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ieva ; 23yo ; your skincare nerd friend ; biochem BSc & pharmaceutical tech MSc. former intern cosmetic formulator. send me your skincare questions! [ link directory ]

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hell yeah my first science paper got accepted to an MDPI journal woooo ♡‧₊˚‎₍ᐢᐢ₎⋆。°✩‎ ironically it's a review on acne treatments using probiotics and i'm no longer in the field whatsoever and my acne is worse than ever but wooooooo

will defo share once it's published!

@sewpahdewpah and anyone else who might wanna read my paper,,,, it is out! you can access it in full here

new batch of adoptables: festive halflings!

message me to claim your favourite <3

candle glow has been claimed ! other two still available

first batch of dnd themed adopts: oops all tieflings!

message me to claim your favourite <3

battle baker is sold! other two still available

if you're from europe and haven't done so yet, please please please sign the petition for unconditional basic income!

it needs 1 million signatures by the 25th june, as well as reach a certain threshold in at least seven countries which it only has in three, and it's also still missing so many signatures to reach 1 million and time is running out)

please just do it, it's free, it should be safe cause it's quite literally an official EU site, and literally all you need to do is put your name and address on there (not visible to the public, but they will check if the signatures are legit so please don't fake any signatures, that'll just make it look like the goal was reached when it wasn't)

please just do this, time is running out for this initiative. if there's any reason you haven't signed it yet and won't do it, tell me the reason, maybe i can debunk it

here's the link to the petition: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/014/public/#/screen/home

Objectives Our aim is to establish the introduction of unconditional basic incomes throughout the EU which ensure every person’s material existence and opportunity to participate in society as part of its economic policy. This aim shall be reached while remaining within the competences conferred to the EU by the Treaties. We request the EU Commission to make a proposal for unconditional basic incomes throughout the EU, which reduce regional disparities in order to strengthen the economic, social and territorial cohesion in the EU. This shall realize the aim of the joint statement by the European Council, the European Parliament and the European Commission, stated in 2017, that “the EU and its member states will also support efficient, sustainable and equitable social protection systems to guarantee basic income” in order to combat inequality.

Webpage of the initiative in the European Commission's register

For the love of all you hold dear, sign this if you can. It’s literally five minutes of work and you’re voting for yourself to get more money and financial security. Please get whatever amount of spoons is required for you to do sign this and sign it. You can do this. I believe in you.

[addition added June 19th, 2022]

if you’re from europe and haven’t done so yet, please please please sign the petition for unconditional basic income!

it needs 1 million signatures by the 25th june, as well as reach a certain threshold in at least seven countries which it only has in three, and it’s also still missing so many signatures to reach 1 million and time is running out)

please just do it, it’s free, it should be safe cause it’s quite literally an official EU site, and literally all you need to do is put your name and address on there (not visible to the public, but they will check if the signatures are legit so please don’t fake any signatures, that’ll just make it look like the goal was reached when it wasn’t)

please just do this, time is running out for this initiative. if there’s any reason you haven’t signed it yet and won’t do it, tell me the reason, maybe i can debunk it

here’s the link to the petition: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/014/public/#/screen/home

Maybe you can help spread the word among Swedes??

hii i made this meet the artist kinda thing for my brand new art twt!! please give me a follow there, i'll probably be out of a job by october so i plan to open art commissions by the end of the summer & until then every bit of exposure counts 💗

you are cordially invited to take my new uquiz: come to my tea party & i’ll give you a gift! 💌 💐

attend a faerie tea party, choose the setting, the outfits, the music, the drinks & what you will be doing in the company of these strange folks — and perhaps the token you’ll take home will tell you something you need to hear.

a new missive has arrived for you — come to my masquerade & i’ll give you something you need! 💌🎭

attend a faerie masquerade, choose the decor, the costumes and mask, the drinks, the dance partners & what you will uncover about their secrets — and perhaps i’ll offer you a gift that will help your journey onwards.

if you follow me for a while, you're probably aware of how i've had to grapple with being a cosmetic scientist w/o reinforcing the toxic beauty standards of the dominant culture; i've grown more and more jaded with the industry over the years, but that's not the point.

the point is, please watch PhilosophyTube's new video: food, beauty, mind, for a wonderful analysis of this conundrum. if you've ever questioned yourself on whether your interest in skincare, exercise, makeup, fashion, etc. is borne from genuine interest or from the unavoidable dopamine hit of conforming to expectations, and whether you can still allow yourself that enjoyment while acknowledging the latter's role in it, this video is for you.

the thing about making fun of people for aging or being older than you or disparaging growing older instead of seeing it as a normal part of life and valuing age and experience for what it is.... is that literally all you're doing is shooting yourself in the foot by setting yourself up for a lot of anxiety and sadness in the future because guess what. guess. Time comes for all

wrinkles are beautiful you guys are just falling for capitalist industry propaganda

it’s so funny to me that there are like SO many posts criticizing the make up industry and skin care (and rightfully so) but there is comparatively less talk about criticizing the shaving industry

and like how insidious it is to ask women to waste time, daily if you’re particularly hairy, with a fucking razor trying to look prepubescent. and like what an undue burden that is.

and there’s like… next to no posts about beyond the vaguely (or less vaguely) implication of pedophilia around this, SO mcuh of this serves other forms of opprssion besides misogyny. how being perfectly hairless is part of the hyperfemininity expected of trans women, fat women, and women of color. and to fail to shave is to fail to pass and meet whites supremacist standards of “real” womahood (or girlhood, I guess, since we’re all about de-aging the body by doing this).

we don’t talk about how shaving is an ableist expectation, not figuring into it how shaving can be difficult if not impossible to do with various disabilities. and how if you’re lacking spoons, shaving is a fucking terrible thing to spend them on. or how some people shouldn’t have fucking razors in their house.

and how this obsesssion with body hair extends its tendrils out to demonize ANY hair on women so that intersex women or women with other conditions that lead to increased arm or facial hair are like… doubling “failing” being women.

so like… i love making silly lil posts about loving bushy genital hair or showing off leg hair.

but i also think the expectation of no body hair rly extends out beyond just like… a symbol of some abstract feminist struggle. it’s obviously not like an issue that is high priority but i do think it is a point of intersection in a lot of forms of gendered oppression.

or just struggles in general. like…

why should women spend time and money on this when it’s so much better spent on surviving

finallyyyy finished this utter madness i've been embroiled with all week ⚔️ an animatic for my d&d party based on recent events and like. i didn't know if i could even get it past sketching stage, but turns out i am capable of a lot more than i think! & i actually learned so much in the process ❣️ anyway please give it a watch and a like maybe!

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