This and also baby snake are my fav moves. I love sneaking them anytime I can.

I don’t think I ever saw someone wear an outfit complementing their tattoos that well! This. Is. Fire 🔥 I’m taking notes!

Except I’m not so sure I’d call this TR outfit. Hair, yes. But dress this stiff, not really. The silhouette is the opposite of soft and flowing. A bit too classic for her imho.

Yeah, I know oversized roses are trendy but I feel like the top of the dress obscures her lines. I’m not sure about the length either given how stiff the skirt is. But I’m glad she’s back to waves.

As a climber-poler, I use antihydral from time to time - tiny dabs on the tips, I don’t leave it on for more that 2 hrs, at least right now. Some people leave it overnight. But a) it’s going to make your skin a bit „glassy” b) you can’t skip aftercare, otherwise you’re screwed and your skin can quite literally crack and split. Aftercare being heavy duty hand cream, e.g. at night. It is a matter of finding a balance between blocking any sweating and caring after skin that has no natural moisture.

Haha I wanted to add „I’m lovin’ it” as well but ran out of time!

Every studio I know in my city shares one pole between two people. Usually there’re 8 poles + instructors and people are queuing to get a spot in a given class. Generally, there’re a lot of people poling here. Sometimes there’re no-shows and you can train alone if no one joins but it’s a rarity.

It’s so hard to unsee the color analysis for me

Yes, I always felt so victimized by such basic fashion advices as FN, so eg. baggy top and skinny bottom that never really looked good. I mean, they don’t look that bad but they definitely don’t spark joy. And the whole advice against loose paired with loose with no regard whether we’re talking about stiff fabric or the one with drape, tailored or not. Ugh.

Except not all of them take finasteride due to side effects. On top of that [cited studies] often don’t tell us for how long the effects are observable and even on the group you have people posting that they lost all the progress all of a sudden (so there’s no longitudinal comparison). Stopping hairloss is cool but having regrowth is completely different story (as seen in the numbers from you, 83% vs 66%). Tbh I’d expect a higher number for stopping hairloss, given how strong fin is. Plus statistical significance may not go in hand with practical significance, which is a pity. Also, just like you noticed, studies mostly study man and (unfortunately for women) there’s no direct transfer of results. Women’s hairloss is hard to contain. The mentioned fin (or dut) is the last choice and even then often avoided.

Update from my side as I had an appointment today as well and wanted to know beforehand in case I had to make a decision on spot (I sort of had to anyway). No other news aside from the ones above. Indeed it can be money wasted, more so in the case for PRP. Dut gives nice results without going systemic and the “half life” is pretty long (e.g. one meso every 3-4 mos in the first year, then even 1 every 6 mos because that’s how the potential it has to stay locally and still work). Nice results provided it works for you, which is problematic for women. For men it’s almost guaranteed it works. The result is supposed to be both thicker hair and more hairs in general.

Tbh every time I make some peace with this disease, I get angry all over again just because women in medicine are so understudied.

Sectioning hair and also having it sit on top of your head helps a bit. By sectioning I mean that you part your hair for top and bottom, then make a bun/ pony and loosen up the hair a bit at the end (to release some of the tension). Also, clips and scrunchies are more comfy that those fine bands and bobby pins. Also2, do it just for a few hrs and massage afterwards. I hope it helps tiny bit! There’re so many half up styles and ways to make face framing pieces cute as well.

Mine lasted around 3 weeks and started before the first month mark but I heard that’s a short dread shed. Supposedly, you’re losing the hair that would fall out anyway („sick hairs”) to make space for new growth.

That’s a vast exaggeration, unfortunately. If you see progress, that’s minory that posts.

Louder for people in the back: we’re hand basting tricky fabrics 🪄

The only way for me to prevent it was to hand baste. Hand basting keeps the original length while your machine is trying to stretch it, especially the basic machine (compared to serger or coverstitch). Using a walking foot along with hand basting can help, too.

It goes down gradually and is not as big as you’d suspect by the result itself, i.e. it is an area where we mostly perceive angles relative to each other (cheeks, nose, brow line, heaviness of top vs bottom etc.). It’s not about growing your chin by x inch/es as such :)

Bias binding for knits should also be cut on bias. When cut on grain, the finishing is not as nice and often puckers here and there.

I kind of get your idea but if you look at the functional physiology of core, it’s not doing most of the work here. Adductors, glutes, lats, biceps, yes. And if it were, it actually wouldn’t be too good - it’d be a compensation for everything else mentioned.

I started poling during recovery (from dislocated shoulder) as well :)

As I understand it, the trick is to get your hips really high and in line with a pole before hooking the leg and letting go. But it’s not like I remember it every time and not have to make adjustments…

Inverted crucifix twists my skin so, so bad. I took a look at other girls and their skin doesn’t twist and drag that much so it might be due to my hypermobility. Regardless, the pain is so bad that once I really had to jump out of it immediately and ofc almost broke metatarsals.

I asked about it explicitly back when I was doing silks. Light activity (think walking, cleaning up without getting your head up side down, stretching, pilates) can be resumed the next day if you feel ok. Anything that raises your heart rate more than walking - after around a week (think cycling, a proper warmup). Up side down activities, jumping off of sth, falls, vigorous activities (aerial, climbing, hiit training etc.) after around 2 weeks or once you take the stitches out. Provided there’re no complications because it can go south sometimes :)