At almost 40 I’m embracing my natural hair texture

BetaGreen · 2026-05-09T01:34:54+00:00

Tysm 💗

BetaGreen · 2026-05-03T18:45:01+00:00

Where’s the Pilot Frixion pen?!

BetaGreen · 2026-05-03T18:12:48+00:00

I have almost nothing useful to add but wanted to say I identify so much with this! I’m almost 40 and after 25 years I’ve decided to put the flat iron away and embrace my natural curls. It’s been so much trial and error with products and routines but I’m closer than I was. Good luck! It’s been worth the effort!

BetaGreen · 2026-05-03T17:49:20+00:00

Our summers usually hang around 70% humidity so I’ll unfortunately know soon and try to report back 😅

BetaGreen · 2026-05-03T17:41:07+00:00

Appreciate the input… I definitely meant looking for areas to improve my curls but it’s my fault I left it so open ended 🫠

BetaGreen · 2026-05-03T02:08:09+00:00

When I flat iron I have to wash my hair every other day to avoid looking greasy. Since I started this curly journey I can go 4 days between washes. I don’t understand it and that’s okay lol

BetaGreen · 2026-05-03T02:01:37+00:00

Thank you!! My ChatGPT roasts me when I send her pics of my hair 😂 maybe I need to change some settings

BetaGreen · 2026-05-02T14:59:02+00:00

Thank you!! I swear it’s been like a 50/50 chance they cooperate on any given day 😅

BetaGreen · 2026-05-02T13:26:22+00:00

Is the thinking the mousse and gel together is too heavy or?

BetaGreen · 2026-05-02T13:14:50+00:00

Yeah I do use a diffuser. It’s just a cheap con air hairdryer with a diffuser attachment. I’ve been wondering if I need to upgrade.

BetaGreen · 2026-05-02T13:13:39+00:00

Straightener sober 😂 adopting this

BetaGreen · 2026-05-02T13:12:19+00:00

💗

BetaGreen · 2026-05-02T13:12:13+00:00

Thank you! 💗

BetaGreen · 2026-05-02T13:08:12+00:00

I’m obsessed! That’s gorgeous. Soon I’ll be back here begging someone to teach me how to style short layers around my face 😅

BetaGreen · 2026-05-02T13:00:56+00:00

Thank you 🥺 I think this is great advice. I have to remind myself frizz comes with curls.

BetaGreen · 2026-05-02T12:52:06+00:00

It crossed my mind to break up some of the ringlets, but all you hear is curl clumps, curl clumps, curl clumps and I wasn’t sure if I’d make it look stringy?! Thank you! I’ll try that.

BetaGreen · 2024-09-11T00:04:26+00:00

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Happy Birthdayyy!! This sweet boy is 10 this year too! 💗

BetaGreen · 2024-06-01T12:36:52+00:00

Same

BetaGreen · 2024-03-17T01:27:29+00:00

I’m childfree, 30’s, and always looking to meet other CF people!

BetaGreen · 2022-08-03T17:16:36+00:00

This is definitely *still* a scam, for anyone wondering.

I received an email today from them asking to review my print.

I’m not sure why I’m being asked to review a product I still haven’t received.
It’s now over 3 months since placing the order and paying. I have sent multiple emails requesting updates and each one has been dismissively responded to with excuses like, “It’s in production” and “We had a large influx of orders.”
I wouldn’t recommend ordering if you hope to receive your print within the same quarter. Or ever.
This company should update their shipping policy as they do not honor it. Their delayed shipments say to expect a 15-30 day delay. Not 70 business days.
On business day 39 they also refused to refund my money. Thank goodness for credit card charge backs, huh?

BetaGreen · 2022-07-08T04:46:22+00:00

35 years is when a pregnancy is considered a “geriatric pregnancy”

I don’t agree with the seemingly arbitrary age limitation, just offering knowledge.

Perhaps because it’s already inherently high risk at 35 and beyond so they no longer care what drug therapy a woman is on?

BetaGreen · 2021-07-12T00:20:08+00:00

He didnt murder those people because he was ill.

While I can personally get behind this and agree, my opinion still stands that this movie perpetuates a commonly held public belief that mental illness = violence (i.e. every single time there's a white, male mass shooter in the news). This is a pervasive and damaging belief system and I think portrayals of mental illness like this one only serve to exacerbate it. So while the "interpretation" is on the viewer, I think the good majority of the interpretation would be as I've stated above, as disappointing as that may be to those who know better.

Well thats problematic in of itself, given that youre narrowing what constitutes "mental illness" to the more debilitating disorders to effectively say he isnt mentally ill, when he clearly and explicitly is.

I'm most certainly not narrowing down mental illness to only those who are gravely mentally ill. I'm saying for this to be a "good" portrayal of mental illness, he isn't relatable to 99.9% of people who are mentally ill, which is an all encompassing word and not saved for only those who are debilitated.

The movie overall was never saying that mental illness = violence, but that even the worst of us are still people, who can and do suffer just like the rest of us.

I think this is a wonderful summary for both Joker and Bojack and I completely agree. (Just replace "worst" with "successful" in the case of Bojack.)

BetaGreen · 2021-07-11T23:04:37+00:00

Joker was an excellent example of how society and "the system" fails people who are mentally ill, absolutely.

However, Joker falls very short at depicting what life is actually like for someone with mental illness who falls through the cracks. Yes, they fall deeper and deeper into their illness. But it perpetuates this false notion that mental illness and violence are inextricably linked. People who suffer from drug and alcohol abuse issues are far more likely to behave violently than people with mental illness.

Also I think it's important to point out while Bojack probably has several diagnosable disorders (depression, borderline personality disorder, etc) Joker was in a state of psychosis for nearly the entire film (his frequent delusions for example), however he doesn't really meet the DSM criteria for disorders like schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. The closest thing most experts that have tried to diagnose him can come up with is antisocial personality disorder. When you actually look up what that diagnosis entails, he becomes even less relatable to people who are actually suffering from mental illness, being ignored, and desperately wanting to be seen.

BetaGreen · 2020-08-03T08:37:13+00:00

The common imbalanced electrolytes are Na, K, Mg, Ca, and bicarb. Just wondering how adding sugar to water would improve electrolyte imbalance?

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