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I guess the pod people have finally started hatching.  The ones that Lori came from.  I have not read her blog or looked at her instagram, but she does sound like she's her own biggest fan.  She reminds me so much of Lori, which is really a bad thing.  Lori  or anyone like her should be no one's idol!

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4 minutes ago, Briefly said:

I guess the pod people have finally started hatching.  The ones that Lori came from.  I have not read her blog or looked at her instagram, but she does sound like she's her own biggest fan.  She reminds me so much of Lori, which is really a bad thing.  Lori  or anyone like her should be no one's idol!

She apparently only wants four kids and, from the sounds of it, is currently preventing. Which is just like Lori. Which means Lori would hate her guts.

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On 8/20/2019 at 7:44 AM, Timetraveler said:

 

 

 

 

Utter BEC: If you wear pink lipstick, then you should wear pink blush. If you wear orange blush, then you should wear orange/coral lipstick.

For someone who attempts to sell performative femininity, she sure doesn't know her basics. Sheesh!

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50 minutes ago, FilleMondaine said:

Utter BEC: If you wear pink lipstick, then you should wear pink blush. If you wear orange blush, then you should wear orange/coral lipstick.

For someone who attempts to sell performative femininity, she sure doesn't know her basics. Sheesh!

And the chola brows?  Sweetie if you are a blonde they kind of imply a bad bad dye job. 

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1 hour ago, PinkPrincess0213 said:

Total Lori move here:

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She is such a loving christian. Wouldn't you just love to invite her at your house for a cup of tea?

Oh and is it just me, or is the way she is promoting her shirts in his video (it starts at 8:53) not very...modest? I don't give a crap about modesty, but she is all for it; practice what you preach girl.

 

 

 

 

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12 hours ago, Soulhuntress said:

And the chola brows?  Sweetie if you are a blonde they kind of imply a bad bad dye job. 

I agree. Her brows are much too dark. It’s like blondes who cake on black mascara and thick black eyeliner. It doesn’t look natural. 

My first long term boyfriend had dirty blonde hair and almost black eyebrows. Like Timothy Rodrigues. So it does happen. But it’s rare. Therefore her brows look unnatural. 

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Lord help me, I know she dyes her own brows as a way to save money. I admit I dye my own brows too, but my hair is very dark brunette, so the worst thing that has happened is that I dye them black and they look funky for a couple days before they fade. Thankfully that's only happened once. I feel like there's more room for error when you're blonde or redheaded and that maybe that should be something delegated to a professional. And it's like, $20 bucks at Ulta, so it's not a big-ticket item like dyeing your hair. 

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I had to bite and watch the '10 Lies' video. I was just too curious!

"We give you a warm welcome... the we is the 'feminine family'." I don't think I'm understanding that the way she intended.

1. Society tries to shame women for their feminity. Society seeks out and elevates masculine women. "When you step into your femininity as a woman"... that seems redundant. But yeah, if you do that, you'll regain a sense of peace and vibrancy because you can 'turn out' and nurture and love on the ones around you. She intends for her channel to have women consider their femininity, to take time to further develop it, take time to explore it.

2. A career is right for some women. We are a long way from the 1950s. Now, more women wish they could be at home, at least part time, then the other way. Society paints a lie for young women like 'pursue a career! Break the boundaries! Be unique."

3. The 3rd lie society tells women is to not consider their fertility window. Society says women aren't here just to make babies, and she thinks that's a sad and depressing way to look at the concept of motherhood. Instead of elevating motherhood, society tends to treat it like you're some sort of livestock just creating babies. 'They' don't like the science that says women are fertile from the time they had their first period, and it starts to go down when she's 25, 30, and again at 35. If you're a young woman planning to have babies after you've "done your career"... please reconsider that. Instead of using that career money for trips to Europe or a new house, you're going to be using it for fertility treatments or adoption. She's not encouraging teen pregnancy, she thinks pregnancy is best within marriage because she's a Christian.

4. Society paints marriage as a pathway to divorce. She feels there's propaganda to get people to not get married or to delay marriage. She does think the best marriages have an element of God through the Christian faith. Psychologists have done studies that show the divorce rate is the same if you marry before 20, or after 30. So the ideal time to get married *is* your 20s.

5. Hedonism. She feels there's a lot of propaganda pushing pleasure-seeking behaviour on young women. If you can't grow up and into responsibilities, ask yourself why you can't grow into the responsibility of eventually getting married, having your own family, being a mother, cooking, cleaning, being a grown woman. When women are collectively avoiding responsibility, who's raising the next generation? Who's creating them? Why don't we want to be involved in that responsibility? Are we too young for it... or too immature?
+ I just want to note that I've had casual sex, and there were never any drugs involved, and 9 times out of 10, no alcohol was involved either. I also managed to cook, clean and have a job whilst doing this... oh wait. Having a job isn't listed in the responsibilities of a woman.

6. Being at home sucks. It allows you to grow on an individual level... you can prepare to be a mother. There's propaganda that being a housewife is akin to being in jail. 
+ Being a homemaker is only possible if you're financially okay on one income. So you should probably talk with your intended about your desire to be a SAWH.

7. Beauty. We need to adopt the elements of self-discilpline. The most beautiful people are the healthiest. Health is a lifestyle. Water intake, sleep, skin care, mental health, social connections, how much you move your body and how much you're eating.
+ Every woman's magazine cover I've ever seen has promised the secrets to diet/exercise/skincare/how to get a glow. I've never seen one that tells women not to care (of course, if a magazine promoted that, they wouldn't be in business for long).

8. Faith has no place in 2019.
+ If women have been getting more depressed and anxious over the years, I imagine it's because the cost of living keeps rising whilst wages remain stagnant. I'm from a rural village. There were tons of churches. I live in a liberal city. There are tons of churches. This is the United States. No one is hiding Jesus.

9. Children will suck the life out of you.
+ I think you're confusing people who 'hate' children with people who... just don't have kids. That's a personal choice. If someone reads an article about how difficult and expensive raising a kid is and decide they shouldn't do it, that's fine. If they really wanted to have kids, an article wouldn't change their mind. And there's nothing wrong with taking life desires and finances into account when having kids.

10. It's not a big deal to go into debt. A lot of people go to college to meet people, go to parties, they don't know what else to do in those years. She highly encourages people not to go into debt by going to university without a plan.
+ As mentioned, jobs and careers are different. Jobs are much less likely to hire someone who's not already in the city they'd be working in. But otherwise yeah, this is good advice.

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1 hour ago, ViolaSebastian said:

Lord help me, I know she dyes her own brows as a way to save money. I admit I dye my own brows too, but my hair is very dark brunette, so the worst thing that has happened is that I dye them black and they look funky for a couple days before they fade. Thankfully that's only happened once. I feel like there's more room for error when you're blonde or redheaded and that maybe that should be something delegated to a professional. And it's like, $20 bucks at Ulta, so it's not a big-ticket item like dyeing your hair. 

I dye my brows too! I don’t know anyone in real life who dyes their brows. I have brown hair but for some reason my body hair is light brown. And rather thin. So I dye my brows so I don’t have to fill them in with a brow pencil all the time. 

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@JermajestyDuggar, my daughter had her brows microbladed (faintly tattooed) when they started getting skimpy. It turned out well but it wasn’t cheap. I’m sticking to eyebrow pencil because I’m afraid that something permanent will stop looking nice as my sexagenarian face starts to sag.

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6 minutes ago, Hane said:

@JermajestyDuggar, my daughter had her brows microplaned (faintly tattooed) when they started getting skimpy. It turned out well but it wasn’t cheap. I’m sticking to eyebrow pencil because I’m afraid that something permanent will stop looking nice as my sexagenarian face starts to sag.

Oh I’m too cheap for micro blading! That’s why I dye them instead. Plus it’s pretty quick. 

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8 minutes ago, JermajestyDuggar said:

Oh I’m too cheap for micro blading! That’s why I dye them instead. Plus it’s pretty quick. 

Oops! I got the term wrong!

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On 8/22/2019 at 9:06 AM, Howl said:

It just occurred to me that there is nothing at this woman's center but emptiness.  She knows shes attractive in a conventionally feminine way, so she focuses on that, and keeping a perfect but bland house, because there's zip for imagination. 

She doesn't know who she truly is...so she focuses on her husband, his interests, his day, his body.  

Sad, really.  I wonder if her husband is the same. 

If that's the case , then it sounds like she might have  Dependent Personality Disorder  .

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I don't think her issue is necessarily pathological, it just seems to me that she's not too bright combined with being very traditionally attractive. I don't think she's ever *needed* to go beyond her attractiveness, and I think in her mind that's what allowed her to get and keep a man--which for some odd reason is her end-all and be-all for living. She said she always wanted to be a house wife, and I think she looks/looked at her relationship with men as being a quid-pro-quo situation. She'll be attractive and clean the house and he'll work. I think she really, honestly, does not want to work and being a housewife allows her to avoid it. (In one of her videos she talks about how she's naturally lazy...). But she mentions physical "beauty" in one way or another in every last one of her videos I've watched. 

As a side note, motherhood is gonna kick her ass SO hard. I almost feel badly about it. 

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My boss is one of the most beautiful women I’ve ever met. Seriously, super-model gorgeous - nature has been generous with her plus serious (and sometimes expensive) maintenance. She’s also a successful business owner in a field that is traditionally heavily male-dominated, a kick-ass professional and one of the hardest workers I’ve ever known. Have I mentioned she has kids? And a dog? And busy social life? And her husband does most of the day-to-day grunt work of running a house? She’s also a truly kind, generous and fun person. Take that, miss “if I do my makeup and cook dinner I won’t have to work”. 

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35 minutes ago, ViolaSebastian said:

I don't think her issue is necessarily pathological, it just seems to me that she's not too bright combined with being very traditionally attractive. I don't think she's ever *needed* to go beyond her attractiveness, and I think in her mind that's what allowed her to get and keep a man--which for some odd reason is her end-all and be-all for living. She said she always wanted to be a house wife, and I think she looks/looked at her relationship with men as being a quid-pro-quo situation. She'll be attractive and clean the house and he'll work. I think she really, honestly, does not want to work and being a housewife allows her to avoid it. (In one of her videos she talks about how she's naturally lazy...). But she mentions physical "beauty" in one way or another in every last one of her videos I've watched. 

As a side note, motherhood is gonna kick her ass SO hard. I almost feel badly about it. 

I hope parenthood does kick her ass. She might actually grow as a person if it does. 

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23 minutes ago, JermajestyDuggar said:

I hope parenthood does kick her ass. She might actually grow as a person if it does. 

Or the kids will suffer, especially the firstborn.  :(

I'm a redhead with brown brows.  Dark red, not bright ginger.  My partner is blonde with brown brows.  Not pale blonde, but not dishwater blonde, either.  Sunny blonde with brown tips that show when her hair is longer than mine physically can grow.  I have some brown bits in my hair, too, but it's hard to see because my hair is so thick and curly.

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9 minutes ago, raspberrymint said:

Or the kids will suffer, especially the firstborn

She has it a lot better than many first time moms. She will likely be fine. 

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18 minutes ago, JermajestyDuggar said:

She has it a lot better than many first time moms. She will likely be fine. 

Depends on the mom.  My mom was well off and older than I am now when she had her first, me, and it was hell anyway.

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29 minutes ago, JermajestyDuggar said:

She has it a lot better than many first time moms. She will likely be fine. 

She reminds me a lot of Jenna of "That Wife" fame. Relentlessly pursued motherhood and being a wife, then got it and found she didn't like how demanding it was. The toughest job I've ever had was caring for kids. Granted, in my situation, after eight hours I got to go home and relax and listen to "My Dad Made a Porno." There's no "time-out" like that with motherhood--which is part of the reason I've taken it off the table for myself. I've watched Caitlin's "Spend a Day with Me"-type blogs. Her days ARE pretty lazy right now. She doesn't appear to volunteer anywhere or have any kind of set routine at all. She also doesn't appear to be a high-energy person (which I'm not necessarily knocking; I'm not a high-energy person myself). It just makes me think she's cruisin' for a bruisin' when she has a baby and a toddler and has things she HAS to do and an order she HAS to do them in. 

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I got my brows microbladed, too. I was a teen in the micro-brow 90s, what can I say? Really, it was so helpful to have someone I trust and who knows a good face to help me understand how to be even more beautiful. My own mother worked hard to make me ugly. So my microblading was just as much psychotherapy as vanity!

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I plucked the ever-loving shit out of my eyebrows back in the day (and then drew them back on? Jesus.) In any case, it was the one time in my life where being *ahem* blessed with an abundance of hair has paid off. Those puppies bounced right back. 

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