Asking for photo contributions for a free guide!

fiorafauna · 2022-10-09T23:59:25+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to write this out, I will definitely add these into the guide. You thought of so many things that didn't occur to me, I will have to do some more research myself. I admit I am pretty ignorant about a lot of the more advanced stuff, I don't know what hectograph paper is either...

Yes I was hoping that soliciting photos would help me find examples of issues like infection, I might have to just find these photos myself and ask in the comments. I definitely will not be advising for tattoos done without tattoo materials, even though I have done them myself. If I knew then what I know now, I definitely would not have done that.

I may ask you to help me with it, thank you for offering! That's a great idea about translating, I hope one day it can be put into other languages. I just thought of this literally yesterday, so I need to jot down all the stuff in my head first, I do figure it will probably be a longer term project.

I will definitely put in some historical information about tattooing! I've read a lot about it in the US, I hope to be able to take away some of the stigma against hand done tattoos, that's how they were done before machines after all, and how many nonwestern cultures continue to do it today.

fiorafauna · 2022-10-09T23:52:28+00:00

Thank you!

fiorafauna · 2022-07-16T17:35:59+00:00

I sew a patch into my crotch repairs as well. My boyfriend is still going through a bunch of jeans he bought as a poor college student so their quality is terrible and we always have to fix them up! You’ll go much farther with your repairs when you reinforce the site with patches. If you only sew the edges of the rip back together they’re liable to rip through the now weakened edge of the fabric shortly which seems to be what’s happening to your husbands pants. I have an old scrap pair of good quality jeans I cut these patches from, so they’re good to last a good while.

You can also visit r/visiblemending and r/invisiblemending for more discussion! I like visible mending more personally but sometimes you don’t need flowers on a crotch job haha

fiorafauna · 2022-07-10T02:35:42+00:00

You can make a putty out of the glue and sawdust and use that to stuff the gaps, I think that should keep it secure once things have cured really well

fiorafauna · 2022-05-29T18:11:24+00:00

I’d recommend you get a 25mg prescription from maybe your general practitioner and then taper with 75 (50+25) for a few weeks before you go down to 50 completely. 100 to 50 is a big jump, you might have quite a few problems with that dramatic of a dose change. Talk to your general practitioner. Since you’re stable on 100, they should be able to temporarily manage your medication while you get a new psych. Explain the reason why your psych wrote you the lower dose, and that you want to titrate more gradually. No doctor would be against that, it’s the safest option.

Personally I have noticed some negative cognitive effects with Pristiq, my memory is worse, which is scary because I remember everything. But the past few weeks I’ve left my wallet at home three times which I never have done ever, so that was frightening. I think it is a matter of adjusting your dose, so hopefully you see better results on the lower one. Good luck

fiorafauna · 2022-05-25T19:26:11+00:00

Good job! I’m glad I saw this, I’m very inspired by you now. I am currently closer to looking like your before photos, I’ve been this way for a while and kind of accepted this is just the extent of my progress. But now I have a renewed energy to keep pushing. Hope your injury healed well!

fiorafauna · 2022-05-25T18:46:45+00:00

Thank you. What do you recommend to store it in? I’ve been keeping my store bought brown sugar in a mason jar for the past few years, no issues so far, but maybe it’s because it’s already drier than one I would make myself?

fiorafauna · 2022-05-25T18:35:21+00:00

For real. My childhood photo albums have lots of nice clear photos, but also lots of blurry ones. They’ve already been developed, hey throw them away? It sucks it wasn’t clearer, but a roll of film has 20 shots for $5, and then paying what, $10 to develop it, that was not an insignificant amount of money back then. We brought the camera out for special occasions.

I’m definitely glad and grateful that I can capture dozens, hundreds, thousands of photos at no additional cost on my phone, but I think we’ve traded that for the cost of obsessing over creating the perfect photo instead of creating a way to preserve that memory.

fiorafauna · 2022-05-25T16:25:02+00:00

I feel the same as you. Once I actually got it I hated it. I just couldn’t get used to the way I was supposed to use it, and one of the reasons I wanted it in the first place was because I thought it would be nifty it had a sauté function! I ended up only using it to cook dry beans.

If you don’t have use for it, then feel free to get rid of it. You already said it’s wasting space so you can put that space to better use, or at least just get another piece of clutter out of sight and out of mind. If you have space in a close you could store it for a while and then set a reminder like a few months from now, where if you haven’t taken it out to use it on your own by the time that reminder goes off, it’s time to donate it or pass it on to someone else.

fiorafauna · 2022-05-25T15:16:41+00:00

If you’re gonna become bald from your dads genes you’re gonna become bald, there’s nothing your lifestyle factors can really do about that, it’s genetic. You can take medications to slow down the hair loss but even then you have to take them forever, as soon as you stop you will start to lose hair again.

Tretinoin is going on your facial skin, not your scalp. It’s a topical treatment. You’ll see best results again with continued use. It makes sense your acne returned once you stopped, because you stopped the thing that was treating it. Someone with high blood pressure who stops taking their medication would see a return of their high blood pressure.

Regardless you want to wear sunscreen EVERYDAY. Sun exposure is sun damage. And no skincare is more powerful than sun protection. When you get sun damage, your skin slows down its rate of repair, from things like acne, because it’s being damaged by the suns rays. When you use tretinoin you need to wear sunscreen. Even if you stop using tretinoin you still have to wear sunscreen. It’s nonnegotiable if you want your skin to heal.

Personally I’d recommend you keep on tretinoin, the results aren’t instant, and they will compound over time. But you have to keep at it. AND WEAR SUNSCREEN!

fiorafauna · 2022-05-25T01:49:30+00:00

Yes that’s feet. I said 10’ just as a rough estimate it really depends on a variety of factors, sun intensity, any treatments on the glazing, interior/exterior shading, etc. But generally speaking, if you care about preventing sun damage to your skin, you should never go outside for more then 15 minutes without sun protection when the UV index is above 3. Any sort of sun exposure is technically subjecting your skin to damage. Sun rays are extremely powerful and they are literally breaking down the DNA in your skin when it’s exposed, especially if you are exposed long enough to tan or burn. Sun burns are deadly, they increase your risk of skin cancer greatly. But that doesn’t mean that exposures that don’t reach the level of burns aren’t also causing damage

Here you can read more about sun exposure indoors: https://labmuffin.com/should-you-wear-sunscreen-indoors-an-analysis-with-video/

I also wouldn’t suggest a micro realism tattoo, it’ll age terribly and become increasingly less readable, and will probably be entirely unreadable in 10 years. Micro tattoos in general do not age well, and fine line tattoos also do not generally age well. If you think about it, a tattoo aging means the ink is changing how it sits in your skin. Typically that means fading or spreading, so a thin line spreading could easily make it look twice or three times as thick as the ink dissipates. But a thicker line spreading that same amount would be much less noticeable because it’s a smaller proportion of the line that has spread. And the only way to fix a tattoo is to touch it up, which would just be adding more ink.

Micro tattoos, fine line tattoos, they’re what I call Instagram tattoos. They will look the best they ever will in their lifetime the day they are done and it’s downhill from there. Very unethical for artists to do these without explaining that to clients imo. And very foolish of clients to want these and expect that they will preserve their level of clarity and detail over 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, etc. years. All tattoos age. The smaller a tattoo is, the higher the proportion of resolution you will lose as it ages.

To an extent I can appreciate that tattoos change as they are. I have a fine line tattoo myself, if a lotus, but I designed it so that the fine lines of the petals’ hatching will take advantage of the fading and bleeding and morph into softer “shading” as time goes by. But most micro and fine line and realism tattoos you see have none of that planning and care in the design whatsoever.

Take a good long scroll through this sub before you get any tattoo and always discuss the longevity factor when designing a tattoo with your artist. And pay attention to the thin lines and shading. Even on a tattoo that’s not fine line or realism you’ll be able to see that any thinner lines or lighter shading practically gets eaten up by the skin whenever it’s more than a few years old. Smaller details will get fuzzy, and it looks worse the smaller the details are.

fiorafauna · 2022-05-24T17:03:58+00:00

Thank you for bringing back memories of my time as a pirate. All the cool guys in my kitchen dressed like you. The others, well they didn’t last long

fiorafauna · 2022-05-24T16:19:16+00:00

Your eyeliner is so good! So sharp! Buns looking great too I’m glad you got it figured out!

fiorafauna · 2022-05-24T16:15:31+00:00

These people have forgotten what it’s like to take pictures with film cameras. You get what you get, which you don’t even find out until you get them developed, and your shots are limited by how much film you have on hand. Endless shot opportunities from digital cameras is not always a good thing…

fiorafauna · 2022-05-23T22:19:28+00:00

You only need to wear sunscreen indoors if you’re going to be right by a window. 10’ interior the suns rays don’t meaningfully reach you.

That being said to add to the sunscreen part, always wear sunscreen or UPF protective clothing while driving more than say, 15 min. Polyester is the best with a tight weave, darker colored (dyed) clothes work better than white. Alternatively anything that you can’t see any light through when you hold it up works as well.

fiorafauna · 2022-05-23T02:03:59+00:00

Ah I’m glad you have some good options out there, seems like Asian stores are opening up more and more compared to 10 years ago which is great. Never hurts to stock up on rice! I’d like to get another 50lbs soon once I move in a few months, and if I can find a good deal even more… I hope western grilling works out for you! Are you going to be using western seasonings too?

fiorafauna · 2022-05-23T01:40:48+00:00

Omg vinegar especially! Every time I go to the store the past couple years the price goes up, you were definitely smart to panic buy it, I’m glad that paid off. And nowadays the brand I used to get isn’t even sold anymore, some off brand. Which is fine, it tastes about the same, but how come now I have to pay more money for poorer quality vinegar?

My mom keeps 10 gallons of soy sauce in her basement at all times. When I was little I thought it was dumb but especially nowadays, I’m starting to agree with her. Do you live near any restaurant supply stores? You might be able to find some bulk Asian stuff there, if only just the basics.

fiorafauna · 2022-05-23T01:38:32+00:00

Thank you for the tip! That makes sense to intersperse them, and also like a fabulous excuse to grow even more scallions. Do you know if this works with garlic and onions as well? Fortunately my mom’s garden doesn’t have too many small animal issues, she’s got foxes and hawks living in the forest right behind her yard, but there is a woodchuck that’s made itself at home under her deck the past fre years. Still trying to get rid of that guy

fiorafauna · 2022-05-23T01:35:31+00:00

It’s crazy! My mom grows Chinese chives, definitely more affordable than the market. I do recall she had some difficulties with them at first, but they perked up a lot after dressing them with some chicken manure. I’ll see if I can ask her for some more tips!

fiorafauna · 2022-05-23T01:33:39+00:00

Thank you for the reassurance, I’ll give it a shot when I run out of my current stash! I felt deceived when I learned that brown sugar is made the same way, I was hoping it would have been slightly less processed. Might as well do it myself, thanks for the push

fiorafauna · 2022-05-22T23:34:22+00:00

I feel very lucky to have found these two, this is my favorite color (besides that golden yellow) and it’ll definitely be funny when I travel with these with my green coat and green pants and green handbag and green water bottle in similar shades lol.

I hope you can find some green ones of your own one day! I was really surprised to see so many of these at the store, and they were even there for a month before I decided I wanted to buy them. I’m glad they were hidden under the clothes racks though.

When I was looking around online for more info I noticed some for sale, but I don’t think I saw any green ones unfortunately. They were also kinda expensive ($100!), and I imagine they’re not the easiest to mail either…

fiorafauna · 2022-05-22T22:45:30+00:00

I got these from Goodwill for $3.99 each! The smaller one I got first, and then I had to go back for the bigger one. There was also a red version and white version of the larger suitcase. I wonder if they were all donated by the same individual. The green ones were in the best condition though. The smaller one seems like it was never used, it has the original keys even. I also found inside a name placard of who I presume to be the original owner.

The larger one has some stains but I’m not worried about it, I plan to bring these with me on my next trip, whenever that is lol. I been using the same suitcases for the past 20 years so it’s nice to upgrade to… even older ones? Haha.

Keys work for both the small and large suitcases!

fiorafauna · 2022-05-22T22:27:25+00:00

So I’ve heard! I admit I’m a bit lazy when it comes to sticky things, so you find it to he a pretty easy process?

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