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Poeple who dont wear make up

211 replies

cod · 30/10/2005 21:24

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puff · 30/10/2005 22:09
  • lol, it was about more "personal" cosmetic work, part of a series presented by Vanessa Feltz, bloomin fascinating it was!
expatinscotland · 30/10/2005 22:10

'I love make up and I love talking about it and I love buying it and I have a whole cupboard full of it and I will never tire of buying it and I don't care if it is shallow.'

Puff is my sister. .

I LOVE it! I just love it! I love trying new products, new looks, changing looks for day/evening/occasions.

I grew up studying ballet and my love of make-up tied in perfectly with the performing arts.

Could also be the Latina in me - Latinas love their slap, skin care products, beauty treatments, etc.

I've been having waxes since I was 15. Can now do them on myself.

For me, it's a matter of taking care of myself and feeling the best I can feel.

I have my hair cut and coloured regularly, too.

Plus, I'm just not Earth Mother enough to go w/o. Just not my style. Takes all colours to make a rainbow.

QueenVictoria · 30/10/2005 22:10

PMSL Frannyk!

That is why i got DP to help me trim when i was pg! (Couldnt reach around my bump)

MrsSpoon · 30/10/2005 22:11

Shudder, no, no, no, nowhere near your vestibule, just the scraggy bits the hang out the sides of your swimming cossie, more like the top of your leg than anything (or is it just me who has hair that grows there?).

I can't understand the completely devoid of hair look either, think there is something creepy about that.

expatinscotland · 30/10/2005 22:11

If you're not keen on Brazilians - and it's true you have to find someone who's been properly trained - there's usually nothing a lady shave and a pair of nail scissors can't sort out.

MrsSpoon · 30/10/2005 22:11

Jolen on the moustache.

expatinscotland · 30/10/2005 22:12

QV!

You use a mirror for that! NOT a man! NO WAY!

Men are not to be trusted with matters such as those.

You have me shaking in my La Senza lingerie here!

buffytheharpsichordcarrier · 30/10/2005 22:13

my vulva is famous >>sigh

expatinscotland · 30/10/2005 22:13

A wax is better than that Jolen. Quick and relatively painless, too.

puff · 30/10/2005 22:14

Anthea Turner has had all her underarm hair permanently removed. I would like to do this too.

buffytheharpsichordcarrier · 30/10/2005 22:14

is this the right moment to introduce the marvellous mumsnet term - arse beard?

Pruni · 30/10/2005 22:14

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expatinscotland · 30/10/2005 22:14

It's one of the first things I'd do if I won the Lotto, puff.

Right after Botox on my forehead and seeing a surgeon about a neck lift.

frannykenstein · 30/10/2005 22:15

Yes, what about mustaches? Saw a very well groomed, attractive youngish woman in Sainsburys last week with a neat little moustache.

Was cool, actually (easy to say when you have a smooth upper lip I know).

edam · 30/10/2005 22:15

A beautician once told me that people who wax their nether regions get ingrown hairs. Yee-uck. Quelled any ideas I had about trying it out just to see what it was like.

I remember now, I did shave it all off once in a spirit of scientific curiosity. Was bloody cold. Very weird walking down the street feeling cold in that particular place!

expatinscotland · 30/10/2005 22:15

I'm sure it's cool . . .if you're a tranny.

puff · 30/10/2005 22:16

Wouldn't it be wonderful? I thought it might be shockingly expensive!

expatinscotland · 30/10/2005 22:17

I can tell you quite frankly I've never gotten an ingrown hair, and I've been waxing for 19 years.

Use Emla creme if you're a newbie. About an hour before you go.

Tend Skin immediately after and be faithful about it!

No ingrown hairs here!

frannykenstein · 30/10/2005 22:17

No, she was definitely female, expat. She must have just decided to let it grow out. How much hassle do women with facial hair go through, trying to eradicate it? I think she just thought, well, it's here.

expatinscotland · 30/10/2005 22:17

It'd be about £1,000, puff, for laser treatment, which works exceptionally well if you are dark haired w/fair skin.

Octobernow · 30/10/2005 22:18

I know this sounds a bit 80's feminist and all that but body hair is there for a reason. Your eyebrows are there to stop stuff falling into your eyes, your armpit hair disperses sweat, thin people are hairier because their body thinks they are starving and need to keep warm. Your pubic hair is there to stop stuff crawling/falling into your fanny. And excessive facial/body hair is there to alert you to a possible testosterone increase that might affect your fertility. it's not all pointless and vestigial like your appendix (not yet anyway). Women only get rid of it because men prefer a smooth ride - you don't see men wittering about their ears or their nostrils sprouting hair, do you?

QueenVictoria · 30/10/2005 22:19

Expat my eyesight is crap, and im very clumsy esp when pg.

My DP didnt want me performing an unnecessary episiotomy! He's a real sweetie! Its one of the many reasons why im going to marry him

expatinscotland · 30/10/2005 22:19

Yes, you do, Octobernow! David Beckham started a revolution - of the metrosexual. They don't call it 'Back, Sack and Crack' for nothing. .

'Bout time, too.

All the reasons that hair is there are vestigals of the past. They rip out wisdom teeth, so what's a few wax strips?

Pruni · 30/10/2005 22:20

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expatinscotland · 30/10/2005 22:20

Went into Boots today, and there was a HUGE aisle of products all for males. It was GREAT to see all the blokes there, sniffing and testing the products.

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