And You Wonder Why You're Single...

I'm finally going to update this with our first "And you wonder why you're single" post. This is the one that really pushed me over and made me want to create this series. I've been hesitant to share some of these messages I receive on POF (Plenty Of Fish)...out of respect that some of these guys are genuinely clueless. But let's face it...some of these need to be shared to maybe shine light on what or where these guys went wrong.

Let me start by saying that I never message a guy first. I have a lengthy, extremely detailed profile that highlights the kind of guy I'm looking for. Some guys read it in depth and respond accordingly, which are the ones I appreciate. Some guys attempt to read it but seem to give up or fail at reading comprehension and send me messages that illustrate that. Then there's the ones who obviously don't even bother to read my profile at all...and end up sending me idiotic messages.

So this dude, let's call him Yoplait. I don't want to go too much into physical appearance but for most females, Yoplait's attraction would probably rely solely on his personality, if you get my drift...

Yoplait sent me a message and mentioned that he taught himself how to knit (because he read that I knit). That initially lead to me to respond. He also had asked me if I'd ever tried to spin my own yarn. As a knitter, I know a lot of other knitters and fiber artists like to experiment with spinning, especially to make art yarns.

My response had something to do with how I thought it was cool that he taught himself to knit. I had never tried spinning my own yarn but asked if he had. And in his profile I saw he mentioned he had made his own yogurt. I once saw an "easy" way to make yogurt on a tv show so I had inquired if that's how he went about making it...just to make conversation.

He responded back that he had spun yarn from both Pomeranian and Llama fur. To some people that may sound really weird, especially the Pomeranian fur, but to fiber artists it's not all that weird. However, I personally don't care anything about yarn from dog fur. But then things started to veer off when he touched on his yogurt making process...

Here it is folks, an excerpt of his response. This is his entire description of how he tried to cultivate yogurt:

"My yogurt making adventure started with just that. Sterilizing milk, adding starter and making a delicious batch of home-made awesomeness (although I couldn't convince anyone else to try it :( )but it lead me to wonder how one could craft yogurt if they had no starter. It fascinates me how people started different bacteria based products like bread, yogurt, beer and cheese back before they really had any idea what they were doing --but I digress-- I read that yogurt is typically made from lactobacillus or streptococcus. Now, where one may find a proper strain of lactobacillus alas I still don't know... but streptococcus... streptococcus finds you lol. As fortune would have it, my best friend's daughter had strep throat at the time and she was kind enough to lend me a swab. And thus I spent a couple of months trying to mutate alpha-hemolytic streptococcus (something you definitely don't want in your yogurt) to the far more valuable streptococcus thermophilus (without risking a mutation to its nearer cousin beta-hemolytic, which is also known as African flesh eating disease). Eventually all of my strains died off and I was forced to abandon the effort... (till someone else catches strep and donates a sample mua-ha-ha-ha). I am not very good in microbiology but it is alot of fun to play with."

Words... I can't even... Just... *sigh & smh*

Hence the title- "And you wonder why you're single..."

I think I'm going to start a series called "And you wonder why you're single..." based off of these very special messages I receive on Plenty of Fish...
They constantly make me question "Is this real life!?"

Smh

I was letting the under-half of my hair grow out so that I could have the two-toned thing going on again. But I still have a lot of dye from when all of my hair was red (I thought I'd keep it like that for longer but I wanted my blonde back), so I've been debating dying the underside red. Buuut, the other dye I use to make it the vibrant red I like can possibly bleed onto clothes, which always made me paranoid to wear a lot of my favorite things. So now I'm torn between continuing to let the underside grow out (which looks really funky with doggy ears while growing out) or just bleach it all! I keep delaying touching up my roots because I can't decide (since I would bleach the underside at the same time and make it so much easier). This pathetic dilemma has been going on for months... smh

I thought tonight's broadcast of 20/20 covering the Vanderbilt trial was sketch and shared some sensitive information in bad taste... And now there's a report that some information shown was not given clearance and was possibly leaked to the show. Plus throw in the nonsense about how a juror shouldn't have been in the jury... smh, the young lady who's at the center of this has already suffered enough!

Since I have a difficult time with foundation looking somewhat decent, I'm going to try different combinations and methods of applying my base in hopes of finding a routine I'm satisfied with.

Today I've used:
Wet n Wild Fergie BB Cream in Light
Wet n Wild Liquid Concealer Wand in Fair
Wet n Wild Cover All Cream Foundation in Fair
Wet n Wild Fergie Take On The Day Mattifying Powder in Pedestal

First I applied the BB Cream. For the record, this gives me zero coverage or any type of evenness from what I can tell. But it says it's an 8-in-1 beauty balm so I tend to use it in place of a primer and moisturizer. I've had issues before with not liking the texture but I came across a technique from GossMakeupArtist that I'm going to embed below.

Next I applied the concealer. I'm not keen on this concealer at all. It's somewhat acceptable at concealing redness, or maybe even for tiny breakouts... But for my breakouts, it just dulls the redness. It doesn't really mute any of the darker pigments from scarring. I never use concealer for under my eyes but I doubt this one would be beneficial to anyone trying to conceal dark circles. I don't even think t would do much in the way of trying to highlight either (though I may experiment with that...).

Then I applied the foundation. I like this foundation a LOT! The is the only foundation that I've bought more than once. Of course my skin is so scarred up that nothing seems to cover-up or even things out...but this foundation has given me the best results at the attempt so far. After applying it, I used the technique that Goss taught in a recent video. You take a single ply of facial tissue paper, wrap it around a clean makeup sponge, and dab your face to pick up excess product. He says that it will help keep the makeup in place and prevent it from oxidizing. Here's the great video!




After doing this technique, my makeup truly did look a lot better! I took a fluffy powder brush and dabbed on the mattifying powder. For the record, this powder reminds me of a pressed version of the ELF High Definition Power. And then I lightly buffed it over my face. This makes all the difference in the world! It really gives an airbrushed affect.

I used L.A. Colors Bronzer in Bronze Gold to do my contouring. Not too keen on this for the wintertime because it's too "warm" but it was the most convenient for the moment. And in the meantime I have Rosebud Salve on my lips to help moisturize them since they're chapped. I'll finish my eye makeup and lips later...