ThreeWay: The Hair Apparent, a Tale of Whoa
Amy: Hi Julia! So, I'd really like to talk to you about body hair. Lately I've been obsessed with facial hair on women, me specifically.
Julia: OMG We need to talk, for reals. Because I'm effing Italian. And body hair is my life. Sometimes the bane of my life. Also, I just put on my "Fierce Femme Mix" playlist on iTunes as appropriate mood music. Currently playing: Alannah Myles, "Black Velvet."
Amy: Hahaha. I'm gonna, too! Ida Maria, “Love.” Ok, so my issue with my mustache began in the summer when I saw some pics of myself and I noticed a dark line above my lip! I actually convinced myself it was dirt. But then- it kept showing up in pictures!
Julia: Dirt, and not Readers Digest print?
Amy: SHUT UP!!!! Haha.
Julia: From kissing pics of... whom?
Amy: omg
Julia: Ha! So did you only just develop a femmestache recently then? 'Cause I've been trying various ways of dealing with mine since the onset of puberty.
Amy: Let me back up a sec and say that in case people don't realize, I'm not one who is cool (yet) with having a ‘stache. Maybe once I'm older, I'll change my mind. I have zero judgment of women who rock the facial hair. In fact, I love me a bearded lady, but I digress...
Julia: Ditto. It's just not a look I'm going for.
Amy: I can't figure it out! In the summer it was worse because I have freckles, which made the pigment of my upper lip darker. But I still have it a bit.
Miller, you make such a dashing Purple Pie Man!
Julia: Oh, and I meant original puberty, not secondary puberty that hit in my early 20's, when I finally got boobs and badunkadunk.
Amy: lol How do you get rid of facial hair?
Julia: High school: no boobs, Frida Khalo yeti brows, and a 'stache. WIN!
Amy: Awwww.
Julia: I used to shave my lip fuzz. For years, I did that like, every other day or so.
Amy: Yay! Me too!
Julia: The problem with that is that it grows back, and since my hair is very dark, it's very visible even when it first starts to sprout. Femme five o' clock shadow over my lip? Not a good look for me. So I turned to my
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i'm a bit late here, but i've
i'm a bit late here, but i've noticed nobody who doesn't shave commented on this article.
i have a nice upper lip that looks great on my pale skin. i used to use that sally hansen bleach, but in sunny texas i felt like my upper lip was a bright, sparkling fraud. i switched to nair and then i read some feminism and too stopped.
but now i've grown to like the dark hair a bit, and like amy, it blends in with my freckles a bit. laser hair removal is cheap in china, so if i find some recommended salons, i may just get everyyyything done.
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Question - can some please
Question - can someone please tell me what "badunkadunk" is!?!?
It means fineass junk in your
It means fineass junk in your trunk.
Thanks - I think I get it
Thanks - I think I get it now......
It means bootyliciousness!
It means bootyliciousness!
In my defence "fineass junk
In my defence "fineass junk in your trunk" is not a saying that is particularly common on this side of the pond! Thank you for your patience......
My friend Max (a lovely
My friend Max (a lovely Yorkshire lass) in my MFA program is getting my syntax all twisted. I keep catching myself uttering Brittishicisms even when she's not around. And I have become completely enamored with the word "manky."
Well I am a Yorkshire lass in
Well I am a Yorkshire lass in terms of parents, but alas never got to live there.... Ha ha - "manky" is a fab word! Has she introduced you to "minging" yet?
Sorry to jump in,
But I'm a wordophile. Is Manky like skanky?
You can jump in any
You can jump in any time!!
They are similar although I would say that manky would more likely be used to describe a thing and skanky a person....
Excellent!
She has indeed dropped a
She has indeed dropped a "minging" or two in my presence, but I'm too sleepy to remember what that means this morning. Enlighten me?
I guess it's a bit like
I guess it's a bit like "manky" i.e. not particularly nice or pleasant, but it's perhaps a bit more forceful in its meaning. I'm reluctant to say this but some people use the noun ("minger") to refer to other people who they find to be, shall we say, unattractive.....(god, when you write that down it sounds bloody awful!!)
Nooooooooooooooooooooo
No BODY HAIR pleaseeeee,if I wanted body hair I would go to bed with men.If there is one thing that will make me run the other way from a lesbian is body hair!!!!!That is the biggest turn off to me.Sorry thats just me.
Hand me the tweezers...
I don't have a stache, but I do get a few pesky chin hairs that I pluck every week or so. I also pluck the eyebrows. I'll get them done for special events, but usually just do them myself.
When I first started shaving in HS I used the nair for awhile, but I have sensitive skin so I didn't use it for long. Now I just shave with a ladies razor once or twice a week.
I have a little stache. I
I have a little stache. I like it, it's soft. You can't really tell unless you look closely. My best friend is a fag, so he configures my eyebrows into some gay guy look 1 x week for free.
Ugh.
Facial hair. Bush. Hairy legs. Ass hair. Underarm furriness.
I am so NOT into hair.
mich fest body hair
Shaving in the public showers at mich sucks. It's not that anyone will shame you, there are tons of femmes just as high maintenance as we are, but showering at mich isn't the most pleasant experience and you don't really want to linger. Plus, lines. Plus, mosquitos. Plus, standing in gravel under a lukewarm faucet in the woods.
I get everything (everything!) waxed a week ahead of time. That way you aren't all hairy and you don't have to worry about it.
Listen you guys, I'm totally serious about bringing a separate tent for wardrobe this year. We will also want a full length mirror and solar powered flat iron, they make those right? Also, I want to invest in a really good wagon for hauling everything in because Moon bitched and moaned so much last year I promised to look into it.
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Yikes
This sounds a bit too rustic for me.... However, I do have a 30' motorhome with a full kitchen, bath, bedroom, living room, satellite tv, etc... Could I bring it to Furfest ??
I've slept in a tent on a stupid blow up mattress... I didn't feel liberated - I felt dirty, smelly, it hurt my back, and I was in a bad mood the entire camping trip. It was torture for a femme...
They make butane powered
They make butane powered travel irons (steam or regular). I know this because Mum came camping mostly as a concession to the rest of the family. (We also had a wardrobe pole that hung from the top of the sleeping compartment of the tent to support hangable clothes.)
There are lovely wagons available, but unless you have a pickup they probably won't fit in your vehicle. You might want to tell Moon to get a really big backpack instead.
If you really hate the public showers you could bring your own. They make tents that are shower cubicles. They have gizmos that take a bucket of cold water and turn it into hot water pumped out of a shower head. (The extra gear might make Moon moan some more though.)
ironing
no I mean flat iron, for straightening your hair not your clothes.
I feel like there are rechargeable ones or solar powered ones?
I'm going to do a little searching. I can't handle having frizzy hair for a week!
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I meant irons for your
I meant irons for your clothing not your hair!
(You can of course also get all manner of butane-powered hair styling equipment.)
It takes a lot of juice to power something with a heating element, so it would have to be quite a hefty solar panel - Moon would definately need the wagon!
There are also solar powered
There are also solar powered rigs that you can setup and use to power a regular one. Might be pricey though.
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Re: Hair Irons
I say go nuclear. And the shower dilema is easy: Bring a watering can.
Oh, Cage. Bless you. I can
Oh, Cage. Bless you. I can always count on your for practical solutions to life's never-y-day problems! I think I'll have to try your pre-fest waxfest come August.
We for reals need to start planning Camp VP at the fest soon. I am bound and determined to get there this year, and I now have Tami onboard with my scheme. Win!
we so need to get a
radio flyer.
and i have no hairy bush comments to make.
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Let the battle begin!
Have you thought this one through, Mommy Moon? You know they're going to fight over who gets to ride.
http://www.radioflyer.com/products/wagons/3100.asp
Edit to add fun tents:
For the Ladybugs
http://www.hutshop.com/ct015.html
Cage's Princess Palace
http://www.hutshop.com/ct004.html
omfg
WANT!
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@dianacage
AHHHHH!
If that thing is waterproof, I think we just found our woodsy wardrobe palace. I will so go in on that shit!
It makes my heart glad
to make the girly girls gay. So with all that wardrobe room, can we look forward to a Mich Fest Fashion Show?
Starting off the dish...
I'm commenting first to break the ice...
Last week it was so cold here in MN, I almost wished I had a beard to keep my face warm.
Civility is not a sign of weakness.
Thank you for breaking that
Thank you for breaking that ice, Minnie. I think your userpic would look FAB with a cartoon villain mustache.