/hb/ - Health & Beauty

>>20943
>>20945
>42
lol
lmao

we don’t need more humans in the world. be happy you’ll be able to keep your freedom

>>20945
>What are my chances of getting pregnant at 42?

i know someone not particularly healthy who had a healthy baby at 44

>>20950
we don’t need more humans in the world. be happy you’ll be able to keep your freedom

speak for yourself, that's a nasty thing to say even though i agree with the sentiment. children of old parents are way less fucked up then children of young parents.

>>20951
It's a nasty thing to say that you'll be more free?

>>20950
We don't need more people but we still need some amount of babies dummy

I've also had them my entire life, tried many expensive eye creams, patches, serums. 0 difference. I use a tiny dot of concealer daily, they are still there but not half as bad with a little coverage. If they are genetic there is not much you can do, just something you have to live with.

if u have high cheekbones then the dark circles are caused by the geography of your face, you naturally have less fat under your eyes so the blood shows thru. volufiline can fix this, given that you are a natural responder to it. people have also had luck cutting out sugar, gluten, etc. in our modern day we normalise our consumption levels of these things but really it is too much and has an affect on our bodies. you can also dabble in lymphatic face massage to see if this helps, regular exercise can have similar results. and u can adjust your sleep schedule, everyone is different on what works best for them, eg some people cant get quality sleep if they sleep after 11. as other nonas said, it can also be an allergy, anything from dust to dairy. "genetic" can just mean you have inherited the allergy/issue that can be fixed, not lay down and accept it.

I like my eyebags, I think they're cool.

Try prickly pear oil from Morocco if possible. The vitamin K in it is really good for dark circles

Stop smoking weed

western skincare in general is pretty fucked.
maybe it changed recently but i remember there was always this huge emphasis on 'removing oils' from your face with aggressive products and scrubbing, when thats actually the worst thing you can do for acne and dryness (and dryness and lack of oils causes acne).
look to the east, you can do really well with basic level toners and stuff from japan or korea.

>>20864
Asian products are soo much better. I stopped using some western products. I can't always afford it but those months I don't run out of my fullkit its great. I started using less make up over all too and tried to learn some different techiques. They actually care about keeping you youthful in Korea. You get what you pay for.

>>20313
They are there to sell you expensive stuff. Look at reviews online instead.
>>20864
I love asian skincare products and make up. They all feel so light-weight and still do a great job at keeping my dry skin moisturized. I think the only western products that I still bother to buy for my skin are Cera Ve and some cheap stuff from the drugstore.

They don't give a fuck about what you want, they just want you to buy something and leave the store asap

That's why you do your own research and buy the thing you want instead of relying on customer service

>>20864
their sunscreens, moisturizers and cleansers are great but toners are just useless shit that do nothing for your face, same as serums and eye patches etc

>What's their secret?

healthy habits. doing stuff all day long, exhausting yourself, eating real food that your body has the ability to digest, not being a monster to others or yourself.

when you eat candy or drink coffee and work a job that pays you good but fucks others over, that's you practicing unhealthy habits, that's the opposite, that's you waiting in line to have problematic health which inevitably results in problematic hair.

>>20130
She wrote an entire novel there haha

>>19798
As a fellow Wasian, this humble bragging is in on an entirely different level of cringe, I feel icky reading this

I'm 184cm. Nothing fits and everything sucks. My head clips the top of doorframes if I wear heels.

>Does it even matter that much when it comes to dating?
You just limit your pool of available men to those who have fewer self-esteem/ego problems.

>>20893

>I'm 184cm. Nothing fits and everything sucks.
that's an easy one to deal with, just stop being a passive idiot-consumer and get into doing stuff yourself instead of being seduced by this toxic idea that all problems can be fixed by throwing money at it. you could keep an eye out for fabric that you like, buy one nice pair of sharp fabric scissors, watch a few youtube tutorials and you would already be in business making clothes for yourself, which is a wonderful way to spend an afternoon, way better then jealously looking at others on facebook.

>My head clips the top of doorframes if I wear heels.
because fuck shoes you can walk in, walking is beneath you, you prefer vehicles and you want to be a sexy giraffe all day and make loud noises when your shoe hits the pavement as to announce your presence.

5'11. shit made me anorexic bc at this height im either seen as a supermodel or as an orc depending on my bmi. i only gaf about my appearance bc im stared at a lot by shortfags everywhere i go. moids are intimidated by me except for bisexual napoleon complexes ive encountered. ive struggled a lot to feel feminine, especially when my weight is lower, my dysmorphia tells me i look like a tranny. recently as my prefrontal cortex has been developing ive been a lot less insecure. if nothing else my height is like a filter for insecure moids / a natural social power play

>>20908
I have friends who are now spinsters because they did not peak at 30 and got fat instead.

good for you for hanging in there and being charitable to the oinks. i could not hang with my fat friends anymore. everything was about being sick and too tired all the time, about how to be numb and passive, about wishing to do stuff and never doing it, about luxury and entertainment and mindgames and drama. was too much for me. these days i am quite radical about it, i can't even tolerate this attitude of irresponsibility anymore, it corrupts everything.

>>20894
>Autism is caused by various poisons in the food and environment as well as giving babies 30 vaccines by the time they are 2, God fucking damn

God you're retarded.

>>20913
I can't believe this glowie moid shit crossed over from that fucking place. No one wants to admit they have shitty genetics and don't screen for defects and then leave it up to god to sort it out after going to every length to ruin their overall health and fertility. I bet most of these parents don't even breast feed or shook the kid cause it cried and are suprised it won't look at them anymore.

>>20919
>No one wants to admit they have shitty genetics
sometimes i wonder if they believe that technology will save them and 'clean up' their shitty genes and all they are doing is holding out until technology has caught up to the place that they can pretend they have always been very healthy and well-maintained. i had average genes and after many years of living healthy and mindfully i have improved my genes. i guess most people don't know this is possible.

>after going to every length to ruin their overall health and fertility.
i just realized i have never once in my entire life heard anyone discuss the topic of maintaining fertility. while still being downstream from health, it is a topic worth discussing. legend states fruitarian women have very light and easily endurable periods because their overall regeneration is so healthy that there is hardly any blood involved.

>I bet most of these parents don't even breast feed or shook the kid cause it cried and are suprised it won't look at them anymore.
heh 😂 you just described the average parents and the reason most people are so fucked up in a single sentence, i love it.

>>20900
it could be endometriosis? even if you get checked it usually takes 7 yrs to diagnose since symptoms start. periods pains are suppose to fluctuate in intensity during premenopause not be constantly more painful

>>20901
I'm not sure if the test was ultrasound or what. It was a little uncomfortable.

The change lines up exactly with the onset of stress and a big change in eating patterns (longer periods between meals, less calories). I guess I should do the obvious and work on that.

>>20902
I have some of those symptoms according to google. I also have a pain in my left side near my waist during the spotting/bleeding which makes me think it's something different.

>>20903
Periods can definitely get weird if you change your diet and/or are stressed. Mine once stopped for 10 months during a particularly stressful year. But I’d still get a second opinion just to be sure.

i think i might have endometriosis. my periods are heavy and irregular, my cramps are HORRIBLE, i get spotting and i only recently(months ago) started getting lower back pain. my mum also has it so i guess it's likely that i would have it too. i booked an appointment with my gp and in a few days im having a speculum examination and i am fucking terrified. does anyone have any advice on how to manage the pain, paracetamol and ibuprofen dont do much and weed helps but i have an addictive personality and i really dont want to end up losing control and becoming addicted again. and does anyone have any advice about how to prepare mentally for a speculum examination. all i know is that another woman is doing it which gives me some peace of mind but i am not looking forward to the (potential) pain. i've heard from other women that its unbearable. ;_;

>>19759
Kids are not less indoctrinated by society. They have a less nuanced understanding of social rules and roles than adults, but they also have little critical thinking ability to question them.

I’ve been scouted several times by modeling scouts, I guess that means something

>>20619
It means you were almost trafficked lol

>>19626
My manager at my job likes me, and I know this because he's given me little gifts/snacks and he was supposed to give me a write-up more than once before, but he never did. Only reason I'm not repulsed is because he's actually hot…

>>20619
if u grow up near LA this is a rite of passage & it's almost always a scam to get your parents to overpay for some headshots

>>20873
Oh sorry I bought this fancy bougie healthy hazelnut butter with cocoa powder ($18 for 4 cups of this stuff!!!) and it is sweetened with maple syrup, not corn syrup and other bad stuffs. No soybean oils or anything either. I just said Nutella because I thought it was the universal descriptor for hazelnut chocolate butter lol

>>20874

>sweetened with maple syrup

that's a bit better but not if you combine it with so many different foods. think of your digestion as a washing machine and you can only do one load at a time and some clothes you can't wash with other clothes.

ideally you would eat similar stuff and then wait a few hours to digest it; which does take a bit of the fun and spontaneity of eating. you have to decide if you want food to be entertainment (in which case it will make you sick) or fuel that keeps you running smoothly.

modern industrial food is contrary to what animals and wild humans ate to successfully made it to today. restaurants want to advertise you complicated gourmet meals with many different side orders and many ingredients (koreans lost their mind with how many side dishes they eat for example). if you want to do yourself a favor, try simply meals with few ingredients, reasonably spaced apart as to give yourself time to digest.

here is what i do currently: nothing but a few apples from morning till late in the evening, coconut water (from the box unfortunately) mixed with grapefruit and limejuice for when i am thirsty (yes fresh squeezed from real fruit!), gigantic serving of soup with vegetables (and sometimes rice noodles) as the big evening meal of the day. i barely cook the vegetables, i just load a huge bowl full of spices, pour boiling water over and then throw vegetables in and i call this soup but i am not getting out a big pot and start cooking the vegetables till they are dead, that'd be too complicated. is more like a broth with vegetables in. love it. gives me energy to go hard every day, if i could give you a spoon full through the screen so you can try how good something this simple tastes, i would.

>>20875
Nona are you underweight by chance? Eating apples until evening for your big meal doesn’t sound healthy. There is barely any protein in your day. Wheres the meat? Or if you are vegan, the nuts, the chickpeas, the beans?

>>20872

nutella popcorn is sooooo yummy. messy tho

>>20880
>Nona are you underweight by chance?

i have done quite a few experiments with fasting, the lowest i experienced was like bmi 18. when i was this light, my bones actually kind of stuck out of my skin, which was awkward and also i instantly noticed that i can no longer lean against stuff because it would hurt my bones since they did not have their cushion at that time. that was too light.

now in the colder part of the year you find me at bmi 21 because i do still like complicated lavish (mostly raw vegan) meals but the meals can not settle in my body because i am very active, i exercise and i also don't sit around all day, i am constantly doing stuff. eating raw vegan and then sitting around in front of a screen, that is it's own form of torture because it releases so much energy which then wants to be turned into something.

in the warm part of the year i eat even more fruit and i go down to bmi 20, which is my favorite weight. i have tried a few different weights and bmi 20 is my favorite. it is not what you would call underweight, it is being light as a feather and having enough muscle mass to be active all day every day. when i am active all day, not having excess weight to carry around turns life from a boring dystopian chore into an exciting wonderful life-affirming dance full of twirls and dance moves. there is nothing like it, can nobody tell me shit about how being heavy feels good, no. being slim without starving is the best for everything.

>Eating apples until evening for your big meal doesn’t sound healthy.
then how come i have so much energy and do so much all day? you see how much i type? that's me having energy for anything easily available.

>There is barely any protein in your day.
protein is a big myth. the body does not use protein, the protein is cracked into smaller amino acids, which strains the body a lot. i don's strain my body, my food contains all the amino acids directly. think of protein as a box that your body still has to unwrap, why would i do that to myself. that's you just being a follower and looking around to other people on what to imitate in your quest for being normal.

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>>20877
>this would be quite the spectacle for a reality show.

It would, but you're right about them not being able to commit. There are already reality shows about morbidly obese people trying to lose weight, and a lot of the people end up literally dying because they're too fucking obese and can't stick to even the most mild calorie deficit.

>>20878
>and can't stick to even the most mild calorie deficit.

i think the only way for obese people is to introduce the change in steps so small that they go completely under their radar, since they are not all of the sudden going to rediscover willpower, patience and strong nerves.

i've been thinking about this for many years. something like reducing their portions by 1% and enduring the discomfort until they can reduce another 1% looks to me to be the only way to do it.

might be all in vain though since the underlying root cause of their obesity is never addressed, which is irresponsibility: denial, lack of curiosity, identification with illusion, separation of cause and effect

>>20879
I would phrase it instead as introducing things into the diet. E.g. you must eat one whole carrot a day before having junk food. You're not banning something (and thus there's no fomo), but you are making a rule that will
A) Make the bad habit inconvenient
B) Slowly introduce good habits

One of the best ways to "quit" something is to not frame it as quitting. Always try and frame it as a gain and you'll generally do better.

>>20881
NTA but this is how I quit vaping, actually. It also ties into this discussion regarding weight loss: I slowly phased in exercise and over time I didn't want to vape as much because doing so made exercises more difficult after I got the hang of enjoying the movements. I'm no longer overweight.

>>20881
>making a rule

your overall approach would work but getting the person to do it by making a rule; that is you not understanding the depth of the underlying psychological problems responsible for obesity. the whole reason the obese person bends itself into a prezel psychologically (including multiple personality behavior) to do harmful things is to avoid the many disadvantages of a life of rules. rules are not the solution, they are the underlying problem. they may work for you but that is because you have cut off the spontaneous and creative parts of you that the obese person tries to protect from a life of rules. look at the people who do what they do because of rules, not because they understand and agree with something and you will find a host of problems, mostly of the mental health; emotional damage but also physical in terms of cramps, various stiffnesses in all systems of the body, heart issues and a general disconnectedness and difficulty to relate to other members of their species that are not part of their bonded group.