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You’re Looking At It

Amy
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What’s the oldest things you’re wearing today?
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Hi. It’s me. I’m the things.

I’ll never be this young again, but this is the oldest I’ve ever been. I don’t know how old my soul is, but it is greater than or equal to the age of my body.

I didn’t make the rules. I simply live in the skin bag with all of the accessories.

For anyone keeping up with the pink hair saga, I did go to the salon and attempted a temporary pink dye, but it did not take. Still blonde.
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23 thoughts on “You’re Looking At It”

  3. I don’t know I think you’re as beautiful as the words and imagery you create and are forever young no matter what your ‘skin-bag’ says 😀

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    1. Well, thank you, mystery person. I think if we keep our mind young, we tend to appear young on the outside. That’s probably why all creatives look young and I’m sticking to that opinion. 😉😊

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  4. hehehe, skin bags.

    We were all groovy little meat mechs playing Lawn Darts on banana boards wearing X-Ray specs and bell bottoms while eating rocket pops.

    🤘😁 Hail to the X’rs

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  5. I had to give up on pink hair – the color never took and I wasn’t willing to bleach white to get it.

    The young kids around me were all born post-911. I was 38 when it happened.

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    1. I bought some temporary stuff on clearance at the drugstore. It’s actually shampoo and it’s supposed to fade after time. But I can’t figure out how to do it without doing my whole head. I just want pops of color. But I know what you mean. My hair is really light blonde right now so it should take the pink, but I’m not sure I want a really bright pink and I think that’s all they have at the salon. Plus, this was pricey for a color that didn’t take. Not sure I want to waste more money.

      Do you mean the people you work with are all young? my colleagues are all different ages but it’s true, some don’t know anything about 9/11. I wish I didn’t know about it.

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      1. I’m a participant in a VR study at CSULB and the student observers are all post-911 births. I forget I’m not the same age as whoever I’m speaking with so finding out they were born in 2012 or later was a shock.

        Even with bleached blonde hair, temp dyes in pink wouldn’t take. Beware of trusting the shampoo – I use it sometimes and it’s nearly as strong as the regular dye. I used blue about 3 weeks ago and it’s still vibrant.

        For pink, I had to get extensions put in. I got the professional ones but hated them, cause you can’t comb where they’re attached. Imow have cheap clip-ins but they don’t really work with wavy/curly hair.

        Post pics when you’re successful!!

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      2. Thanks for the info! I have naturally curly hair. I still haven’t used the pink shampoo for the fear that it will be brighter and longer lasting than I think it will be. I may just give up. if I do continue, I will post pics.😊

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      3. Consider doing a part around your head and usingthe shampoo on the lower part. If you hate it, you can hide it with the upper layer. That’s how I had my firstcrazy colors applied… “hidden rainbow”. I loved it and wore my hairup, exposing the rainbow, every day.

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  7. I wear a slight smile at your thoughts, and maybe my thought of this response.

    A quick google search will tell us that the smile goes back 30 million years, with monkeys trying to tell predators they were harmless. The modern smile of homo-genus probably was closer to 1.5 million years, homo sapiens maybe 500k.

    So I’m wearing something quite old that has been embedded in all of us for a long long time, which we really have no mechanism to stop or control. Maybe a pair of braces when I was young did the most to affect it.

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