#itxaxo

[systlin]

The keys to Very Long Hair are 1) Do Not Cut and 2) Do Not Mess With. Wear it up as often as possible to prevent damage and wash it as infrequently as you can get away with. In ten years I've gone from shoulder-length hair to mid-thigh length and it's in fantastic shape, no split ends or anything.

Mine is just past mid-back now and growing. I keep it braided most of the time, and baby it with the good shampoos and conditioners, and hot oil treatments. 

I started with it cut to my cheekbones a few years back. I’d love to get it down past my ass. 

[lpanne]

So i’ve been working on this cross stitch bonsai pattern since i did this pattern 3 years ago for  Briar from tamora pierce’s circle of magic books. i was recently re-inspired to finish it from meeting @itxaxo and seeing her family’s bonsais and being taken to a show. (It was so coooooool)

i don’t think i’m done with this pattern as there are several other styles that i want to make, but it is a start! (also note i didn’t include color suggestions, i feel like this is a case of if you have a green, brown and darker brown combo you like that is better than me saying you have to use a specific color combo, and i’m being lazy)

Also cross-stitching note, i think the pattern looks find with or without backstitching, I just apparently like to over-design.

[marzipanandminutiae]

Ok but I wanna hear your opinions on early vs late bustle. Personally I vastly prefer early I would rather look like a floofy cake than a butt shelf but my boss definitely disagrees.

I’m with you. A bit less floof for me, but I much prefer the softer, more gradual- and, I think, more graceful -lines of the Early Bustle period. 1880s should have stuck to natural form instead of going full-on Ass Shelf(TM). In my opinion.

Though even I have to admit, Late Bustle is definitely a Luk if you’re into that sort of thing.

[systlin]

I have a 1870s arsenic green ball gown I would loan you but it is me sized (tiny person) and I don't know it if would fit you. Upyrica could definitely wear it though and she's the other person I associate with poisonous dresses

I’m 5′8″ and wear a size six in dresses. However, I doubt it would fit me in the shoulder and arm; I tend to find most clothes that fits my body is tight through the shoulder and arm. 

[systlin]

Ugh I hate gatekeeping archery assholes when I first started at Berkeley I really wanted to join the archery club and I went to a couple of practices. Problem is that Cal has one of the best archery teams in the country and archery is like, THE ONE THING I'm not an obsessive perfectionist about. I just like to go out in the woods and shoot at bales of hay. It's fun! Who cares if I miss sometimes? They were so nasty to me I never returned and I wish I had an archery community here but nope.

I feel this on a molecular level. 

[systlin]

Someone in a fb group I'm in just asked about using DMSO as a topical treatment for wrist strain. What. The fuck. Is wrong with people. DMSO is, ok, not that bad as solvents go but that doesn't mean you should put it on your SKIN

I’ve heard of this, and also that there is ABSOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE that it actually WORKS. 

Though it’ll give you rashes and skin conditions so yeah DON’T

[systlin]

Why?? Do people treat essential oils lightly?? Clove oil is 87% eugenol and 8% eugenol acetate and about ten seconds of research finds the eugenol MSDS where one can clearly see that it is a skin and eye irritant and that first aid measures are recommended for skin contact? I mean I work with people who take benzene lightly but polymer chemists are a special breed and no one's tried to use it in skincare yet.

I work in a plant that makes plastics, and yes can confirm that polymer chemists are indeed a special breed that do not seem to give 1 fuck amongst the whole lot of them. 

And it’s because so many people have this idea in their head that if something is ‘natural’, that means ‘good’. I absolutely HATE THIS. 

Volcanoes are natural. Arsenic is natural. Getting struck by lightning is natural. All will kill you very fucking dead. 

[systlin]

OH YEAH the fucking arsenic silk I work in a shop that sells antique clothing and my boss was telling us about that the other day and that you should Never Ever wear antique clothing that is black because of the tar dyes they used

The wild thing is that they knew that arsenic was poison, but they used it for dye anyway. 

I mean, I think living is more important than a sweet emerald green dress, but then I’m not a victorian lady.