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The Sinatra

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Embracing the Gray: How One Woman Found the Perfect Balance with Gray Blending - Now on Blogger

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The following is a post about gray blending developed though ChatGPT. There’s a reason I used ChatGPT for this post. Aesthetically, getting older has been a challenge. Some people look great with gray hair.   I would have kept the gray but, being a brunette, it was a gray that drained my coloring. A dull, difficult-to-work-with, unruly gray. When it was clear that I was no longer able to cover my grays with single-process coloring, at around 90% gray, I finally discovered gray blending though a hair stylist. It didn’t present itself to me as a solution naturally, it took me a while to find it. It took me a while to give up single-process coloring, a solution that worked as part of my adult life for a long time. It took me a while to grow out most of the remaining color. Getting the hair stripped of all color was a marathon of sitting in a salon chair. Not really my bag. Learning through ChatGPT, it seems that the gray blending option developed as a hair coloring technique over ...

Thrifting for Clothes: Guidance from A Part-Time Reseller - Now on Blogger!

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Thrifting is a great way to become more familiar with the clothing brands you buy and the new and unusual. You can get to know new brands that you don’t usually wear or can’t normally afford.   However, there’s a big random factor to what you can find. Here’s a look at the Wild West that is thrifting that can help you find what you are looking for when you shop. This is a guideline for thrifting secondhand, not vintage, though if you run into vintage items while thrifting, that’s great too.   Thrifting is the best of all possible worlds.   You are getting a gently used item that will have a second life, someone got to get rid of an item they didn’t want while receiving a tax-deductible donation or they received money for the resale of the item.   The thrift store gets money for its causes.   Everybody wins, especially the environment, when a clothing item doesn’t end up as landfill. There are many popular brands in thrift stores. You can easily learn about t...

Spring 2025

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Speedy but Mindful Self-Care - Now on Blogger!

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Speedy (But Mindful) Self-Care To Easily Add To Any Routine Self-care is in the spotlight these days as a great way to glow-up, boost mental health and gain confidence and clarity. As we have seen online, self-care regimes have become more and more elaborate and unattainable. But you can easily incorporate small improvements into your daily life without busting your schedule. What’s more, using the Japanese concept of kaizen, making small and incremental consistent and continuous improvements, can help you achieve your self-care goals in an efficient manner. Adding mindfulness to these small rituals helps to implement them successfully, such as making a dedicated self-care area, so you can grab and go. Here’s some speedy self-care tips that won’t waste your time while enhancing your everyday life. The shower is key to speedy self-care. Start thinking of using your shower in creative ways to enhance yourself.  Perhaps you have heard of Dry Brushing for Lymphatic Drainage. ...

Ten Reasons It’s Good To Blog… Without Monetization - Now on Blogger!

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Blogging or Micro-Blogging Can Add More Value To Your Strategy Than You Think Everyone wants to know, why maintain a long-term online blog, following blog guidelines, of course, without monetization? The blog is a carved-out niche, a placeholder. Other online platforms can change ownership, change terms and become unstable or unpalatable. You’ll have your blog if you wish to leave other platforms. It’s your landing page.   You can use it as a mini website, with the ability to jump to other platforms, providing links. The blog is a place where aspects of your work or personality can be discovered. For example, it can demonstrate consistency over a long period of time in an inconsistent world. It’s a shortcut to getting to know who you are, as you wish.   Blogging serves as information sharing.   You are sharing and adding information making the blog of value. Information sharing lets others know what you value and that you value the exchange of information. Your ab...