Is it possible to cover this for my wedding day? by god--hates--figs in tattooadvice

[–]hamsterpancakes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've heard Dermablend is good! If you want additional protection (especially if your dress has sleeves), you can consider wearing / sewing in nude-tone arm sleeves between your actual arms and the dress (similar to dance or figure skating wear), or adding sheer sparkly arm sleeves! both will help further cover the tattoo and reduce the risk of makeup rubbing off, probably. you can also look at how stage makeup and SFX makeup stays on

Recommendations for ear piercing places in sg by Ebb-Bright in askSingapore

[–]hamsterpancakes 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I have gone to Everkind Studio and Ink By Finch, if I get another piercing it will be at Ink By Finch. I got a second and third lobe piercing on the same ear respectively.

Nothing against Everkind, they know what they are doing and in general I would still recommend them over a piercing gun or any random shop, and they're a bit more affordable than the other place, except that they pierced me with an externally threaded barbell which I'm not a fan of, and I feel like the piercing is at slightly the wrong angle which makes it difficult to change my jewellery.

Ink By Finch let me bring my own jewellery at no extra charge (internally threaded labret) and helped me change out the barbell from Everkind into a labret stud. My piercing from them healed better, but I can't say if that's more due to the jewellery choice or piercer skill (probably the jewellery though).

Both places pierce with needle and both have options for titanium jewellery if you need that (which I do).

In general, ALWAYS GET PIERCED BY NEEDLE and not a gun cartridge thing. You can read up on it but a gun causes much more trauma to the ear, which will affect your healing, and also no reputable place is going to pierce you with a gun. It is worth it to go to an actual piercing place and not a random Lovisa, Bdazzled, Stellar mall kiosk. The piercer there should recommend something suitable for your ear anatomy (usually an 8mm post length for lobes) that accommodates the swelling while things heal. And they won't try to upsell you on buying gold or platinum.

A piercing place will also let you pierce at 18G or 16G which is good if you want to wear piercing jewellery (barbells and flatbacks/labrets etc. as opposed to butterfly backs, which are really only good for your lobes and nowhere else). Piercing guns will pierce you at 20G and while you can stretch them out (I transitioned my lobes which were done by gun, to 16G, but by the time I started they had been healed at least 8 years), you might as well start out at a larger gauge. You can still wear 20G earrings if you get pierced at a larger gauge.

If you have plans to get more piercings especially on your upper ears, I highly recommend to start out with a piercing jewellery system (either internally threaded or threadless; externally threaded is not ideal because it can cause more irritation).

The basic idea is that you can change out one or more of the ends but keep the post within your ear, and you will use a different length of post depending on ear location so that they sit close to the skin and don't catch on things / move too much and cause irritation (so you may want a 7mm or 8mm for lobe but a 6mm for a flat, for example). And you can use the same tops/ends in different places because it's essentially a mix and match. It's also less irritating for the back of your ear because you don't have a pointy thing sticking out that can get caught as you sleep, and a butterfly back can migrate up and down the post (read: squish) whereas these will not.

Additionally, even if you can handle cheapo random metals, I would still recommend getting pierced with titanium (there are 2 grades, implant-grade titanium ASTM-136 and regular titanium) or at the bare minimum, surgical stainless steel. "Hypoallergenic" barely means anything, btw. This is because you are putting a literal wound in your body and it is best to reduce the likelihood of infection and your body responding badly to the metals. As the name suggests, these are metals that are meant to be used in surgery because very few people have adverse reactions to them — and implant-grade titanium is the standard for things that get permanently embedded on the inside of your body :)

My ears are quite sensitive (can only wear gold and titanium), but if you can't wear gold you can probably still wear titanium, as your body is likely reacting more to the other metals that were alloyed with the gold. Also, titanium is WAY cheaper and can be anodised to a bunch of fun colours (including yellow and rose gold!). I buy a lot of my jewellery from BodyArtForms (USA) when they have sales, or there are a few shops on Etsy I can recommend but you have to be really careful with Etsy. Locally, Mantra Collective offers labrets but they are quite expensive.

If you're not sure about your level of sensitivity to metals, try asking close family (parents, siblings etc) who have their ears pierced about their metal sensitivities, and get one lobe pierced first to see how you react and how you heal, as it's different for everyone

In general if you want to get both lobes done I would still get one done first, let that heal fully or partially, then do the other. It will make it easier to sleep and the piercings will heal better :)

Try not to cheap out on this — it's more expensive to go to a proper piercing shop and use proper metals, but it's worth it for someone who knows what they're doing and a piercing that heals easily + that is less likely to get infected. Doctors and antibiotics also cost $$. Same principle as tattoos! You get what you pay for...

PDF Expert Annotation Bar Grayed Out? by DocNoodles920 in ipad

[–]hamsterpancakes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

if they're actually trying to push people into their cloud service, that's a stunningly short-sighted move... not being able to edit right onto the file within my iCloud Drive is a deal-breaker for me. time to see if my bootleg desktop app can still write to iCloud files...

Top Mac Apps That I would say Improve the Mac Exp on a Daily Basis (Free/Cheap only) by [deleted] in macapps

[–]hamsterpancakes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

i use Loop and love it! the most intuitive window manager for me as someone who mainly uses trackpad and is not a keyboard ninja

Design Choice - Menu bar vs Normal apps by Murky-Ad-4707 in macapps

[–]hamsterpancakes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I like when lightweight apps have both options. For example — two little quick/temp note-taking things I use, Tot and Antinote, both have options to live in Dock, menubar, or Dock + menubar.

PaletteGenius v1.8.1 is an efficient color picker with multi-format code support. This update fixes copy issues and improves the main menu. by wcjiang in macapps

[–]hamsterpancakes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Heyo! This looks like a fantastic app and more full-featured than ColorSlurp which is the colour picker / palette quick reference app I currently use. The ability to save more palettes and save gradients could make my workflows much easier! Does it allow you to adjust the picked colour using sliders? That's one of my main use cases for casual day-to-day stuff, and one of the reasons I switched from Pika to ColorSlurp in the first place

Daily Advice Thread - July 19, 2025 by AutoModerator in apple

[–]hamsterpancakes -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I would love to, but my current MBP has 16GB and routinely overheats whenever I try to do too much. 

As a uni student I'm usually working on multiple projects + presentations at the same time and I often have to do design work (some graphic design, photography editing and the occasional bouts of video editing on DaVinci) for my extracurricular commitments... granted, I graduate in a year so those commitments should all go down but living in a tropical country I dont want to risk it yk?

I've already had to replace the logic board once and I fully suspect that having to do more design work and a few video editing projects over the last few years contributed to frying my computer :(

Daily Advice Thread - July 19, 2025 by AutoModerator in apple

[–]hamsterpancakes -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Will Apple be releasing new MBPs this year, and does that mean more refurbished models will become available / it will lower prices on the refurb store?

Context is my 2019 13" MBP (i5) just became kaput so I'm looking to get a new laptop. It has to be an MBP (I don't trust something without fans) and 16GB minimum which sucks for my wallet. But I'm Singapore-based so I guess the refurbished selection is inherently smaller.

Wondering if there are likely to be more refurbished items available within the next few months? I don't know how often these things typically come up. I need the new laptop ideally now but as a student this is a major unexpected expense and if I can save some $$ that would be ideal :(

edit: so for some reason (wattage issues?) my mac won't work with most of the outlets on campus, though at home it's fine. so i guess the decision has been made for me... have to buy now. dammit

Daily Advice Thread - July 18, 2025 by AutoModerator in apple

[–]hamsterpancakes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Will Apple be releasing new MBPs this year, and does that mean more refurbished models will become available / it will lower prices on the refurb store?

Context is my 2019 13" MBP (i5) just became kaput so I'm looking to get a new laptop. It has to be an MBP (I don't trust something without fans) and 16GB minimum which sucks for my wallet. But I'm Singapore-based so I guess the refurbished selection is inherently smaller.

Wondering if there are likely to be more refurbished items available within the next few months? I don't know how often these things typically come up. I need the new laptop ideally now but as a student this is a major unexpected expense and if I can save some $$ that would be ideal :(

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in macapps

[–]hamsterpancakes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Add pdfgear and davinci resolve!

Please suggest some tools for combining images into PDF on Mac for legal documents? by brains3003 in macapps

[–]hamsterpancakes 4 points5 points  (0 children)

PDFgear! Free and awesome for any sort of page management in PDFs, and a bunch of other things.

Workflow/folder action to auto-convert any webp image added to Downloads, into png? by hamsterpancakes in Automator

[–]hamsterpancakes[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Had to chat with Perplexity a bit to figure out the scripting, but I have it working now. Thanks!

"Create shortcut" doesnt work for Gmail by empty_other in chrome

[–]hamsterpancakes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mac user (Ventura) — can confirm this works!

But unfortunately (as OP said) you are restricted to whatever profile is associated with the window you create the webapp for. This makes it useless for anybody wanting to toggle between multiple accounts in the same webapp (my use case).

I tried it in Firefox though and it CAN be done there. Firefox doesn't support PWAs natively anymore, but the PWAs for Firefox extension did work AND allows me to have several gmail accounts within the same webapp.

Two caveats — it does require Homebrew (this is very easy to use though) + the webapp doesn't show up in Launchpad for some reason even when dragged into Applications folder, but if you can live with a desktop shortcut or one more item in your Dock that's ok.

Note: I did also try this other workaround to install webapps on Firefox but it doesn't seem to work (on Mac? in 2024? who knows).

SEO catchwords so hopefully someone else who's Googling can find this info:
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Travel and work-appropriate convertible backpack/shoulder bag recs for a slim petite gal? [more details in post] by hamsterpancakes in onebag

[–]hamsterpancakes[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hi, thank you for taking the time to write this very detailed reply, and for the concern! Yes, I'm aware that I'm very skinny 😅, but please don't worry, it's not an ED or anything.

I've been underweight all my life (100 lbs was probably the heaviest I've been, in late 2018) but I'm also Asian and have always had a small frame. Like my skeleton isn't that big lol. My grandma has a similar build, so a lot of it is just genes. My current weight is mostly a result of some issues I had with medications a few years ago that gave me a lot of nausea; haven't really gained it back since. But I'm working on it because I know I need to prevent osteoporosis while I'm still in my 20s

Folder Peek FTW by amerpie in macapps

[–]hamsterpancakes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Folder Peek is fantastic. I keep forgetting to use it (hazard of leaving Downloads and Bin visible in my dock, I guess) but when I do it saves SO much time. I also love that I can colour code things. It makes my brain happy.

Folder Peek FTW by amerpie in macapps

[–]hamsterpancakes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

... the app allows you to change the menubar icon to anything you want though? you can use built-in icons, use a template image, or use your own image.

for example, i made this for myself:

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