My freshman year of college, I switched from glasses to contacts during winter break. A guy in my dorm who I was kind of friendly with didn't recognize me.
Zoe: Planet's coming up a mite fast. Wash: That's just cause, I'm going down too quick. Likely crash and kill us all. Mal: Well, that happens, let me know.
'Shindig'
F2F 4: Too Much Candy, Never Enough Mojitos.
Plan what to do, what to wear (you can never go wrong with a corset), and get ready for the next BuffistaCon: Madison, WI from June 20-22 2008! Official website.
Hil R. - Jul 01, 2008 7:41:43 am PDT #9705 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
JZ - Jul 01, 2008 7:51:58 am PDT #9706 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
JZ found it much more disturbing the last time I changed glasses. That created an uncannny valley effect.
Actually, the last time but one. The current glasses are great. It was the in-between glasses that freaked me out: the spare pair with the big lenses and clunky frame that you had to use when your old cool glasses broke but before we could afford to get you the new cool glasses.
Those in-between glasses? Of the devil.
Facial hair, meh. And, anyhow, you'd trimmed the goatee down to a mere suggestion of a goatee, a faint whisper on your chin vaguely reminiscent of a goatee, many weeks earlier. The actual removal was not so drastic after all that.
Teppy brunette? Adorable. I know you didn't feel like you, but you rocked the look nevertheless.
DavidS - Jul 01, 2008 7:55:55 am PDT #9707 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Best comment I got after shaving: "You look okay. It's not like you have a turtle chin."
Tom Scola - Jul 01, 2008 7:57:00 am PDT #9708 of 10002
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
bon-bon-without-glasses is similarly disconcerting.
DavidS - Jul 01, 2008 8:00:17 am PDT #9709 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
bon-bon-without-glasses is similarly disconcerting.
Yeah, but bon has the advantage of being superpretty.
So your disconcerting options are Superpretty With Glasses and Superpretty Barefaced.
Whereas I am apparently either Hairy Faced Like Is Right And Proper or Not A Turtle Chin.
Steph L. - Jul 01, 2008 8:04:44 am PDT #9710 of 10002
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Hairy Faced Like Is Right And Proper
I was thinking Attractive And Sexy (Like Is Right And Proper).
JZ - Jul 01, 2008 8:05:48 am PDT #9711 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Whereas I am apparently either Hairy Faced Like Is Right And Proper or Not A Turtle Chin Cute and Boyish.
There, fixed it for you.
SailAweigh - Jul 01, 2008 8:49:32 am PDT #9712 of 10002
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Cute and Boyish
I endorse this style. Besides, the other way Hec was starting to bear a getting-much-too-close-to resemblance of Colonel Sanders. Who was far from cute and boyish, much less sexy.
DavidS - Jul 01, 2008 8:52:49 am PDT #9713 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Besides, the other way Hec was starting to bear a getting-much-too-close-to resemblance of Colonel Sanders.
That was the other factor. When I first grew the goatee it was darker and added some contrast to my pale features. As it got white, it made me feel too grampa-ish.
Toddson - Jul 01, 2008 8:53:46 am PDT #9714 of 10002
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
hm ... David with a dark goatee ...