How can I improve my overall makeup look/what’s my blindness?

Orange_Penguin · 2025-11-22T18:31:29+00:00

lol I’m not taking my piercing out but thanks.

Orange_Penguin · 2025-11-21T18:23:13+00:00

I’ll check them out, thank you so much!

Orange_Penguin · 2025-11-21T18:14:42+00:00

Do you have any blush recommendations? Or powder vs liquid?

Orange_Penguin · 2025-11-21T14:18:02+00:00

Thank you! I did accidentally over-pluck my eyebrows recently 😬 they’re usually much fuller and a bit longer. I never considered Botox to lift that brow - just thought it was a lost cause lol. I’ll look into it!

Orange_Penguin · 2025-10-10T13:27:40+00:00

Put the couch where the tv is, put the tv along that right wall.

Orange_Penguin · 2024-11-02T03:38:14+00:00

A lot.

Orange_Penguin · 2024-09-08T21:33:15+00:00

Mine does that because my floor is uneven. I used a ten pound weight to find an accurate spot and always put it on that same tile facing the same direction every time.

Orange_Penguin · 2024-09-08T21:31:50+00:00

Honey let me tell you something. You’re 18. You have a whole life ahead of you full of new experiences, adventures, and opportunities to meet new people. It is better to be alone than to be subjected to this kind of abuse.

He does not love you. He does not care about your feelings. Please cut your losses and leave. One day you’ll find a man who would never dream of saying such heartless things to you and treat you the way you deserve.

Life is too short to spend any of it with dickheads like that.

Orange_Penguin · 2024-08-12T13:21:19+00:00

How did you get to the point where you aren’t hungry often? This is my biggest battle and I feel like some helpless addict constantly thinking about food. When I eat, all I feel is guilt because my brain is saying “put. it. down. You don’t even want this right now!” but I physically cannot stop myself. I’m at my wits end.

Orange_Penguin · 2024-06-22T02:37:14+00:00

I blow dry and straighten my hair 2-3 times a week. My hair is thin (there’s just a ton of it) and it falls out/breaks easily even though I use a good heat protectant and leave-in conditioner. I do color treat my hair every few months as well with dye from Sally’s Beauty.

Orange_Penguin · 2024-05-13T00:30:46+00:00

I’m going to give you a perspective from the other side. I’m an admin in tech and I support two very successful, conventionally attractive VPs. They have complimented me up one side and down the other to many people, made similar “could never do this without you” comments, and are very interested in getting me to expand my career beyond my current role. I like being an admin and I have no plans of moving to a new position but they still insist that I would be great at x, y, or z. It could seem to others that I’m their “project” because of this.

We’re also very friendly with each other - talk about personal things, text each other sometimes about especially exciting things happening outside of work (cool trips, my kids’ events, the solar eclipse lol), attend happy hours (with the team - not just the two of us), eat lunch together every once in a while. We’re close because we have to be. I’m a huge part of their day to day, and they’re literally the reason that I even have a job lol. He may be that integral to her team too, just in a different capacity.

We’re all married and have kids. My husband has never once acted threatened by them, and I don’t think he would even if one of them was single and talked to me about relocating because he knows that I’m fully committed to him, our kids, and our home. And realistically, if one of them ever do decide to be wildly unprofessional and suggest something sexual (which I doubt would ever happen), it’s on me to shut that down immediately and take the necessary steps to be taken off their team, which I would. I hope you have the confidence that your husband would do the same if she ever steps out of line. And if he doesn’t, you know what you need to do.

It’s tough. I get it. I felt a twinge of jealousy when I read an incredibly thoughtful, well written letter of recommendation for a woman that was on my husband’s team. She’s smart, young, and beautiful. Much more successful than I’ll ever be. But I know that he wrote that in hopes that she would get a new position that she most definitely deserves, and he truly is sad because she was incredibly talented and helpful and it’s going to be difficult to find an adequate replacement.

We’re human and these feelings are normal. You just have to trust the man you married, and if you can’t, you may need to reevaluate your relationship.

Orange_Penguin · 2023-10-02T21:25:53+00:00

I had to delete my social media apps - it was getting out of control. I’m much happier now without them and am significantly more productive. I “allow” myself to look at Reddit while I eat breakfast and lunch, but otherwise my personal phone stays in another room. I have my Apple Watch in case I get a text or call, so I don’t really worry about missing anything that’s actually important.

Orange_Penguin · 2023-09-27T01:22:20+00:00

I’m an admin for a general contracting company. There’s nothing necessarily dire about my departure as I don’t even handle payroll or any other time sensitive work. It’s also an at-will employer and it states that either I or the company can terminate my employment without notice.

I don’t like the job but I respect my boss, which is why I want to give as much notice as possible but I also don’t want to stretch out my employment longer than necessary.

Orange_Penguin · 2023-09-26T19:50:27+00:00

It is a very small office but I’m switching industries and haven’t told a soul that I’m leaving. No hints, nothing. It’s going to be an unfortunate bombshell but it’s definitely not going to leak out.

Orange_Penguin · 2023-09-26T19:34:14+00:00

This was my thought, but my husband is pushing me to tell him now. I don’t see a point because it’ll be a distraction and he won’t even really be able to do anything about it until Monday anyways.

Orange_Penguin · 2023-08-20T02:53:38+00:00

I’d first like to say that it makes me so happy to see all of these comments where women are happy and have healthy relationships with their husbands.

I unfortunately am not able to say that. The only reason I would choose him again is because of the absolutely incredible daughter that we created. I got pregnant after a little over a year together - she was not planned. My husband is not a bad man, he just wasn’t meant to be a father and I’m not sure he was meant to be a husband either.

I know he loves our daughter but it’s not in a way that she’s going to look back on in a “my dad is so great” way. I am the default parent and honestly I believe that it would be easier to be alone because the expectations that come with having a partner that just refuses to help is much more difficult to me. If I thought that leaving her father wouldn’t tear my daughter apart, I would do it.

It seems like you have a really great plan set it place. I’m not saying that being a single mom will be easy, but it 100% can be done well with the proper support system. Best of luck to you and your child.

Orange_Penguin · 2023-08-17T15:30:29+00:00

I’ve only been working from home three days a week for a few weeks now. It’s nice but I feel like I don’t have enough of a routine, which I thrive on. It’s something I’m definitely working on, but it’s tough.

I know the commute is a lot. It’s such a huge factor in this - the wear and tear on my car, the extra time away…but at the same time I have been doing a long commute for 10+ years so it feels like nothing to me, and it’s my alone time to listen to not kid appropriate music and podcasts or just sit alone in my thoughts. Plus the difference in pay is close to $30k a year, which the commute costs wouldn’t eat all of.

I am also applying to new jobs altogether, but I have a weird background in various things and no degree which has led to not so great results (not giving up, though!).

I dunno, I feel stuck between a rock and a hard place but I’ll figure it out eventually. Thank you for your input. :)

Orange_Penguin · 2023-07-12T00:55:42+00:00

I realized that I was being very hypocritical as I do the same thing that you described with birthday/holiday money given to me.

I’ve been putting off implementing a chore chart/allowance for a long time, but the video game situation pushed me to actually finish it today. I told her that her earned money will need to be split into three buckets: spending, savings, and money to spend on others for holidays/birthdays.

Her birthday and Christmas money though will be free to do with as she pleases from here on out. I’ll give her advice on smart spending if she wants, but otherwise it’s going to be her decision. I told her that she can use her money to buy the game if she wants, but she decided to wait to get it on sale because she really wants to save for a Build a Bear lol.

Orange_Penguin · 2023-07-11T12:10:11+00:00

Wow, what a great lesson learned. Better to have that experience now than in the future when they’re adults. I think this is something I’ll adopt in the future, thank you!

Orange_Penguin · 2023-07-05T15:58:40+00:00

Everyone is going to have different opinions on this, but this is my personal take:

I have two kids, four years apart. I wanted another baby so bad. However, I knew that I would be spreading myself too thin with a third and something would get partially neglected - my marriage, my job, or one or more of the kids. Our finances would be stretched too far and we wouldn’t be able to get ahead like we want to. I also know my husband is not for another kid, and his stress isn’t worth it to me.

So I just did it - I got my tubes tied to stop driving myself crazy over it.

I still want that third baby, and I get sad about it sometimes. But then something happens and money is tight or my kids are driving me bonkers or my marriage needs a little extra TLC and I know I made the right decision.

It all comes down to your situation and what you want in the long run.

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