🥲 I miss the olden days when local Facebook beauty groups (NZ had some great ones back in the day when we couldn’t get our hands on the hyped stuff you would see on YouTube, makeup alley, and beauty blogs) were good and I could look up cool outfits on lookbook.nu

Reddit is really my go to place for this sort of stuff now days and I feel like there is a void online for this sort of stuff atm (or else I’m just not in the know of where to go online anymore)

As someone who was a scene kid back in the day, I agree.

OP could also try a liquid liner for the wings, but with hooded eyes it can end up being such a chore. I wore massive Amy Winehouse size liquid liner wings back in the day but idek know if I own any liquid liner anymore cause it’s so hard to get it right with hooded eyes.

I reckon things that made the biggest difference to me that I’ve learnt over the years is to apply eyeshadow and eyeliner with your eyes open looking straight on. It helps so much with getting the shape right. You don’t have to have the eye open the whole time of course haha but when it comes to blending the edges that helps. There will be some good hooded eyes tutorials on YouTube like others have mentioned. Also the stuff u/mattcub86 said. Eye primer makes such a difference. An affordable option i used atm is the wet n wild one :)

It varies massively depending on the condition. I have multiple conditions and am currently having some symptoms investigated by a different specialty than others I have been under the care of/been diagnosed by specialists with.

Most of my chronic conditions are managed through my GP atm. Some things I feel are managed well enough by my GP that I feel I don’t need to see a specialist about yet (eg migraine/neurology) but might have to get a referral for if things get worse (was close to this when my migraine was teetering on qualifying for chronic migraine last year)

In rheumatology i had to repeat that I was having ongoing symptoms to my specialist before they did more investigating and diagnosed me with another condition on top of the autoimmune disease I was primarily seeing them for, and I felt they routinely brought up the fact I have anxiety on my chart (my anxiety is treated by medication and wasn’t an issue whenever the specialist would bring it up, as if to try discredit my symptoms lol but this is an extremely common experience so)

As I mentioned, now I’m currently being seen by a new specialist department at the hospital and it took 13 months from my GP making a referral, and it’s been a month since I gave a sample for a test at the lab for something the specialist has implied they are wanting to do testing to see if I have a tumour which a possible next step is imaging and well… from my understanding there are massive staffing issues with imaging.

Most of my chronic illness stuff I’ve mostly self educated about. My GP has been helpful. The pain clinic was a joke lol. Specialists can be good but many can be like mechanics and… leaving something to be desired in bedside manner. In my experience nurse practitioners and specialist nurses are amazing and do so much heavy lifting re patient experience and education. They also now days are doing a bunch of appointments for routine things to give space for the thorny tricky stuff for the specialist doctors, which I’m not mad at cause their bedside manner is often better and because they tend to have more time with patients they’ve learned a whole bunch of tips from other patients to pass on.

Idk. It sucks. It’s definitely under funded. Tests and imaging can be a nightmare. Advocating for yourself is crucial, as well as having a GP on your side who advocates for you. But often the healthcare professionals are doing their best in a system that leaves them burnt out and always on the back foot too

Maybe if we start making enough noise now complaining about it we can get the devs to lower the item cost 😂

I reckon azelaic acid is underrated for this kind of thing. I noticed a great improvement in skin texture from using 20% azelaic acid (azclear)

I have some of the generic ones and definitely think they are useful but don’t set your hopes too high - depending on the flare and location of the finger issue (PsA is notable for inflammation being on in distal part of the finger aka the closest one to the finger tip and most of these gloves are fingerless).

I reckon worth trying as they can provide some relief so worth seeing how they work for you

This is incredible! So many details !!

The thing with PsA is it doesn’t seem to like to play by rules lol. At the start when mine was raging the most and I had warm swollen joints, could hardly walk, and could hardly stay awake from the fatigue, my CRP was <3 and my ESR was normal. In the multiple years I’ve had the condition now all my bloods come back normal and I think the highest CRP I’ve had is like, 5.

However I don’t think just because some of us don’t get anything showing on our bloods doesn’t mean PsA never shows on bloods.

What are you on for your PsA? If you’re having disease activity symptoms it’s defs worth talking to the rheumatologist about. I also have Fibro too so I know sometimes it can be confusing figuring out which one it is when the pain is going 🙃 but also, research suggests Fibro is autoimmune too.

Holy smokes these are beautiful

Literally me ! Stops me interrupting people too lmao

I hope you get remission soon with the help of the biologics! I’ve been lucky enough to have something like remission for most of the time for the last year. Had a couple months with a flare that kicked my knee tendons up again after I got the Boostrix vaccine recently (no regrets tho there is a whooping cough epidemic in my country atm and my brother just had his first child and he’s an antivaxer lol I’d happily go through it again if it means reducing the chance of me giving or catching whooping cough I’m not strong enough to mentally handle either of those scenarios).

I’m still amazed I can just walk down to the shops again after years of pain and my life becoming smaller cause of how the pain and fatigue limits you. It’s important to keep up the hope that each day is a chance of things getting better cause this disease can be very trying.

I hope you can find some things to help in the mean time! You can also get rubber pen/pencil grips, and I know someone with RA who just MacGuyvers ergo grips on all kinds of stuff by wrapping K Tape around things haha

Great time to buy low lol

Funnily I found I was able to sleep so much easier/better when I started meds and when I take them consistently/don’t miss days. Without meds I don’t get tired til like 3am and find it really hard to get to sleep and my brain is like brrr brrr brr bang boom zoom!! Until I pass out from exhaustion. With meds I can get to sleep at 11pm cause I get sleepy and my brain is less loud.

I’m the kind of person who can function on 5 hours of sleep though so..

I find joint compression stuff helps. Because PsA has a tendency for the affected joints to change regularly I have a stash for like every joint haha (compression gloves, compression socks, knee sleeves, ankle wraps, elbow sleeves, I even found one one day that goes on the lower torso/hip area in the hopes it will help when my SI joint plays up).

In terms of if your hands play up a lot and you have a computer job - I also really like the 3M ergonomic mouse - unfortunately it’s somewhat $$, I was lucky that I was able to nab one for cheap on a local facebook community page haha

I know not about kids but I’ve had workmates openly hit the vape on teams meetings when working from home and idk how to feel about it 😂

Please no slander against my BF

I’m waiting for them to finally come out with 10N… I swatched 13W and 13C at my local store (I don’t think they had 13N) and I was like 😭 they were so dark on me. From what I’ve seen online I’m guessing 10C will be much to rosy for me especially cause 13C looked like neon pink (but also still too dark by heaps) on me haha

Finally!!! I hope the prices aren’t equal to USD conversion cause the conversion is brutal AF for us here Hahahah

Waking up with dry eyes and then blinking hoping it will make it feel better but it just makes it worse 😂 AHHHHHH! I once went to ophthalmology to get a schirmer’s test for suspected sjogrens cause I get issues with dry mouth/throat too but they said “yeah you have extremely dry eyes but not dry enough for sjogrens diagnosis (by the time I had the appointment the worst of that particular dry eyes flare had passed cause of course it had) and they just said “🤷 do hot compresses and use preservative free eye drops”. What I’ve gathered from people on the sjogrens reddit is many who get diagnosed take years talking to the drs about the symptoms and often only get diagnosed once they get a lip biopsy once the drs finally agree to do the test. I wish I was better at remembering to use eye drops in the day but I haven’t been able to get the habit to stick yet, I find it easier to remember to use eye ointments before bed though which helps!

The damn dry eye!!!! The pain. Luckily I think I’m out of my most recent dry eye flare so I currently have a less painful level of eye dryness, for now 🥲

I lost a bunch of weight from doing a calorie deficit for a couple months and only eating mostly just meat, veges, fruit. I felt great from the higher nutritional density foods etc and i defs felt some arthritis related stuff on my feet better from less pressure, but then i got a Boostrix vaccine cause my brother was having his first kid and I didn’t wanna risk getting me or the baby sick with the hooping cough epidemic atm and BAM the few months of no PsA symptoms were gone within a few days and i had tendon flares consistently for two months straight after. Having better nutrition is always gonna make you feel better but im not sure i could be convinced it makes a massive difference to PsA for everyone. Pain in the ass (and ankle, knee, wrist, elbow, fingers) disease!

If you’re regularly using ibuprofen then defs a good idea to give it a go as it’s much easier on the tummy and long term (longer than 10 days) use of ibuprofen is risky

I used to think people being serious about office ergonomics were lame and now I’m the one always bugging people about making sure their setup is ergonomic 😂

I love knowing how to take plain text to layout and typesetting to print set up and construction of a final real book you can hold in your hands and read. Books and print are the whole reason I started to consider becoming a designer in the first place and I can just… make a thing real if I want.

I hate…. How easy it is to doubt yourself and feel ashamed/embarrassed of your work, compare yourself to others etc. although that drive is what keeps us looking to improve! But it sucks to feel that way about yourself so easy in this work

I’m not crying you’re crying