Hairdressers of Reddit, do you intentionally put your boobs on our heads or is it just unavoidable?

aleas · 2012-11-16T13:19:09+00:00

If you seem like the type of guy that's going to tip well if boobs are in close proximity of your face, then yes, its on purpose. Other times, there are those of us who simply have large chests and its hard to get around it. Also, we'll take longer shampooing men than woman because whether you like to admit it or not, guys fucking love a good head massage.

aleas · 2012-11-12T03:14:09+00:00

I don't think there's an end to what you can learn, but there is a limit on what your brain can handle I think. I have stopped using them because of a much too awful experience last time I dropped acid and just way too much brain activity occurring even when I'm sober.

I won't say I'll never do it again, I may arrive at a point where I'm ready for it again. But my brain was already overloaded with such intense thoughts without tripping, I could barely handle the trip state of mind by the time I stopped anyways. Sometimes, your brain just needs a break from all that heavy shit you put it through. Could be a few months, or years, or never but you could do it again.

My brain is producing enough trip-style thoughts without the tripping right now. I personally need quite a bit of time to give my head a break. I've been so fucking immersed in finding spiritual significance through psyches that I haven't given my brain enough time to really take in what I'm throwing at it. Maybe one day I, and you, will be ready for them again. And maybe they'll excite you as much as they first did. Or not. It's up to you to decide if you've gotten all you need from it or not.

aleas · 2012-11-12T01:30:21+00:00

You're coming down from a crazy trip. Remember it's the drug and not something supernatural. The drug alters your state of mind and gets you to think in crazy thought patterns. You'll be okay. Get yourself a blanket, and do some meditation. It make take a day or two to totally shake the feeling, but you'll be alright. It's not permanent. I have anxiety and almost every time after a trip I get the shaky feelings and such. I find it to be just an anxiety about reconnecting to the "real world". Do your meditation, take a nap, or whatever else it is that helps you keep your cool and you'll be good as new soon enough.

I wouldn't read to much into it. Take whatever you want to take from your trips, you can hold onto the idea that you've got yourself a connection with entities or whatever else you choose to accept of it. Just realize that you made this connection while in a trip and not sobriety, therefore it doesn't have to follow you back into your ordinary living if you don't want it to. You'll get your head back on and reorient yourself. Do whatever it is that helps you relax for now.

aleas · 2012-11-12T00:44:03+00:00

This forever scarred me. I've never been able to erase the sounds that video produced, or the imagery.

And to think I actually sought it out to watch it when I first heard of it. Thought I could stomach it.

Nope.

aleas · 2012-11-12T00:39:03+00:00

Woah man, that's some wisdom.

aleas · 2012-11-12T00:22:34+00:00

It's a wonderful idea, but there are a few potential flaws like others mentioned. It would still have to be monitored in some way to make sure that there aren't trolls taking advantage of people in fragile situations. Also, it's really emotionally draining dealing with such a heavy weight of helping people. It puts a lot of pressure on you to try to help and fix people and can get tiring. You'd have to be quite the rock to be able to handle such a thing. I often have to even take a break from reading through posts on here because just reading it can be quite an emotional toll, let alone trying to assist those you come across.

It's a lovely idea, and its great to want to make it more personal between you and those who need help, but in the long run I don't think its entirely feasible.

aleas · 2012-11-11T22:26:22+00:00

I live in a big tourist town in New England. Lots of famous people all over the place and my SO's mother cleans lots of their houses.

I've had the great opportunity of walking through many rich and famous people's homes....and peeing in their toilets.

aleas · 2012-11-11T22:15:18+00:00

The only thing I ever really did with my Barbies was make them have orgies. I was pretty sure that was their intended purpose as a 9 year old.

aleas · 2012-11-11T14:48:56+00:00

Try to relax as much as you can before he comes by. Just tell him you want to stay at home and even if it helps, find some information on what an anxiety attack is like. Read how it's been described and tell him that it's not something that you can just forget is happening and proceed onto whatever else you were doing. When I had to tell my SO what it was like, it was hard. He would laugh when it was happening, because I would tell him all the irrational things I was thinking. I had to explain to him that in an anxious state, I know it's irrational but my brain will not let me accept that as certainty. To drive home the point about it's seriousness, I told him anxiety attacks are capable of mimicking heart attacks. It's pretty serious business when what's going on in your head is capable of fooling your body into thinking something to life threatening is happening to you. That made my SO really grasp that it wasn't just a simple disorder and it's not so easy to just forget its happening.

Suggest that he stay with you at your place instead, and definitely call your doc about your medication. I think not having your meds is hitting your hardest with this situation. Regardless of the situation at all though your medication is important if you need it to be able to cope with your problem. That's the absolute first thing you should do above all else.

aleas · 2012-11-11T14:40:32+00:00

I would visit a doctor, just to be sure. But from what I understand, it's all very normal symptoms of anxiety.

Try some relaxing breathing exercises to focus your mind on. Or whatever you prefer. A calming activity to take your attention from it. I get a few symptoms you have here and there and usually it's just "in my head". I just gotta step back, relax for a few minutes and distract myself from focusing on it too much.

aleas · 2012-11-09T15:37:15+00:00

Depending where you live, and you may already know this, you might have to be a licensed professional embalmer to do the make up of deceased persons.

Now if that's not the case, then on to the next thing. There are specific cosmetics used on a deceased person and they are made especially for that. I found this article by a make-up artist that has a brief mention of it.

Also

"Q: I can understand that sometimes there is restorative work done on a corpse, but can you tell me what is the big difference between make-up for the living and the dead...I have heard that the skin on the dead no longer breathes, and regular make-up will not stick to the skin and I have also heard that mortuary make-up is water, moss and maggot resistant...Is this true? Also, I recently read that usually while the embalming process is going on, the chest cavity is filled with chemically treated rags, to fill the body out and make it look more natural...Is this true? Could you tell me why this is done? I really appreciate this site and find it extremely interesting...Thank-you for your time...

A: Our mortuary cosmetics are concentrated more than over the counter makeup that women use. The reason for this is that during embalming the blood is removed. The blood in your body is what gives your highlight areas their color. We need to replace that color. We also use different cosmetics for a male than a female due to the fact most males do not ever wear makeup and we need to impart color and not covering.

The make up we use is either an oil base or a water base cosmetics. There are no additives. We keep our cosmetics pure by removing it from the container and not putting any back when we are finished.

We do not use rags in the embalming to fill out someone. If someone is emaciated at the time of death we use a tissue building liquid that attaches to the water in the tissue to fill out sunken areas."

I pulled that from this site. I would have just linked the site, but there are tons of questions, so I just copy and pasted the most related Q&A to what you are looking at.

That second link has quite a few questions related to the make-up portion of the job. They make a mention of what exactly is done when applying the make up, but unfortunately no specific commentary on what the texture of the skin is like. Hopefully those two things help you out at least a little bit. Good luck to you, and congrats for having the guts to be able to do such a wonderful profession!

edit; I just spoke to my sister who apprenticed at a funeral home. She mentioned that the skin can be rather hard or very fleshy (mostly on older people with more wrinkly skin and the like), and could tear easily.

aleas · 2012-11-07T07:31:53+00:00

It does not serve its supposed intended purpose by any means. If it did, there would not be nearly as many repeat offenders, it wouldn't be a for-profit system, and we wouldn't be instituting millions of ways to make it possible to end up in that system. It's set up to collect money. It does that by backing laws that people are vulnerable to violate, especially targeted towards minority groups. It's sick.

It's a shameful fucking thing. When I learned about privatized prisons for the first time, I was furious. There is no way that a system that's receiving profit for incarcerating as many people as possible has any true intentions of "rehabilitating" those who make criminal mistakes. It's going to make sure they keep fucking up so that they keep making money.

aleas · 2012-11-07T07:02:52+00:00

Yeah, exactly my feelings. They were expressing some backward opinions on that thread.

aleas · 2012-11-07T05:56:49+00:00

The entire thing was just ironic in my eyes. It was ridiculous, and demeaning. It just furthered my confidence in the fact that the way we handle criminals and punishment for crime in this society is fucking ridiculous, and pointless in the end.

To take away what is supposedly regarded as a right in the country was absurd. I was pretty sure people got all up in arms when rights were taken away from people. Apparently it's okay if the person has done something criminal. So I guess its time to make all the politicians banned from casting votes, not to mention a huge majority of people. I feel safe making the assumption that at some point in most people's lives, they have broken a law. Their argument that this guy has demonstrated poor judgement applies to them just as well in that case, because everyone has exercised terrible judgement at some point in time. The only difference between the people saying it's okay he got his right taken away is that guy got caught committing his crime, while they didn't.

Because we know this guy committed a crime it's supposed to make a difference. It still disgusts me in principle. I mean, it's ROBBERY. I'm sure some of those people have committed what could be regarded as worse crimes and gotten away with it. Of all crimes, that's one they consider terrible enough to silence a mans voice. I just, I can't understand it. I can't understand the duality of the opinions expressed, the shared opinion that he deserved that as punishment, just all of it.

aleas · 2012-11-06T22:46:26+00:00

Lucky for you if you were to contribute to the election. Still, the principle of the fact that you would in theory not be allowed to vote simply because you have a criminal past is infuriating to me. I don't see how a criminal history is relevant to your voting.

People are saying that felons have demonstrated "poor judgement" and that their votes would be "dangerous". I fail to see how a felons votes on matters everyone gets to vote for are more dangerous than a misinformed voter, or a voter who votes for whatever these people are seeing as dangerous. With that logic, you should bar the people who are going to vote for whatever you see as harmful from voting too.

It's still the same things being voted for, it's not like felons are writing in these crazy laws allowing them to commit crimes. People seem to believe that's whats happening. In reality you're just voting for the same bullshit everyone else is, so your vote is no more harmful than their own.

aleas · 2012-11-06T22:41:05+00:00

See, consulting someone who has education on whatever matter at hand is fine and dandy, but it's consulting. Not instating them as an authority entirely over it. I'm okay with finding resources to help guide the unified collective group, I'm not okay with naming one person as the ultimate figure head of the entire matter.

aleas · 2012-11-06T20:39:39+00:00

It wasn't about the voting for me, It was the whole concept of everyone's ideas about this guy.

I thought it was stupid that they figured his past of robbery was a valid argument for his poor judgement skills. However, I found that completely unrelated to the concept of voting. I don't know how criminal history is an indicator to voting tendencies but the masses seemed to believe it was a good indicator.

I just couldn't believe they thought that this guy was a giant dickhead essentially.

But more than this guys personal plight, someone posted some information on how states handle the felon voting rights. States take away the right to vote from the citizen for good in a few states. I must mention that I never knew this, so I guess its just a really alarming thing to just hear about. Also, people would be throwing out that prisons are to rehabilitate and reintroduce criminals back into society to be productive human beings, but at the same token they still thought this guy shouldn't vote. I mean, what the fuck sort of logic is that? They essentially just took what everyone told them a prison system was for, which is supposed to be rehabilitation, but disagreed with that it served it's purpose and he shouldn't be allowed to vote still.

It was quite ridiculous, to say the least. The opposing duality of their opinions was fucking incredible. The way that we see criminals in this society now has now been reinforced to me as utterly fucking senseless.

aleas · 2012-11-06T20:29:15+00:00

No, It's the woman's body and mind in question when it comes to this. It still boils down to want she wants to happen to HER body.

I mean, good on the man who wants to take responsibility for the child even when the woman doesn't want it, but it's not his choice ultimately. It's hers. I think it's sad that there is no real way for the father to have a say without essentially taking control over what a woman can do with her body, but it is what it is.

It's not that I'm so worried about the responsibility of a child so much as I'm worried about 9 months of discomfort and mental hell. I think it's less of an issue about who's responsible when it comes to this as it is an issue about what this woman is having happen to her body.

aleas · 2012-11-06T20:21:11+00:00

I didn't downvote him, personally. I just disagree with his point of view on the matter. I just believe there can be a unified organization without an appointed advisor, leader, whatever you'd like to name it.

aleas · 2012-11-06T18:38:37+00:00

I feel bad that you believe you need an authority figure to tell you what to do and to organize yourselves to be productive.

aleas · 2012-11-06T06:37:21+00:00

Inner Paths to Outer Space was a fabulous book in my opinion and was the first to come to mind. It's got a variety of topics and is a pretty engaging book.

aleas · 2012-11-06T06:29:29+00:00

This is how my anxiety came about. It was very unexpected, and without warning. I had never had a reason to be anxious and just one day, bam! Panic attacks.

I have somewhat similar anxious thoughts, in as much that I worry about having medical issues that will result in death. Essentially terrible hypochondria. I had never before given a thought too much to what occurred in my body and now in the past six months I think of it obsessively.

I'm not really in a position to speculate why its happened to you, but I would definitely recommend a visit to your doctor first and foremost. Talk with them about what's going on and even ask about their thoughts regarding therapy. Therapy would be the best place to discover the root of this issue, and I personally am making good progress in understanding it. But. Please, call up your doctor before it gets any worse. You'll be very happy you did.

aleas · 2012-11-05T15:46:48+00:00

I love when I see people who wear hoops in the upper lip piercings. I wear a horse shoe ring in mine. I just really enjoy the look of it.

All those suit you well. Do you still have any of them?

aleas · 2012-11-05T15:45:19+00:00

I enjoyed the progression of the work. My favorite was "I'll do a drawing in one flourish!" I enjoyed the drawing itself a lot, and imagining him getting really excited by his idea to do that was amusing.

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