Fashion Board 3-5-04 to 4-6-04

Originally posted by baltassoc
I'd consider myself a hair guy, if you will, as opposed the the more common breast and ass men.

Good hair:

Length is not really a priority, although some people like like hair exclusively. If the question is longer versus healthier, then definately healthier wins. I've definitely found very short hair attractive on some women.

Quantity is not critical so long as it meets certain minimums. Thick is good, but lots of volume isn't a positive of a negative, depending on hair type. I generally go for smooth hair, but I had a girlfriend once with huge curly hair who was very sexy.

Shiny in the sense of healthy is good. Oily not so good.

Soft is good. Very good.

Strong such that it can be held onto / clenched at appropriate times is good.

Straight vs. wavy vs. curly is a matter of personal taste. I don't really care so long as the cut and style is appropriate and the person is working with it instead of against it.

Some people are biased toward a color. I have a slight preference for redheads, but not enough to override an otherwise promising head of hair. Bad dye jobs are bad.

A good cut is critical. Split ends are bad.

Hair should also smell nice. Chemically hair is bad.

Really, it's a total package issue for me, but some people emphasize one aspect over another (primarily color and length, it would seem).

Wow, who knew?

The one thing I took from the Simple Life the one time I watched it is that going blonde is so pedestrian, so done by everyone, so totally unoriginal. I cant tell Paris Hilton from Sarah Michelle Gellar from the neck up, and Nicole Ritchie's blondness makes her look even more like a piece of trashy. I am now, perhaps temporarily, that the most original thing one can do with their hair is absolutely nothing. Shouldnt your natural haircolor be the most flattering in terms of matching your complexion and being healthy anyway?

[Hank Chinaski]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp...9276-2003Sep22

For Medicine, a Growing Problem
Doctors, Hospitals, ERs Struggle to Handle Wave of Obese Patients
By Ranit Mishori
Special to The Washington Post
Tuesday, September 23, 2003; Page HE01


On a chilly October day a few years ago, a 44-year-old woman lay in the internal medicine ward at Georgetown University Hospital. Pockets of infection were breaking through the skin on her abdomen as she received an intravenous drip of powerful antibiotics for her chronic non-healing wounds.



I was a third-year medical student, and she was now my patient.

After reviewing her medical history, I went to order a magnetic resonance image (MRI) to give me more information. There was only one problem. She was what we call "morbidly obese," weighing more than 350 pounds. The hospital's MRI machine was state-of-the-art, but my patient was too big to fit inside.

I explained the situation to my superiors and asked for advice. Their answer startled me: Call the National Zoo and schedule a session with the zoo's MRI.

I heard a story from a doctor completing her residency. She was talking about how the very obese get MRI's. if you have ever had a MRI, it's a tight fit, even for a physically fit person. She said the obese don't fit, and they actually send them to the zoo where there is an MRI that handles elephants/rhinos, etc.

I thought it was bullshit but then google popped the above article.

Say you're fat, and you know it. If you have to go to the zoo to get medical equipment, wouldn't that be pretty strong motivation to drop a few pounds? Or would the extra room make you feel better about yourself (assuming you're not actually as big as an elephant).

Originally posted by Fugee
I love the Laura Mercier tinted moisturizer (SPF 20). It evens out my skin tone without looking cakey so I rarely wear actual foundation anymore.

While we're on makeup, Revlon has a mascara-type product called Colorstay Overtime (tm) Last Tint. Regular mascara ends up in black smudges beneath my eyes. This stuff doesn't give you long length but for me it doesn't come off. I also wear liquid eyeliner because it doesn't come off like pencil but it is trickier to put on so that you don't end up looking like a 60s throwback.

Why do people wear foundation? I bought it once a year or two ago, tyhe Fresh stuff, which is relatively light. Its a pain in the ass to apply, time comsuming, and is just a coating of glop on your face. If you need to even out your complexion, why not just use a little powder? Or better yet, take the money and invest it in a good skin care line so none of tha glop is necessary? Its just yuck. and isnt it bad for your skin? ciovering it up like that?

[Alex_de_Large]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
In this part of the world, its part of the "Secretary from Bristol" uniform.

Thank God the firms in this building outlawed sweatpants on secretaries. Has your building done that yet?

No sweatpants here, thank god.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
Wow, who knew?

The one thing I took from the Simple Life the one time I watched it is that going blonde is so pedestrian, so done by everyone, so totally unoriginal. I cant tell Paris Hilton from Sarah Michelle Gellar from the neck up, and Nicole Ritchie's blondness makes her look even more like a piece of trashy. I am now, perhaps temporarily, that the most original thing one can do with their hair is absolutely nothing. Shouldnt your natural haircolor be the most flattering in terms of matching your complexion and being healthy anyway?

Flat, standard brown is dull. Real blondes and dark brunettes are striking. If you're going to dye it, go for very dark or very blonde. Everybody's a dirty blonde - its boring.

And if you've got that stringey hair that looks dry and is sort of straight, but also sort of frizzy, get it fixed. Curly is fine and straight is fine, but in the middle does not work. Its terribly unsexy.

[robustpuppy]

What a snooze. Hardly worth the 15-month wait or the cost of HBO.



**Spoiler**













Tony's expressing his romantic interest in Jennifer was mildly interesting, but not surprising, and both of their responses were predictable.

A.J. wailing like a baby and calling for his mommy was a funny moment, though. Too bad nobody who would use it to humiliate him in the future was there to see it, though. I hate that kid.

And I could have done without the waiter scene. It's not as if we don't already know that brutality is so mundane for Christopher and Paulie that murdering a guy with kids to support because he dared complain about his tip doesn't even trigger remorse; rather, it brought those two lovebirds closer together. The coming attractions suggest there's some worry about their getting caught, so the scene might end up having some value, and it might be interesting if Paulie's or Christopher's downfall comes not from some high stakes, ultra dramatic mob related killing, but rather from Christopher's temper getting out of hand.

I haven't read the reviews and don't know whether critics have seen more than one episode, but it doesn't look like a compelling season.

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
Why do people wear foundation? I bought it once a year or two ago, tyhe Fresh stuff, which is relatively light. Its a pain in the ass to apply, time comsuming, and is just a coating of glop on your face.

Well, if I don't use it, my five-o'clock-shadow is visisble, and that destroys the whole image I am trying to present every Friday at karaoke night at the Dew Drop Inn as "Tempestt LaBelle" (my rendition of "Cabaret" is always a hit).

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
For the next six months, the province's Department of Health and the CMHA's provincial branch want readers and viewers to monitor their local newspapers and television stations and report any uses of "inappropriate" words such as "basket case," "lunatic," "nutcase," "fruitcake," "madman" and "kooky" to authorities in return for "cash prizes."

I had no idea paigow had such global influence.

TM

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
What a snooze. Hardly worth the 15-month wait or the cost of HBO.

I saw it, and wasn't disappointed. True, there were no moments of greatness, but it's not really that kind of show. It's all about the buildup, with the unfolding plot and character elements. I think they set-up some plot lines with real potential (the Chris/Paul conflict is one example); hopefully they will exploit them well. And hopefully they will finish them during the season (I hate when the show has used the cliff-hanger trick to bring people back the next season).

It could suck, but it's not a show to judge on one episode.

Did the story-telling about the Russian Interior Ministry soldier foreshadow his return?

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Is it just me (and my husband) or has Lorraine Bracco really "porked out" (to use my husband's phrase)? And there is absolutely no way that was her ass. If it was, I'll eat my hat (and anyone else's that they throw my way).

[notcasesensitive]

So according to Larissa's website, she and her new Fabio are still together... http://www.larissameek.com/store/index.php

The entire site makes me TUIMMALB. View at your own risk.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Is it just me (and my husband) or has Lorraine Bracco really "porked out" (to use my husband's phrase)? And there is absolutely no way that was her ass. If it was, I'll eat my hat (and anyone else's that they throw my way).

Agreed. When the scene started, I thought the ass belonged to Tony's current bang.

Then again, it was Jennifer's dream, so you can't blame her unconscious mind for perfecting things. Note, however, that Tony was still a gigantic slob.

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Is it just me (and my husband) or has Lorraine Bracco really "porked out" (to use my husband's phrase)? And there is absolutely no way that was her ass. If it was, I'll eat my hat (and anyone else's that they throw my way).

She looked a *little* heavier to me this season, but not a whole lot. Gandolfini, on the other hand -- when Tony made a comment abut working on losing weight, my wife and I both looked at each other and snorted.

Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
My father, who is not a native English speaker, refers to a similar version of that hairstyle prevalent a little further South as "undulated-American style with a Berlin Wall." Very apt description, I think.

Is this why you got all thongtwisted about Puertoriican dice?

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
So according to Larissa's website, she and her new Fabio are still together... http://www.larissameek.com/store/index.php

The entire site makes me TUIMMALB. View at your own risk.

Funny that her artwork looks like that on the covers of romance novels. Just a little bit.

Fabio is clearly still in her heart, even though Gil is on her website. If I were Gil, I'd watch her at the breakfast table, and if she didn't eat real butter, I'd be out of there.