/hb/ - Health & Beauty

i've been growing mine out too. others mentioned silk pillowcases you can also get a silk bonnet to sleep in at night. make sure you drink enough water throughout the day. i take hair skin and nails supplements (it's basically just like a biotin and collagen multivitamin) but it might just be placebo lol.

i only wash my hair 3 times a week and use a scalp oil and leave in conditioner. dont be afraid to use products with silicone or glycerin in them. some of the "natural ingredient" hair products i've tried just dry my hair out, especially in the winter months.

careful with heat styling, i only dry my hair with a diffuser on low heat once it's about 50% air dried and still use a heat protector spray.

i have thick straight asian hair so ymmv depending on your hairs texture.

>>21296
NTA but I also have straight thick asian hair. What products do you use? Interested in your hair routine.

I use lush natural shampoo and conditioner bars, have leave in conditioner, and Argan hair oil for my ends. I take an hour every weekend to cut my split ends (not a general trim but literally find individual split ends and snip them). I’ve been thinking about getting that Conair exfoliating scalp wet brush to scrape away any dandruff or buildup on my scalp in the shower, but I’m afraid it’ll damage my hair because it’s easiest damaged when wet. I got an oily scalp and sometimes when I wash my hair on high temperature setting, I get dandruff for a day or two. So I was thinking of getting the conair brush to mitigate that.

I wear my hair in Dutch braids or fishtail braids. Fishtail isn’t as protective. When you unwind the hair strands, they get stuck together and you peel them away from each other. I imagine split ends get splittier this way so I stopped doing it. My hair is waist length right now and am waiting for it to grow to hip length.

>>21298

wow your hair is much longer than mine! mine is about halfway down my back.

my shampoo and conditioner i don't use anything fancy: head & shoulders "clinical strength dry scalp rescue" for shampoo and the dove damage therapy intensive repair conditioner.
once a week or so i use the dove's "10 in 1 serum mask" with hyaluronic acid.

the head & shoulders pretty much got rid of my dandruff, and i just gently scrub it into my scalp with one of those silicone scalp brushes when i wash. i don't notice any real breakage when i do this.

as for leave in products i use a generic dupe of the aveda "scalp revitalizer", it's a 10 "miracle leave in", and then garnier fructis "sleek & shine anti-frizz serum"

if i decide to heat style (or dry my hair with a hair dryer) i use the beyond the zone "turn up the heat protection spray" but i try to air dry my hair as much as possible.

i just use silk pillow cases and tie my hair in a low and loose ponytail at night. i'm growing out a super layered wolf cut so there are too many irregular sized pieces to properly braid it.

I want hair down to my hips, but it seems to stop progressing in length once it gets around the bottom of my shoulder blades. Is it just genetics? What's stopping it?

>>23041
I want to smell your hair, them grab your ass, smell your pussy, bend you over and insert my dick inside your holes

I have this tiny gap in my front teeth and not the cute type. I try to ignore it or think of it as "cute" but it's not and it's pretty noticeable. I did use braces when I was younger and I think there's something wrong with my retainer or maybe I chew incorrectly or something. I kinda hate it. Dentists never say anything about it though.

One of the teeth on my bottom row isn't as straight as the others so it stands out when you can see my teeth

>Are your teeth healthy?
Technically no, but people didn't understand why I was scheduled for braces as a child when I told them. I have an overjet/bite and crowding, but it's disguised somehow by the fact that my top set isn't terribly wonky. My teeth seem normal enough at first glance really, excluding the top teeth protruding, but they're not in the right place. One side of my jaw is stronger than the other - my bite is uneven - which I think has led to negative impacts all over the right plane of my face, including my eyes.
I've also had a filling in the top of my front tooth, and I dislike the feeling as I'm reminded of walls that have been filled and painted over. I'll forever know the damage is there, despite the disguise, which bothers me slightly even when it should be forgettable.
I couldn't bring myself to wear the gear needed pre-braces, as the chunks were huge. The dentist said my overjet/bite was the biggest he'd ever seen. I got upset and decided I couldn't bring myself to continue the humiliation of wearing it anyway (someone at school made fun of me), so I gave up. I regret quitting now, as the process is no longer free - I was waiting for ages on the list - and covid happened right after which would've eased the embarrassment due to being indoors, but whatever.
I have a thing for teeth and really love aesthetic photographs of them, so if I had a nice pair I'd never stop appreciating the fact. I guess it just wasn't meant to be, yet I still hope in the future that it'll work out. If anything can come out of this vent, I hope it encourages anyone who has the opportunity for teeth correction to go through with it no matter what, regardless of the awkwardness, cost, or difficulities.

What do nonas think of young Clint Eastwood?

>>23043
You're in the wrong thread, but, would.

I want to eat those crayons

just accept it its not a big deal

>>23022
ok that's obviously chalk

Snort a fat line of smarties to seem cool

Nose tape and contour

>>22986
I know you don't want to hear this but I think you should embrace it. It's not uncommon these days for women to shave their hair off. You could always wear a wig if you wanted to look normal.

If you have the confidence to learn how to style wigs, I'd look into that. You don't need to remove all of your natural hair if it's thin enough to tie down and hide. Look into your magnesium and iron levels. Manage insulin resistance. I don't know if this is relevant to your particular issue but it's worth a try, I wish you the best ♥︎

try and get an oral minoxidil script instead of applying it topically. i’m so sorry you’re going through this:( i’m suffering from traction alopecia right now and it is seriously killing my self esteem

>a hair transplant is not something that I can afford
The good thing is that you know what is coming so you can start saving for something like that when the time comes. Not ideal at all but baldness is that thing not even moids have been able to solve for themselves.

>>22982
There is a time frame during pregnancy that enables mother to decide the speed of her child's metabolism, by regulating the amount of consumed calories. I don't remember the exact time frame though, got that from Robert Sapolsky's biology lectures on yt.

Daily vomiting: completed.

>>23011
I've been using this post to track the passage of time, godspeed

I've looked into birth tourism for fun and there are companies who offer an all-included visa solution for 20k USD to give birth in somewhere like Miami, US. They don't really seem to complain much about whatever Trump's been doing. I guess the border people don't care as long as you don't seem to bail without paying for medical services. I think this is kinda funny tbh.

They’re asking me to donate piss at the women’s clinic to help women with reproductive issues.

I think I actually saw a guy driving a cart with like 15 bags of probably urine out of the biolab.

>>22112
I know the struggle, 170cm, while trying to look like internet women, ive changed my diet to ~700 and my weight stabilized at 54kg, and if i eat 200 calories more everyday i gain weight at the end of the week.
Also, you should fast and cut water for a day if you want an anywhere near accurate measurement as most of your weight is water, and good to remind to respect your RDI to the best of your ability when minimizing calories.

I caught a really bad cold but I need to eat a lot and it seems to have finally broken my calorie counting habit.

I went out for breakfast and put butter and jam on my toast! It was so good!

I’ve had anorexia, a bmi under 15 and no period for 5 years now (17 to 22). I was able to pick up studying 2 years ago and accomplished my dream of studying abroad in Japan. I thought everything would be different in a new country. But it is not. I still eat the same meals everyday, but most of all, money has become my biggest trigger. I’ve developed such a fear of spending and food is obviously included, to the point where I was able to add more carbs instead of protein in my diet, etc. Although I live off natto, tofu, soba, moyashi & saladayu I still feel guilty as fuck for spending anything. And I now feel even worse about my macros. I have no joy in life, I am completely isolated and I don’t have that dream of Japan that was driving me to survive in the past. I am so fucking sad. No other way to put it.

Tell me that I’m not the only loser who associated control of calories and money. I’m at complete loss. Fuck I am so sad.

I just want to feel joy again.

>>23034
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Think it comes with some health issues, else would be seen as 100% positive

I’m really short; I wish I were at least 5.4tf tall, but I’m only 5ft. Most people are quite patronizing toward me and think it’s cute, but I feel insecure and defenseless. However, I think if a girl is very tall and thin, it would be cool to take a chance and try being a runway model; apparently, agencies aren't that demanding about facial beauty—they actually appreciate a more "exotic" look—so I would definitely give it a try.

>>23030
post a pic

>>23028
>be me
>taller than most men in the country
>get tormented because men feel emasculated
>get beaten
>get fetishisers coming up and saying the most outrageous comments
Yeah, no.

>>22535
Nobody online bothers to research the history of different jfashion styles anymore, they just buy a bunch of shit off shein or temu and put on ugly makeup and if you dare even give them advice they throw a bitchfit about how fashion shouldn’t have rules and you are against self expression blablablah.

>>22536
Honestly.
I feel like the jirai comm is one of the worst, people online LOVE to just make things up about it kek
worry about your ugly untucked shein blouse before telling ppl in tiktok comment sections what u think is and isn't jirai

>>22536
It’s like watching colonization happen in real time. Once you let all the tourists in, they trash what was pure and attempt to change everything about it so they can let more of their people in who have no respect for tradition. It’s a loop that happens to every sub-fashion that gains popularity, and the people who were originally there give up and move to some other community that isn’t infested with larps

>>22541
And those tourists act like they know more about jfashion than you as if their knowledge isnt purely tiktok based and as if you haven’t been into jfashion for way longer than them. I’ve seen so much lies spread about different jfashions and their history by newbies who learned about them through tiktok. So tiring

i wish guys here even had a sliver of style these guys have

look up lightweight/ light coverage foundations or look into skin tints or bb creams. Hell even tinted spf can give light coverage.

>>22999
I just think men are ugly so what is the point? I don't want them looking at me. I focus on my hobbies, exactly. Its pretty much all i think about. Though I have severe cptsd from being stalked and i dont amount to much, its better than men having even an iota of influence over my mind.

Imo that is the worse nightmare you can have. If a moid is in your head and psychologically gaming you in any way its over. They triangulate to make you feel like a shell of yourself. They take everything. Do not do anything for moids and you will find your life has more purpose than it ever did before.