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Post by rebeccad on Jul 29, 2018 9:59:05 GMT -8
I wasn't aware that face painting included lead I'm actually just assuming that because paints and colors until very recently mostly had lead and other heavy metals and toxins in them, so most likely they did. As you noted, you still have to watch out for lead in lipstick, so it seems a safe guess! I wonder if the term "tomboy" is even used these days to describe independent women. I recently read the graphic novel memoir Tomboy, by Liz Prince. She was in HS in the mid-90s, so her experience is already a bit outdated, but I actually got the feeling that it was *harder* to be a tomboy (and the word was still used then) than it was when and where I was a kid, if only because we were too naive to bring in the whole question of whether that made you a lesbian. Since I now live in a place where gender roles and assumptions are pretty open, it's hard for me to know. I was laughing with my boys after my haircut, which they thought was kind of "butch," because we realized that in pretty much all respects except sexuality, that epithet described me--and that it was really just another word for "tomboy," if you took the lesbian overtones out of it. Schools mostly don't teach either home ec or shop these days, which is a pity. They need to teach them, since those skills are getting rare in society (and too many kids therefore can't learn them at home, because their parents don't know how). Schools just need to teach them equally to boys and girls. Honestly, don't you think all kids would benefit from a semester learning to cook and sew (or at least mend), and another semester learning to build and repair things? I know I use all those skills, a lot, to save a pile of money. I was lucky enough to avoid "real" jobs that required pantyhose and pointy shoes, which is good because my feet have had issues from the get-go, and I never could keep those dress shoes on my feet anyway. Of course, in avoiding those jobs, I also avoided those salaries. Opportunities for women, and openness to individual taste in dress, have definitely improved, but we still have a long way to go.
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Post by autumnmist on Jul 29, 2018 13:46:06 GMT -8
If its any consolation, the "real" jobs I had that required professional dress didn't pay that well. In some situations, the clerical help or the unionized help made as much as I did. The legal field didn't pay that well other than at the attorney level.
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Post by rebeccad on Jul 29, 2018 16:30:43 GMT -8
autumnmist It's probably a bit telling about me that my longest-running full-time job... was as a bike messenger. (Well, there was the parent thing, but the pay for that really sucked. Benefits were pretty good, though :D).
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Post by gcvrsa on Aug 5, 2018 16:28:23 GMT -8
After moving to Vermont, I ended up living in a cabin with no plumbing and no electricity for a year. Every ounce of water had to be collected from a nearby spring, carried into the cabin, and every ounce of wastewater carried out. So, there were times when I didn't wash my hair for a week or so, even though I usually kept about 30 gallons of water in jerry cans. I wasn't in a completely isolated area, so bathing outdoors wasn't something I wanted to do. That meant getting comfortable with sponge bathing in/over a large galvanised tub, using only as much hot water as I could fit in a Nalgene 1.5 L Silo. (1 part boiling to 2 parts room temp water makes a nice temp). The hot water mainly was used to wet, wash, and rinse my hair. I used Dr. Bronner's, and then gave it a dilute lemon juice rinse to seal the cuticle. I follow the same procedure when I can on the trail (I carry a bottle of True Lemon powder in my food kit).
When my hair got a little greasy, if I didn't feel like washing it, I would wrap it in a triangular muslin scarf, like a peasant girl.
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Post by gcvrsa on Aug 5, 2018 16:39:00 GMT -8
The second time I ended up homeless, I finally wised up and got a 7 gallon Reliance Aqua-tainer, to which I fitted a 45 deg hose shutoff. I can find a secluded spot, prop that on top of my pickup, stand on a dish drainboard to keep out of the mud, and it takes about 2.5 gallons of water for me to fully wash, including washing and conditioning my shoulder-length hair. Nothing beats being naked, wet, and clean in Nature. :D
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Post by rebeccad on Aug 5, 2018 19:24:21 GMT -8
stand on a dish drainboard to keep out of the mud, When we bathe while car-camping, we stand in what I believe to be a plastic litter box (as in for cats). It's bigger than a dishpan, in fact about the same size as the drainboard, but holds the water so we don't make a muddy mess where we bathe. We used the same pan on our recent trip with my in-laws' Eurovan, but with the sprayer hose on the back of the van. You can get a very satisfying bath that way, though it was hard to wash my long hair like that--the new short cut is WAY easier.
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Post by gcvrsa on Aug 5, 2018 19:29:52 GMT -8
If I didn't look terrible with short hair, I'd cut it down to a short pixie cut. I like convertibles and motorcycles.
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Post by hikerchick395 on Aug 6, 2018 8:50:21 GMT -8
Wow rebeccad ! Your haircut is an extreme change! But I'll bet that your head seems pounds lighter...
I have done an extreme cut a few times, but I've learned that it didn't work with my super straight and fine hair. (Had a "Dorothy Hammill" haircut in the late '70s) It looked chopped and didn't cooperate.
I still manage to have a tiny braid for my "trail hair." And a hat is mandatory at this point. But with the raging hormones, hot flashes really have my hair turn into a slimy mess...sometimes overnight. I haven't backpacked, unfortunately, for a few years, but when we did I carried a solar shower. Amazing how a tiny warm shower helps out...
riversong I love the idea of a sprinkle cap for a water bottle and warming water for a mini-mini shower
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Post by rebeccad on Aug 6, 2018 10:08:56 GMT -8
Had a "Dorothy Hammill" haircut in the late '70s) It looked chopped and didn't cooperate. I had a mushroom cut about that same time. Maybe the same thing. My hair was, and to a large degree still is, thick, so it poofs a bit. That awful cut in about 1973 or 4 was why my hair stayed long for 45 years!
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Post by Piper on Aug 6, 2018 12:15:40 GMT -8
We just got back from a 19 day trip to Wyoming & Montana. I too have long, straight hair and after several lengthy, showerless trips this is my routine: A. Get hair WET as often as possible, whether using creeks, rivers, or campground water. (I don't use shampoo) B. New to this trip, Aldi's makes a collapsible tub that let's you scoop up cold creek water and let it sit in the sun to warm. Easy to dip head in little part by little part as well C. No combing/brushing, I just run my fingers through and put it up in a bun every day. Honestly, on day three it looks a little mangy, but after that it shapes up and looks much better.
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Post by mk on Aug 6, 2018 15:51:23 GMT -8
You are brave, brave women -- willing to put your head in ice-cold creeks. I can barely stand to have my feet in that water!
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Post by rebeccad on Aug 6, 2018 18:44:35 GMT -8
You are brave, brave women -- willing to put your head in ice-cold creeks. I can barely stand to have my feet in that water! It gets easier with practice.
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Post by mk on Aug 7, 2018 5:27:14 GMT -8
It gets easier with practice. Haha. I'm not sure I have enough time in my life left to get enough practice in ... I spent a lot of younger years swimming in lakes, and now I've acclimated to where the pool(!) has to be 85 degrees and the air temp needs to be minimum of 90. I seem to be going in the other direction ...
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Post by bobcat on Oct 31, 2019 21:10:36 GMT -8
Backpacking or wilderness canoeing are the only times I am glad to have baby-fine and thin hair. I have to wear it short anyway, so a pixie cut works fine for me. I can scoop up a handful or two of creek water and soak it all. I wash it with a little campsuds every three days, towel dry and finger-comb it and it’s dry in ten minutes. Comb it and put a hat on in the morning. For workday I do use a bit of styling and hairspray to keep its shape.
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Post by bobcat on Oct 31, 2019 21:19:23 GMT -8
Oh, and I carry an extra cap for my water reservoir, that turns it into a shower. I have also found a small plastic bucket is a useful thing in a lot of ways: wash basin for sponge bath, wash basin for laundry,bucket to filter water from, punch bowl for a party, etc. and
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