/hb/ - Health & Beauty

>>20592

this place isn't even real. it is carefully curated.

>>20606
truth this place is just pixels on a screen, made up of triads, made up of atoms, made up of mostly nothing, nothing exists. yet everything exists, curated by god himself. god created cc.

>>20562
if you have an android phone you should have a digital and wellbeing tab in your settings where you can put time limits on apps and control when you can access them. you can easily turn them off so I'm not sure if that's what you're looking for though

I have experimented with pretty much every way to do this to the point where it’s like a hobby. But practically I use stayfocusd on my phone, and coldturkey for my computer (just buy it, it's a one time payment and you can use the same key for multiple devices for any OS). You can also use wildcards (*) and exceptions (+) to block parts of domains, for instance I have fb blocked except for messages and marketplace because I sell stuff on there.

The thing with blockers is that it might take you a while to dial in your blocklists. I have multiple and they expire every Thursday although sometimes I'll set them longer, I suggest not making the block times too short. You can also change the reset time from a default of midnight to well after your usual bedtime if you're someone who stays up late.

Suggestion for blocklists: proxies, news, a long "never" list of distractions, a "sometimes" list of distractions, shopping, video, chatgpt, and a couple of whitelists for different activities. Whitelists you can lock for short focus blocks (less than a day) are really useful to have while you're troubleshooting the other lists. Make at least one with .org, .gov, edu domains plus your bank, healthcare, maps and whatever else sites you need for important irl tasks. Blocking search engines during focus blocks also really helps.

Stayfocused on strict mode. You have to pay premium for that tho but its 100% worth it

From what I learned, stress can contribute to shitty frizzy hair. (psychological or something like pregnancy too)
So can your pillow case btw because cotton is apparently shitty for your hair. So does brushing your hair while it is wet, so on and so forth, you actually have to be quite gentle with your hair.

Also gonna use this thread to blogpost about my hair fixing journey.

Bought some cheap clarifying shampoo + a conditioner that smells really nice.
This combo alone seems enough to fix most of the frizz for me. I'll also apply some hair balm occasionally.
Apparently my hair likes hair masks like honey+olive oil+conditioner so maybe i'll consider putting that too occasionally

Genetics. I have long, black, thick hair. I wash with 3in1 shampoo and sleep with wet hair. I also eat like shit and sleep too little, but my hair always looked healthy. Two things I do that may actually make a big difference is that I dont dye, style it or wear it in a bun (it gets really dry when I do that). I mostly keep it down too

>>21829
Confirming that it sadly comes down genetics.
I only wash with dandruff shampoo + use leave in conditioner on damp hair.
No hair dye or heat styling.

>>21840
>dandruff shampoo
Unless you have heavy dandruff, there's no need to use dandruff shampoo.

>>21822
Exercising has made the adjustment surprisingly easy. I've been burning about 1,000 extra calories a day so I've been under my limit almost every day except one night when I drank too much alcohol.

>>21693
Oof nona, my mum was a nightmare when I started dieting and losing weight. She treated me like I had an eating disorder when all I was doing was counting calories for the first time in my life and avoiding junk food. She knew I wasn't starving myself or fasting or purging, and I have zero history of doing so even when I was a teenager, I've always been a greedy fatass. She knew full well I was resisting temptations and cravings because I love food, which is not the mindset of an anorexic person. She'd offer me chocolate and other unhealthy things as "it's just one" after I told her I'm not the type of person who can have just one, I'd rather have none at all. She'd order takeaways for me without asking me and then I'd eat it out of guilt because I didn't want to waste it.

She's obese and recently started some kind of diet pill medication that's been making her throw up and stop eating to lose weight. I don't want to be mean, I do love her, but it is kind of ironic. She also tells her doctors she only eats 1 meal a day and her weight is a thyroid issue, but she has infinite sugary snacks and fizzy drinks stored up in her room to graze on.

I'm not normally a /fph/ type of person, but fat family members are kinda crabby. I've read similar stories to yours. I remember a guy telling his wife he was concerned about her cholesterol when she went on a diet, as she was eating eggs, but he had never shown any concern for her cholesterol when she was eating McDonalds. I'm not a vegan, but I think it could be similar to why some people obsess over trying to get vegans to eat animal products again, maybe they think you're passively guilting them by changing your habits. This is why I'm not /fph/, I don't care about other people being fat if that lifestyle makes them happy. Food is awesome and I'm very live and let live. It's just this lifestyle does not make me personally happy, especially with my hypochondria and panic attacks I mistake for heart issues, and my fat body feels physically gross and uncomfortable to me. My individual choices are not a moral attack on anyone else, but I suspect some people think it is.

>>21830
I also don't really actively hate fat people, but the old fph threads were so funny.

>>21838
The only thread I use /fit/ for

Just the regular lobe piercing. I had second holes done but they grew in. I regret not keeping them, but not enough to get them pierced again.

I want a belly button piercing but I don't think I'm skinny/athletic enough for one.

>>21784
hope i'm not too late but don't do it. i got mine pierced and had rhodium barbells in for over a year but they never healed, and one eventually rejected. i followed my piercer's healing regimen to a t and i've read other accounts that have convinced me it doesn't matter how well you treat them sometimes they just don't heal. sometimes your anatomy can fuck up the healing process too. if your nipples are atypical (picrel) the piercings are going to brush against stuff more which can cause small tissue tears (which are bad when healing)

>>21831
>they never healed, and one eventually rejected
Aw man. That really sucks, I'm sorry.
>nipple anatomy
One's atypical. Would definitely mess up the healing. The other is inverted, which is partly why I was considering piercings in the first place. Back to the drawing board ig.

>>2912
I have a set of lobe piercings stretched to 4g. I love wearing stone and glass earrings. I've considered getting a second ear piercing but haven't got around to doing it. Other types of piercings look good on other people but I don't think those are for me.

>>20684
Just went on a 4h hike uphill and it is way better than the step master

>>20684
Oops sorry I meant to reply to myself (I am going to reply to Myself every time I do a good exercise to help keep myself motivated & let others see / get inspired by my progress)
But on my 45 mins days I do the step master or elliptical with a good podcast episode so it isn’t as gruelling. I am aiming to do long hiking trips on the weekend.

Being active makes me feel alive. My weights fluctuated over the years (115-200lbs) and my healthiest and fittest I’ve been was 130’lbs where I didn’t count calories but made sure I exercised everyday and I skipped junk food, sugary drinks, and ate whole carbs (rice, potatoes)
I’m aiming to get back there again. Would not recommend starving yourself. You don’t feel as good. When I was 115 lbs I’d easily faint sometimes… I did look good in photos but feeling bad ain’t worth it

I'm gling to start running this week. I'm excited! The program I'm following builds very gradually so I should be ok. Any runners here?

>>20684
i hate cardio too. i get around this by doing supersets instead to get my heart rate up. i like push/pull supersets - pushing kettle bell drills and rowing barbells work well. important to have a heartrate monitor as you can take brief rests until you hit a minimum heart rate (115 for me)

What workouts should i do to get wider hips? Im on the fat side, but i don't necessarily want to loose weight, just want a bigger butt. I try squats but i feel like i get bored of them easily because it takes to long for glutes to actually feel burn. Should i start using weights?

>>21326
go do a basic psychology and stick your dick into an Alzheimer's patient retard

>>21327
ok, but what if the masculine roll exists as a property of evolutionary game theory, and instead of creating a utopia you just create a world where the top 50% of most aggressive/strongest/sadistic women control 90% of the resources while perpetually holding witch hunts on the lower 50% of least aggressive females to eliminate competition and maintain their own position of power? just like the men? instead of rape you'll have offspring envy like the female chimps before us, some women would hoard the means of artificial reproduction while others destroy the new children before birth out of jealousy? or maybe you find a way to remove aggression entirely on a genetic level, except… if you were able to you would have done that to the men in the first place,
ok, so best case scenario, every man of every species is wiped out, women have a capped rate of procreation so the population doesn't get too high you have backups upon backups on your reproduction units and you make sure that all ai is restrained and you have robots to do all the labor and you eliminate heterosexuality, the one problem is, you would need a hyper aggressive sadistic strong army of women to get you to that vision, but those kinds of women aren't the kind of people that would willingly kill themselves after establishing a utopia to ensure the safety of the utopia FROM THEMSELVES

> we will be valued for more than our reproductive systems.
by who, nona?

I'm not convinced that artificial wombs will mean the extinction of patriarchy because I don't think patriarchy is biologically grounded at all desu - maybe in the past biology created more of a division but modern gender norms are based on sexism far moreso than biological reality, even though men are responsible for violence and rape. theres also a racial component that seems under discussed: lots of white supremacist men get together with and fetishize black and brown women. perhaps a likely outcome is that under patriarchy the white men with asian wives will use artificial wombs to create white children and make their wives take care of them.

I also want to maybe be realistic about what a dwindling male population will mean for sex relations: there currently are more women than men, though only by about 5% and we still have patriarchy on every continent. I think if the difference was 10 or 20% this would still be true, infact I think if there were significantly fewer men each year but men were still in charge of everything, then they would just continue to give men the higher positions in societal hierarchies like CEOs, etc. of course if something happened to men in those positions but not women, then it might be a different story.

all that being said, a future without men in it is good and any contributing factor is good too. maybe artificial wombs aren't what does it but the research and technology used to create artificial wombs would be able to be used in other ways that lead to male extinction. for instance, a virus that renders all men sterile, or simply kills everyone with the Y chromosome. Or as other nonas have stated the ability to simply have female children without men involved. But even if it wouldn't eradicate patriarchy necessarily, artificial wombs are good because they mean less female suffering from pregnancy and childbirth.

>>21254
>>21257
This is just such a ridiculous response to the idea of being freed from the dangers of childbirth.

>>21258
>Human powered flight created the terror bombing campaign and the atom bomb but we do not live in a cratered moonscape.
True. But we still live under the threat of nuclear war. There's a lot of countries where it used to be a grave faux pas to even mention getting nuclear weapons. Used to.

Just from the top of my head: With functioning clone tanks, future wars may be very…intresting. One idea is to create soldiers that are like 5 feet tall and follows orders just so. That matures in 5 years, have a natural life span of 20 and can't reproduce by themselves. Also be dependent on some drug that only their commander can provide. That means IFF they go AWOL they will die.

>>431
Morning:
MEDIHEAL Madecassoside Toner Pads
St. Mege Daily SPF 50+
Torriden or Dior Lip Balm

Before Bed:
Neutrogena Eye Makeup Remover Oil Free
(For makeup days)
ETUDE SoonJung Whip Cleanser
IUNIK Calendula & Jojoba Oil Cleanser
(Only exfoliate with a microfiber face cloth once or twice a month, anything more and I get really red or breakout a little)
COSRX Retinol Cream
NIOD MODULATING GLUCOSIDES
COSRX Snail Mucin 92 Cream
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>>431

what foods can help having a more natural reddish tone in your cheeks? Having a healthier look in your skin

>>21816
whiskey

>>21817

i should not drink alcohol nona I take pills for autism

>>21816
anything with iron if you're deficient

>>21483
I like the glass of orange juice and scoop of vanilla ice cream idea

You can buy a used DNA printer for under 3k. From there you and some other biononas could probably make mRNA to rebuild telomeres or use mRNA as a senolytic vaccine.

Longevity fascinates me too. I would like to live much longer.

Another thing that significantly affects our lifespan is stress and trauma. This shit straight up causes illnesses on its own.

>>21804
>blue zones
Pseudosciencesisters…

>>21819
seething non bluezone dweller (he lives on desolate soil devoid of nurturing life energy)

Sweat and sunshine

>>21812
you have to figure out what's causing the acne basically, as there are multiple acne types (fungal etc)

Bought my lunch ahead of time and promptly ate it right after breakfast.

I fucked up and had too much for breakfast. Damn Dolly Parton and her pink box marketed pancakes.

>>21633
The way I don't learn from my mistakes needs to be studied.

>>21779
You haven't posted in a while so I hope that means you've been avoiding binging successfully.

>>21802
Yes I have!! I'm on vacation rn so that might be the reason haha