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Foxy Edition
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How I Quit the Bottle (the Hair Dye Bottle)
There’s been a recent barrage of going gray and loving it articles. I have many thoughts on the subject. One, is that these articles often mention how much money the author saves now that they stop coloring their hair. I’ve only had my hair professionally colored i.e. bleached, twice in my entire life because I thought maybe a professional would damage is less and get better results than when I would do it myself like four times in two days and still have apricot-hued strips. My hair did not become perfect platinum in one go even when I forwent d.i.y. and paid a good deal of money. My question is do average women really spend $200+ every six weeks to get their hair colored?
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Grombre Edition
Gray hair is still taboo for women. This popular Instagram account celebrates it.
“Am I going to lock myself into believing that my value has peaked in my early 20s and then the rest of my life is me trying to maintain this facade that doesn’t describe who I am and the life that I’m living?”
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Poison’s Rainbow
Bread Line by Reginald Marsh When: Thursday, 8:53pm
Poison’s Rainbow was the first bar where I witnessed a previously un-seen Portland phenomena that smart people complain about: lining up at the bar. Instead of crowding around the bar and trying to get the bartender’s attention, customers will create a single-file line, which I guess is civil but also inexplicably irritating, not to mention slow and tortuous.
Age appropriate? No. Old people shouldn’t have to line up like it’s the depression era to order and pay for a whisky sour.
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Chilling
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Dressing Older Is About Wealth
Dressing Older Is About Wealth
When 28-year-old me imagined reaching Eileen Fisher status, I was actually imagining that I would have achieved the milestones that are supposed to come with late middle age: a house, retirement savings, vacation time.
I’m not sure I even knew who Eileen Fisher was in 2000.
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Pause | Mary Ruefle | Granta Magazine
Pause | Mary Ruefle | Granta Magazine
…you have discovered that being invisible is the biggest secret on earth, the most wondrous gift anyone could ever have given you.
Nope, still not liking this sentiment.
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Andie MacDowell, Still Worth It
Andie MacDowell, Still Worth It
The critical praise, some of it backhanded — Andie MacDowell can act! — reminded the actress of the year she turned 40, and colleagues asked her, as she recalled recently, how it felt to have hit an age when she’d never work again.
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Venture Inn
When: Thursday, 8:15pm
Technically, the closest bar to my new house. I have been hesitant to visit because strip mall bars make me nervous, and East Portland bars where you can’t see inside make me even more nervous. If you’re drunk enough, none of this matters, though.
I was good when I saw the bartender, late-middle-aged, in a cropped tank top. The clientele was a mix of ages and races, also a good sign. A group was sitting at a round table and singing that Was (Not Was) dinosaur song, “Boom boom acka-lacka lacka boom,” for no reason in particular, which I couldn’t see any millennials doing even ironically.
Age appropriate? No question. A gentleman asked the year I was born for Chinese zodiac purposes, and as I often do, bet him that I was older than he was. I was not. So you know, 2020 is the year of the rat, my year, and I will not be stopped.