Comments on: What Are Your Resolutions?

By: Lauren Nguyen

Lauren Nguyen — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:46:00 +0000

I fully support you on your okonomiyaki quest! I taught myself how to make it last year, it's actually pretty simple! The trick is to get nagaimo to grate into the batter. My boyfriend also lived in Japan teaching English, and okonomiyaki is his favorite food in the world, and he's confirmed that my okonomiyaki tastes like it does in Japan! If I can make it having never been to Japan, I'm sure you can!

By: leslie

leslie — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 04:29:00 +0000

girl. i'm at a similar age/situation--except with clothes--and I won't even go into the worst of it. when you get to a point of utter terror--if that means llterally selling your shit for cash to eat, or an especially vivid nightmare (my mom breaking my kombucha tea-packed fridge. THE HORROR)--your survival instincts will kick in.

we're both gonna be okay. (as well as the other 800 ladies nodding their heads as they read this.) resolve to trust your gut this year!!

By: StellaP

StellaP — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:45:00 +0000

For me, it's resolving to stop buying any products that are tested on animals! But I think we're kind of on the same page, since China REQUIRES companies to test on animals for any cosmetic stuff. Hope it all goes well for you, I think your resolutions a lot tougher!

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By: freudianslippers

freudianslippers — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 13:36:00 +0000

SO SWAG. You'd be surprised how many people will compliment you if you rock those booties. Thumbs up dude!!!

By: Nailed

Nailed — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 05:33:00 +0000

My resolution is to stop one of the nastiest habits I have kept with me since I was five. I remember the exact moment when it started. I was about to start my piano lesson with a woman who literally had not smiled since she was sent to an East European conservatory when she was three. I was already a bit of a stressball because I was supposed to play three pieces from memory that day, and when I looked down at my sheet music just one last time, I was horrified to find that I had forgotten to cut my nails, which now had reached past my fingertips. I knew I'd get at least a verbal assault for that infraction, so I did what any desperate five-year-old would do in such a situation: I started to chew on my fingernails as I had seen some of my peers disgustingly do. I nawed on those suckers until they were down to the quick. This was meant to be just a one time thing, but unfortunately, it became instinctual and impulsive every time I became nervous. I sometimes will be in the middle of a test and suddenly find myself ripping at the tip of my index fingernail (I'm in law school, so you can be rest assured that my nails are in horrific shape). The heinous state of my fingernails has become increasingly embarrassing as I've grown up. I mean, they definitely looked fitting under my angst-ridden black nail polish job in high school, but at 25, it's decidedly less cute to be extending a hand besmirched by ten malformed fingernails, not to mention annoying when you want to hop on the nail art band wagon, but realize that those Sally Hansen strips would cover more acreage on your toenails than on your fingernails... So, ITG crew, I've resolved that 2013 will be the year that I kick this 20 year habit to the curb. As I look down on my fingernails while typing up this comment, I realize I have QUITE a ways to go (See the attached photo as Exhibit A. my right thumbnail), but as the Zombies so adequately put it, this year will be our year, fingernails. Let the growing begin!

By: Kath

Kath — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 04:08:00 +0000

To get my seborrheic dermatitis / dandruff under control. If anyone has any tips PLEASE feel free to share, it is the worst.

By: Another anonymous reader

Another anonymous reader — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 04:04:00 +0000

I have lived long enough at this point to know all about resolutions; to know my way around them, and around and around and around. But here's one this year, different from all the ones of previous years that never stuck: this year, I resolve to stop flirting with younger men. With young men. Because all young men are younger than me. I must stop because I am married, for one (and happily). Because I have children older than most of these men, for two (and my kids would be mortified). And because, oh my gosh, what am I thinking? During an especially witty repartee with any one example of the hundreds of young guys I meet at my job where I am surrounded by them, I invariably get all flustered and blushy and smiley, which is probably not a great look for a woman of my age anyway-- one with poor teeth and crinkles around the eyes. But I also think I must come across as very undignified. So I resolve to be dignified. So there. Consider me dignified this year.

By: Ae Geli

Ae Geli — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 03:23:00 +0000

My mantra for 2013 is "healthy and wealthy beauty"--not to be corny and achiever-y, but it's easier to have a "OM" to snap myself out of makeup and laziness induced stupor. Wealthy: My plan is to minimize makeup purchase by NOT passing by department store aisles, makeup stores etc and thereby NOT trying out items which will most likely tempt me to buy them. If this doesn't work out as well, plan B: sell makeup items I have in multiples (because, I do tend to hoard specially during trips abroad) or I have barely used. Healthy: I have reduced it to two concrete things: 1) drink MORE water and 2) dry body brushing because [I heard] it does wonders for the skin by increasing blood circulation and helps with constipation (but that TMI already).

By: julia

julia — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 02:41:00 +0000

Good posture. That's my beauty resolution of the year. Don't slouch.

By: Mary

Mary — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 02:08:00 +0000

Stop judging and start loving everyone.