tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13460251.post720510808367683115..comments2023-04-12T13:49:38.219+03:00Comments on My Big Fat Greek Life: This is the Death Mask of Womanhood*bollybuttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15576835810755107181noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13460251.post-85296720329553881432009-06-09T10:21:05.209+03:002009-06-09T10:21:05.209+03:00Ok, if all the ladies posting here aren't beau...Ok, if all the ladies posting here aren't beauty freaks, then who is it that is?!<br />I never got the proper bridal carepackage at my wedding, did my own manicure etc, and my face was...well...clean enough! If i had a spot here and/or there, who cares, I had so much make up on, it never showed (the make up on the presistance of my hairdresser who said that I cannot go to my wedding looking like a farmer: "OH-MY-GOD what's with the eyebrows?" she said before attacking me with a beautification tool!)<br />I only had a pedicure/manicure at a trained person once in my life. I never had such a horrific experience before. I was HURTING! And in the end, she said my nails were too short for a french, so she just used my OWN nail polish!<br />I had suffered the tortures of Tantalus, just to end up looking like I always look!<br />And during the process, she was telling me that beauty demands sacrifices.<br />Well, excuse me lady, but I feel pretty enough as it is!<br />As for any spots, they are MY spots, we are friends, go away already!Sesihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00955686586553059906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13460251.post-15301218925006071782009-06-08T15:54:34.441+03:002009-06-08T15:54:34.441+03:00Before my skin became the way it is, I remember a ...Before my skin became the way it is, I remember a very dear friend of mine coming to stay over with me. <br /><br />As the day rolled into night and we were in our PJs, she asked where I kept my face wash. When I told her I didn't own one, just an all-purpose bar of soap, she looked like I'd just said I didn't believe in taking baths. The horror on her face was priceless!<br /><br />I added to her torture by admitting i also used body wash when I ran out of shampoo. I swear, women like us must be like aliens to other women. They certainly are aliens for me, I usually don't know what the hell it is they're talking about.bollybuttonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15576835810755107181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13460251.post-85256933470103393392009-06-08T15:00:59.238+03:002009-06-08T15:00:59.238+03:00I feel you, sister, I do...As a Greek woman myself...I feel you, sister, I do...As a Greek woman myself who at the age of 27 does not wear make-up (I was almost ridiculed for it by my sister and her friends "What?? You're 27 and you don't wear make-up? What's wrong with you??" *sigh*), does not have manicures done, visits the hairdresser every 4 months to simply get rid of the split hair-ends and loathes clothes/shoe/bag shopping, I get you. I live in the Netherlands now, where women are much more relaxed about these things, and I feel good about myself. Every time I return to Greece though, being confronted with all these women with their faces caked in make-up, eyeshadows, layers of mascara, eyeliners, blush, lipliner, lipstick etc., their expensive clothes/shoes/bags, their hairdresser hair...they make me feel as if I belong in another species of woman, "the-one-who-does-not-take-care-of herself". It took me a while before I could say, "Screw it, I am who I am, and the rest can go stuff it!" You are definitely not alone!Sofia K.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04088180810048341867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13460251.post-67907661625142723172009-06-07T21:09:32.144+03:002009-06-07T21:09:32.144+03:00Ah, but the electric zapper thingy (it's the o...Ah, but the electric zapper thingy (it's the one that looks like a shower attachment innit?) does work. I went through half of my puberty being a pimply teenager, until a kind woman zapped my face clean. <br /><br />As about the hair removal, I hope whoever came up with that beastly torture rots in hell for ever.stassahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12601522447028040071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13460251.post-81224345787728045092009-06-06T20:51:43.989+03:002009-06-06T20:51:43.989+03:00rofl! I soo get what you mean :p
I'm not the k...rofl! I soo get what you mean :p<br />I'm not the kind of woman who puts the paint everyday on face, tho I love doing my eyes and colorful lipstics, I am not into this and sometimes really feel like a lesbian when I'm in a women gathering. I visit hairdresser's once every 3 months if it's for a hair dye, or once a year if it's for haircut and just recently started having my nails done, after an order (yes, not just a demand) from my husband. It's a good excuse to be lazy tho (you know "ah can't do that now, it's hard and my nails will break, shame, too expensive etc) :p<br />Had some facial done when I was about to be a bride, but my pregnancy "saved me" from the "fun stuff" you had. Really didn't enjoy it and my introduction to facial waxing went quite bad. I mean those were hormonological imbalance "gifts" and quite white, if she'd hadn't waxed them out would propably have faded away after childbirth but no... bride has to be like Barbie.... xpPsofofeggarohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07047690824143686668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13460251.post-17847385230807739062009-06-06T14:41:14.536+03:002009-06-06T14:41:14.536+03:00sounds tragic! and sorry but hilarious as well!
:)...sounds tragic! and sorry but hilarious as well!<br />:)<br />i wax my arms and legs on my own and am quite used to it, but not before i usually let it grow out to gorilla proportions ... and people step away from me when in a crowded bus. But i would love to be able to laser away all the hairs for good and would take all the pain it would bring.... if i could afford that.ALhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06726790331440938333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13460251.post-35853203773220404712009-06-06T11:54:04.443+03:002009-06-06T11:54:04.443+03:00Oh, I've been there - was naive enough to thin...Oh, I've been there - was naive enough to think that "high frequency facial treatment" would do wonders for my skin. What it really did was make me sick and nauseus for two days.<br /><br />However, I firmly stand by my monthly manicures. That is the only thing that separates me from looking like a farmer, really.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13460251.post-54063663009261118742009-06-05T17:51:40.960+03:002009-06-05T17:51:40.960+03:00Toomanytribbles, it's all nonsense. the more o...Toomanytribbles, it's all nonsense. the more of these girly things I try which I was never trained to be into by my mother, the more stupid I find them. Who in God's name thought "I'll make this electric zapper to electrocute someone's face and pass it off as a beauty treatment!!"<br /><br />It's all bollocks. I'm not doing any of this again. They really are all out to make money. I mean, I went to my friend and she gave me recipes to make home-made aftercare masks from things I already have in the frigde. Imagine if I'd gone somewhere else, they'd have charged me butt loads for their extra lotions and potions.<br /><br />Why are women so scared of what they actually look like?<br /><br />As for this being fun, I take it you're not married. The bride is not supposed to have fun. It's not ABOUT her.bollybuttonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15576835810755107181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13460251.post-22014166902544937152009-06-05T17:38:40.273+03:002009-06-05T17:38:40.273+03:00i'm getting on now, but i have gone though mos...i'm getting on now, but i have gone though most of my life looking very, very good without all the fuss. i lived without manicures, i didn't chat a lot about facials and shoes with other women, and i've never missed it. i had good genes, i guess, but even if i hadn't i wouldn't go through all this ridiculous, pointless torture.<br /><br />i believe that, to a certain extent women are being victimized, taken advantage of by successful marketing strategies. it's sll about money.<br /><br />you might be interested in this bit as well...<br />'Pressure to Look Attractive Linked to Fear of Rejection in Men and Women': http://www.physorg.com/news162666854.html<br /><br />my unsolicited advice is to not overdo it -- it's supposed to be FUN.helensotiriadishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07740816003291428890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13460251.post-36270879020840337272009-06-05T17:30:00.297+03:002009-06-05T17:30:00.297+03:00Haha! That was the same exact reaction I had when ...Haha! That was the same exact reaction I had when I went through my facial. <br /><br />Three years later and I still haven't gotten the guts to go back, even though my skin could really do with one.Eleni Zoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06192362492099520938noreply@blogger.com