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littleme
250,000th poster!
I got exactly what I asked for, totally my fault.
littleme
250,000th poster!
I'm available to view, in a supermarket near you.
Glam
Mad Cat Woman
Thought you were on leave?
Carole
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You really don't.
I don't know about other ladies but my experience of the whole pandemic thing has been an eye opener.
As ex cabin crew, I've generally been able to put myself together. Regular blow dry, nails, pedicure, facials, smart clothes. I'd usually look quite decent if I was leaving the house.
Once lock down was upon us and people were struggling with loneliness, financial problems, family issues, and everything else, it seemed very crass to worry about ones appearance.
I stopped caring how I looked and there was a certain freedom in that.
But now I've actually forgotten how to present myself. I struggle to put an outfit together, it's an effort to make myself look nice.
I don't want to be vain but I still want to look lovely for my husband, I just can't remember how to do it.
Gramaisc
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Really? SuperValu or Dunne's?
staffordjas
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I never used to leave the house without eye makeup on. But since the first lockdown have hardly worn it at all , except for the odd time going anywhere special.
Trouble now is , I forget I've got it on , so ended up in looking like a Panda quite a few times after yawning driving along and rubbing my watery eyes.
Lucy
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I've never worn make up, so it's just the hair for me. Over the last 4 or 5 years I've gone from short to very short and so used to have it cut every 5 weeks. It's very grey now too but I don't need to dye it when it's cropped. Anyway my hairdresser partially opened 2 weeks ago but hasn't called me back so I booked somewhere else online just in case, thinking I could cancel if he rang. The lady I booked with immediately text me and now I absolutely can't cancel that. How do you dump your hairdresser?!
I realise my short is shorter than most women think of as short. Here it is at the moment.
I realise my short is shorter than most women think of as short. Here it is at the moment.
staffordjas
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I had an embarrassing moment a couple of years ago , after my usual beautician started being a bit slap-dash with my waxing once she'd got my regular custom . I cancelled the latest appointment by text and booked elsewhere. Then met her whilst out shopping
, with my nicely shaped eyebrows done elsewhere (who I've now stuck with )
BobClay
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I miss those days when I used to go into the barbers in Littleworth (at the back of the current pharmacy) and read a couple of Beano's, maybe an Eagle comic if you were lucky. Then get a 5 minute haircut and come out looking exactly the same as when you went in, except you were a couple of bob worse off. 
Gramaisc
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Perhaps cut back a little on the lipstick?
Carole
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I think that you are one of those people who absolutely really suits short hair.
I realised the other day that out of everyone I know, they’ve all had the same hairstyle for as long as I’ve known them.
I chop and change all the time, I get bored and start to grow it because I think long hair is feminine, then I decided that short hair is chic so I have it all chopped off. I’m rarely happy with what I’ve got but that’s probably because I’m rubbish at doing it myself.
@littleme what is it that you don’t like about yours? Is it just that you’re not used to it being shorter.
littleme
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The fact that I'll have to style it every time I leave the house! I wanted it shorter (it's not short short, just touching my shoulders) but I have the most unruly hair ever that doesn't do anything it's supposed to.
I was going for this look...
Which I've got, but only after 25 mins of styling every morning, which I don't want to do (3 days a week I start work at 7am, & do not want to get up at 5am to sort out my hair! Plus, I have rsi & tendinitis in my right wrist which suffers when I have to dry/style hair).
When it was longer I could get away with brushing it & tying it in a ponytail for early starts, but now I can only just get it in a ponytail if I straighten it first.
This is in no way the hairdressers fault, she did what I wanted, even refusing to cut it as short as I wanted as it wouldn't fit in a ponytail.
Your husbands comment made me giggle, when I suggested to mine that I may have it short like @Lucy he said "don't do that, you'll look like Myra Hindley"!
Mudgie
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That's when men would go the barbers every fortnight.I miss those days when I used to go into the barbers in Littleworth (at the back of the current pharmacy) and read a couple of Beano's, maybe an Eagle comic if you were lucky. Then get a 5 minute haircut and come out looking exactly the same as when you went in, except you were a couple of bob worse off.
BobClay
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I never kept the habit of reading comics when I reached adulthood. Mind you by that time I just let it grow. Such was the sixties and seventies.
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