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Honestly Jeppy until today I never heard of a “primer” as facial make up.
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me either, so you put house paint on your face ...Quote:
Honestly Jeppy until today I never heard of a “primer” as facial make up.
It's too bad y'all have never heard of primers for your skin! Here is a little info about primers for sensitive skin:
https://www.byrdie.com/primer-for-sensitive-skin
You only get one face, so I believe in taking care of your skin as much as possible. Obviously, not everyone feels the same way. But my mom took great care of her skin and always looked 10-15 years younger than her cohort. Still does, in fact. . . .
Just put my houseplants out in the window boxes, which is where they started last summer. doing this, I was able to fill two boxes with the addition of 16 dollars worth of plants at Lowes yesterday, including a nine dollar (overpriced) lavender and two 6 packs of petunias. I may add something later for color and visual interest, but they are off to a good start.
Oh I've always worn little makeup, maybe I should but I mostly don't. So I'd expect to be somewhat clueless.Quote:
It's too bad y'all have never heard of primers for your skin! Here is a little info about primers for sensitive skin:
https://www.byrdie.com/primer-for-sensitive-skin
You only get one face, so I believe in taking care of your skin as much as possible. Obviously, not everyone feels the same way. But my mom took great care of her skin and always looked 10-15 years younger than her cohort. Still does, in fact. .
But if anything I suspect not putting chemicals on your face is less damage to the skin, with the possible exception of moisturizers, sunscreen, and antioxidants.
I haven't worn make-up in over 15 years. I look how I look and don't feel the need to spend the time or the money changing how I look. But that's me. :)
Sure, that's great. I don't wear makeup either. But I use Clinique moisturizer religiously and have for 46 years. My mom swore by Bonne Belle but they stopped making it. I am a big believer in things that you wear underneath makeup, like moisturizer or the primer that Yppej mentioned. My cousin, who taught dermatology at Harvard Medical School, always said the same thing. She has beautiful skin, and she is getting up there in age.Quote:
Originally Posted by happystuff
Having good skin is in my opinion 90% genetics.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tybee
And then stay out of the sun (meaning, wear hat and sun screen.)
Slathering crap on your face — won’t do anything for me.All the stuff in the comestics aisle won’t change the density and structure of my pores nor the muscle tone (or lack of it post menopause) of my face. People with different genetics—maybe will benefit, I don’t know. I do know that billions of $ are devoted to convincing women to slather the stuff on their face.
I have seen some anti-vaxxers claim that recommending sunscreen is another scam by the medical establishment to sell products. Do you believe this?Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
I did notice in the past few years a push to say that sunscreen is only good for one year and you must keep buying more instead of using what you have on hand.
Sunscreen is built into the few products I put on my face.
sunscreen is a good thing. That is my position.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yppej
So you slather non-crap on your face?Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
It blocks the sun from acting on my skin. It doesn’t repair my skin, rejuvenate my skin, or purport to change the cellular structure of my skin in any way.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yppej
That said, I didn’t wear sunscreen until about two or three years ago. That is probably something I will be regretting at some point. And even then I was outside for hours on Saturday and forgot it.
Primer doesn't repair, rejuvenate or change the cellular structure of the skin either. It smooths the surface by filling in small indentations in the skin.
Possible exception of sunscreen because I'm really pretty neutral on it, many of the natural types which I've used (titanium oxide, zinc oxide) irritate my skin after a while so I question if they are really a positive or not compared to sun which also damages skin I guess. I do wear hats and sunglasses almost always. The optometrist also told me recently to wear hats in addition to sunglasses to protect my eyes, but I do.
I’m not saying that primer is supposed to fix your skin —it is make up. It is a cosmetic improvement, of a temporary nature to make feel pretty. Perhaps it makes you look pretty, I don’t know. If it doesn’t irritate your skin, it is a neutral thing that just costs money.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yppej
All this talk of primer, is making me think of Tammy Faye Baker.
I think I had the wrong idea of what primer was. I thought it was something the skin absorbed kind of like a moisturizer!Quote:
Originally Posted by ToomuchStuff
There are so many terms now, like BB, whatever that is, and tinted moisturizer--I think that is what I thought primer was, tinted moisturizer.
The one I have is transparent not tinted.
Most potions and lotions today contain dimethicone or some other cheap silicone-based ingredient. Often it is the first or second ingredient. I can't use any of it because it irritates rather than helps my skin.
That girl knew how to slather it on!Quote:
Originally Posted by ToomuchStuff
Well after a recent removal of a spot of melanoma, I'm slathering on sunscreen, for sure! Good thing I'm not vain, as I have a lovely scar from the corner of my eye part way down my cheek. (I tell people its a dueling scar, lol)
Early: I love the idea of the dueling scar story! I am quite conscientious about sunscreen at this point in time (closing the barn door a bit late in the game). No skin cancers yet, but my gardener's arms look decades older than my legs which have barely seen the light of day. I never liked to sunbathe and I only wear long pants, so my sun damage is pretty much incidental.
I needed some clay flower pots, but I was having trouble finding any that I liked that were not crazy expensive. Mom had a few nice ones in her basement that she was happy to give me so free to me and a few less things in Mom's basement!
Glad you were able to get them from your mom!Quote:
Originally Posted by rosarugosa
I keep trying to put my "wants/needs" for certain things out among family and friends before I actually shop. I'm always surprised how many times someone is looking to get rid of what I am looking to own. LOL.
Exactly. We go to the village wide garage sales in the spring with a list of things we want. It is truly shocking the number of things we find! If I don't find what I want from the sales THEN I go buy new.Quote:
Originally Posted by happystuff
Neighbors who moved to a condo last year gave us their wheelbarrow, which we had previously borrowed on a few occasions. The handles were old wood, and one snapped off this spring. WE considered buying a new one, but instead DH bought replacement handles and new hardware. He had to use a Sawzall to cut off the rusted old bolts, and he used the old handles as a template to drill holes in the new handles. It was quite a project, but for about $72. in parts, we have a wheelbarrow that will probably outlast us, and DH kept this one from going into the trash stream.
It is a pain to take an air conditioner in and out every year, especially on the second floor, and I was tempted to get a minisplit, but that would also entail upgrading the electric. My brother came over and put the window unit in for me last night and I am ready for the season now.
We just accepted a quote for purchase and installation of a mini split. Unfortunately they're booked until September, so we won't get the benefit of the air conditioning for most of the hot season. I was pleased with the price, frankly. I had heard that the heat pump+labor to install would be between $5-10k, but he quoted us $3600 plus there is a modest rebate.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yppej
I think we’re getting one of those split things for our sunroom but it is yet to be installed, so we will see.
For my condo rather than having a window air conditioner, I’ve got one of those floor model things. It came with the unit. We will see how efficient it is. The condo rules require that the air conditioners be removed from the windows each winter.
Even though DH is cranky about it, I’m pretty sure my Hermann upstairs bedroom in the eaves will need an additional boost of air conditioning with a window unit. I tell him to look at it as “zoned air-conditioning” since there’s nothing wrong with the central air system but it’s not going to be able to cool the super hot spaces at the roofline.
Jeppy: You might want to consider one of those portable units. I hate the way it looks inside the room, but it looks better from outside than a window unit so I guess it balances out. The real beauty of it is that I can just roll it out of the closet at the beginning of the season, and roll it back in at the end, no heavy lifting required. (As an aside, this is also where closet culling over the years has paid off. We are able to store some pretty large non-clothing items in the closet, and at one time that would have been impossible).
Catherine: I would love to hear more about the mini-split you are getting. Our house is about 900 SF so I think we're comparable to you in size, although we have 2 floors and I think you are all on one floor. We heat with steam by oil, so there is no potential to tie into our existing system.
Not Catherine, but we have a mini split on our porch/sunroom. I think we were over sold. Not only does it keep the porch (~320 sq feet) comfortable, if we leave the door open it cools/dehumidifies the entire downstairs (prob about 900 sq feet). We have a room air conditioner in our bedroom upstairs, and the other (guest) room is not cooled. A smaller mini split would have sufficed, but I'm glad it at least keeps the first floor comfortable.
Rosa I have a unit like you describe as well, but it's not that effective.
Thanks, Herb. I am happy to hear about yours as well. :)
Jeppy: The unit we got is quite effective. We got it from Costco, and as I recall it was pretty expensive, but it had all the features we wanted, and Costco tends to carry good stuff, so we went with it. It's a Delonghi Pinguino.
Found another gas station when the one I'd been going to raised their price.
Went to visit a friend yesterday and we ended up going to the local flea market. Beautiful day and was just expecting a nice day out browsing. Ended up getting two pairs of cargo shorts for work this summer for $2 each (still need to try on so fingers crossed!), a really big roll of packing tape ($3), a nice purse ($1) and a small backpack ($8). I don't usually shop like this, but it was nice getting a few needs and wants. Plus a great day spent with my friend - priceless!
Went to Aldi's rather than my usual Market Basket and finally got eggs. They were $2.99 which I thought wasn't too bad as they are cagefree. Some other items were priced a little better also.
I went to Firehouse subs yesterday while in the city and they had great pickle buckets (5 gallon buckets) for 3 dollars and they donate the money to firefighters. They only had four but I bought them and will ask my son to get me some more. Came home and planted them with marjoram, oregano, lavender, and rosemary seeds. So excited!
Got incredibly lucky--were driving by a farmhouse where the guy was tearing down his old barn and I spotted a bunch of old hay in there and we stopped and asked if we could have it. He stacked it up very nicely (after sweetly offering to deliver it, but we were going to Portland for the day) and husband made two trips over there after we got back and we have lots and lots of free, rotting hay, all for free!!!! This is the score of the year.
Finished the month where I wanted to (below average spending per month). Knew I could not hit my aggressive budget goal this month, and there are four months out of the year I let myself skip.
June should not have any large expenses, so I've scheduled my furnace cleaning then. Last year I did it in September, but it's still a post-heating season timeframe, and next fall I will need my funds for home heating oil, which I had hoped would come down in a midterm election year, but the politicians don't care about recessive expenses hitting ordinary people.
Second half of property taxes due - a whopping $550. Back in TX, half a payment would have been well over $5000 so the payment here always feels like a bargain.