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Q: how do i know if a hair product has alcohol in it

You read the ingredients on the bottle.

Q: what is hair breakage?

how do i detangle my hair besides using a wide tooth comb

Hair breakage is hair breakage. When the ends of your hair break and create split ends. Don't use brush on wet hair, or your hair will break.

You're on the right track, a wide tooth comb is the best for your hair, but if it isn't getting all the tangles, buy something called "Infusium 23", it's sold nearly everywhere. Buy the spray, spray it on your wet hair, and then detangle with the comb.

Q: I know its bad to take diet pills, but which ones really do work?

None of them work, honestly. They'll only work if you stop eating alltogether and work out constantly.

They make you dizzy, shakey, and sick to your stomach, not worth it. If you're not taking your health into consideration, Slimfast shakes work, but the weight comes back quickly.

Q: The kid I like is a horny, horny boy. And who can blame him? He hit puberty. He probably just wants action.
But my idea is that if I gave him a blowjob, he'd like it. If i told him that I'd keep doing it if he asked me out, we'd be together.

What does everyone think of this plan?

-Jordan

Personally I think it's the lamest plan i've ever heard in my whole 15 and a half years of living. Yeah, he'll say yes and you'll be together. Only because he wants the blowjobs. He won't think of you as anything else except for a boner provider. Not only that but you wouldn't even be together for very long because he'd find some other slut and get sick of you.

Let him ask you out. Minus the blowjob. Add that in after a little while if you really insist. If he doesn't like you for who you are (sounds cliche, but whatever) he is't worth it.

Q: Ever since my fiancee and I have been having sex without a condom, I've noticed a change in the way I smell down there. I use daily feminine wash and I've douched. What else can I do?

Using a douche is bad for your "area". Like the other person said, it gets rid of the neccessary bacterias that help keep your vagina clean and protected. No gynocologists reccomend it.

I would probably see your gyno about the smell, they can suggest or prescribe some sort of a product or give you cleaning tips.

Q: HOW THE HELL DO YOU MAKE THIS STUFF TASTE GOOD?!?!?

And of course any recipe you provide...should have low fat and calorie content....

thank ye

P.S. Its chocolate flavored

Chocolate whey Protein
1/2 cup of raspberries
1/2 frozen banana

The vanilla flavored is much better and more versatile than the chocolate, though.

Q: think of your DREAM house.
and tell me something about it.
something special.
dont tell me "it has a living room"
tell me something different about it.
like how the hall, is a hall of mirrors.
or how the fifth floor is a paintball range or something.
or even somthing about the outside.
how all the windows are shaped like bongs.
or your secret garden right before the bar on the beach.
:)
things like that.
thankk yoouuu

There is a little door/cabinet under the staircase, when you walk inside there's a string to pull that turns on the light. Inside is tons of soft pillows and blankets for me to jump in and roll around and sleep in.

Also, the backyard is full of garden gnomes. Actually, the backyard isn't a backyard, it is a gnome community.

Q: I love to wear t-shirts like the baggy ones but not too baggy and also not the tight ones. Is there a good place to get cute ones? like cute colors, such as pink, green, light blue and those kinda colors?

American Apparel specialized in what you're looking for. They carry all cuts of t-shirts, colors, etc.

http://www.americanapparel.net/

Q: i have not smoked pot scine december 28th. from now till january 20, if i just drink lots of water and nothing else. will it be out of my system?

It may or may not since it hasn't been a complete 31 days. Drink plenty of water and green tea to flush your system of the drug. Also, working out and sweating helps the impurities come out of your body. Good luck.

Q: 20/f

i was talking to this really sweet guy and hes like

"im glad i could make you laugh"
"it makes my day"

and i said
"how does that make your day"

and hes like

"because i enjoy makin ppl laugh....and you :-D ;-)"

what did he mean by that, "and you" ?

He's obviously trying to drop the hint that he's interested in you.

He enjoys making people laugh, and he enjoys you especially.

Q: if i got tested for mono and it came bck negative could i still have lupus???

Yes. You were tested for mono, not lupus.

Q: can anyone please teach me how to cut bangs like this?

and also, send me an opinion about having this bangs with a squarish/circlish face. thank you!

this:

http://i.ivillage.com/cosmopolitan/style/org/articles/34_bangs_a.jpg

or this:

http://www.tattoohost.com/model/hana/bangs.jpg

or something like this:

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n106/glessyx3/bangs.jpg

and this:

http://www.fotosearch.com/comp/corbis/DGT473/42-15200876.jpg

or this:

http://www.fotosearch.com/comp/CRT/CRT211/012809CR.jpg

thiis {lol}:

http://www.fotosearch.com/comp/corbis/DGT473/42-15200860.jpg

OKAY SO YOU GET THE POINT. OH AND UM I HAVE CURLY HAIR SO WHEN I CUT IT IT WONT PROBABLY TURN OUT LIKE THOSE PICTURES BUT WHEN I STRAIGHTEN IT HOPEFULLY IT WILL.

DO YOU RECOMMEND ANYTHING I CAN USE TO GET CLOSE TO THOSE KIND OF "STRAIGHT" BANGS? [REMEMBER I HAVE CURLY HAIR?] THANKSSS I REALLY NEED YOUR HELP I ALWAYS MESS UP WHEN I CUT MY BANGS.. LOL .. thanks

Don't cut them yourself, it's impossible getting them even and to the right length without screwing everything up.

Print out the pictures and go to a salon.

Q: 13/f
k theres this guy at my school and i dont know him but hes really hot and i see him looking at me all the time. How can i strike a converstaion with him, without looking desperate and also how can i drop some hints?
Any advice is appreaciated
Thanks!

In the morning before school started I was sitting on a bench and dropped my pencil, I planned on picking it up but I was in mid conversation so I decided to leave it there until I was done. This guy that was walking by assumed I dropped the pencil so he would pick it up, so he smiled and handed it to me. It was humiliating because that isn't what I meant at all.

Moral of the story: drop things when he walks by, I guess guys take that as a hint.

Q: I'm trying to find a certain song. I know it has these words

Your gonna make me lose my mind, y'all gonna make me lose my cool. Put your hands in the air

those are a few lyrics

What song is it?

Yeah, DMX.

Q: I will try something on before i go to school, i will look good/okay in it at my house. Then when I get to school I'll look in the mirrors and I look fat/jiggly! Whats up with that? Is it just hte mirrors or do I really look like that :(

Also tips for a flatter/non jiggly stomach? Foods and exercises - fAST PLS!

I am completley repulsed by school mirrors. It isn't the mirrors, but the flourescent lighting that shows every flaw on every person's face.

But anywho, I don't know if it's the mirrors or what, but if you've got a complex about your stomach I suggest running (it's the best way to get a flat stomach and toned thighs), and of course, crunches.

Q: does popping your cherry hurt and can you pop the cherry by wearing a tampon for the first time?

Yes, it hurts. And yes, it's possible to "pop your cherry" by using a tampon if you put it in the wrong way.

Q: can someone tell me the EXACT definition of straightedge? i think its just not getting into drugs and alchohal, but can someone tell me the true definition of it. thnx

No drugs
No alchohol
No sex

Doesn't sound like much fun to me

Q: I love my cat dearly but he keeps spraying in my closet. it stinks so bad, any advice on how to get him to stop, and why he does it ??

Maybe you could try shutting your closet door, eh?

He probably did it once, and then went back there and smelled the odor from the previous time, and then did it again. Try cleaning the whole area with bleach, if he can't smell it, he probably won't do it again.

Q: how do you have such beautiful skin? Like mine isn't an acne problem or anything but it's red in areas and I dunno why..Sorta like this girl from Canada's Next Top Model (the one with Si Si)

I don't, trust me. I used to have horrible acne and I still have terrible scars from it. I cake on my makeup and the flash from the camera helps greatly.

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