Recent Content by ravencorbie

Price for coloring varies quite a bit.  When I was going to my previous hairdresser (who couldn't remember when we had appointments), it was $45 for all-over color and a cut, but most places are much more expensive, especially if you're getting into foiling or highlights.  Her color didn't stick...

Back when I lived in Illinois, smell and price were primary concerns because my hair always looked good.  Here in western Colorado, where my hair is horrid without special help, I go with effect:  something that helps give my hair fullness without weighing it down.  Then smell and price. ...

Halloween is my favorite holiday.  I'm going to decorate, although I don't have much yet.  Some of the Halloween stuff stays up all year, too, just because I like it so much.  I'm planning to dress up, as well. The actual day -- Oct. 31 -- is our school's History day, so I will be wearing...

I believe "gotten" is the result of hypercorrection (when people think they are correcting something by making it wrong:  a good example is when people say, "You need to speak to Mark or I" (should be "me", but too many people got "or me" and "and me" removed due to screwing it up when it...

I have very fine, thin hair, that is mostly straight if left to its own devices here in western Colorado, but in humid climates, it's very wavy during the humid periods (summer).  To recreate the waviness here, I started using Nioxin -- the shampoo and the conditioner for color-treated hair...

I'm a night person by nature and a morning person by choice.  What I mean is that I'm very happy that I'm a teacher and that my day starts so early BECAUSE I'm a night person by nature.  This means I get more done.  If I had a job that started later in the day, I would just sleep in longer and...

I completely forgot to weigh myself this morning.  I'll try to remember to do it tomorrow morning instead.  Pam, I'm with you on the feeling like giving up thing -- I just feel like I'm never making progress (unless I'm sick), and it's frustrating, but I keep trying anyway because I think it's...

I hope you feel better, too, Draco. In the meantime, I will celebrate with you in thought:  Sunday is my birthday, too! I'm celebrating mostly tomorrow instead of Sunday, though, because Sunday is my housework and get ready for school day.  My parents and I are going to one of my favorite...

The teacher I share a room with had a really bad sore throat for several weeks.  He was gargling salt water.  But it didn't go away, so he looked up some home remedies and found a recommendation to gargle vinegar.  He said it was effective:  the sore throat was gone the next day.  This is...

Airborne!  I really like the new hot lemon formulations.  So soothing.  And it usually knocks the cold out in a couple of days at most. At night, I usually have Nyquil (the one that has Acetaminophen in it) or Tylenol PM. During the day, I don't have anything:  I find that the side effects...

I use Biore Combination Skin Cleanser for my face, since it's currently the only one available that works on my bizarre type of combination skin (more dry than oily, but I break out with most "dry skin" formulas . . . most combination or oily skin cleansers dry my face out too much and make it...

This is really interesting. I have very sensitive senses that tend to be overwhelmed easily: Sight: I do wear glasses. My eyes are extremely sensitive to the sun, despite being hazel (I've heard it's usually green or blue eyes that are most sensitive), so I wear prescription sunglasses a...

I'm not sure if this is an angel story, but I think it's related. My mom and her best friend came to visit me (and France) when I was doing a study abroad in France. They stayed ten days or two weeks, something like that. The last two days we were staying in Paris. I was going to stay in the...

Linguist here :) Balkan yogurt is Greek yogurt because Greece is part of the Balkans -- a very distant southern part, but still part. So you did absolutely the right thing! Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia, Bosnia . . . I don't think I'm forgetting any. Those are the Balkan...

I haven't, but my mom has. And she keeps getting it again and again. You have to be outbreak-free for a certain amount of time before you can get the immunization, and her non-break-out periods are never long enough. It's been going on for around 5 years now, and it was on the right side of...