008 01:19

I love old ladies in loads of make up. i honestly always think more is more whilst nervously eyeing their eyelashes

psychomum5 · 30/08/2008 01:20

respect to you kimi....

Kimi · 30/08/2008 01:24

/flashes tittys

suedonim · 30/08/2008 01:30

Just added a pic of MIL. You can't see her eyes as she's wearing sunglasses. And a woolly hat. In July.

anniemac · 30/08/2008 01:34

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suedonim · 30/08/2008 01:42

Just resized it for bigger value. She is cool, really. She was raised in India and I don't think she ever went to school (had a governess - she's v literate!). Came to the UK, married and had eight children, five of whom died. She never did/does any housework and is such an appalling cook that she make sme seem like Nigella. She's a Spiritualist and does laying on of hands. She's into rocks and alternate therapies and so on and lives on her own refusing help from anyone.

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solidgoldbrass · 30/08/2008 02:31

I have always been low maintenance and am getting slobbier - apart from the fact that one of my jobs is being an Avon rep so whenever I'm doing Avon I pile on the slap. But still, haven't been to a hairdresser for ages (well, did dive into Mr Tops £5 Cutz last Xmas), never had a pedicure, or a facial, or any of that 'pampering' crap. Oh and at the weekend I was camping and didn't have a wash for 48 hours

Mhamai · 30/08/2008 02:34

Solid can I ask you a question, slightly off topic and sorry for the hi jack of this thread.

mrshall · 30/08/2008 07:09

I've noticed my weight going up and my clothes getting tighter recently and I just cannot be bothered with dieting and exercise anymore. I'd rather have a nap.
I'm really thinking seriously about just letting myself go as I feel that all the faffing around is such a pain in the arse now and I feel so much happier