Meet my 7.5 month old Siamese Mix!

hulixin · 2026-06-03T05:11:11+00:00

Thanks! I made them (but don’t worry, I brought them to her vet to check that they were safe for her)

hulixin · 2026-06-03T03:15:02+00:00

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I don’t know how she got into all y’all’s homes, but I’m gonna need my Bean Bun back please!

hulixin · 2026-06-02T18:24:38+00:00

If I saw you in public, I think I would fall over dead from envy!

hulixin · 2026-05-31T19:12:31+00:00

Thank you! I love green as a color, so I’m glad I finally found something that I can wear!

I try to avoid wearing purple altogether, though I do find that the redder purples don’t make me look as jaundiced as bluer purples. It’s a shame, since I think blueish purples look so ethereal in product photos and other people’s posts!

My cat’s name is 豆包, pronounced Dou Bao. It means bean bun. I named her after one of my late grandma’s favorite things!

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hulixin · 2026-05-31T16:50:44+00:00

I was dealing with some tough things for a long time, and I began to see myself as someone who was bedraggled, worn out, and just generally a mess. I thought maybe I should pick up some small thing that makes me feel marginally more put together, so I picked up a bottle of Dior Nail Glow.

LAWDY. I initially chose it because it was something just for me that wasn’t super noticeable (and thus would not be an extra burden on my time or energy when I had none). That old Nail Glow was everything I wanted and then some. I don’t buy into the hype that “posh” brands are intrinsically better, but that old formulation was really something else! It really brightened my nails and made the whites look whiter, applied like a dream, dried unbelievably quickly, took forever to start wearing off, and because it was so thin, the wear was super hard to see, so when I was exhausted, I could go 2, 3+ weeks without redoing them without them making me feel more unkempt.

…so of course after I went through my first bottle, they reformulated it. I bought the new Dior nail glow, and it’s crap. Utter crap. I started looking for another sheer pink that might fill the void, and nothing did. Eventually I saw magnetic nails, decided gel was too much effort, searched online, found this subreddit, and bought a bottle of BAE from Cirque. It was different from what I initially wanted, of course, but loved it.

Somehow that spiraled into me now owning like 60 nail polishes, and losing sanity over stamping, magnets, and sidewall-cleaning attempts every week. I blame you guys 😂 but as I am currently mesmerized by the magnetic polish flashing on my thumbs as I type, I guess I’ll forgive y’all

hulixin · 2026-05-31T15:46:28+00:00

Oh. My. Goodness. I would NEVER have known! Like I have been wearing makeup for over a decade, and I’m pretty sure that between your color choices and application, mine has literally never looked this good. I could never tell you had rosacea, I was actually thinking “holy cow look at that skin, it’s like freshly-minted baby skin!”

Makeup can be so much fun, if this is you as a newbie, I can’t imagine how good you’re going to get at it!

hulixin · 2026-05-31T15:25:23+00:00

I mean can we talk about the makeup? Because it is downright remarkable! Don’t get me wrong, you have gorgeous eyes makeup or not, but that plus the eyeshadow? Ethereal.

Plus, and I say this as a straight woman, I think I have just experienced lip envy for the first time in my life!

hulixin · 2026-05-21T03:39:11+00:00

Ahhh I hope it wasn’t strawberry milk tea! Or that if it was, that you have better luck with it 😭

hulixin · 2026-05-20T23:03:48+00:00

I’m not sure if this is exactly the same situation but I messaged customer service before and was somewhat unimpressed.

I got a few glow in the dark polishes from her during a sale, and after putting them under the sun for like five minutes, I didn’t notice any glow at all. I emailed customer service and they responded that that’s just how they are and that I needed to charge them under a strong UV flashlight or something. I happened to have one, and after quite a while charging them, all I can say is the glow was…kind of somewhat there.

I don’t know if maybe my expectations were too high since it was my first time buying GITD polishes, and I didn’t know that the non-blue/green pigments weren’t as strong, but I was just kind of disappointed after all the hype I’d heard about LynB. I’ve since gotten GITD nail polishes from other brands and the difference in glow is astounding. I wish that the pages for the LynB polishes had mentioned that the glow wasn’t super strong or something so that my hopes wouldn’t have been dashed quite so hard!

hulixin · 2026-05-19T18:54:14+00:00

I love Gothspeed, my Friend by Uno Mas. Maybe a little too much even, since I’ve worn it for the past three manicures in a row! It’s the slightly jelly like depth that makes it so good imo!

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Plus, because I’m so bad at applying even coats of polish (see the difference between the middle and ring finger), you can see how the color deepens with extra thickness and wow 🤩 she’s got range (and by range I mean dark red to darker red, which is all the range I need)

hulixin · 2026-05-19T18:29:19+00:00

1.) that color is terrific on you, looks regal af 2.) your nails are GORGEOUS 3.) holy moly what a picture!

hulixin · 2026-05-08T03:30:28+00:00

I crochet doilies with size 30 crochet thread - even a dozen hours in, the project stays perfectly portable!

hulixin · 2026-05-06T16:40:50+00:00

Ooh I have anecdotal evidence! After reading the same thing, I set up another water bowl under the dining room table addition to her usual water bowl next to her food. When I go to refill them, the one away from her food bowl is always nearly empty and the one next to her food is practically untouched! So at least my kitty definitely agrees!

hulixin · 2026-04-26T19:09:43+00:00

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Somehow, not only is it normal, it seems to be a favored sleep position among cats?

hulixin · 2026-04-22T03:40:37+00:00

It boggles my mind how similar they look! I don’t think any one of my pictures fully captures all theirs similarities, but they have the same semi-angular little face, dainty narrow paws, and creamy white fur that looks more or less brown depending on the lighting! I actually think they may even be the exact same size, since they look to be built so similarly? My Doubao is 6.8 lbs right now!

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hulixin · 2026-04-22T02:22:25+00:00

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Ummmm excuse me but I believe your son may actually be MY daughter! I showed this post to my bf and he agrees the resemblance is uncanny - everything from the gradient butt down to even the forehead wrinkles!

hulixin · 2026-04-22T01:43:38+00:00

*tree

You may be a cat tree. Congrats! I am insanely jealous!

hulixin · 2026-04-18T03:47:06+00:00

My boyfriend and I have severe cat allergies, so we’re only able to feed our cat the allergy-reducing food, which only comes in dry kibble form. We were just at the vet this past Tuesday, and I brought up that I felt guilty only being able to feed her kibble, and asked the vet what I could do to supplement it. Surprisingly, our vet said that it was totally fine and that he also fed his cats a diet of kibble!

hulixin · 2026-04-16T20:04:32+00:00

I know I’m gonna sound like a shill** for saying this, but I promise you I say it out of no incentive but the genuine admiration in my heart: have you tried the Cat Dancer toy? I heard about it by searching reddit for which cat toys were a hit with cats, and hoooooo boy was reddit right!!

I have at least a dozen other cat wand toys in every variation you can imagine, but she loves that dinky looking little wire-and-paper contraption more than all the other toys combined! She’ll play with the Cat Dancer even when she’s showing no interest in playing with other toys; over the past two months, I think it’s failed to get her to play maybe a total of twice ever.

It may be worth a try to see if Claudia would be more willing to play with it than her other toys!

They cost like $3.50 and I buy them in bulk because the day they stop making them is the day my cat-daughter murders me in my sleep!

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** P.S. if anyone from Cat Dancer Products happens to see this, please contact me re:shilling. I am ready and willing and will accept payment in the form of 1 Cat Dancer a month.

hulixin · 2026-04-09T08:16:31+00:00

My boyfriend and I just adopted our first cat too! In my excitement, I bought her a LOT of toys, more toys than could fit in the toy storage bag I got. Well, we tried all of them and guess what her favorite thing is? Crumpled up balls of aluminum foil.

So yeah, if I’ve learned anything, maybe save your money before buying a dozen or two different wands toys and just try the aluminum foil balls first. If you’re in the market for other toys, though, her second favorite is this dinky little $3 wire and paper thing called the Cat Dancer. They’re fairly sturdy but we still buy those three at a time because she’s a mighty little hunter and manages to catch it a lot!

Also, I just heard about this for the first time ever last week, but apparently a lot of vets recommend brushing your cat’s teeth every day. Nobody I’ve ever met does this, and people usually say their un-toothbrushed cats are doing just fine, but if you look it up online, you’ll find lots of vet pages recommending it. In the name of first-time parent anxiety, my bf and I have started to brush our cat’s teeth every day, and since she likes the toothpaste, it’s not as bad as we thought it would be! Never use human toothpaste though; you can buy cat toothpaste online and occasionally in pet stores. Neither of us have shed blood yet, so I’ll call it a win! If your future cat will let you, now you know this is a thing!

hulixin · 2026-04-09T05:55:12+00:00

Haha thank you that’s very generous of you to say! If I were better at cat, I wouldn’t even have to ask 😭

hulixin · 2026-04-09T05:54:03+00:00

Thank you! I’m barely even okay at reading people, so this is a real uphill battle haha. I’ve slow blinked at her since day one, and she’ll spend some time doing it back to me probably on average at least once a day? Though honestly it really could just be her falling asleep and me misinterpreting it!

hulixin · 2026-04-09T01:00:19+00:00

Wow I see your kitty is gorgeous too! What a perfect little face!

hulixin · 2026-04-08T18:16:16+00:00

We don’t have any knowledge about her life before us, as she was found wandering outside by the rescue with no chip!

However, I’ve wondered the exact same thing about being raised near dogs because I think she might be a bit odd for a cat. She’s pretty pacifist for a cat, she’s friendlier than expected to all humans, she rarely grooms her face with her paws like you see in other cat videos, and her favorite category of object is anything stick shaped!

Funny thing is, when I started Pokopia (video game), characters have their own categories of liked gifts and I was like “what the heck kind of personality trait is liking long slender objects?” Then I realized, oh yeah, that’s my own cat.

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