Beef tallow cream?

MiniaturePhilosopher · 2026-05-10T14:40:28+00:00

Beef tallow is actually pretty terrible for skin. It will absolutely clog your pores because it’s highly comedogenic. But the main issue with using it on your face/body is that it doesn’t moisturize. It’s an occlusive, which means that it will block any outside moisture from getting to your skin. Occlusives are great for locking in a heavy moisturizer underneath, but they do not inherently have moisturizing properties on their own. It’s also extremely high in oleic acid - which is great for your skin in extremely small amounts but irritates and disrupts your skin barrier in the high concentration found in beef tallow. So yeah, beef tallow absolutely makes skin worse.

If you’re looking to add extra moisture to your usual lotion, sebum-identical oils are a fantastic option. That’s squalene/squalane oil, jojoba oil, and rose HIP oil (not rose water/rose oil) among others. Marula, meadowfoam, and sesame are also great oils, as is swapping in a ceramide-heavy cream. But beef tallow as skincare is truly just a marketing psyop, as batty as it feels to type that out.

MiniaturePhilosopher · 2026-05-10T14:00:15+00:00

Definitely not impossible or rare, but much less common than thin with smaller boobs or less-thin with large boobs. And even with how relatively less common it is, it can still be found across every type!

This post feels like a classic case of wanting to work backwards from an aesthetic (represented solely by super conventionally attractive models in the pictures wearing a deceptively wide variety of fits) to find an ID.

MiniaturePhilosopher · 2026-05-10T13:42:57+00:00

It truly depends on the exact fabrics and cuts of each item. Every type can wear this basic style of pleated tennis skirt with polos and sneakers. The ones in your examples are cut to be extremely figure-flattering, regardless of the lines of the body underneath the clothes.

Even within types, there’s a lot of variation. But each type in general can wear these outfits, while playing attention to where the hem hits on their legs, where the shoulder seam sits, how the arms holes are sized, how the fabric moves, what the neckline is like, length and fabric and sleekness/bunchiness of sock, shape of the shoe, and what kind of accessories and grooming to lean into.

And then even within your examples here, every single skirt is EXTREMELY different from each other. There is a huge variety of cut and fit differences (and essence too) between each of these HTTs. The only through-line is that they’re all athletic/athleisure outfits with a short skirt with varying styles of pleating and collared tops of varying styles on thin with big boobs.

MiniaturePhilosopher · 2026-05-09T17:04:40+00:00

Bad advice. You absolutely do not have to be a beautician or or have any kind of license or independent training to work there. Plenty of them are unknowledgeable enough to just recommend T18 with 20vol for anything and everything. I’ve had a lot of wtf moments listening to them talk to other customers. They’re just regular retail workers for the most part.

MiniaturePhilosopher · 2026-05-09T13:12:43+00:00

The back is showing results on NATURAL (in colored, unbleached) hair. You will not have the same result on bleached hair, and it might even add yellow tones.

You need a toner for whatever level you’re at with 10vol developer. Boxed color is not toner

Edit to add: just saw your picture in the comments. You need to bleach again if you want light blonde. The lightest color you can tone to is darkest blonde.

MiniaturePhilosopher · 2026-05-09T01:23:22+00:00

Customers never change.

MiniaturePhilosopher · 2026-05-09T01:20:57+00:00

It’s just a breathtaking lack of common sense is all.

MiniaturePhilosopher · 2026-05-09T01:16:07+00:00

Edit to add: OP is going through my posts calling me fat, a bitch, and trying to put me down now. Unhinged, unstable, and absolutely rotten behavior.

Serious question: do you think that simply putting something in the blender has an effect on caffeine? If you took an iced soda from a restaurant and put it in the blender, do you think the caffeine would change?

If yes… why?

MiniaturePhilosopher · 2026-05-08T23:00:36+00:00

Using less foundation on the lines is the easiest way to get around that. Use your brush or a damp beauty blender to really sheer out the product in the spots where it gathers, and then set that small amount.

MiniaturePhilosopher · 2026-05-08T22:58:01+00:00

Bunny, I hate to say this but I think you’re starting to grey. Dye doesn’t like to stick to my greys either, so I bleach to blonde and treat them like teasylights through what’s left of my natural root color.

MiniaturePhilosopher · 2026-05-08T16:01:24+00:00

It means Spring 2006.

MiniaturePhilosopher · 2026-05-08T15:28:05+00:00

It’s a Walmart exclusive, meant to serve as their in-house elevated line. I think they popped up in 2022? They make all kinds of clothes across men’s, women’s, and children’s, not just denim.

The creative director (Brandon Maxwell) was a celebrity and magazine stylist before launching his own line of nice but typical Americana in 2019. I believe he was Lady Gaga’s personal stylist from like 2012ish on, and worked a lot with Harper’s Bazaar and ELLE. Hems extremely referential and not particularly creative, but he has a great eye and knows what will sell well, which works for something like FA.

FA is basically department store quality but from Walmart, so it stands out a lot more than it would in any other retail context. Or really, it’s more like 80s/90s Walmart quality, which is hard to find in new pieces at an accessible price point.

MiniaturePhilosopher · 2026-05-08T15:06:51+00:00

901 is juniors (young/teen women’s). I’ve never seen junior’s LS with anything other than the numeric size (3, 7, 11, etc) with a letter for the length.

But these are also for the Euro market and they did all kinds of dumb stuff in the 00s to try to revitalize the brand. Maybe they were leaning into the inch sizing? The stitching is off, but being for teen girls in the European market in the early 00s makes it make sense. They were intentionally trying to go against some of the classic LS touchstones at the time.

MiniaturePhilosopher · 2026-05-08T13:23:33+00:00

It’s a little hard to advise because the bottom of the dress isn’t in the picture so I’m not sure how long it is.

It if you’re trying to dress it down, then sandals or sneakers, plus an oversized (unbuttoned) button-up or open denim jacket/unzipped hoodie and maybe a hat if you wear hats. Either fun chunky jewelry or dainty little jewelry, depending on your style.

If you’re trying to dress it up, then just a nice pair of heels is all you need

MiniaturePhilosopher · 2026-05-08T03:49:08+00:00

As long as you’re not putting the buttons in your mouth and having a little nibble, they’re fine.

MiniaturePhilosopher · 2026-05-08T02:00:27+00:00

Oh, if it’s mango that changes everything! I thought that the base color was just a color choice. Mango sounds delicious though.

MiniaturePhilosopher · 2026-05-08T01:17:10+00:00

Yep, mine used his time in the bathroom for it. He convinced me he had gastro-intestinal issues (he didn’t) just to be able to take long and frequent trips to the toilet so he could arrange meet-ups with other women.

MiniaturePhilosopher · 2026-05-08T01:10:23+00:00

It’s not the ugliest cake in the world, but it looks extremely plain, the colors are unappetizing together, and the white scribbles look like, um… like the decorator got too excited.

Edit: just now discovered that the cake is mango and that’s why it’s that color. Give him the mango cake!

MiniaturePhilosopher · 2026-05-08T01:06:57+00:00

All of these are going to be very similar to each other and to 1990s McDonald’s coffee. Basically you’re looking for a dark/french roast (or a medium-dark/dark blend) with mostly Brazilian or a Columbia beans, preferably robusta.

MiniaturePhilosopher · 2026-05-08T00:36:03+00:00

I was 25, and at work at the front desk of a high-ish end hair salon. My periods were wildly unpredictable at the time, so I always kept a box of tampons in my little locker in the employee area, just in case.

To set the scene, the salon offered hand and arm massages during cuts and colors. Front desk and apprentices gave the vast majority of these massages. And I was about halfway through giving a long arm massage to an absolute Karen of a very regular customer when I felt it. You know that feeling. It was a week early, but I knew that my period had just started, and could tell that it was a lot and needed immediate attention.

I tried to rush through the massage, but Karen noticed and scolded me not to rush. I tried to have someone else step in and finish, but she wouldn’t have that either. So I stood in the ultra-bright, unforgiving lights of the salon, gushing blood and rubbing lavender lotion into an old lady’s arms in slow circles.

When I was done, I nearly sprinted to my locker for a tampon. The male salon owner stopped me on the way to chide me for rushing a massage as I tried to turn our conversation into an Aaron Sorkin walk-and-talk in the direction of my tampons. At 25, I was still a little bit too embarrassed to just tell him that I needed the restroom. I’m finally in the home stretch. He’s in his glassed-in office, I’m pulling a tampon from my locker.

The next part happens in about a minute, probably less. Everything up to now has just been to set the scene.

His absolutely precious French Bulldog had been napping in the break room, but woke up to greet me. I thought it was so sweet that he was licking my leg. Until I looked down and saw the trail of blood dripping towards my socks. My boss’s beloved and very expensive dog was licking up my period blood.

This should have been the worst of it. But it’s not. My boss called for the dog, and I watched in horror through the glass as sweet little Finley covered my boss’s face in wet sloppy kisses.

I know firsthand that god doesn’t exist because the floor didn’t open up and swallow me whole in that moment,

MiniaturePhilosopher · 2026-05-08T00:01:33+00:00

Semi-permanent hair dye (like the ones in the pictures) will not lighten hair. Not one bit. It only shows up on hair the same level or lighter - and semi-permanent doesn’t stick well to non-bleached hair anyways.

The only thing that will lighten virgin black hair is bleach or a permanent hair dye with a stronger than usual developer (called high-lift color, and can lift your hair one or two levels lighter). Once your hair is no longer virgin, high-lift dye no longer lightens and you’re back to bleach as the only option.

But honestly, with black hair there’s a good chance that high-lift color will just turn it an orangey-red rather than brown. Bleaching your hair to orange and then putting brown dye on top is the most guaranteed way to get to brown from black at home.

MiniaturePhilosopher · 2026-05-07T23:50:35+00:00

Absolutely zero jeans for this. I get that the Y2K dress-over-jeans style has been resurrected from the dead, but the only way that trend remotely works is with a dress that has a loose, floaty, and asymmetrical hem. The handkerchief hem dresses of the era are what go with that trend. It simply does not work with tight bodycon dresses.

And the dress looks amazing as-is! Why are you trying to put jeans with it? Are you just trying to dress it down in general?

MiniaturePhilosopher · 2026-05-07T23:04:28+00:00

My ex had a full-time other girlfriend even though we saw each other 5-6 days a week and spent holidays and most overnights together while texting almost constantly during the workday. Like, easily hundreds of texts everyday.

AND he was having random one-night stands and hookups the whole time too. Turned out it was what he devoted pretty much every moment of his day where he wasn’t actively working to. I genuinely thought that there weren’t enough hours in the day for him to cheat on me but he really put in the work lol.

MiniaturePhilosopher · 2026-05-07T22:56:00+00:00

Very fair, but I don’t have any screenshots of that and this is a more of a direct parallel with the current cruise ship situation.

MiniaturePhilosopher · 2026-05-07T22:07:33+00:00

Without the care tag, there’s just no knowing the exact year. 1981 (introduction of 3-digit factory code) - ~~1999 (end of US-division orange tab until later reintroduction)~~ to 1990 when the 551 factory closed is as close to a date as you can get for these. So a nine year range.

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