A question for the women ....

SingleSue

fc123 wrote: »

What I tried to say, badly, is don't diet or concentrate on the weight loss (like WW groups) but try to get some help and support for all the other stuff in your life, past and present. Just an hour a week 'Sue Time' to work through some isues may help. I am sure you qualify under NHS though there may be a waiting list.

You mentioned some time back 'full feeling' which could (I am no pshychowhatsit though ) come from childhood...full up = safe, happy feeling for example.

If you could untangle a few of those feelings, your appestat may get back to normal.
Processed foods cause havoc with appestat anyway as your body hunts around for nutrients like a hungry robot and we feed it tea and cake...so body get's hungrier and hungrier but it's only famished as it needs a little bit of pottassium or zinc.....so keeps sending hunger pangs so you keep feeding it.

Eeeekkk, that would def mean going to the doctors! Bit scared of going up in case he decides I need tablets instead of talk.....

Think you are right about the childhood thing, I can't go to jumble sales or really busy places now after being dragged from one to another in my early childhood (the smell of cheap perfume is enough to trigger a panic attack) and just after dad had his accident, so the food thing is probably something related to it too.

MrsE_2

lostinrates wrote: »

Well, IMO, there is a whole new world of wonderful foundtions for you. By Terry is quite good I think, I'm sticking with Laura Mercier though.

I like the LM powder.
Don't have any By Terry.

Sapphire

treliac wrote: »

Re: make up ......

We can't afford to splash out as we did of old, so we turn to making ourselves look more glamorous with make up ...... or so we are told!!

http://www.marieclaire.co.uk/news/beauty/296093/lipstick-effect-make-up-sales-soaring-in-recession.html

Ladies, do you identify with this hypothesis? Are you buying / using more make-up than you were 2 or 3 years ago?

Personally, I've always been a girly girl and always enjoyed using make-up. Good skin and hair care, etc. has always been a priority. But then I've economised in other ways.

Gents, feel free to answer too, either on behalf of the women in your life or yourselves - whatever turns you on!

I buy about the same amount as I have always done – mostly Lancome products, and some Clinique, when the things I use run out. And I don't wear more make-up than I have ever done.

Hairdresser every four weeks – same for years.

Spend far less on clothes than I used to. My taste is fairly classic with a bit of vintage/odd stuff thrown in, so I can use things I bought 20 years ago (the vintage stuff). Occasionally splash out on something Ted Baker or Max Mara, etc, but not more than about three times a year, and not excessively. I do buy things like inexpensive T-shirts and cardigans, which last and don't go out of fashion. Think it's possible to extract things from fashion without being 'trendy' – which has always seemed to be a bit like following the sheep...

Cleaver

amcluesent wrote: »

Boots Vitamin A+E moisturiser, alternate around CK Obsession/Escape/Eternity as mood takes me, vain user of hair colour, Veet for men as needed.

Do you also use a body moisturing cream on your shoulders when your 'The End Is Nigh' sandwich board rubs the skin and gives you some serious chafing? Apocalypto fashion can be so unforgiving on dry skin.

fc123

SingleSue wrote: »

Eeeekkk, that would def mean going to the doctors! Bit scared of going up in case he decides I need tablets instead of talk.....

Think you are right about the childhood thing, I can't go to jumble sales or really busy places now after being dragged from one to another in my early childhood (the smell of cheap perfume is enough to trigger a panic attack) and just after dad had his accident, so the food thing is probably something related to it too.

Just say no to tablets...you don't need tablets. Have a think about it but would be worth a shot. Bubblesmoney is good to sound off to about these things.

Primrose

The make-up and cosmetic companies would long since be bankrupt if they relied on me for their profits. I've never spent much money on cosmetics because I've never been convinced they do much to improve my appearance. A slap of lipstick and the odd dash of (usually gifted) perfume is par for my course. And as I grow older, I've become convinced the natural look is much less ageing than having a face plastered with mascara, eye liner and all the other stuff which so often makes mutton look like lamb. I do use a cheap moisturiser when I remember. I was once treated to the "Full Monty" in a beauty salon in London. When I caught sight of my face in a mirror in a public toilet on the way home I thought I looked like a cheap tart and washed the whole lot off with cold water. Must have saved myself a fortune over the years. My one extravagance is dying my own hair to disguise the grey, but that's only about £4.50 every couple of months or so.

laura-lovecat

I don't wear any powders or foundation or anything else but I do wear eyeliner and mascara everyday, I do my eyes with a sort of 40's flick and feel a bit weird without it. I don't buy very much and always buy the same rimmel eyeliner without fail!

carolt

Primrose wrote: »

The make-up and cosmetic companies would long since be bankrupt if they relied on me for their profits. I've never spent much money on cosmetics because I've never been convinced they do much to improve my appearance. A slap of lipstick and the odd dash of (usually gifted) perfume is par for my course. And as I grow older, I've become convinced the natural look is much less ageing than having a face plastered with mascara, eye liner and all the other stuff which so often makes mutton look like lamb. I do use a cheap moisturiser when I remember. I was once treated to the "Full Monty" in a beauty salon in London. When I caught sight of my face in a mirror in a public toilet on the way home I thought I looked like a cheap tart and washed the whole lot off with cold water. Must have saved myself a fortune over the years. My one extravagance is dying my own hair to disguise the grey, but that's only about £4.50 every couple of months or so.

Agree. After reading this thread and being really quite shocked how much ordinary women seem to spend on make-up - not only money but time - I've started looking at women I see regularly but have never really thought about whether or not they're wearing loads of make-up or none.

I was at a mum's do for my kids' school yesterday, and was consciously focusing on the make-up, and was shocked how many mums there were in the full inch thick all-over make-up. I can understand foundation and stuff more when you're younger - as a teenager I wore it occasionally to cover up zits. But how many women have zits over 30?

Personally, I've never worn powder since going clubbing at some point in my late teens. The place had ultra-violet light, and for some reason that affected my powder so that it looked green :eek: in the light. My friend collapsed in hysterics, and I rushed to the loos to clean it all off. Not the most attractive look...

Should add that my DD asked me today if I was wearing eye make-up. I pointed it those grey shadows were entirely natural, caused by lack of sleep.

Who needs make-up, when you can have natural grey shadows?

wageslave

I bought a hugely expensive eye cream a couple of weeks ago. I detected lines.

I have had some sort of allergic fu cking reaction to it and ended up looking as though I had gone ten rounds with Joe Bugner.

I have been wearing absolutely no make up all this week in a desperate attempt to clear up the bliddy mess.

Just about everyone has been asking me if I have had my hair done or something because I look really well and they cant work out how.

I give up, I really do

sjaypink

Never really been into products & make-up. I have loads of stuff because my mum buys loads then doesn't like it and gives it to me - but I don't use much and I definately wouldn't pay for anything expensive out of my own money (with the possible exception of some sarah chapman overnight cream I've recently aquired).

My general beauty routine is wash with dove soap, moisturise with e45 or astral etc (using soap & glory glow job ATM though, also courtesy of mother, which is nice), then rimmel recover and whatever mascara happenned to have been given to me recently.

Forgot, also like a good exfoliater, but again, won't spend my own money on one!:o

If going out will use a little liquid eyeliner and lip gloss, maybe a little eyeshadow. Bar a bit of foundation and mascara I think I'm definately one of those people who looks worse the more make-up I put on :cool: