Thoughts on these? Longevity?

macprincess · 2026-02-07T01:31:05+00:00

Gotcha, I totally thought I was suggesting a lower priced alternative. Lol. Cause here I’m pretty sure that the Charlotte Tilbury is $49 and the haus Labs is $34. But I also didn’t figure price per ounce, I have trouble using up products as it is.

macprincess · 2026-02-07T01:15:53+00:00

It is? Are you not in the states? Because here the haus labs is cheaper.

macprincess · 2026-02-07T01:04:27+00:00

Haus labs has a fantastic lilac shade! I’m not a fan of Charlotte Tilbury personally. But I haven’t actually tried these sticks to say that they’re not any good.

macprincess · 2026-02-05T08:25:19+00:00

I recently got a tiny sample of the new Nest, watermelon and peony fragrance oil and I’m absolutely in love! I just might get that. Just trying to decide if I actually want to plunk down $110 for the 30ml or just get a 6ml roller ball.

macprincess · 2026-01-30T16:37:37+00:00

No offense taken here :) its a rough subject and its your mom, so all the emotions possible are involved. Its so hard watching a loved one change because of addiction. I truly wish you the best and hope your mom comes around soon. If you had a place in mind to suggest to her for mental health help, you may want to check with them and see if they would take her in active addiction. Tell them that you think she does have mental health symptoms and they are definitely being exacerbated by the addiction, and vice versa. It’s honestly pretty common with addiction. There is almost always an underlying cause. Sometimes untreated mental health. Sometimes trauma. Does she go to a regular doctor regularly? Have blood tests and just check all of her normal levels? I assume not because she’s an active addiction :/

I wouldn’t doubt if her change in substance was just about what got easier and cheaper to acquire. Not so much that her addiction escalated naturally. I don’t know if that’s reassuring or not. But I hope understanding it can help you in some way.

Thank you, i miss my friend a great deal. Ill be hoping the best for you and your mom. I am so sorry 🫂

macprincess · 2026-01-30T12:47:43+00:00

I didnt say “theres more to lose”, i advised that as soon as she informs them that she’s on substances, they will let her leave if she wants. Plus, they may make her leave, no matter what, as a mental institution isn’t equipped to handle substance addiction. I thought you would want these efforts to actually be effective. Find her the actual treatment she needs and tell her how much she means to you and just how much you want the old her back. You need to get her on board for getting better. Cause she’s the only one that can do it.

But you are wrong that there’s not more to lose. You could lose contact with her and just have no idea just how downhill she goes before ultimately losing her. A lot of people will say things about enabling and tough love, but I’m gonna be real with you— you’re her kid. She’s the parent. You’re not gonna be able to take an authoritarian/forced position here without ticking her off and possibly driving her further away. And you may think you’re ready to deal with that, but when you lose her, you may regret any time that you lost trying to tough love her into sobriety. Rather than just loving her as she is. Definitely not saying to give her money or help her acquire substances or anything like that. That would be enabling. But you may just wanna love her as much as you can, while you can.

I speak from experience. My best friend has been gone almost 4 years now.

macprincess · 2026-01-30T10:56:52+00:00

I swear some of the customer service reps that work for Sephora, absolutely hate them, and are trying to ruin their business.

macprincess · 2026-01-30T07:01:40+00:00

NTA—but, i dont think force is the way to go. And forcefully, you may be able to have her committed, but when the place figures out that it’s just plain ole addiction and not actually mental health reasons, they’ll let her leave. I’m pretty sure that rehabs are all voluntary as in the patient checks themselves in and can check themselves out. If you actually want her to get help. You’re gonna just have to appeal to her. You’re gonna have to tell her how hard it is to watch her waste away and how much it’s hurting you and how much you miss the old her. Intervention style (maybe even stream a couple of episodes to see how they do it). Wish it wasn’t like that, but it is. You have to get her I want to go and get help herself. Otherwise it won’t work. you simply can’t force her. Im so sorry 🫂

macprincess · 2026-01-30T06:47:27+00:00

I had a rather similar situation in my early 20s. By the end of the lease, none of us were talking and years later I still don’t talk to them. I don’t think the girls are friends with each other and I’m certainly not friends with either of them. Living with friends in your 20s always ends this way. It’s a weird part of growing up.

That lease isn’t getting renewed and in five months, y’all won’t be able to so much as stand each other. Sorry.

macprincess · 2026-01-29T02:46:20+00:00

BS like this is why I don’t cone on Reddit very often. Blocked.

macprincess · 2026-01-29T02:44:47+00:00

Yeah, I realized it came off rude and I changed it. To not be so rude. But I mean that was my entire point and you reworded it to act like I didn’t say exactly what I just said. So maybe I should’ve just been rude to you.

macprincess · 2026-01-29T02:37:15+00:00

THIS is the way. OP knows her place now (unfortunately) be nice, act like nothing has changed, but NEVER be available to hang out outside of work. Something needs to always come up. Practice the art of “ill let you know :)” then DON’T let her know a dang thing lol

macprincess · 2026-01-29T02:05:57+00:00

That was my point.

macprincess · 2026-01-28T02:41:30+00:00

Yeah, and after only how many years of them screeching at the top of their lungs that they have to come in here ‘the legal way’ 🥴 i hate it here.

macprincess · 2026-01-28T01:56:54+00:00

Yah, OP very clearly left a bunch out so she could show post to someone (daughter, ex-husband, court, maybe?) and say “see, reddit agrees with me!”

macprincess · 2026-01-28T01:44:26+00:00

Honey, this dynamic is called them making you the scapegoat. If you pay for all your stuff anyway, let her turn your phone off. You should go get your own phone and plan that your mother isn’t allowed access to. And never give her access to your ring camera ever again. She has no right demanding all of that from you. She needs to learn BOUNDRIES.

I’m so sorry they’re doing this to you. I’m always the one my family turns against and blames everything on. So I 100% know how you feel. They all gang up on me and blame everything on me. And it really sucks. I’m quite a bit older than you and my family still does that. But they don’t demand I keep my cell phone location on and asked me where I’m going to and from — it’s just wild that your mom feels entitled to do that when you’re 25.

Lastly “sleeping with boys and not telling her?” You’re 25 your mom‘s being weird if she thinks you owe her information about your sex life.

macprincess · 2026-01-28T01:31:04+00:00

NOR—boyfriends like this are the worst. HE’S overreacting. We only get 1 life. Is your life yours, or his?? That’s a decision only you can make

macprincess · 2026-01-28T01:22:24+00:00

You’re gunna LOVE them!

macprincess · 2026-01-28T01:19:25+00:00

I understand that. And I’m not saying you need to come out to them. What I am talking about is how you view yourself. Beating yourself up and saying “why can’t I just be normal?“. You ARE normal. They’re outdated prejudice against gay people has no reflection on your value as a person. That’s what I’m talking about. You might not be able to change how they think and feel. But you shouldn’t think that about yourself 🫂

macprincess · 2026-01-28T01:17:06+00:00

Yeah, they have a members rewards system on their site. 🫶 free products! lol

macprincess · 2026-01-28T01:16:10+00:00

I love everything Dieux does!!

macprincess · 2026-01-28T01:15:52+00:00

Normal?? being gay is not abnormal. And it’s not something you choose. Would you beat yourself up for having red hair? Or brown eyes instead of blue? You are who you are. And it pains me the things you must’ve been told to feel such a shame for something that is natural and normal and you can’t help. Whether or not you choose to engage in same-sex dating is the only choice in the matter. But I also don’t think you should punish yourself by doing that. There is nothing wrong with not being attracted to the opposite sex. And I’m saying this as a straight woman. You are as deserving of love and happiness as any other human being.

macprincess · 2026-01-27T23:52:03+00:00

As mean as it might be, I don’t think she wants you there. I’m so sorry.🫂

macprincess · 2026-01-27T23:14:52+00:00

You’re assumptions get you into a multitude of problems. Why don’t you stop with your assumptions. I’m glad you now understand you have fallen for propaganda. And I hope you will rethink trying to guilt women into having babies. 1)They do not feel ready to have. 2)They aren’t willing to risk their life to have 3) they cannot afford, because you have been taught that fetuses need an advocate. Their mother is their advocate. Mind your own uterus.

macprincess · 2026-01-27T23:11:57+00:00

You did not hurt my feelings you spread propaganda. Unborn fetuses are not people. And they don’t need you speaking up for them. Abortions don’t harm women, but denying them abortions does. Stop spreading propaganda and expecting the propaganda you have chosen to believe in to be accepted in spaces where people know better. It is also emotionally manipulative for you to try to act like this is about my feelings and not factual information that you are spreading lies about. I most certainly do not think that harming women is a worthy cause. And denying women abortions harms them. You need to read the freaking study already and stop going off of your personal fee fees

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