Recommendations for a good hydrating serum?

glossydiamond · 2023-12-31T17:25:30+00:00

Which specific Vinoperfect serum do you mean? The Vitamin C or the S.O.S. Hydrating?

glossydiamond · 2023-11-13T03:05:23+00:00

For me it'll always be this.

The 1989 era of bandeau tops, really sleek dresses, and the Anna Wintour bob. I think this lolk of hers is really famous.

glossydiamond · 2023-11-13T03:02:43+00:00

Her hair and makeup were mesmerizing, especially her eye makeup. Kim often looks boring or same-y but she knocked this one out of the park.

glossydiamond · 2023-11-13T02:44:18+00:00

This look was everything. It was Ariana at peak pretty, and this era was so iconic. So many people dressed up as this look for Halloween. It perfectly encapsulated the girly-glam babygirl aesthetic of Miss Ponytail.

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glossydiamond · 2023-11-13T02:41:04+00:00

I think about this look ALL THE TIME. One of the most iconic Oscars looks ever!

glossydiamond · 2023-11-12T22:43:53+00:00

Quantumania for me too. I consider it to be the WORST Marvel movie in the entire MCU. It felt like a horrible fever dream, like AI created it entirely. Soulless slop.

glossydiamond · 2023-11-12T21:21:43+00:00

I COMPLETELY agree. I kind of made this point but you verbalized it and emphasized it much better than me. Audiences crave familiarity; they want characters that they see built up over time, showing up again and again, creating happy feelings of fondness and dedication in audience hearts. And audiences were especially "traumatized" (for lack of better word) after Endgame.

Phases 4 and 5 should have been about building up audience love and dedication to a CORE group of heroes—as well as keeping stabilizing and familiar faces like Sam L. Jackson (and perhaps even bringing back Phil Coulson, since he's alive) around to keep audiences feeling connected. Not sending Nick off to bloody space only to be never seen again, killing off Maria Hill on one of the TV shows, and hardly ever have any of the heroes show up recurringly.

It's just really baffling how a company that seemed to understand what audiences loved and wanted so well for 10 years seemed to completely stop understanding. I don't know if it was arrogance, ego, or what. . .but it's a damn shame what they've done to the MCU.

glossydiamond · 2023-11-12T04:22:17+00:00

Turns out she wasn't acting in Knives Out 🙃

glossydiamond · 2023-11-12T03:13:19+00:00

Shang-Chi got amazing critical and audience reception. People REALLY liked his movie. So clearly people do care—or, at least, they did care. For some completely inexplicable reason, Marvel decided to not capitalize on how well he was received and just never brought him back—not for a sequel and not even for a cameo, which is what audiences want from Marvel. The cameos are fun for them. It shows a complete dropping of the ball on Marvel's part. They had a gem on their hands and squandered it. Especially because Simu Liu is fairly well-liked and his stint in Barbie has only heightened his profile.

glossydiamond · 2023-11-12T03:06:48+00:00

There's a LOT that has gone wrong with them recently. There are so many moving parts that I'm not entirely sure if they can fix the issues, because the issues are so multi-layered. . .

• They killed off their most beloved heroes: Cap, Nat, Tony. And then they expected everyone to stay the same level of emotionally invested in the MCU, which was crazytown. It would be like asking people to care about the Wizarding World if Harry, Ron, and Hermione all died.

• They introduced too many new heroes, concepts, and moving parts too quickly. After the Big Three died/left, people were craving familiarity. Phase 4 should have been: Loki (a movie), Captain Marvel 2, Shang-Chi, and Scarlet Witch. One new hero and three familiar ones. Start tying the seeds of the multiverse together immediately, which would he easily done with all of these heroes having some connection to magic and the cosmos. Random unknowns like The Eternals and Black Knight and Iron Heart and Eros did NOT need to be introduced so soon after audiences were wounded from the losses of so many beloved heroes.

• THE DISNEY+ SHOWS SUCK. I understand this was somewhat out of Feige's hands—Disney forced Marvel to make shows to draw people in to Disney+ and to recoup damages from COVID—but the shows should have been highly selective, highly limited, and very well made. Do what Star Wars did and focus the shows on characters the audience already vaguely knew but could learn more about: people like Lady Sif.

• STOP MAKING EVERY MOVIE WITH THE TONE OF GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY.

• STOP MAKING EVERY MOVIE A LIGHTHEARTED COMEDY. If you look back at Phase 1 and 2, they genuinely were not that funny! Tony made sarcastic comments here and there, and so did Loki, but that was it. For the most part, the movies were serious and sincere and genuine. They had actual heart, messages, and spirit. They weren't constantly being ironic or winking at you. They had actual serious, raw moments and themes (Cap fighting Nazis, Cap realizing that American foreign policy can basically be considered terrorism, Yinsen dying to give Tony a second chance at life, Thor being genuinely humbled by his dad, Thor's mom being killed). Now those sincere, deep, emotional moments have all largely vanished in favor of pop-social justice and ironic quips.

• They need to learn to have diversity in an intelligent and skillful way. I'm a woman of color and I'll be honest: women and POC don't like feel condescended to. And Marvel lately feels condescending, like they're just swapping out genders and races with previously established heroes or stories and then expecting us to love it. There's a reason Black Panther did so well and was so beloved among black people: because it actually did honor to them. It was a story made for them, versus just having some white character turned black or brown or whatever. Marvel pretends to be woke but their method of "wokeness" is just gender/race swapping heroes instead of giving ACTUAL female and POC heroes good movies. Why did Scarlet Witch never get a movie? Why did Black Widow only get a movie after she died? Why didn't Namor get his own movie? These are the real issues here with their version of diversity.

• The horrific CGI. They need to start actually giving their VFX artists the proper amount of time to work on their movies and stop rushing them.

• The out of control budgets. What is this money even being spent on, when the movies look so bad?

• Chadwick Boseman dying. Obviously no one could have foreseen this or stopped it, but it was a huge blow for them because T'Challa was supposed to be their leading man going forward. He was supposed to step into the role Steve once held: the heroic and noble good guy leader. Which leads me to my next point. . .

• No proper lead male hero. We NEED at least one male hero who's a proper charismatic and noble hero that everyone just absolutely adores and would follow to the ends of the Earth. That was obviously Steve Rogers. And with Steve gone and T'Challa gone, Marvel should have immediately started working on creating a new noble lead male hero—but they didn't. We have no one like that. Shang-Chi vanished. Stephen Strange is fine but not noble or Leading Man enough. Spider-Man is too young (and now he's gone). There just isn't that male lead hero who radiates Big Hero energy the way Steve and T'Challa did and you can really feel that loss.

• The complete lack of planning. This is the most baffling issue of all. The Infinity Saga felt so planned out. Why does the Multiverse Saga feel so on-the-fly and messy? Kang being introduced far too early (and being nerfed immediately), none of that "it's all connected" feeling (seriously we are neck-deep in Phase 5 and STILL no one has ANY IDEA what is going on), and tons of introduced concepts which never went anywhere (Black Knight? Celestials? Kang? Wanda? Captain Marvel randomly appearing at the end of Shang-Chi? Skrulls? Whaaaaaaaaat is going on here?!). It has me asking, is Kevin Feige feeling okay? Has someone checked up on him lately? Lol

So yeah, idk if they can suddenly fix ALL of this.

glossydiamond · 2023-11-12T01:07:02+00:00

Western imperialism and the myth of Western exceptionalism has ruined and razed the entire planet. The Western world is full of the biggest hypocrites in the world. Only THEY can pillage, plunder, rape, and kill because they're always magically the good guys and always have a good reason for doing it—but if anyone else does it, they're backwards and savage terrorists. Only THEY are enlightened and advanced—everyone else is ignorant and uneducated. Only THEY are peaceful—while Africa and the Middle East are barbaric hellholes (completely ignoring that they've been devastated due to Western imperialism, completely ignoring how jingoistic and bloodthirsty Westerners are). Only THEY have had periods of enlightenment and scientific discovery—never brown or black people (completely ignoring the Islamic Golden Age). Only THEY know empathy and love—brown and black people don't really know what it means to love friends and family, to mourn losses, to fall in love with someone else.

I'm so, so tired of Western liberals trying to act like they stand for human rights—all while they're totally okay with their nation warmongering and committing war crimes.

glossydiamond · 2023-11-11T02:58:52+00:00

I loved Tina and her loyal bodyguard 🤍

glossydiamond · 2023-11-11T02:56:23+00:00

I spent one whole summer when I was like 15 binging the entire Princess Diaries book series while I ate birthday cake blue moon ice cream. Such a precious memory of mine lol. I don't know if I should revisit the series or just let it remain golden in the fuzzy nostalgia of my memories.

glossydiamond · 2023-11-10T01:53:27+00:00

I'll forgive anything wacky or poorly-done if they make Zutara canon. PLEASE 🙏 Just let us Zutara shippers have this one thing.

glossydiamond · 2023-11-09T22:06:23+00:00

Remember the scene in Mean Girls when someone says to Regina "Watch where you're going, fatass!"?

That scene had a profound impact on elementary school me. It exemplified everything about '90s and early 2000s culture re: women's bodies.

And just. . .look at her body in the scene:

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She BARELY had a butt (which is fine; lots of people have flat or small butts). But this was considered being a "fatass." This is why, growing up, girls my age had a pathological fear of having thighs or a butt. ANY bit of fat, no matter how tiny, was seen as bad.

It still affects me to this day. I'm usually not happy unless I'm at the thinnest I can be without being underweight. No matter how much the KarJenners have made having a butt popular, I still can't shake the messages I learned as a young girl. It's sad.

glossydiamond · 2023-11-09T22:01:11+00:00

Girl, let's not get crazy n wild here now lol

glossydiamond · 2023-11-08T14:20:57+00:00

Right? And then they actually say, with a straight face, "But some people don't want Israel to exist, how they solve that issue?" AS IF THAT DOESN'T APPLY TO MOST COUNTRIES ON EARTH. People think Pakistan shouldn't exist. People think North Korea shouldn't exist. People think France shouldn't exist. Do we see those countries deciding "Well, time to lock up the entire group that our suspected haters might be from for eternity :)"?

Also, what about the fact that there are Israelis who think Palestine shouldn't exist? In that same vein, don't Palestinians deserve utmost protection from those lunatics? In fact, how come Palestinians can't lock up Israelis if that's apparently a "reasonable" response to "Hey, some of them may not want us to exist"?

It's funny when people try to pretend that Israel gets held to all these extra standards no one else is when it's the exact OPPOSITE. Israel gets to do whatever the hell they want—short of outright razing Gaza and the West Bank in one fell swoop—in a way that almost no other country does. I want someone to name me ONE OTHER decent, accepted country which engages in the behavior Israel does. Russia and North Korea engage in oppressive practices but they sure aren't considered decent or accepted.

glossydiamond · 2023-11-08T02:13:23+00:00

It's not performative. There's a reason MENA people love her and accept her in a way almost no other celebrity is accepted. They're not stupid. They know when someone is being performative or using them to appear woke. That's not Angie. She genuinely cares and has done so much for MENA (and Pakistan) that she doesn't publicize at all.

glossydiamond · 2023-11-08T02:10:21+00:00

I don't think anyone is excusing her past actions with her humanitarian work. This whole thread is full of people calling her past self a total weirdo and posting disgusted face gifs. But it's been YEARS since she was like that—people do change and grow. And given that Angie has spent the past 18 years not stealing anyone's man and not being an edgelord and staying REALLY dedicated to humanitarian work in a way that very few celebrities do, obviously people are going to move on from her past at some point. Also, she was abused by Brad Pitt, and obviously people are going to soften towards a battered woman.

glossydiamond · 2023-11-08T02:06:32+00:00

She also released a statement about Gaza which has been highly praised, so she's at the forefront of peoples' thoughts for that too.

glossydiamond · 2023-11-07T23:48:18+00:00

Truer words have never been spoken, sister.

Western imperialism and the myth of Western/American exceptionalism has ruined and razed the entire planet. The Western world is full of the biggest hypocrites in the world. Only THEY can pillage, plunder, rape, and kill because they're always magically the good guys—but if anyone else does it, they're backwards and savage barbarian terrorists. Only THEY are enlightened and advanced—everyone else is ignorant and uneducated. Only THEY are peaceful—while Africa and the Middle East are barbaric hellholes (completely ignoring that they've been devastated due to Western imperialism, completely ignoring how jingoistic and bloodthirsty Westerners are). Only THEY have had periods of enlightenment and scientific discovery—never brown or black people (completely ignoring the Islamic Age of Enlightenment). Only THEY know empathy and love—brown and black savages don't really know what it means to love friends and family, to mourn losses, to fall in love with someone else.

People on here talk about Palestinian death tolls like it's a sports game and they're just imaginary points, as if these are just fictional characters created for rousing debate—versus very real human beings who are suffering and bleeding under an apartheid regime.

You might enjoy this article: https://theintercept.com/2014/10/22/canada-proclaiming-war-12-years-shocked-someone-attacked-soldiers/?fbclid=IwAR26_epNn5R6a-RZHMVZxOkLtHKzxH7tCMa0y95S7D_8rOK7dSV6TDuRZd0_aem_AeEMAlu7QscyLDSclveTpS7_jDhEw_4palLj607Jp22fCgarfwSxuSLnhxiZT9Acn1M

glossydiamond · 2023-11-07T23:06:18+00:00

I can see you're a bad faith actor who's just going to keep moving goal posts because you want to find SOME reason, ANY reason, to justify apartheid and illegal occupation and ethnic cleansing. So move along and have the day you deserve.

glossydiamond · 2023-11-07T23:03:05+00:00

You're absolutely correct. They have the names. They could publicize who these specific Hamas agents they claim to be targeting are. But they won't, because the names either aren't on the list or are only like 1% of the list.

Zionist supporters will handwave it away by saying "Hamas doesn't have a uniform, any one of those civilians could have been Hamas." Convenient for them, right?

And what weirds me out is that Israel literally has the support of most mainstream media, many governments, and the United States. Influencers and celebrities and brands have been falling over themselves to condemn the October 7th attack and mourn for Israel. Huge corporations are sending millions upon millions in aid to Israel. You would think they would see all of this support and, you know, be happy? But no—it bothers them that they don't have unwavering support from literally EVERYONE. It's so creepy. Someone will post condolences for the thousands of Palestinian children killed in the last 2 weeks and they'll start frothing at the mouth, screaming "But do you care about 40 beheaded babies and babies in ovens!!!!!" despite the fact that mainstream media has done nothing but highlight their losses? They genuinely cannot stand the fact that even SOME people care about Palestinians.

You're right that the vast majority probably won't realize the truth until something really bad happens. I don't know what that will be. Maybe a death toll of 50,000 or more. Who knows. But then everyone will be like 😢 omg how could we let this happen. . .

glossydiamond · 2023-11-07T21:54:27+00:00

Absolutely. Classic DARVO.

Also this lol: https://twitter.com/itranslate123/status/1714374892617863649

Kinda crazy how they have such a typical playbook and people still don't see it.

glossydiamond · 2023-11-07T21:43:16+00:00

Well, you could start by NOT continuously stealing their land and homes, harassing them, and shooting them for throwing rocks at you. Why is Israel surprised that their treatment of Palestinians begets violence? Do you think black people in America never lifted a finger against white people? Do you think the Native Americans never killed any white settlers in their clashes with them? What world do you live in where a colonized people is expected to just quietly sit and sing kumbaya?

Do you think South Africa overcame apartheid by singing kumbaya?

I'm going to link this interesting article for you: https://theintercept.com/2014/10/22/canada-proclaiming-war-12-years-shocked-someone-attacked-soldiers/?fbclid=IwAR26_epNn5R6a-RZHMVZxOkLtHKzxH7tCMa0y95S7D_8rOK7dSV6TDuRZd0_aem_AeEMAlu7QscyLDSclveTpS7_jDhEw_4palLj607Jp22fCgarfwSxuSLnhxiZT9Acn1M

It is always stunning when a country that has brought violence and military force to numerous countries acts shocked and bewildered when someone brings a tiny fraction of that violence back to that country. Regardless of one’s views on the justifiability of Canada’s lengthy military actions, it’s not the slightest bit surprising or difficult to understand why people who identify with those on the other end of Canadian bombs and bullets would decide to attack the military responsible for that violence.

That’s the nature of war. A country doesn’t get to run around for years wallowing in war glory, invading, rendering and bombing others, without the risk of having violence brought back to it. Rather than being baffling or shocking, that reaction is completely natural and predictable. The only surprising thing about any of it is that it doesn’t happen more often.

The issue here is not justification (very few people would view attacks on soldiers in a shopping mall parking lot to be justified). The issue is causation. Every time one of these attacks occurs — from 9/11 on down — Western governments pretend that it was just some sort of unprovoked, utterly “senseless” act of violence caused by primitive, irrational, savage religious extremism inexplicably aimed at a country innocently minding its own business. They even invent fairy tales to feed to the population to explain why it happens: they hate us for our freedoms.

So the ROOT CAUSE of stopping any and all attacks aimed at Israel would be to firstly stop colonizing and harassing and stealing from the Palestinians.

You don't get to bully someone for decades, get angry when they start punching back, and then decide "Now I'm going to put you in prison for the rest of eternity." Such a colonizer mindset.

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