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UK. Occasional poet. Mental health blogger. Knitter. Reader. Smoker. Procrastinator.
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judithatwood
June 1, 2012 at 3:23 am
Love from me, glad to see you! Your have stunning eyes, love — and those lashes! I know women who would sell their souls for eyes like yours! You are beautiful, my friend, and you must be beginning to believe it, because I don’t recall any closeups of your face before. This deserves a celebration — I’m going to pull the shade, put on some music, and dance!
halfwaybetweenthegutter
June 1, 2012 at 3:07 pm
Haha, I’m not throwing back your compliment, but it’s a nightmare having long eyelashes! I can’t wear sunglasses without it hurting; I know, first world problem
Thank you so much Judith!
judithatwood
June 1, 2012 at 4:28 pm
I never thought about that — I can see how they’d be a big problem. But they are still lovely, as are your eyes themselves. Try not to let mother’s criticism strike too hard — she is trying to keep you close, because if she doesn’t, she’ll feel abandoned for a little while.
halfwaybetweenthegutter
June 5, 2012 at 2:40 pm
Thank you Judith. I try.
judithatwood
June 5, 2012 at 3:24 pm
thebirdieflies
June 1, 2012 at 6:09 pm
I used to have that problem when I wore specs and I would push them all the way to the top of the bridge of my nose. But I don’t have particularly long lashes (which is why the curved lenses of sunglasses don’t pose a problem at all).
halfwaybetweenthegutter
June 5, 2012 at 3:53 am
I get on much better with expensive sunglasses because the lenses tend to be more curved. I only have cheap ones with almost flat lenses, so that doesn’t help.
Skye
June 1, 2012 at 3:40 am
Lovely!!
halfwaybetweenthegutter
June 1, 2012 at 3:08 pm
Thank you!
thebirdieflies
June 1, 2012 at 8:20 am
Your eyes are really beautiful
I’ve always wondered this for people with nose piercings, so I’ll ask you: Doesn’t it get messy when you have a cold?
The Quiet Borderline
June 1, 2012 at 3:02 pm
Good point! Doesn’t it get in the way!?
halfwaybetweenthegutter
June 1, 2012 at 3:04 pm
It does! It’s a nightmare; I have two nose rings and a septum ring, and the medusa (upper lip) piercing as a habit of, er, leaking when I have a cold. It’s impossible to blow your nose, I haven’t managed it for years!
The Quiet Borderline
June 1, 2012 at 3:20 pm
Oh, sounds really annoying! LOL. wishing you less colds in the future!
thebirdieflies
June 1, 2012 at 6:08 pm
Maaaan! That must suck. Hope you don’t get colds often.
A septum ring! If it’s through the cartilage, OUCH. And I guess nose piercings mean you can’t pinch your nose shut ever, right? Though that’s trivial if you can hold your breath without doing that.
Ohhh lip piercings! More questions: When you brush or rinse your mouth, doesn’t it leak?
halfwaybetweenthegutter
June 5, 2012 at 3:53 am
I get colds all the time
It’s a nightmare! Sometimes I just take them out if it’s particularly bad.
The septum isn’t through the cartilage; that’d hurt like nothing else :/ Some people do get it done through it, but it’s not something most piercers will do. I’ve seen a video of a great big bear-like guy having his septum done through the cartilage and he cried like a baby. I’m not surprised!
I can hold my nostrils shut, because I have rings in. It feels weird though. My lip piercing doesn’t leak, but my upper lip (medusa) does leak sometimes if I’m drinking something hot; the heat loosens the piercing and I end up with tea all down my face. Classy.
thebirdieflies
June 5, 2012 at 5:11 am
Even talking about nose piercings through the cartilage makes me feel pain
Okay, I hadn’t thought of that. How does tea reach your upper lip? Wouldn’t it usually rest in your mouth, behind the teeth and not reach the piercing? :/
Or are you talking about when you have the tip the cup over?
halfwaybetweenthegutter
June 5, 2012 at 1:02 pm
Haha, the idea of going through cartilage in the middle of my face makes me wince!
I have no idea how it reaches it. I always thought I drank normally, but maybe I don’t. It just seems to leak out!
ryoko861
June 1, 2012 at 1:00 pm
Ugh, to eyelashes like yours! Beautiful! Cool pic!
halfwaybetweenthegutter
June 1, 2012 at 3:08 pm
Ha, I’ll repeat what I said above; it’s not all it’s cracked up to be! Thank you <3
Hawkruh
June 1, 2012 at 2:43 pm
I’ve nominated you for the Reader Appreciation Award! http://hawkruh1.wordpress.com/2012/06/01/809/
halfwaybetweenthegutter
June 1, 2012 at 3:05 pm
Thank you! So much
My Ox is a Moron
June 1, 2012 at 8:49 pm
They say eyes are windows to the soul. With such beautiful eyes you must have a beautiful soul.
halfwaybetweenthegutter
June 5, 2012 at 3:54 am
<3
What a lovely thing to say; you've right cheered me up!
thepillarsofherearth
June 1, 2012 at 9:01 pm
I miss my wife’s nose piercing. She had to take it out when she started working. I always thought it complimented her beauty. She is still beautiful without it though. I also understand the problem with long eyelashes. During the times I was deployed to Iraq in the summer, the sweat would always end up on my lashes, and subsequently the interior portion if my Oakley M-Frame lens. Not cool by temperature and reduced visibility.
halfwaybetweenthegutter
June 5, 2012 at 1:51 pm
Oh, I can very much identify with sweat getting in eyelashes; it must have been so frustrating in a situation like that.
anotherbattle
June 2, 2012 at 2:15 am
I like it! I’d love to get another labret. I miss it.
halfwaybetweenthegutter
June 5, 2012 at 2:08 pm
Labrets are lovely piercings, what’s stopping you?
anotherbattle
June 5, 2012 at 4:51 pm
Fear that I could have trouble getting a job because of it. I’m having enough trouble as it is.
halfwaybetweenthegutter
June 5, 2012 at 4:57 pm
Ah yeah… it can make it more difficult. I know if I weren’t on disability, I wouldn’t be able to get away with the piercings I have.
The Girl in Yoga Pants
June 2, 2012 at 3:35 am
You are very beautiful.
halfwaybetweenthegutter
June 5, 2012 at 2:08 pm
Aw, thank you!
lalalemzo
June 2, 2012 at 11:13 am
I’ve only started reading your blog. I’m sixteen, and haven’t met anyone who I’ve been able to identify with before. I found your blog, ( I can’t remember how) but as I started reading, I felt like you were describing me. You really are a beautiful woman. I adore your freckles. (:
halfwaybetweenthegutter
June 5, 2012 at 2:10 pm
Thank you so much; I do admit to being quite proud of my freckles
I hated them as a kid.
Very nice to meet you luv <3
Catherine Burden
June 2, 2012 at 6:52 pm
I noticed your lovely eye lashes before the stud which just made me say ‘ouch’.
NZ Cate
June 3, 2012 at 8:09 am
Hi. CONGRATULATIONS!!! I just nominated you for a Reader Appreciation Award because I love your blog. Check out the rules on my latest post http://infinitesadnessorwhat.wordpress.com/2012/06/03/oops/.
And congrats again because I really do enjoy your blog. Thanks
halfwaybetweenthegutter
June 5, 2012 at 2:40 pm
Thank you very much Cate! I think I can feel an extra-long awards post coming on
greedy soul
June 3, 2012 at 12:00 pm
You’re beautiful.
halfwaybetweenthegutter
June 5, 2012 at 2:41 pm
Thank you <3 I wish I could agree.
magicallymad
June 4, 2012 at 2:21 am
Lovely portrait – I’m a bit late in informing you, but I nominated you for an award a post or two ago, come grab it at Not Quite Lost if you feel like it. Hugs!
halfwaybetweenthegutter
June 5, 2012 at 2:10 pm
Oh, I totally missed that; thank you!
whereimstaying
June 5, 2012 at 9:37 pm
I’ve always seen them dangly, that’s nice looking!
halfwaybetweenthegutter
June 6, 2012 at 11:54 am
Heh, thanks! I do have a ring in it now; I call it my pig ring
I love how they look with bars in though.