Is this the most amazing thing ever? Or not?

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...high-heeled shoes that easily transform from wobbly 3.25-inch stilettos to practical pumps with 1.5-inch heels

Is this the most amazing thing ever? Or not?

I think they look kind of ugly in the low-heel mode.

I seem to have no grey hair. That would show up like thin patches in my stubble, I guess. I haven't had the energy to bleach it again since my cutting snafu a few months ago.

The guy that collapsed yesterday was 62 years old. He immediately made me feel very protective of my parents, who are both a fair bit older. But they are in much better shape than he is. I'm so not prepared to deal with when they're not, but I figure I'm incredibly lucky that I have a mother that complains she does the aging for all the family and still looks good for 68. My dad's just a freak.

But I'm old too, dammit. I just hope not to be collapsing in the street.

They pretty much predicted that with Jennifer Aniston's "Do Me Pump" spoof ad on The Edge back in the early 90s.

I think the "scandal" is ridiculous. I think it's partly media-manufactured, and partly mass hypocrisy - how many people let their 15 year olds, or their 12 year olds, wear makeup?

I got my period when I was 10. My mom took me to the drugstore andlet me pick out a blush and a mascara, which I thought was AWESOME. It made me feel a little bit better, anyway.

Weirdly Allyson, me too. Like, the whole story and the age and everything. And I pretty much have been wearing make-up daily, without fail, since I was in 7th grade.

I got my period when I was 16. Which meant my mother could cancel the appointment with the developmental whatever doctor. She sure wasn't keen on my evincing much sexuality up until that point.

Those shoes look potentially neat, but there's now way I'd shell out $200+¹ for a pair of shoes without getting a clearer view of the low-heeled configuration. Every single shot is similarly obscured. And the shoe I liked the most in the video doesn't seem to be for sale anyway.

¹:To be fair, I'm not spending that much on shoes, period. Not even two pairs in one.

Me three! Ten and a half. And while I didn't get to wear makeup then, I have been since 7th grade, too.

How many people read fashion magazines, where many of the models are 15 and most of them got their start by 15 even if they are 19 now?

This is totally what I was going to say. It's just because until now, Miley has had a little-girl image -- it's not that we (as a culture) don't totally sexualize 15 year olds to sell product all the freaking time.

I spent most of the morning on a semi-work-related interesting project. I guess I need to dive back into my email box now.

I think my main problem with the Miley Cyrus thing is that it sounds very like all the adults around her are making their opinions known, making it sound like she doesn't have a voice of her own. I have to say, I wish I'd had enough confidence in my body at fifteen to take semi nude shots.

I've never worn makeup though, weirdly.