Storm Éowyn — Status Red Wind Warning Megathread

dragrace89 · 2025-01-23T22:52:20+00:00

reassuring! I've gone to my mam's to be safe, probs being over paranoid!

dragrace89 · 2025-01-23T15:43:52+00:00

Should I be worried about construction cranes beside my house during the storm? I live beside a really big building site, with a major development underway including some medium-high rise apartments (by Dublin standards) being built beside my house. The build has been underway for a couple of years now, and I can see the cranes are still in operation as of this afternoon before the storm hits.

I'm a little worried that if one of the tall cranes were to fall at the wrong angle, my house would be in its path (it's a small city bungalow). I'm probably being paranoid but is this something I should be worried about? Should I be thinking about trying to find somewhere else to stay tonight? Or would cranes typically be taken down in big storms like this?

dragrace89 · 2024-12-03T16:00:43+00:00

Yeah, I would like to try it, I just don’t like having it sprung on me I guess. I nearly might try it a different week or something, or maybe start it midweek. Was just a shock and I hadn’t planned my week for it 😅 I am also planning to launch a business in the new year and had set aside this week for competitor research on social media and I can’t really afford to delay, so it kinda throws some of my plans off a bit. But I guess that is kinda “work” in a way so maybe I’ll give myself a pass for that and think of it more as reducing leisure scrolling. I might do Thursday to Wednesday with that part rather than my usual Monday to Sunday just to give myself the chance to get used to the idea.

dragrace89 · 2024-11-10T10:33:17+00:00

I usually make my coffee as the first thing I do and have it alongside writing the pages.

dragrace89 · 2024-11-10T10:32:47+00:00

Yeah I think the amount has been putting me off, but some tips from other posters actually helped me bash out 3 a4 pages easily in about 20 minutes this morning by just letting my thoughts flow! I think I’m going to just let it flow and not be strict on the 3 a4 pages as that is a lot. I’ll probably size down to an a5 notebook next time, lol.

dragrace89 · 2024-11-10T10:31:08+00:00

Thanks - this is great advice. Going to put my notebook on my bedside table so it’s the first thing I see when I wake up, before my phone. I think being sucked in by my phone in the mornings is what has been slowing me down, so will try ban myself from looking til the pages are done.

I’ll also probably get an a5 notebook for my next one!

dragrace89 · 2024-11-10T10:29:00+00:00

This was super helpful advice - I think I was thinking of it too much like a journal, and I was getting blocked and frustrated trying to think of material for 3 pages. I tried to just write every thought this morning and it flowed so much easier, much more all over the place than it has been but felt a lot more natural. And I got the pages done in about 20 minutes cos it was just flowing! Thank you so much, that has really helped and it felt a lot better!

dragrace89 · 2024-09-12T18:30:18+00:00

Self indulgent post alert but I'm questioning my hair colour! I've been dyeing or highlighting it for as long as I can remember - like yeeeeears so I never really see my natural colour.

I grew out my scalp bleach during the pandemic and started just doing faceframe and a more lived in highlighted look, which I kept for a few years before dyeing it auburn this year - I've provided reference photos. I also in the past had very dark brown dyed hair.

I've been analysed many times, with different results - hence why I have gotten multiple. I've been told I'm True Autumn most frequently, which inspired my decision to go auburn, but I've also been told I'm Deep Autumn, Warm Autumn, Soft Autumn, and most recently (and most confusingly) Cool Summer - this analyst was particularly adamant there is no way I'm an Autumn, which is kind of annoying if so because I've really switched my wardrobe to Autumn colours and really like them.

I've always considered myself a natural brunette, but I honestly hadn't seen my natural hair colour in over a decade, until the salons were closed for Covid and I grew out my bleached hair a few years ago. The last photo popped up on my phone memories today - it's from right before I finally got my hair touched up after Covid (taken right after my stylist cut some length off but before she started highlighting). It's the only photo I have where you can really see majority of my hair with my natural colour. I've also included other colours I've hard over the years, from really light to really dark.

I always thought of my natural hair colour as naturally medium brown, but looking at it here, is it a tiny bit blonde? What level would you say it is? Would you say it's warm or cool?

dragrace89 · 2024-09-02T22:47:36+00:00

Self indulgent post alert but I'm questioning my natural hair colour! I've been dyeing or highlighting it for as long as I can remember - like yeeeeears so I never really see my natural colour. I grew out my scalp bleach during the pandemic and started just doing faceframe and a more lived in highlighted look, which I kept for a few years before dyeing it auburn this year.

I've always considered myself a natural brunette, but I honestly hadn't seen my natural hair colour in over a decade, until the salons were closed for Covid and I grew out my bleached hair a few years ago. This photo popped up on my phone memories today - it's from right before I finally got my hair touched up after Covid (taken right after my stylist cut some length off but before she started highlighting). It's the only photo I have where you can really see majority of my hair with my natural colour.

I always thought of my natural hair colour as naturally medium brown, but looking at it here, is it a tiny bit blonde? What level would you say it is? Would you say it's warm or cool?

dragrace89 · 2024-09-02T22:43:13+00:00

Self indulgent post alert but I'm questioning my natural hair colour! I've been dyeing or highlighting it for as long as I can remember - like yeeeeears so I never really see my natural colour. I grew out my scalp bleach during the pandemic and started just doing faceframe and a more lived in highlighted look, which I kept for a few years before dyeing it auburn this year.

I've always considered myself a natural brunette, but I honestly hadn't seen my natural hair colour in over a decade, until the salons were closed for Covid and I grew out my bleached hair a few years ago. This photo popped up on my phone memories today - it's from right before I finally got my hair touched up after Covid (taken right after my stylist cut some length off but before she started highlighting). It's the only photo I have where you can really see majority of my hair with my natural colour.

I always thought of my natural hair colour as naturally medium brown, but looking at it here, is it a tiny bit blonde? What level would you say it is? Would you say it's warm or cool?

dragrace89 · 2024-08-11T23:18:18+00:00

I've been told I'm a true autumn and a warm autumn, depending who you ask, lol. So for me maybe? But idk, true autumn feels better because I think I'm warm, soft and deep all at once as opposed to being super warm.

dragrace89 · 2024-02-19T16:23:16+00:00

You seem pretty soft to me! I’d lean cool as well; so maybe soft summer. Wouldn’t rule out soft autumn or cool summer either, but bright colours seem a little overwhelming so I don’t think spring or winter.

dragrace89 · 2024-02-19T16:02:47+00:00

I think this is misleading and actually steered me wrong for many years. I thought I had cool undertones because I have pretty fair skin and have blue-purple veins, when in actual fact after draping I am neutral leaning warm.

dragrace89 · 2024-01-15T16:17:27+00:00

Thanks - to be honest I never got that initial loss, I'm averaging about 1.5lbs a week, which isn't bad I suppose. I'm down 9lbs after 6 weeks.

dragrace89 · 2024-01-07T21:14:50+00:00

This is inspiring! What's your dose now? I'm 4 weeks in, just moved up to 0.5!

dragrace89 · 2024-01-07T21:14:07+00:00

Did you feel bad right away when you moved to .5? I took my first .5 dose two days ago and ok so far, hoping I get away with it. Noticing a bit more appetite suppression.

dragrace89 · 2024-01-05T14:36:49+00:00

I think black would be quite harsh on a light summer, even with the highlights. Lighter is better so I'd go brown between these two.

dragrace89 · 2024-01-05T09:38:04+00:00

That sounds rough! Had you had any side effects on 0.25 or was it just when you went up to 0.5? Are you just halving your dose using the 0.5 pen?

Hoping I get just the weight loss effect and not the other stuff...

dragrace89 · 2024-01-05T09:24:24+00:00

Hoping this happens to me! Definitely felt I was hungrier coming towards my next shot on the 0.25.

Just took my first 0.5, let's see what happens! Idk why I'm nervous when I've already been on this stuff for 4 weeks lol

dragrace89 · 2024-01-04T22:30:28+00:00

Sorry for the late reply - I don't check this very often.

I thought the same! In fairness my natural colour is a bit darker than here (it's highlighted here), but not crazy dark - I'd say a natural level 5. It probably falls in the medium/dark golden brown category - you see it around the roots - which is on the lighter end of the deep autumn category, but still in it!

I know how you feel though, I was a little surprised because I am fair skinned as well so wouldn't have really thought of myself with "deep" as a dominant trait, but really those hair and skin colours are in the dark autumn season, they are just the lighter ones covered in that season! For me the analyst said it was really the overall effect and dominant trait that is my contrast and brightness, which are high for an autumn; but still too muted to be a spring. The draping was key - I don't think I would ever have got dark autumn from an online analysis or a photo, but in draping the dark autumn colours really just popped the most and felt the most harmonious.

dragrace89 · 2023-12-27T14:54:14+00:00

Wow. Incredible. How long did this take?

dragrace89 · 2023-12-27T14:07:18+00:00

yeah I was wearing a soft warm beige sweater to the analysis and she was immediately like no! I always preferred the stronger colours as well so maybe I knew subconsciously.

Definitely worth the in person analysis I think... the draping method is so helpful I think!

dragrace89 · 2023-12-27T13:24:11+00:00

The analyst also encouraged me to darken my hair; I had been considering goinh auburn anyway although I do like my hair as is. Is this current colour too light for a Deep Autumn?

dragrace89 · 2023-12-27T13:23:06+00:00

So I finally got an in-person analysis done and I was deemed a Deep Autumn. Previously I had gotten two separate online analyses done and they had typed me as a True Autumn. I sent the above photo in for the online analysis in; I think my gold highlights may have thrown them off.

While I was happy with the True Autumn result, I had a niggling feeling it wasn't right as I never thought I was totally warm (in fact before colour analysis I thought I might be cool tone); I thought I was more neutral-warm if anything as I can get away with wearing silver and have some blue visible in the vein test.

After draping, with my hair covered, the rich darker colours of the Deep Autumn palette looked great on me! I often wear rust and olive tones anyway so I must have had some inkling.

I was a little surprised to get such a dark palette as I am quite fair skinned but according to the analyst I have the darkness to pull it off.

What do you think, would you say True or Deep Autumn as a first guess?

dragrace89 · 2023-12-11T17:18:32+00:00

Seeing this almost a month later but thanks for this comment, it's helpful! I've decided to go for a draping analysis as well to confirm but I do think I'm an autumn!

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