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Fashion & Beauty: Gripes & Rants
Jul. 23rd, 2024 10:26 pmAs much as I love dressing nicely, putting my face on, and taking care of my skin, there are times when I have complaints and rants. Whether those are legitimate, or not...well, you decide.
1. Now, this is slowly but surely improving, but still. Can we have fat girl clothes that are not either garish, huge prints or stark black? Some of us like other colors than black and don't really care for flowers the size of dinner plates splashed across our dresses. There is nothing wrong with muted colors, folks. Nor discreet prints. Or horizontal stripes, ffs. Thank you.
2. Magazine editors shilling fuck-you priced skincare and makeup, when we all know damn well that you can't afford that shit on an editor's salary so they're definitely getting freebies. Even if I were rolling in it, I wouldn't buy that stuff because it just offends me on principle to spend that much money on skincare and makeup. Incidentally, that's not a NLOG statement - it's more that whole "never pay retail" thing.
3. Why don't more people have a seamstress in their contacts? Since moving to Israel I've gone to both seamstresses and cobblers for repairs/minor alterations on my clothes and shoes and it's a complete gamechanger. Not saying fast fashion isn't a thing here - we have Zara - but people are more into clothing and shoes as investments and they take care of them accordingly.
4. And, finally, my perpetual lament. People drenching themselves in scented product. Yes, I wear perfume, but I keep it subtle. I remember one fellow from a Tinder date (pre-Eyal of course). I got in his car and the smell of cologne was overwhelming. "Nice cologne," I said, lying through my teeth. "Armani," he said proudly. *sigh* Mind you, there are women who are just as guilty (incidentally, a lot of them wear Gucci Guilty). So...yeah. It never ends.
1. Now, this is slowly but surely improving, but still. Can we have fat girl clothes that are not either garish, huge prints or stark black? Some of us like other colors than black and don't really care for flowers the size of dinner plates splashed across our dresses. There is nothing wrong with muted colors, folks. Nor discreet prints. Or horizontal stripes, ffs. Thank you.
2. Magazine editors shilling fuck-you priced skincare and makeup, when we all know damn well that you can't afford that shit on an editor's salary so they're definitely getting freebies. Even if I were rolling in it, I wouldn't buy that stuff because it just offends me on principle to spend that much money on skincare and makeup. Incidentally, that's not a NLOG statement - it's more that whole "never pay retail" thing.
3. Why don't more people have a seamstress in their contacts? Since moving to Israel I've gone to both seamstresses and cobblers for repairs/minor alterations on my clothes and shoes and it's a complete gamechanger. Not saying fast fashion isn't a thing here - we have Zara - but people are more into clothing and shoes as investments and they take care of them accordingly.
4. And, finally, my perpetual lament. People drenching themselves in scented product. Yes, I wear perfume, but I keep it subtle. I remember one fellow from a Tinder date (pre-Eyal of course). I got in his car and the smell of cologne was overwhelming. "Nice cologne," I said, lying through my teeth. "Armani," he said proudly. *sigh* Mind you, there are women who are just as guilty (incidentally, a lot of them wear Gucci Guilty). So...yeah. It never ends.
