i wouldn't mind turning out like
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/090824/rosemarys-baby-gordon_l.jpg
but obvs there's gonna be some steps involved
― brazenly alive (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 24 June 2011 03:46 (twelve years ago) link
E, I don't know what year that pic was taken, but I saw someone's personal wardrobe put on exhibit at the Met's Costume Institute after she died, and based on the pic it could have been that lady's. Obviously she was someone of enough privilege to travel the world collecting jewelry, silks, and weird tribal artifacts from flea markets and nomadic bazaars, but still...a lifetime of following one's muse, on phenomenal display.
― you're in the club and the light hits your ass like pow (Laurel), Friday, 24 June 2011 03:50 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah idk Laurel - I just found it online a while ago and had saved it cause I thought they were sort of inspirational. That exhibit sounds amazing.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Friday, 24 June 2011 03:54 (twelve years ago) link
Oh dear lord, it was Iris Apfel's collection. GIS her and you'll see what I mean.
― you're in the club and the light hits your ass like pow (Laurel), Friday, 24 June 2011 03:57 (twelve years ago) link
I know this is the kind of complaint that gets people slapped, buuuut...although I'm obvs glad that genetics have been kind to me in allowing me to retain a somewhat youthful visage, I'm getting to an age where I think it's almost more of a hindrance in a lot of ways. Like, people don't generally assume that I'm in my mid-30s (the fact that I'm a pretty little dude also plays a role there, I'm sure), so I tend to get treated as if I were a kid a lot of the time. Not that my general demeanor does much to disabuse them of that notion. But still. I wouldn't mind some outward sign of my years of hardship already. I'm legit about to start buying rumpled old suits and dressing like Burroughs until the rest of me catches up.
Um... Oh, I'm also bald! Totally rockin' the toilet seat hair. That's pretty gross, right? Eww! I can own that.
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 24 June 2011 03:59 (twelve years ago) link
Also apparently she wasn't dead at the time! Boy did I misunderstand that. She just allowed her stuff to be shown.
― you're in the club and the light hits your ass like pow (Laurel), Friday, 24 June 2011 03:59 (twelve years ago) link
Oh man - I LOVE HER.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Friday, 24 June 2011 04:01 (twelve years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NftlVPmu2gw/S7CQZwpPrVI/AAAAAAAAOZ8/61DObcgVnKk/s1600/Iris+Apfel+in+a+recent+issue+of+O+magazine.pngp
That lady is beautiful
― *floods world w/tears* (Abbbottt), Friday, 24 June 2011 04:03 (twelve years ago) link
u + k blog:http://advancedstyle.blogspot.com/
― gr8080, Friday, 24 June 2011 04:06 (twelve years ago) link
!!!
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Friday, 24 June 2011 04:07 (twelve years ago) link
Deric, I'm 40 and I still get treated like I was a kid. It doesn't get any better with age.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Friday, 24 June 2011 06:25 (twelve years ago) link
I remember silently rolling my eyes at Amateurist during this thread's original incarnation. Sorry Amst!
― Virginia Plain, Friday, 24 June 2011 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
this is my favorite captain beefheart song I think
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 24 June 2011 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2wtHYyERls
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 24 June 2011 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
I think I have the opposite of this problem btw so I'll stop posting
are you getting hotter and hotter? that is a serious problem.
― horseshoe, Friday, 24 June 2011 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
portrait of dorian gray shit
― brazenly alive (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 24 June 2011 18:32 (twelve years ago) link
I think my body just grew into itself tbh
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 24 June 2011 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
http://unidentifiedflyingpeaches.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/pekar-small.jpg
― that is how ghosts laugh (bends), Friday, 13 September 2013 18:01 (ten years ago) link
Oh god, where did I leave my collagen last night?
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Friday, 13 September 2013 18:02 (ten years ago) link
Is it possible to be ugly and not spend your every waking hour obsessing how much you hate the way you look? Would like to hear from anyone who has managed to pull this off.
― that is how ghosts laugh (bends), Friday, 13 September 2013 18:02 (ten years ago) link
This revive brought to you by contemplating the 'what celebrity do you look like' thread and not being bale to think of any plausible candidates who don't make me want to never leave the house again.
― that is how ghosts laugh (bends), Friday, 13 September 2013 18:04 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, the modicum of dignity that I'm holding onto right now is a product of a very strained imagination.
― how's life, Friday, 13 September 2013 18:06 (ten years ago) link
― that is how ghosts laugh (bends)
well i look a lot like the guy in that cartoon (thanks for that) but i do find that being fuckin awesome in most other ways gets me through the day quite nicely tbh
― his LIPS !!! (darraghmac), Friday, 13 September 2013 18:09 (ten years ago) link
The sooner I can ditch these looks, the sooner I can start developing an even remotely engaging personality.
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Friday, 13 September 2013 18:10 (ten years ago) link
"i do find that being fuckin awesome in most other ways gets me through the day quite nicely tbh"
yeah, I think this is where I'm going wrong.
― that is how ghosts laugh (bends), Friday, 13 September 2013 18:13 (ten years ago) link
I'm wondering if I'm ever going to have that slightly reddened, slightly grizzled facial skin some people seem to get between the soft period and the wrinkled period
― cardamon, Sunday, 15 September 2013 02:17 (ten years ago) link
ugly applies to attitudes, not looks.
it's brutal being yr own worst critic, true - i think you shd consider the real possibility that nobody else looks at your face the same way you do, or sees it that way either.
― Cap'n Save-a-Co. (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 15 September 2013 09:08 (ten years ago) link
it's best not to even think about this stuff. i do though, "god i'm an ugly cunt" is usually the phrase in my mind. hopefully i don't actually believe it.
nv otm tho, best to ignore these voices.
― Evil Juice Box Man (LocalGarda), Sunday, 15 September 2013 09:20 (ten years ago) link
LOL at me @ 25yo
it's only been downhill this past decade
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Sunday, 15 September 2013 09:29 (ten years ago) link
idk so long as i'm not faced with a mirror or a photograph it's pretty easy to let something else occupy the forefront of my mind, admittedly this does mean that seeing my face is always something of a shock
― Dora Viola G. I. de Orellana Dysart Plantagenet Tollemache-Tolle (c sharp major), Sunday, 15 September 2013 12:29 (ten years ago) link
i've lost so much hair that my face is going bald
― obi wankin' obi (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 15 September 2013 12:33 (ten years ago) link
is there a nutritional supplement to help reduce puffy face syndrome
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Sunday, 15 September 2013 19:32 (ten years ago) link
xxp i'm always (unpleasantly) surprised at how i look in photos in the same way one's voice seems weird when heard it on a recording.
― fit and working again, Sunday, 15 September 2013 21:11 (ten years ago) link
gr8080 lay off all booze, dairy, corn, soy and drink more water. My old supervisor researched and saw "experts" and was told this. After several months on a new diet, there were noticeable improvements.
― *tera, Monday, 16 September 2013 17:17 (ten years ago) link
oh my god, i am struggling with my looks. lost 37 pounds over the last two years so i'm now only like ten pounds overweight, but i can't lose weight in my face and neck without quitting smoking cigarettes...the weirdest thing--i must be the only person for whom smoking makes bloat up. cannot bear to use a current picture on dating sites until i don't look like a jowly walrus above the chest. my build is actually pretty good but i've never met anyone who takes worse pictures. my face is like a big mushy pile of custard...
― Iago Galdston, Monday, 16 September 2013 19:34 (ten years ago) link
something about september/summer turning to autumn that sends my jowl growth in to overdrive
― ╲╱\/╲/\╱╲╱\/\ (gr8080), Thursday, 18 September 2014 15:19 (nine years ago) link
Did you wake up this morning,Look at yourself in the mirror and sayAh, gr9080, this ain't me?
― Code Money Changes Everything (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 18 September 2014 15:31 (nine years ago) link
I caught a reflection of the bags under my eyes in the LRT this morning that made me wonder if I'd been awake for 2 weeks solid.
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Thursday, 18 September 2014 15:31 (nine years ago) link
FaceTime has been real bad for my facial self esteem
― arthur treacher, or the fall of the british empire (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 18 September 2014 16:01 (nine years ago) link
Is anyone else actually getting better looking as they age?
― skateboard of education (rip van wanko), Friday, 24 June 2016 16:53 (seven years ago) link
fuck yeah, it's awesome
― yolo mostly (sleepingbag), Friday, 24 June 2016 16:56 (seven years ago) link
ikr
― skateboard of education (rip van wanko), Friday, 24 June 2016 16:58 (seven years ago) link
I think I'm getting better looking as I age. Mostly by being extremely sedentary/unfit in my 20s, I set the bar really low as far as looks go. I'm certainly getting gray/wrinkles and years of sun exposure are showing up, but I think in general I'm feeling good. Confidence and being in relatively good health help that a lot.
― Jeff, Friday, 24 June 2016 17:19 (seven years ago) link
you be the judge!
20: https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/1933762_508311389587_8732_n.jpg?oh=a2e111e40fc75fc6ab02eae08dd79c30&oe=57F372EE
30: https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13221674_10100474923907327_7428257024563892851_n.jpg?oh=d2039cf5f5468aec1cb64b99edf6dbea&oe=5806DACF
― frogbs, Friday, 24 June 2016 18:02 (seven years ago) link
high-five!
those photos are a good basis for comparison as you are making the exact same expression in both. also, photo 1 should be made into a dealwithit.gif
― skateboard of education (rip van wanko), Friday, 24 June 2016 18:07 (seven years ago) link
It's awesome how as I get further away from the metabolic damage done by a couple years on Risperdal as a teenager- why, sure, it's FANTASTIC for social phobia!- and find better information about how to take care of myself (because I live alone and rarely hang out with anyone more than once a month) all the positive effects are essentially undone by the effects of aging so I work myself to the fucking bone but still look like an unfuckable human potato
― You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Saturday, 25 June 2016 03:08 (seven years ago) link
Also I am super fucking hammered if that was not obvious.
PROTIP for hanging out with an ex and discussing how amazingly their new relationship is: DO NOT THIS
― You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Saturday, 25 June 2016 03:13 (seven years ago) link
I feel like I'm at least breaking even as I age and possibly getting better looking on account of not really having has any concept of fitness until at least my early twenties and then very gradually getting better and more serious about working out. I had a few years of decline after the kids were born, but around last August I reintroduced a pretty fierce gym habit and also started seriously lifting for the first time in my life, which I feel like has made me look stronger and more manly than I used to and given me more presence.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Saturday, 25 June 2016 03:25 (seven years ago) link