Do they get ready in the dark?

[blas]

I don't want to be rude or anything, but it seems like some people do their morning routines in the dark. Does anyone actually look in the mirror before they go anywhere anymore?

Not picking on people because they don't look like celebrities, I am asking an HONEST question.

One of the old bitties from my "Idiots at the clinic" thread this morning, I swear, she put her blush/rouge on with a paint brush. The old woman has been alive for probably 70-80 years, surely she'd know that blush accentuates cheekbones, it does NOT create them. And making two long hot pink lines that go from your nose to by your ears.........you aren't fooling anyone! And that fire engine red lipstick.....

Sheesh, and people say my makeup is horrible!

I know saying where I went will make it self explanatory.......but at Wal-Mart last Saturday, I saw people walking around with shirts on inside out, enormous stains on their clothes, and obvious holes in the crotches of their pants.

I've gotten a stain or two while out in public, but I've never dribbled food all over my shirt or used my shirt as a dust mop, and then proceeded to stay out in public like that! I own some pretty well worn jeans.....but if the pockets in the butt of my pants were starting to fall off because of the holes........I'd throw them away versus go out in public with my nearly naked ass hanging out!

People with so many hickeys that they look like they were nearly choked to death. I've had a few in my day that makeup couldn't cover so I had to do my best with what I had, but not a whole neckfull of them at once.

Elderly people with crusty food bits all over their mouths. Similar to little kids with chocolate smeared all over their mouths (but it's more acceptable with children because it's part of the joy of being a kid).

People with eyeboogers in the corners of both eyes.

People with big old boogers starting to hang right out their nostrils...

Daisy Duke shorts on a 50 year old overweight woman....

What are some of the most atrocious things you've seen out in public?

[Boozy]

:lol:
Oh, the make-up horror stories my mom has to tell! She's a cosmetician. The two worst groups are:

The little old ladies who have been wearing the same make-up since the Carter administration. They can no longer apply it correctly due to shaky hands, arthritis, and poor eyesight. They also choose dated colours and blends that no longer work with their now-wrinkled skin. Its hard for my mom to convince them to change their routines, because they're so set in their ways.

Pre-teens and young teenagers. The mind set here seems to be: Throw everything you can find on your face. The heavier and more sparkly the better. They're still learning, and will almost certainly outgrow it. Also, they tend to be receptive to advice from my mom.

I am so thankful my mom taught me early. I was spared the "pre-teen whore" phase as she calls it.

[bratling]

One of our billers has shaved off her eye brows - and colors them back in.

In purple, once I saw blue. But.. she wears a nice natural brown lipstick and pencil, so I KNOW she has a brown pencil she can use.

She's also almost at retirement age.. so it's not some punk/gothy thing!

[kibbles]

Hey blas, I don't think you are being rude at all but I gotta admit...you didn't paint a pretty picture did you? ;) :) hehehehhehehe :D

[Kiwi]

My mum is one of those in a dream world, no attention span creative types who doesnt live on the same plane as everyone else.

She routinely puts her clothes on inside out, has toothpaste drips down her top/breakfast (egg dribble is the worst) or will put on her lipstick wonky... doesnt notice... doesnt think to check. She has gone into work many times with rollers still in her hair or her fuzzy pink schruncie that she sleeps in, its comical and sad... she just brushes it off.

When she wants to go out and look nice she really puts in some effort and makes someone else check her over before she leaves the house, shes just absent minded... I grew up with socks being left in the fridge and mail stuff in the oven. You get used to it if you live with someone like that.

If she were a scientist she would be one of those crazy mad types with strange stains on her white coat, frizzy hair and coke bottle glasses.

[Dreamstalker]

What still confuzzles me greatly is old women with alligator-handbag skin and blaze-orange lipstick.

I have never, ever seen that shade sold anywhere...where the hell do they get the stuff? And why/how can they think it looks good?

[Greenday]

If she were a scientist she would be one of those crazy mad types with strange stains on her white coat, frizzy hair and coke bottle glasses.

I take offense to that one. I'm not mad, but I am a scientist, and God knows I can't count the amount of times I've gotten something, usually some sort of strong acid, on me.

Ah, college. The time where wearing the same article of clothing three days in a row without doing laundry is acceptable. I think that says it all...

[iradney]

Ugh, I can barely be bothered to wear make up. I'll wear eyeliner and mascara to work, and if I'm feeling frisky, maybe some eyeshadow (all neutral colours).

Some people I know are colour-blind, so they do sometimes struggle with their clothes. But you can tell they've made an effort because the clothes are neat and spiffy.

Nothing makes me go "wha...?" more than someone who goes out in public in their jammies. Yep, that does happen here. Or you go to the mall in holey stained sweatpants, a rugby t-shirt that strains across your moobs and barefoot. Why barefoot? Do you KNOW what happens on those floors? Germ orgies, baby!

[Banrion]

What still confuzzles me greatly is old women with alligator-handbag skin and blaze-orange lipstick.

I have never, ever seen that shade sold anywhere...where the hell do they get the stuff? And why/how can they think it looks good?

I believe Lancome sells it. I have a grandmother who wears it. But you can only get it if you know the Super Secret Senior Handshake™.

[MystyGlyttyr]

I do like sparkly stuff (hello, lookit my username, of course I do!) but there's a way to do it without being able to signal trains with your face.

I don't always look like a million bucks (not even like a hundred, truth be told, heh), but I at least make sure that everything is relatively in place.

Now, I have once in a while been out in public with stains on my clothes, but you try having triplet nieces and see how clean your clothes stay :lol: Those girls might be the first female major league pitchers, considering how far they can get a handful of peas...

[Mr. Rager!]

I wear what I want, when I want. Even if it includes holes in the crotch of my jean (trust me, my mom hates it). I guess some people just don't care, and really, if it's their day off and they're not out to impress people, why should they?

Now typically, I get compliments on how I dress, so I must be doing something right. But, really... unless the person is half-naked standing in front of me, I don't care.

[Tanasi]

A few years ago the oldest daughter brought home a pair of jeans that I would have thrown away as rags. They had holes all over and she paid $50 for them as they are designer jeans. She put them in to be laundered before wearing them the first time. I got them out and spent the next two hours putting and securing iron-on patches on those jeans. When I was done they still looked like rags but you couldn't see anything under them. Even though I nearly used an entire spool of thread and broke a needle in my machine DD didn't appreciate all my work.
I hate holes in jeans, it just looks trashy.

[Cia]

In high school you would see girls who would take this blush that came in a stick, like a giant chapstick, and put a streak on each side of their face. They didn't blend the edges in or anything. I don't wear make-up, I like to read about applying it though - yeah I'm weird, but even I know that you are supposed to blend in the edges.

[Mank Harvin]

Testing and things.

Mank (aka Rapscallion)

[Lace Neil Singer]

I don't bother wearing smart clothes just to go to the supermarket; I do my food shopping in one of the 2 pairs of scruffy black trousers that I own, teamed with a random band t-shirt and trainers. However, my clothes are always clean and unstained. :)

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Several years, ago, I had my hair dyed vright burgundy red.

So did the moron who works in electronics.

However, I had it professionally done at a salon. He brought the kit at the store and did it himself--very badly. He had short hair to begin with and all the dye ended up on his scalp. It looked like a cap.

I have a lot of holey jeans, but I draw the line at crotch and ass rips.

[Rapscallion]

I wear what I want, when I want. Even if it includes holes in the crotch of my jean

That bugger's got to breathe some time, hasn't it?

Rapscallion

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

That bugger's got to breathe some time, hasn't it?

Rapscallion

That's what Doing Number One is for. XD

[Greenday]

You know, there are advantages to wear pants and shorts with holes in the crotch and rear. You know exactly who is checking you out when they say something.

Like back in high school, I happened to have a small hole in my pants by the crotch. Some girl came up to me and told me that I had a hole in the crotch of my pants. I thanked her for checking out my package. She laughed and walked away. And you guys say it's a bad thing...

[blas]

I was probably a sophomore or junior in high school when the trend of ripped and torn jeans made a big comeback.

Lots of girls had jeans with holes around the butt pockets and under the buttcheeks. And they complained that everyone stared at them :rolleyes:

[hecubus]

I've seen several women lately that put dark eyeshadow both above and below their eyes, which makes them look like either raccoons or zombies.

By the same token, I never understood the whole "thick eyeliner all around the eyes" look. Granted, if eyeliner is put on carefully with a thin line, it can bring out the eyes, but most of the women I've seen put it on way too think, and again, look likje raccoons.

I also never got the point of shaving off one's eyebrows and then pencilling them in. Most of the women I've see do this either look like they are constantly surprised, or like they come from the planet Vulcan.

And, you've never really had nausea until you've been in a wheelchair and had to encounter all kinds of overweight women in tube tops and bicycle shorts from my angle. It's scary, let me tell you.

[Killer Bees]

I saw a young girl on the bus this morning, very pretty girl, but very bad makeup job. Foundation piled on so thick it was orange, bright red clown cheeks, thick blue eye shadow and so much mascara you stand furniture on it.

And I thought, "why?" Why ruin your obvious prettiness with sludge?

[myswtghst]

I'm all for being comfortable, and I'll never give up my sweats, but I also was taught to have pride in my appearance. At the very least, before I leave my house, even if I'm sick/tired, I'll brush my hair and pull it into a ponytail/shove it under a hat, make sure I don't have yesterday's eye makeup on my cheeks and make sure to put on pants that don't smell/have more holes than pants.

I still thank my mom, who anticipated my "need" to wear makeup at 13, and took me to the Clinique counter. They taught me to use tinted moisturizer, a little blush and a little mascara, with a little glitter for fun, so I didn't look like a mini-hooker, as some girls my age did. :p

I've run the gamut when it comes to styles and hair colors, and have never been one to care about trends or what anyone else thinks, but I think there are certain lines not to cross. I don't go out in my pajamas, I don't expose parts of my anatomy that no one wants to see in public, and I always try to make sure I'm not a total mess and I don't smell. Beyond that, as long as I'm clothed and it's appropriate to the situation/location, who cares?

And as a by the by, if it weren't for these people, who would we quietly giggle at in public? Sometimes it brightens my day to see someone with a mullet, or some really badly dyed hair, or a shovel full of makeup on. :devil:

[ArenaBoy]

When I worked at Whiskeyclone, you'd see all kinds of badly dressed folk wandering around the lot. Although when I worked in VIP there was the one thing that just about every man in his 20s wore: A button down striped shirt, with jeans, and to top it off hair with so much gel in it but only and just barely the front of it sticks up. WTF is up with that?

[Argabarga]

I work on cars as a hobby, but the garage they're stored at is an hour of driving out of my home town and back, so If I need to do shopping, I do it on the way home, and sometimes end up shopping in the same clothes I was wearing when i crawled out from under a truck with a leaky main seal

Yeah, I look real attractive, greasy pants with holes, greasy shirt, greasy ball cap, once even got through a co-workers line without her even recognizing me :lol:

[Lace Neil Singer]

By the same token, I never understood the whole "thick eyeliner all around the eyes" look. Granted, if eyeliner is put on carefully with a thin line, it can bring out the eyes, but most of the women I've seen put it on way too think, and again, look likje raccoons.


I wear my eyeliner in a fairly thick line, in an Egyptian cat's eye shape. I do this cuz I like to; I used to, as a teen, wear Alice Cooper style eyeliner so I think my current style is a big improvement. I don't wear it to bring out my eyes, but more as a dramatic effect. ;)

[Food Lady]

I occasionally see mullets around here, but on the women, usually. People here don't go around with holes or stains, but we seem to have two types of female dressers here: the trendy girls, or the women that belong to what I call The Group. The Group uniform consists of peg-legged, butt-enlarging mom jeans (usually Chic or Lee), a sweatshirt with a Packer logo or some animal on it, white athletic shoes, and a man's haircut. Arrgh. I'm from Southern California, so it hurts my eyes.

[blas]

My favorite "Look" around here is the nappy overbleached/fried hair, the oversized Tweety or Mickey Mouse shirt with the sweat pants they've had since 1976.

Same with mullets and Packer gear around here. It's hopeless. Completely hopeless. Too much blaze orange and camoflauge and Confederate belt buckles around here, as well.

[Bella_Vixen]

No mullets here in Milwaukee, but I get to see the pjs. sweats, raggedy Packers crap, etc. Even if I have the flu, I will take a shower and wash my hair as soon as I wake up, just in case I need to go to the store. Not that I'm out to impresss anyone, just because I like being clean.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Yup. Here in Wisconsin we really don't know how to dress.

Or, much like Gilda Radner, we base our fashion tastes on what doesn't itch.

[blas]

Not all of us IPF.......I may not be wearing Louis Vuitton or clothes from the runway and the latest styles in Paris, but I always make sure I look decent in public. As in clean, wearing clean clothes, and I wouldn't be caught dead with a mullet. I'd hang mysef before ever wearing Packer clothes or camo clothes.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Oh, that's right! You're a Vikequeens fan!

My condolences. :lol:

[Mr. Rager!]

That bugger's got to breathe some time, hasn't it?

Rapscallion

That's really my biggest concern in life.

[protege]

Yeah, I look real attractive, greasy pants with holes, greasy shirt, greasy ball cap, once even got through a co-workers line without her even recognizing me :lol:

I've gone shopping looking like that more than once...usually because I need an odd-sized wrench, and mine's either 50 miles away at Grandma's, or because I broke something. Just recently, I was working on one of the cars...and was a bit grubby when I got to the store. I wasn't covered in grease, but I did have little metal shavings, body filler residue, all over me. Throw in the primer/lacquer smell, and most people knew *instantly* what I was doing :p

If you're wondering, I don't care about my appearance too much. The exception is if I'm going out to dinner, or when I go to work. However, after work, I no longer care...so if I'm picking up things for myself, I'm not about to make multiple trips to the store. I want to get the job done, and not waste time/fuel. I'm not out to impress anyone, and if people are so concerned about my appearance, they're not really people I want to associate with anyway.

[Crazyredhead]

I don't understand the holey jeans look. I'm not paying +$40.00 for a pair of jeans with holes in them that my kids can get after about a month themselves.

The shaving of the eyebrows look. It is rather funny looking. If they look at me with that surprised look that you get when you pencil them back in, I'll look back at them with the same look. See I can do it to, but naturally.

The look around here is the Paris Hilton look. 13 year old girls who look as though they came off the streets. Overweight girls that don't really have to bend over for you to see there ass cheeks. Women, whom gravity hasn't been kind to, wearing shirts so low cut you can see ther belly button. Over weight woman wearing booty cutters (Daisy Dukes). Women wearing there make up so thick you can remove it with a window scraper/squeegee.

Spring time around here is a very scary time, especially in the Wal Mart. Women who are whiter than my wall here trying to wear very little. I have just one word for them--SUN!!

Also what irks me is when you see a woman dressed very nicely and then you look at there feet. They are wearing a pair of flip flops. Where I came from they were either called shower shoes or beach shoes, I do not consider them appropriate for work (depending on were you work) or formal wear.

I also find it tacky to wear a pair of jeans/shorts and to have this big roll hanging over it. Some are just in the front, but I saw this woman the other day were, I swear, the roll went all the way around her body. Then to make it worse, wearing a belly shirt with said belly roll over a too tight pair of jeans. I don't want to see my own jelly belly, what makes you think that anyone wants to see yours.

Women with no ass!? I think it is called the mushroom look. I actually had a first sergeant like that, he literally had no ass. They try dressing like Paris Hilton by wearing very low cut jeans with the belly shirt, with this big belt and nothing to hold it up but hips. You can call me jealous since I have enough belly and ass to make another person, but even when I could dress like that, I didn't dress like that. My mother taught me better and to have some self respect for myself.

I am finally getting to the point that I can wear clothes that I like, but I am not going overboard. I grew up in the 70's and 80's were a lot of todays fashions was the fashion at that time. But you would never catch me wearing jeans with rips/holes in the crotch and ass, maybe in the knee, but it was usually just from me wearing them out.

I do wear sweats, but they are clean and, usually, in good repair.

I wear little makeup and none in the summer. My face is naturally oily and I usually break out in make up. In the winter I wear a little, usually to someplace special. Also, I don't have any AC in the car.