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Glamour Shots: High Fashion Photography In May 1994, ten days after my fourteenth birthday, I "celebrated my unique beauty and style" with a Glamour Shots photo session at the Montgomery Mall. Glamour Shots was (*is,* actually; the business is alive and
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The best thing about living here was that I got to tell people that I lived at the corner of Stockholm and Knickerbocker. The worst thing about living here was everything else. It was 2002, and I had pestered my poor boyfriend until he gave in and moved o
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Thrift shop bedsheets: Cute, comfy, cheap or blood-curdling bedbug bonanza?
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{image stolen from @spookula} In another lifetime, @jeremyhush and I were walking in Philadelphia when he paused at a little sidewalk cafe and pulled aside one of the waitresses. "This is Jess," he said. "She casts hummingbird skulls in silver and makes
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I haven't really been well enough to do much artwork in the last year. I hope I get better and can start doing some again. Here's a little triptych made from part of an antique makeup compact, a thumbnail tintype, gold leaf, a little copper frame, and a t
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#TimeBandits #ReturnTheMap
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There's this place right by where I grew up called Peace Valley Park. There's a big lake in the center of the park called Lake Galena, which was created in 1974. The lake covers what was once the mining village of Leven, established in the 1800s when gale
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It doesn't count as a selfie if somebody else took it. Oh dem Halcyon days. Watch out, little Polsky! Here comes your future! I think Will Courtney took this. He's super: www.willwc.com
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One thing I like to do lately, when I'm not feeling sorry for myself in parking lots, is to gorge myself on plastic surgery horror stories from realself.com. There's thousands upon thousands of reviews and information and photos, and all you have to do is
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I tried to leave the house for some fun today. I put away movies at the library, and then I drove to Marshalls to hunt for weird skincare, but it all feels pointless again. Turning around and going home. I did like my makeup though, and so I commemorate i
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Watching The #Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt with @wchals #FemalesAreStrongasHell
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Here's a couple teaspoons of Polsky lore that you can absolutely skip over if your heart compels you. The photograph is of a woman called Nora Conroy, who (whom?) I believe was my great-grandmother. Family legend has it that she worked as a maid in a fan
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I was all like "Look, Mom. I'm just like Agamemnon's mask from Mycenae, hyuk hyuk!" and she was all like "You can't sit with us, loser." #hydrogel #kbeauty
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Today I've been sober for four years. My bff Thom is usually the only one who remembers, but he's away at military camp and won't be able to make phone calls for two more months. I felt lonely so I went to Target and bought that tiny pink Vaseline I've b
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Digging this little curl/ right in the middle of my forrrehead.
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This is still one of my favorite things. A Deventer scribe, writing around 1420, found his manuscript ruined by a urine stain left there by a cat the night before. He was forced to leave the rest of the page empty, drew a picture of a cat and cursed the
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In love with baby ¥o-landi Vi$$er / all up in the place / ho$h pagamisa / raak fokken wys #dieantwoord
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I really love the artwork by Matthew Carroll up at Nelli Rae's in Revere right now. This one is called "Wendigo." Thinking of you, @johnsonlallytattoo
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When you take a billion train selfies, and the shot of you being startled by a passing train is the best one. #septa #outsidemycomfortzone #googlyeye
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Not feeling so hot today, mood-wise, except the place I get my medication is in a village called Harrow, and that makes me glad. Next month will bring some changes and I'm nervous and scared. My doctor and I are conspiring to look for some group or volun
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Part III: * Collage Rose Aroma Moist All in one Mask. Marshalls, baby! It cost $13, which is kind of a lot for me, but everybody at r/asianbeauty said that I had to so I did. Guess what this is? It's rose-scented. Guess what it does? It's a sleepi
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Part I: So my first year of college, Fred Seton showed me this manga cartoon called Ranma One-Half. It was for teenagers, so it was pretty tame (despite being about a teen boy who changed gender when splashed with water ... buh?), but one supporting ch
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I only cried like a big baby for a teeny bit today. Then I tried to use the Internet to learn makeup, got frustrated, and made this face and a caveman sound. It went "Daaaaah!" 💅💣🐵
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I spent this Valentine's Day with one of the very few broken hearts I've ever had. I was going to say "nursing" one of the very few broken hearts, but this isn't nursing, at least not yet. More like this is choking back sobs for most of the day because
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Sometimes life is pretty great, and I try hard to savor times like that, because I know that life with a psychiatric disorder is, um ... capricious. Things right now are really, really not good for me, and the stress is affecting my brain and my body. I
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These things are the "Spa Life Radiant Diamond hydrogel under eye treatment." Apparently they're made with REAL DIAMONDS because everybody knows that diamonds are good for your skin. (Puzzlingly, the list of ingredients actually does include "diamond dust
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I'm swooning because I just discovered that @shirocosmetics has a highlighter (hm, I thought it was an eyeshadow. What's a highlighter?) anyway, Shiro has a highlighter called The Last Unicorn, and comes in a case with the eponymous unicorn on the lid. T
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This is a photo I took too slow the Asian Beauty (AB) group I post to, but I'll post it here too, but because it was a glimmer of excitement in an otherwise unremarkable day. This is my very first bad AB reaction. It feels like a rite of passage. {proud}
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The Duckbutt and Pigface show! Off camera is Thom "I Don't Give a Fox," but he's afraid the girls on OKCupid will laugh at him, so just use your imagination. #faceshop #kbeauty #pigfarts
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OK, OK. I discovered a paradise today called H Mart, and my friends, that "H" stands for HOLY LIVING CRAP. Face Shop: My first konjac sponge! A fox sheet mask for Thom A pig sheet mask for me Amore Jil Hanahrum: IOPE Air Cushion XP C21 Mamonde Flowe
