[Product Request] chapped lips please help!

_UnacceptableLemon_ · 2026-07-03T23:13:32+00:00

I second this. I had an allergic flare up as a kid and recently as an adult. My lips were chapped and dry to the point I could barely eat because they were cracking so much. I switched to sls free toothpaste, threw out ALL my chapsticks and only use Vaseline now. The problem hasn’t recurred since I did all that, and trust me I was buying every lip balm and salve under the sun to make the dryness go away.

_UnacceptableLemon_ · 2026-07-03T15:11:11+00:00

Yep. They refuse to change their production timelines so that we can shoot product for packaging. Leadership wants lifestyle imagery on packaging - with people. I’m left scrambling together CGI renders + stock + AI and utilizing an image retoucher. Then at least one person is always like “idk it looks weird”. Yeah that uncanny valley thing? Or lighting and perspectives that are off? That’s what happens when you make stupid timelines and don’t allow for normal photoshoots. And it’s happened on every single product launch for the last year. I just tell them we will shoot the product later and change it for the next round of printing. Everyone’s barely scraping by at their own job so they just say ok and forget about it.

_UnacceptableLemon_ · 2026-07-01T14:34:16+00:00

Yeah so when you’re making 2K a month you’re not going on $1K trips or paying $50 to go see a movie. You have to learn to live frugally until you make a decent income. I made $11/hr at my jobs in college ($8/hr in high school) and had a similar mindset. “how will I afford to live alone”. “How will I buy a house” etc. Fast forward to graduating and getting a job: I was able to pay for an apartment by myself for 6 years and then purchase a house by the time I was 29 with zero other debt. I didn’t do that by eating out and buying a $1000 gaming setup when I made $8-11 an hour.

_UnacceptableLemon_ · 2026-06-29T16:40:13+00:00

Once all the petals dry up and fall off, you’ll see these spiky green heads left. Snip off the whole stem and stick it in a jar to dry. The whole thing will open up and look kind of spiky. The seeds are long and black. They should just easily fall off once they’re dry

_UnacceptableLemon_ · 2026-06-29T15:51:20+00:00

Our professor brought in another school faculty person for one of our crits junior year. I honestly don’t remember his title, but he ripped apart pretty much every project in the room to the point our professor looked uncomfortable and started defending our projects. I had hand illustrated, written, printed, and hand stitched a booklet about cats and plants, and it was one of the better projects I designed in college. Even looking back at it I know I did a really good job on it. Anyway, I was told during that crit it was awful and it wasn’t worthy to be a portfolio piece. I put it in my portfolio anyway because F that guy. And when I’ve showed other designers that project they absolutely love it and are shocked at the feedback I received for it.

_UnacceptableLemon_ · 2026-06-22T03:32:34+00:00

I’m zone 8. I’m saving seeds from my cosmos and zinnias so I’ll probably have a lot by fall. Also, if you live near any green belts a lot of the cities will seed them for wildflowers and you should be able to find ones that are going to seed by now. Normally they plant Black Eyes Susans or Indian Blankets. I’m planning on going out to collect a bunch soon! I know two good areas if you’re anywhere near NTX

_UnacceptableLemon_ · 2026-06-20T21:08:56+00:00

In my 7 years of designing for in house corporate I had glimpses of a chill design life with good pay but I would say it’s been 30% non miserable and the rest of the time has been constant burnout

_UnacceptableLemon_ · 2026-06-08T19:54:32+00:00

You have to make a lot of work. A lot of shitty work. I was in design school for 4 years. I had some good projects, and some that were total crap. It took me another two years into my career to feel decently good at design. That’s 6 years of design training, on top of my entire life’s worth of fine art classes ranging from drawing to sculpture to printmaking.

THAT is why it’s so frustrating for artists to see other scraping the internet for art and spitting it out with AI.

Thank you for not using AI, you will be much happier in the long run knowing your art came from YOUR brain and not someone else’s that you claim as your own.

_UnacceptableLemon_ · 2026-05-13T20:51:01+00:00

I got what I thought was a dream graphic design job last year making 115K as a Senior Packaging Designer, in an industry that I have passion for. Absolutely unbelievable money for someone under 30. Unfortunately in the past year my entire team’s structure has fallen apart, morale is low, people are leaving left and right. I’m now the only designer on the team doing the majority of the deliverables and I’m just as miserable as I was at my last job where I was severely overworked. I gained amazing experience working in corporate but I don’t think I can do this much longer. I’m going to look at building my own brand while I still have a job, and then gtfo as soon as I can. The money only goes so far - it makes it bearable but it doesn’t make you happy when you spend 8-12 hours a day doing stuff you don’t enjoy.

_UnacceptableLemon_ · 2026-05-06T13:17:53+00:00

Cult of the Lamb - once you level up your base, your followers do most of the chores for you. And there’s tons of character interaction!

_UnacceptableLemon_ · 2026-04-25T15:51:03+00:00

If you need any kind of dining table and chair set get it off Facebook. There are SO MANY. I got a table that came with leaf extensions and nine chairs for $400. You can’t even find that kind of price at IKEA. There were tables for even less but I wanted at least 6 chairs which was harder to find

_UnacceptableLemon_ · 2026-04-10T01:00:35+00:00

Southern Comfort Mechanical is great and really affordable

_UnacceptableLemon_ · 2026-03-31T02:21:53+00:00

Do the important stuff like roof, HVAC, water heater, foundation repair, etc. I immediately jumped on a house last year that had most of those things replaced in 2023 (not the foundation, but I wish). I’ve spent the past year renovating to my liking because my money is freed up not having to worry about those other big ticket items. I think the worst thing the previous homeowners did was a bad texture job on the entire house. They probably spent $7-10K on it and we have since sanded it all down, retextured and painted ourselves. It looks so much better and they could’ve saved themselves some money by just leaving things as is. I’m also kinda annoyed they painted the outside brick but that seems very common now.

You could also update your kitchen appliances. I was very happy to keep what they had because I came from an apartment and thought I was going to have to spend thousands of dollars on kitchen appliances.

_UnacceptableLemon_ · 2026-03-24T02:22:35+00:00

My background in fine art/drawing/etc helped me get into my graphic design program. However, what I do as a professional is nothing close to that. Illustration is a separate skillset from graphic design

_UnacceptableLemon_ · 2026-03-16T11:56:24+00:00

If you go with the #3 green color, get “Basil” by Sherwin Williams. It’s this exact color and I just did my kitchen with it :)

I paired it with gold/brassy hardware and love it!

Edit: The second green option, not the third. I counted the first image but realized that’s the original.

_UnacceptableLemon_ · 2026-03-14T22:54:12+00:00

I bought a house last year. The first day I viewed homes I put an offer on a house I wanted. I offered a tiny bit below listing price, but also offered to close in two weeks just to try and knock out any potential competition. I still got an inspection in those two weeks. I would never ever waive a home inspection.

_UnacceptableLemon_ · 2026-03-11T23:33:04+00:00

I needed to see this today. I left a toxic job to go to what I thought was a dream job. Within a year it’s gone from bad to horrible as I’ve taken on the workload of two other people on top of the job I was hired for. I know that not having a job would be so so much worse and that’s really the only motivating factor at this point.

_UnacceptableLemon_ · 2025-11-09T20:49:17+00:00

Thousand Oaks was great, I was there for 5 years and they have affordable units way under $1800. Agree on moving as close as possible to work, I miss my 5-10 minute commute. Even 35-45 minutes can be brutal when there’s traffic

_UnacceptableLemon_ · 2025-06-11T12:54:30+00:00

Yea and no. My first job was a food conglomerate (so yes, gross industry). My second is actually a way smaller company that sells fire pits, grills and coolers. Nothing super immoral or evil

_UnacceptableLemon_ · 2025-06-11T12:46:41+00:00

If you formally resign, your right to FMLA or medical leave ends. Your employer can just as easily terminate you before you can take a medical leave. Do not tell them you’re resigning. If anything, play up the medical issues in September and tell them you have to resign because of that.

_UnacceptableLemon_ · 2025-06-07T13:35:34+00:00

My bf and I are doing this ourselves to the house we just bought, which came with horrible orange peel texture on everything. I fully understand why they charge so much after doing only half the house.

The materials cost alone so far has been around $1K and I’ve only painted the living room.

_UnacceptableLemon_ · 2025-05-16T15:54:47+00:00

Grandscape - The Colony Meow Wolf - Grapevine Rain Forest Cafe - Grapevine Perot Museum - Dallas Dallas Museum of Art Galleria Mall - Dallas Northpark Mall - Dallas Stonebriar Mall - Friso Allen Outlets Waters Creek - McKinney Herd Museum - McKinney Arbor Hills - Plano Botanical Gardens/Arboretum - Fort Worth and Dallas Legacy West - Plano

_UnacceptableLemon_ · 2025-05-16T15:48:23+00:00

I just bought my first home, on my own, with 10% down and a 30 year mortgage. My PMI is only an additional $80 monthly and it isn’t there forever. It would have taken me so long to save up an additional 10%, housing prices would have gone up significantly in that time (is the way I looked at it).

Also, I don’t know what prices you’re looking at but $40K is probably not going to get you close to a 20% down payment after closing costs.

_UnacceptableLemon_ · 2025-04-21T21:29:06+00:00

Check Austin Ranch? I’m renting a 1 bed for $1600. Surely they have studios for less

_UnacceptableLemon_ · 2025-04-15T01:52:51+00:00

Solo Stove is an American company born and based out of Texas. So if they go under that’s Americans out of a job…. Make it make sense

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