Beauty Blather

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feeds@yuku.com (Judois) — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:05:15 GMT

A few shirts that I bought this past weekend. Lace shirt Tunic I would link to the others but they aren't on the website for some reason.

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feeds@yuku.com (Kero11) — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:27:47 GMT

I don't really know anything about wigs, but different colored hair like that sounds very bad. I would do whatever you can to make sure your hair matches.

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feeds@yuku.com (ChocolateCherry) — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:44:06 GMT

Are they clothes you only wear for certain seasons, MM?

I hope what I'm about to write makes sense:
I'm having a crazy hair dilemma. I want to braid up my hair and wear a lace front wig (like Beyonce, Tyra, etc), but my hair dresser wants me to consider wearing a weave and buying a lace frontal because I have a ton of weaving hair left. A lace frontal is like half a lace front wig and then the rest of my hair would be weave tracks. Here is the problem; I can order a...

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feeds@yuku.com (Stellaluna69) — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:58:27 GMT

I didn't want to know, but I clicked anyway. Ew.

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feeds@yuku.com (Miss Moppet) — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:11:50 GMT

I swear I'm going to have to get rid of everything I own that is wool. I'm packing my clothes and I am finding so many things that have been nibbled by carpet beetles. (Don't click if you don't want to know.)

This is INFURIATING.

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feeds@yuku.com (Git81) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:59:07 GMT

That's impressive to me! But this is coming from someone who is too lazy to fix the hem on a pair of black pants and instead broke out the safety pins.

And I'm a couple of days late on the Abercrombie discussion, but I took my younger cousin there last time she was in town. The first words out of my mouth were "why does the music have to be so damn loud?!?" (Seriously, why?)

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feeds@yuku.com (Miss Moppet) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:45:50 GMT

Exactly. These are a pair of cords (which gives you an idea of how long they've been sitting on my dresser, waiting to be sewn) and there's no way handstitching would have held well in that heavy fabric. Or, maybe it would have, but it just felt too much like work.

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feeds@yuku.com (Kero11) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:27:52 GMT

They're so handy, though, for some things. I have jeans with an inch long hole in the seam, and I'm waiting til Thanksgiving to take them home to Mom to have them done. I can't find anyone out here with a machine, and the seam will hold so much better stitched up on a machine. I guess I could do it up now, and REdo it on the machine when I get there, but man. Extra steps. Too lazy.

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feeds@yuku.com (Miss Moppet) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:18:07 GMT

I'm so proud of myself for actually breaking out the sewing machine to sew a ripped seam in my pants. It only took, uh, four months of me just having the pants on my dresser? I had to glance over the instructions so I could remember how to thread it and fill the bobbin, but other than that, no problems.

My sewing machine is sooo old. I bought it used, and it is about as old as I am. It also weighs 99 pounds. But damn, it's sturdy and it works. And I sew, like, never (just...

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feeds@yuku.com (ShoppingGirl) — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:13:02 GMT

Ugh. I HAAAATE A&F with a passion.

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feeds@yuku.com (Kero11) — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 03:37:26 GMT

Oh, yes. We actually started dancing at one point. Right before taking in the double zero skinny jeans. Those were some TINY jeans, and I salute anyone able to get into them. You go, girl.

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feeds@yuku.com (Miss Moppet) — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 02:48:08 GMT

Did it also have the ear-shattering music? That's how I know I'm too old for A&F -- it's too dark for me to see the clothes, and too noisy for me to hear myself think.

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feeds@yuku.com (Kero11) — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:36:57 GMT

Hee. I'm pretty sure that's a Clinton-and-Stacy-ism. But as I'm not a capri person at all, I'll stick to my bermuda shorts! Ha! They're plural now!

ETA: I went into an Abercrombie today for the first time in years. That is a stupid store. I mean, I can't fit into anything in there, but it was so damn dark I couldn't see anything anyway. And they had a dude at the front of the store with no shirt on. Awkward. I wonder if that was part of his interview. And...

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feeds@yuku.com (lesleyg456) — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:18:41 GMT

Kero11 wrote:
Though, FWIW, I enjoy a bermuda short.

But just one.

My husband calls them my shorty pants. I don't care, they're so damn comfortable.

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feeds@yuku.com (Miss Moppet) — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:34:48 GMT

I don't think it was a big choice, like "let's go to Yellowstone and oh I'll have a town hall meeting while I'm here." I think since he was already going to be there for the town hall, the family tagged along to make a vacay of it. I saw one photo where the kids were wearing windbreakers as if it was a little chilly. So I guess there are a lot of temperature extremes there.

I went to Iceland in January. It was fun! It was dark a lot, though.

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feeds@yuku.com (iMissEthan) — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:30:53 GMT

I agree it's impressive, but I wouldn't go to Alaska in January & I wouldn't go to the desert in August. I kind of look at it as common sense.

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feeds@yuku.com (Kero11) — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:49:02 GMT

They probably went because now is when they had time, and it's an impressive American backdrop for a vacationing president and his family. I didn't think the shorts were particularly flattering on her, but no one really looks amazing on vacation. You're supposed to wear shorts! I had no idea there was a kerfuffle over them.

Though, FWIW, I enjoy a bermuda short.

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feeds@yuku.com (iMissEthan) — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:12:44 GMT

I don't know why they chose to visit the Grand Canyon in August. It's got to be 120 degrees there, or close to it. I saw a brief clip of Malia walking with her father, and she was dragging her feet as if the heat was oppressive.

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feeds@yuku.com (Miss Moppet) — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:56:58 GMT

Most of them are like "she rocks!" but some stupid person said that it's "against protocol" to wear shorts on Air Force One (uh, what?) and someone else said she should have worn Bermuda shorts or pedal pushers. Bermuda shorts! Like she's 70 years old or something. She was going whitewater rafting and hiking, for god's sake, you don't wear a gown doing those things. Would the critics not wear shorts on an outdoors vacation?

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feeds@yuku.com (ChocolateCherry) — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:44:12 GMT

Moppet, what are your Michelle boards saying about Shorts-gate? I don't understand the problem; Is it just that people have gone stupid because it's been ages since we've had a first lady who could rock shorts and look good?

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feeds@yuku.com (nirbas) — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 02:00:49 GMT

Do these pants make me look fat?