braces

a few years ago my co-worker and i were chatting and we realized that our rich bosses who grew up rich were missing one very important attribute. STRAIGHT TEETH. all that money and yet their rich parents did not give them braces. as someone who wore braces for three years and who has four siblings and two parents who also wore braces i find this appalling! i always thought that the quest for straight teeth was a jewish rite of passage! alot of brooklyn-jews also lack the we're jewish we must have straight teeth gene.
over yom tov i was chatting with a cute guy and i kept thinking that though he was cute there was just something.... something that was amiss. ... he had the most crooked teeth. i cant explain it , but it really irks me. ..
i know that braces cost money, but so does dental work for crooked teeth- for all of the cavities that grow under crooked teeth. i have several friends who wore braces as young adults and now they have beautifully straight teeth.
i have dated guys who obviously did not have braces as teens but its often very hard to get past . i know that its shallow of me, but i just have a thing for straightened teeth...

vanity of the eyelash

the latest mishigas is long eyelashes. brooke sheilds has them! how did she get them? with latisse. latisse is made out of the glaucoma drop lumagen and repackaged as a lash enhancing drop. when will the vanity end? long eyelashes are an unexpected perk for those who chas v'shalom have glaucoma, but to use a glaucoma drop when one doesnt have glaucoma to achieve long lashes? is this really a necessity? what are the long term effects on someone using latisse if they dont have glaucoma? will it accelerate ones chances of actually getting glaucoma? lumagen can cause green eyes to go brown. is this a possible side effect of latisse? how much does someone want long lashes for someone to take this risk?
my mom unfortunately has glaucoma. she uses lumagen and has blue-gray eyes that b"h are still blue-gray. though she has amazing eyelashes , she would trade them for not having glaucoma. lush as mom's lashes are, she still wears mascara when she goes out.
these days there are alot of good volumizing mascaras out there. lashblast by covergirl, colossal volume by maybelliene and 2000 calorie by max factor are all fabulous . they are also all drugstore brands. latisse is $120 dollars a month. do the math. why use a medication for something that can be achieved merely with makeup?

more facebook fun

lately my old college friends have reconnected via facebook. the only awkward part is when my friends have posted some of those gawky unflattering college photos which i would prefer to have been lost perhaps in a dumpster in zimbabwe. alas... no such luck. after blasting my friends for posting such embarrassments, i figured id exact my revenge . i posted my own fleet of college photos. once again the joke was on me. several of the old gang have had kids and have gotten fat and wrinkled and wish they looked as they had at 20. i on the other hand look much better now than i had at 20. i guess the only revenge i can wield is posting current photos of myself!!!

mirror, mirror on the wall....

how far would you go for the sake of vanity?? a nose job?? lids??? hair dye??? face lift?? how artificial are you willing to go? if i had grey hair i would definitly want to cover it. i still look pretty young, and if i had grey hair it would really age me, especially as a single woman. hair dye is as far as i would go. i have a small nose, but i could understand why someone might want to get a nose job if they had a really bad one. injecting botulism into my face hardly sounds enticing (via botox). some people who have their lids done can barley close them afterward . plastic surgery isnt able to replicate the natural elasticity of a persons facial skin which is essential in recreating a youthful appearance. i think that i have a unique appearance that i acutally like. it must be scary to have elective surgery . to go under the knife when its not medically necessary.to be that vain. ive seen before and after pictures from some of these plastic surgery shows and many of the "before"pictures are just as presentable as the "after" photos. its equally sad that people cant just age in peace. one should try to look the best that they can without surgical enhancements. so many people who've tried age - defying plastic surgery dont really look that much younger. furthermore, if they hadnt done any plastic surgery, at least one would get to see the true expressions on their faces.

the ripe old age of 33

as a frum person its quite interesting to ponder at what age one is considered old, especially a frum single person. for myself i would have to say it was 33. before 33 i had no qualms about divulging my age. after 33 i did. i never forget how i came to this horrifying revelation. i was registering for a shabbaton and the organizer asks me how old i was and not missing a beat she answered her own question and said, " you're 32, right?'" at which point i didnt correct her. 32 was my age the year before when i had registered for the shabboton this woman had ran the year before. this is when i realized i was officially old. i was officially old enough to want to hide my true age. suddenly i wasn't young anyomre... at the ripe old age of 33.