no boys allowed in the room!!!!

Maybe I'll just start dying my roots red and have weird half-tone hair for six months lol

Christine, what sort of applicator does the dye come with? A bottle with a pointed tip? Most semis I've used have that type, I just use the point to section my hair, always starting at the front. Pro tip: apply moisturizer or vaseline etc to your ears, nape of the neck, face near the hairline (being careful not to get it on your hair) - it'll prevent staining of your skin. And I always put on a disposable shower cap while it processes.

Wigs are great, I had a blue one I liked to wear during ~~altered consciousness~~. It just makes everything more performative & fun so the two together were a good fit.

I have been dying my hair almost-black with a weird bronze finish. It doesn't make a lick of goddamn sense and I love it. I am trying to embrace being eccentric in safe ways.

OTHER NEWS OF FUN:
• I decided birthday party #29 is going to be occult themed. I stole the idea from someone else. Tarot readings and a cake shaped like Baphomet.
• Bought some good-looking underwears (good-looking = doesn't have holes eaten in it from low pH vaginal discharge, THAT'S RIGHT "THIS" IS HOW "WOMEN" "TALK")
• Bought tickets to a JOhn Hodgman show and got invited to a sculpture party the same night. I hope that doesn't mean I am going to get REVERSE WINTER'S TALED.

good-looking = doesn't have holes eaten in it from low pH vaginal discharge

i never knew about this! thank you for solving my eternal mystery of where the holes come from, for reals!

One more thing, I bought some flowers for myself to celebrate how awesome I am solo (everyone seems to be worried I will have Valentine's blues so I am preempting it). The flowers are the worst garish Minnesota Vikings colors. I did my new evening routine of a vigorous stroll to a library (a library in the middle of the park!) to return a book. I had forgotten I had bought the flowers and when I opened my door, there they were clashing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC_6gtTd9Rg
"Hey, me, I'm the right man for you."

Everyone should by flowers for themselves all the time imo.

How long are you guys keeping these underwear? I have some holey pairs but that's because I have a small monster named Benson so seems to think that stealing and then chewing on underwear is the best game ever. :/

BUY

dammit

One of the pairs was like seven years old. *_*
But most a 1-2 years old.

4-5 yrs? i honestly don't "rc"

I usually get the VS 5 for $25 deal a couple times a year so they don't get too worn out looking.

Or because the dog has chewed through like 1/2 of them by then. lol.

The ones that really fall apart fast (1-2 years) are the cheap cotton ones from Target. They are also cute and affordable so I keep buying them. Not sure there's really some kind of craftsmanship investment underwear I could buy even if I did have the money, so this works for me. I think my parents' garments hold together forever but that's because polyester + sacred.

MAGIC UNDERWEAR!!

The VS ones are cheap cotton and I'm sure by 1-2 years they'd be pretty much disintegrated.

garments are made of polyester?!!

i always figured they were cotton or lol, silk

good-looking = doesn't have holes eaten in it from low pH vaginal discharge

i never knew about this! thank you for solving my eternal mystery of where the holes come from, for reals!

I did always wonder about this too! In my case its bleached out black fabric rather than always holes, but still! WTF causes it? I feel like some kind of acidic superhero. CAUSTIC GAL.

Its also embarrasing when you fling off yr jocks around a guy and it looks like something weird exploded in your pants :/ ITS JUST THE FABRIC DYE I SWEAR.

silk garments! I'd might still be Mormon. SOunds luxurious (disregarding silk's powerful insulation properties).

Its also embarrasing when you fling off yr jocks around a guy and it looks like something weird exploded in your pants :/ ITS JUST THE FABRIC DYE I SWEAR.

what does this mean???

the thing with the silkworms was one of my fave bits of historical Mormon absurdity

ohhh man I had to google to even see what you mean. I guess it's cute that JS accidentally built all those anachronisms into his KJV fanfic but I was never able to give a fuck about whether or not horses were in South America or if it were really possibly for Jews to cross the ocean in frisbee boats lit by glow rocks.

or...what are you talking about.

wasn't this back in pioneer Utah days? Brigham Young decided that the mormons should make their own cloth, so they imported a bunch of silkworms, so that they could make their own silk, but the silkworms would totally freak out when there were thunderstorms, so they had to make protective coverings or something for the silkworm cages? i could be misremembering like a motherfucker.

I will admit the year of seminary on Doctrine & Covenants/church history was the year I mostly skipped class to hang out in my friends' guitar class, in which they did not play the guitar, but made chair ziggurats.

i think the person who told me that story spent most of that year of seminary stoend

what does this mean???

Which bit haha now I feel awkward! I mean the ph level thing bleaches stuff and on black fabric, that can cause it to.. well, basically it can go red. So you know. Ugh.

I didnt mean I spontaneously eject ink from my ladyparts like some kind of manga bizarro robot.

...I already regret typing that haw.

lol trayce

oh yeah - reddish/orangey? yeah

Ok I did not get the Australian bits.
Lord knows I have plenty of ugly brown skidmarks on my lighter underwear.
The first guy I had sex with saw my underwear and asked me if I shit my pants regularly. What a match made in heaven.

The skidmarks are from menses even though I guess that's a pooping term.
Girl talk!!!

geez - i consider myself lucky that none of the guys i've been with paid any attention to my underpants once they were removed.

Oh! I assumed ppl would know what jocks were haw. Undies.

See, those are the period underwear that only get worn during certain days/times.

i figured jocks was short for jockeys (the makers of underwear)! I get aussieisms!

xps

i prefer to have black underwear. i bleed a lot, and irregularly. i hate bloodstains. tho peroxide works pretty well.

also, ecover stain treater. i use a ton of it.

I can solve this problem for you all!

You guys all have great ideas. I started using pantiliners. It helps but I still fuck up.

Laurel, hit me!

as long as the solution isn't a swiffer

Er no, it's not wearing underwear. May be more helpful to some than others.

But I only have the one chemise, I can't bleed onto it!

Allowing for individual variation, normal woman parts are pretty good at keeping "in" things in, I find. Not including periods, obv.

Sorry, Abbs! Not that exciting.

OK - question for the non underpants wearing folk. DO you not wear underwear with anything? I mean even when you're wearing jeans? I had to go commando with jeans recently in an emergency situation (forgot to pack any underwear for 3 days away) and it was so damn uncomfortable. I spent the whole day wondering how commando favoring folk did it tbh.

Nope! Not even with jeans. I wore underpants w jeans the other day because I was going to TRY ON jeans and I am not a disgusting savage, and I was shocked at how uncomfortable it was. Also that it gave me panty lines. Now THAT'S gross.

Every time I have worn jeans without underwear, it was clear that afterwards the jeans wanted washing. Maybe it's a YMMV thing.