Girly Deficient

[taffimai]

You know, I often feel like there are girly-type things that everyone else seems to know how to do and at which I am just slightly hopeless.

Tonight's example? I've spent the last hour doing my nails and all I have to show for it is a barely passable clear polish. I cannot manage color to save my life.

Did I miss a "How To Be a Girl" orientation class somewhere?

ETA: I wouldn't even mind that much if I'd gotten the "How To Be a Lesbian" class! At least then I'd know how to change my oil.

Comments

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

Oh, I used to have problems with my eyebrows too! Then I figured out a two-step coping strategy:

1) Throw away any tweezer with which I had trouble gripping the hair (all of them) and find one that I could actually pull with. The Revlon Slant Tip Micro Fine Tweezer is great.

2) Go to a salon to get your eyebrows done and from then on just pluck the regrowth daily. I go back to the salon about once a year to make sure I haven't gotten too off track.

[geeky-dani.livejournal.com]

Do you find that those tweezers get dull very quickly? They are my tweezers of choice, but I have to replace them at least once a quarter. I tends towards caveman brow with thick hairs so they get quite the workout but after a couple months they don't grip well enough to do anything anymore.

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

I don't, actually. I haven't needed to replace it since I got it, which was maybe nine months back. My eyebrows are pretty similar to yours.

So, ummm, what are you doing with those tweezers?