/hb/ - Health & Beauty

I don't shave tbh. Too much of a pain. Does anyone have any tips on shaving it in general? I've tried before and it's just a mega failure every time/demands way too much upkeep

I don't think my hair has the texture nor thickness to pull off a heartn I either let it grow wild or use hair remover cream to go clean. Anything else is too much work.

>>21870
Honestly for some women for how damaged it gets it's not worth it at all, I had some laser done and that helped (I didn't "complete" the process, so it's not bald, but the growth definitely slowed down a bit which is helpful)

>>21869
did you use an actual heart shaped tool to help? i’ve don’t that before and it came out cute.

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.

yesss! i have ears stretched to 6mm, septum stretched to 3mm, a nostril ring, and a smiley. getting a lip piercing soon too!

after using tretinoin, doing the 10 step korean skincare trend, and trying sooo many skincare routines the thing that has worked best for my skin is vanicream. It’s super basic and doesn’t break out my oily skin. i highly recommend it!

also nona, be careful with putting pimple patches and other occlusive layers on top of active ingredients like tretinoin! it can burn your skin or over exfoliate it. best of luck on your skincare journey :3

>>21864

Vanicream made my skin burn, I don't understand why at all and my derm was also perplexed. Its the equivalent to thinking ketchup is spicy but with my skin. Crazy.

>>21866
Oh no, that sucks. Have you ever tried colloidal oatmeal, nona? Might work for your uber sensitive skin. I know there’s some creams and serums that use it as an ingredient. Best of luck.

>>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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>>21816
whiskey

>>21816
anything with iron if you're deficient

I've thinking about getting into peptides eventually for skincare. Very underrated option for women as an alt to regular products or just straight up surgery. For now I just want topical rigin and injectable ghk-cu but pal-ahk and snap-8 seem to have good benefits as well. I've seen good results like tighter smaller pores this past month from topically applying deer antler velvet cream. I suspect it increases cell overturn through the IGF-1 (growth factor hormone) it contains.

im kinda blackpilled on skincare i havent been able to find any studies showing moisturisers work. maybe retinols and sunscreen but thats it

> 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.

Neat! These could gestate thousands of those frozen IVF embryos

they should save some embryos/eggs as early as possible so when human species finally evolve we could still have access to prehistoric humans that aren't 90% microplastic

>>21704
but just getting surgery is easier tho

>>21704
male

Would literally die for further boobs side.

>>21174
>The sweating and just back hurting constantly.

i dunno if you know, you can regulate your body temperature with how much weight in general you pack on, how many layers of which material you wear AND by what you eat.

i eat mostly fruit in the summer (half a small watermelon is a nice breakfast you coffee drinking, bread-eating normies), helps to keep weight off, keeps me thin, keeps the sinuses clear (do you even know what that means?) detoxifies, keeps everything nice and moist while being surrounded by dry hot air. i see the normies with their conveniencefood weight and i just shake my head because who would choose this.

>>21846
you'd die for literally what? writing comprehension girl. + you'd be dead and your life seems like it aint worth much

>>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

Even though I lowered my calorie limit by a lot I've still managed be under most days. I've been focusing more on nutrition lately and I don't get bloated at night like I used to. Feeling good!

try intermittent fasting baby. rough at first but it makes eating less waaaaaaaayyyy easier IMO.

>>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

>>21842
paying to remain a child while enjoying some of the benefits of an adult

I always had alt or vintage bags, so I have zero understanding what makes normie bag look good. None of them looks good to me, they all kinda off and meh, and when I see people hunting for the most tacky bag possible, I just can’t help but be confused, I am bag-blind, I only understand something simple looking like picrel

>>18475
i bought it second hand on vinted and there's no name of what model this is but its a Guess bag, y2k most likely :)

>>18481
I enjoy and have both personally!

I'm on the lookout for a new bag, I tend to carry a ton of stuff with me every day, but my day-to-day purse is so uncomfortable to wear over my shoulder, it has a thin strap that digs in, especially if I have a small water bottle in the purse. I know ideally I'd get a backpack for all my shit, but I find them mostly unfeminine and not practical to grab things out of quickly. My clothing usually doesn't have pockets so anything I carry is in there.

TL;DR
What should I get that holds a vast amount of items, is comfortable and doesn't dig into my shoulder, but isn't a huge bulky backpack? Picrel in black is what I have been using for the last 3 years.

my main bag

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.

just wear a wig