[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: AAARGH!!! RE: discontinued my make-up!

[Dina Lerret]

On 3/21/06, justcarol67 <justcarol67 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I can't offer any suggestions as I never wear make-up, but I can offer
> empathy. Why is it that our favorite products are always discontinued?
> Safeway has stopped carrying two of my favorite flavors of juice
> (Ocean Spray Cranberry Peach and Ocean Spray Ruby Red and Tangerine).

I did like Ruby Red and do like tangerines but never tried them
together.  Sounded pretty good. :-)

But yeah, it's like you find something you enjoy and they stop
producing more.  In the context of HP, if JKR is only to do seven
books and you really enjoy the HP world, it'd be understandable to
want JKR to continue.  Maybe not continuing Harry's storyline, maybe
the years leading up to the destruction of Godric's Hollow where
Voldemort was at full strength or the 'Marauders Era' and the
undercurrents of Death Eaters forming alliances.


> They've even stopped carrying cherry-flavored Rolaids! I know I can
> live without all those things, or I could buy Tums. But I don't like
> Tums any more than I like Internet Explorer--I use Netscape, thank you!

I use Firefox. :-)  Though, its capability to hold long-term history
of browsed pages *sucks*.  I'd like something to remember where I've
been, at least online, for the past couple years and Firefox can't
handle much.


> We all have our favorite products and, um, *things*, and it's annoying
> when we have to go out of our way to find them, or worse, can't find
> them at all.
>
> Don't know if my little rant helped you feel any better, but it helped me!

:-)


> Carol, remembering that the ancient Greek women used lead-based
> make-up--really white skin was worth dying for in those days!

I'm probably one of the few who doesn't want a 'healthy glow'--I've
got oily skin, I don't want or need anything making it 'glow'--and I
wouldn't touch a bronzer.

As long as I feel fine, I want that paleness and it's as if wanting to
be light-skinned needs to be corrected.  I actually look at uber
tanned folk and think that's unhealthy.  I visualize skin cancer,
spotting, and 'leather' wrinkling from UV radiation.

What irks me at times are the complaints that Dan Radcliffe is too
pale.  If he's heathly, enjoying life, has an impressive bank account
;-) , why does he need a tan?  To look like the rest of Hollywood? 
It's like the 'goal' for some folk is to be 'thin and tan' and some of
us don't want to fit that mould.

Whatever reasons, I don't want to look darker than the skintone I
acquired through genetics and I certainly don't want to get a tan just
to match my foundation. {g}

Dina