Hun have you ever tried rubbing two neurons together? It’s difficult, okay?

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Oh how nice of them.

Mi scusi I was just letting out some frustration! No stress it works fine.

I was just thinking back to when the internet felt free and simple.

May the Frizz be with you.

If switch up you shall then switched up you will be.

MySpace I miss you. I never even had an account 😭

Yes heat can do damage. Personally I focus on managing that. So like when I hit it with medium heat for 1 or 2 seconds I’ll leave it and move. And then I’ll do a cold pass.

Also when showering you’ll want to keep it on warm, not hot. And finish with cold. Also for your skin. Doesn’t have to be annoying cold, but just to cool your skin and hair down.

Think of the heat as being stored in it and you have to remove it again, and you don’t want to get it too hot.

You might wanna look up some info on that if you really wanna know. This hairdryer was 13 euros and an Airbnb guest bought it because she needed it. She had beautiful long hair.

Note that spray bottles can suck. You’ll probably wanna get one from a beauty store.

Ok you might want to experiment with an air dryer using all the info online. Changed my life.

I wash my hair every day with water, unless I’m lucky and it survived the night. Towel pat it, and don’t let it air dry. You’ll wanna go through it many times with medium hot hair and then cool again with cold air. Every time bunching it up with that big piece that goes on the dryer. Don’t hold it long because hot hair isn’t good for hair. Just keep going until its dry.

The idea is that your hair sets when it dries. If you air dry it like that, the weight will pull it down and it’ll set like that. That’s why you’ll wanna go through it and shape it constantly. I go for maximum fluff.

Product-wise let me go ahead and refer you to the curly girl method, which you can find online. You’ll especially want to avoid sulfate containing shampoo. One easy way is to go for products that are specifically for curly hair and get the whole line from one company and do what it says on the back.

I wash it with product once it doesn’t really play friendly any more. That’s after about 7 to 10 days for me. This also allows you to buy more expensive product.

Only brush it when it is wet and use one of those coarse padded brushes. I brush it while under the shower. Doing that daily also helps with reducing hair laying around.

Lastly you’ll want to get a water spray bottle. One that really makes tiny droplets. You can use it after air drying or whenever you go outside. Just spray it in and scrunch it up here and there to make it pop. As it dries it’ll make it pop even more.

You look cute, but I am wondering if you’d be alright with some advice for your hair, as we have the same hair type. How do you dry it?

Yup I saw that. And the series Pose.

Yap same with the hiv story in the US until they threw ashes on the lawn of the white house iirc.

Cyberpunk is a dramatization of the world we live in.

Yup. Cuz I’m poor I have only the basic level of healthcare. I should add that this is essentially free and so it’s not an entirely bad system. But it’s effectively useless in many cases if you are poor.

How can someone be poor here? Well this can happen when you don’t fit squarely in the safety net. For example a friend of mine lived with her bf, but because it was social housing they made it extra small to motivate people to get out. But that also somehow made it legally too small for two people to live there. But because she is trans and poor she was essentially forced into that situation. So people often can’t be registered in the right places, which can impact your social stipend.

That’s why you are forced to pick the cheapest healthcare option, and that means your own risk will be about 1k euros a year. You have to pay that much for healthcare that year before you are covered 100%. It’s to demotivate overusing the system. Makes sense if you can afford it.

But what if you are genuinely poor? It’s common. Just imagine the levels of discomfort we go through. Imagine being a woman with facial hair and it makes you uncomfortable. How are you supposed to do anything like work? And all the stress causes mental health issues. It’s common to see in my community. People get panic attacks and everything.

And when against all odds you do go, and you pay all that somehow, you’ll likely be discriminated. There’s simply not enough training for psychologists here. From where I stand it’s absolutely reasonable that people use diy hrt, financially and emotionally. And you have to set that in perspective to the past, where that was the status quo. 😿

Good question. I’m an adult from the NL and I’d say more than half of the people I know on hrt use diy.

The first step would be overcoming your fear to visit a gp. These are tied to your postalcode and often there isn’t much choice.

Now you have to overcome it again when seeing a psychiatrist, and pay for that because it isn’t fully covered. So you might be paying a lot just to simply be discriminated.

I finally have a supportive gp now, which was a pain to find. The only medical professional I’ve seen that knew what she was talking about was the woman who did my laser treatment.

I’m still waiting.

Thanks for sharing. I’ll be sure to bring it up so perhaps we’ll be able to avoid it as much as possible.

If you have any actionable ideas? As in what to watch out for. Or perhaps any resources related to this topic.

I imagine a lot of people are already in such a situation right now.

Try again

Could someone else do it? It doesn’t work properly in my client.

Hey, can you try again?