I have chest length brown hair, with bangs that are growing out and now reach my lips. It's kind of dorky now, but I really want to find out if I'll become a stark raving beauty without bangs. My hair is kind of wavy and has a lot of silver in it. I do not style it, nor do I usually comb it. I do wash it every day, though, and I use a blow-dryer to ensure that my bangs do not stick to my forehead, which makes me crazy. Is that enough about my hair? Ok, I'm having kind of a hair crisis. Anyway, I'm medium height, of medium pear-shapedness, with a German nose and hazel eyes, one of which is slightly greener than the other. I have pink round cheeks and a dimple set in a rectangular face. I don't normally wear make-up. I wear only solid-colored clothing, preferably blue, favoring long flaired skirts and long shifts with low neck-lines. I usually wear brown leather sandals because I have very attractive ankles and feet.

-- Anonymous, June 20, 2000

Answers

I'm in my mid 50s, am 4 foot 9 and weigh around 90 pounds. My boyfriend just got me breast implants so I'm very perky, but still a little wrinkly everywhere else. I have shoulder length bleach blond hair and usually wear a bikini every day, since I live on the beach! I also love to wear stilleto heals since it accentuates my legs.

Gwen, I love your site and I love those pictures you put up! So what do you really look like?

-- Anonymous, June 20, 2000

Sukie: I look just like those pictures, but larger and with more red dots on my face.

-- Anonymous, June 20, 2000

Sukie, I hate you :). I'm 5'1"or 5'2" depending on who is measuring me. I prefer 5'2" because then I'm not so far out of my "acceptable weight" range. I have strawberry-blond hair that people accuse me of dying because it is an unusual color. I have to wear mascara 'cause if I don't I look like an alien because you can't see my eyelashes. I have to have bangs because my forehead goes on forever. I don't have sexy ankles or feet. I'm very flat footed and my flipper feet are great for swimming. I have a nose. Two ears, each pierced once. No neck, no waist (no joke, my waist is 2 inches from my boobs, which are NOT perky). My daughter pokes my flabby tummy and I tell her it's all HER fault and to quit making fun of me. I do have big blue eyes and a nice smile, like this :)

-- Anonymous, June 20, 2000

5'3" with long reddish brown hair that's almost to my waist, but I'm getting some cut off this week due to split ends...not the band......Blue/green eyes, depending on my mood, ghostly white skin, some would call translucent, I call deathly pale. Almost 35 and the wrinkles are on their way, baby! Tho, I think that is due to the fact that over the past year, I lost 50 pounds and I no longer have the fat to bloat and tighten my skin....

I'm a no-make-up gal (except for special occasions) who also refuses to shave...but I'm starting to feel wishy washy on the shaving thing.....

Some call me pretty, some call me hideous...I think I'm ok on most days.

-- Anonymous, June 20, 2000

I'm going to be really objective about my answer. (ha!) I'm tallish, like 5'10" and I guess I weigh about 140 lbs. (I've never owned a scale; as long as my clothes fit I try not to think about it.) I have long wavy light brown hair, no bangs. It's been the same style since 9th grade but I'm only twentysomething and it still works, so whatever. I never had the big crunchy 80's hair, just long and natural. I have green eyes with perpetual dark circles underneath. I love makeup and expensive skin care products but some days I just skip it and kick it bare faced. I cannot bear to go without dark red or deep pink polish on my toes but I refuse to mess with the fingernails. As for the body, I have minimal breast tissue (barely a B), about which I used to despair but have grown to love. [Sukie, forgive me but I gotta know: what do your implants feel like? do they feel foreign? what did you feel like after the surgery when you were still healing? I'd never get 'em but I am endlessly curious!] I have had cellulite for as long as I can remember and am resigned to it. Sometimes I think my thighs are cute, but then I see a Playboy or something. My hips/butt are pretty round and my waist is smallish so it is hard to find jeans that fit properly. I have a bit of a belly. Here's the worst: rarely a day goes by when I do not have a zit. Once I quit smoking for a week and my skin was beautiful and clear but I'm a hopeless nicotine junkie; I've made my choice. Overall I am realy pretty content with my appearance, but maybe I'll feel differently as I begin to age. Oh yeah, I have spider veins on my legs that I know are gonna get nasty as I get older. Someday I'll have them zapped with a lazer. I could stand to get my teeth whitened, too, but am reluctant to fork over the required $500 to do the job right. At least the teeth are straight. I could go on and on about my fine self (snort), but I'd like to stop before I start sounding like Bridget Jones. [I am way more together than Bridget Jones!] It's werid, reading back over my words I do not sound pretty at all, but I feel like I am. People tell me so and usually I feel attractive but here I am separating myself into a series of physical flaws. I am no friggin goddess, but really, damnit, I'm pretty. Us girls have to be careful not to seem like we like ourselves too much. Vanity Kills, ya know? so twisted. Y'all can relax now as I've run out of self-absorbed steam.

-- Anonymous, June 21, 2000

I look like hell.

-- Anonymous, June 22, 2000

Maggie, even though you lied, you made me laugh.

-- Anonymous, June 22, 2000

Since I got my gorilla nipple implants, I look just like Fabio.

-- Anonymous, June 22, 2000

Careful Sukie. Too much sun is bad for the skin. Nothing is worse than seeing a raisin with pert breasts.

I look like me, but sometimes I channel Tammy Wynette.

-- Anonymous, June 23, 2000

Shelly, Tammy Wynette wishes she looked like you.

-- Anonymous, June 23, 2000

Well, I guess so cuz then she'd be alive! Ok..that was bad!

Thanks, Gwen.

-- Anonymous, June 23, 2000

Like a short pear with boobs...

I am almost 5'2 and it drives me crazy when people say "Golly! You're short!". I'm not sure what they were expecting when they see me without shoes - that I would get taller? (I prefer shoes with some kind of heel or platform. Not monster-turn-your-ankle-platforms-of-death or anything, cause I am clumsy too, but something higher than completely flat) Anyhow, I had lower-back legenth blonde hair till mid april, then I cut it all off and dyed it violently red. Now it's kind of a strawberry blond and about even with my jaw. I have green eyes and boobs that piss me off. I'm also more "real woman" sized - that is, kinda chunky. Ah well.

-- Anonymous, June 23, 2000

Jill, you're my Effexor buddy, right? :) Sweet pea, if you're 5'10" and weigh 140, I can't imagine you being anything other than lithe and slender. I'm glad you recognise the fact that having "a little belly" is healthy and good, and I'm glad you feel good about who you are. I wouldn't go on about it, except that I am 5'9" and when I was in my early 20s, like you, I was just about your size-- and like you, I thought I had cellulite and a poochy belly and padded hips. Trust me, you will look back at pictures of you when you are 33 (like me, now), and you will think, "Why didn't I realise how pretty I was?" I've been doing that a lot in recent years. Not that I look like crap now or anything-- I'm perfectly presentable :) -- but it just amazes me that I could have ever thought I was anything but a svelte little chicken.

anyway, just remember to pat yourself on the back regularly and be happy with you are. we probably all need to do that more often. ;)

to answer the question: I've got mousy brown hair that is currently dyed dark, rich brown after a decade of having been dyed various shades of red and copper, green/gold eyes, a round face, a flat chest (ever try finding a bra in 38AA?? *grumble*), long legs, a short torso, and a big smile. ;)

-- Anonymous, June 23, 2000

Thanks, Klee! ;) I think I know where you are coming from. Looking back at pics of my teenage self, I see that I was slim and fresh and strong and healthy. I was in way better physical shape than I am now, ten years later. But at the time I felt so awkward and ill proportioned...foolish, foolish girl! Even though I am not as young and pert as I used to be I feel so much prettier and so much more comfortable in my own skin. I feel grateful to finally be able to appreciate myself as I am now, despite whatever perceived flaws are currently nagging at the back of my consciousness.

-- Anonymous, June 23, 2000

Gee, Klee, I'm envious. I hate having big breasts, and I can talk because I used to have nice small ones. Someday I'm going to have breast reduction surgery and go around all day without a bra on. Does anybody else hate bras?

-- Anonymous, June 25, 2000

I'm about 5'8" - tall for a girl, but pretty short for my family. I have brownish-red hair (the red comes from several years of semi-regular temporary dye jobs) that goes down just about to my waist - it's straight and flat and it get frizzy and I hate it. I have brown eyes - my boyfriend tells me they are a beautiful shade of brown - and if I try to buy women's shoes, I usually have to get a 12. I have big boobs - DDD-cup - which I love. I'd have them bigger before I'd ever have them smaller. I don't usually wear makeup, but if I do, it's just foundation, a little powder to even my skin out, and a bit of lipstick. I think I look okay without makeup, even for special occasions. I think I'm ugly as sin, and I never believe people who tell me that I'm pretty. But in the last year or so, the amount of compliments I receive have increased infinitely. I don't get it - I think I'm just as ugly now as I used to be!

-- Anonymous, June 25, 2000

I don't hate bras, but it sure is nice to have the option of going without. I don't usually wear one unless I'm going to work. It doesn't seem very professional to have my nipples out there for all to see. I mostly hate shopping for bras, because I'm in between sizes. I'm like a 33 A/B, depending on the make, so it is very diffcult to find a good one. Still, it's nice to be small; I can wear tank tops and halters without feeling too overexposed and without being perceived as "slutty." My best friend from high school was very well-endowed so I know how much unwanted unpleasant attention large breasts can get you.

-- Anonymous, June 25, 2000

Did I mention that I'm fat?

And speaking of which ...

Gwen, tell me something.

Aren't cameras supposed to make you look BIGGER? And if so, then how can you tell us that you're fatter than you are in those pictures?

Unless they're old pictures, of course. And I know you post recent pictures on your site atleast semi-regularly.

Of course, you can correct me if I'm wrong here. But I like to think I'm paying atleast _somewhat_ close attention!

-- Anonymous, June 26, 2000

Lauren: so many answers, so little time...

I was saying on Mediarama that my bathroom mirror seems to be more flattering than most. And I'm way fatter in profile than I am from the front.

I don't wanna sit and rank on myself all day, coz I'm trying to break that habit. But I will tell y'all that I wear the second-biggest size they carry at Lame Giant.

(This is the part where you say "You carry it well!" And I say "Thank you!" and blush, right?)

My old-year's resolution: to quit making self-deprecation comments about my size.

-- Anonymous, June 26, 2000

OK, OK. I'm 5'7, give or take an inch. My hair is dirt brown, but in summer it gets reddish-gold streaks naturally. It's pretty fine, straight and long(at least, past my shoulders) and tangles easily. My eyes are, once again, dirt brown and pretty large with long eyelashes. My eyebrows are bushy. My nose is...well, bubulous. It has a round end. I hate it. It's covered in blackheads. My lips are really thin. I have dimples, but not really cute, Shiley Temple ones. I have a high forehead and a jutting chin. I wear minimal makeup, bright colors, and funky shoes. My feet are large and unattractive, and I have callouses! I'm 135 pounds and an absolute weakling with small zit areas. I can never remember to shave. My boobs are tiny. I am so FLAT!!! I barely have hips, too...I sound kind of icky, but I'm not so bad. I wish I had freckles or something to make me endearing and cute, but I'm a little pretty. Not goddesslike, but slightly cute.

-- Anonymous, June 26, 2000

I have chin-length fuzzy/wavy auburn hair and blue eyes, some freckles... about 5'7", and my boobs were bigger before I began breast-feeding, I swear. hehe...That's all right, though. Sometimes I think my butt is weird, and kinda wide and flat, but my fiance likes it, and since I really don't see it as much as he does, it doesn't bother me so much. I have dimples when I smile, and I would describe myself as looking "cute in a kinda goofy way".

-- Anonymous, June 28, 2000

Like this:

Only I've gained fifteen pounds since then, all below my navel. And now when I'm stressed, I get a blemish or two, usually in the most visible area possible.

I like this picture better, though:

Imagine that with black clothes--my usual uniform--and ash blonde hair, and I still look like that: pale skin, myopic eyes that can't pick one color and stay with it, slight overbite, and all. I don't own anything that shade of blue anymore. All my clothes are black or in the dark jewel tones (amethyst, ruby, emerald, sapphire/navy, etc.), with a few white tee shirts, grey things and powder blue things.

I've always wanted to have really long wavy black-brown hair and light blue-violet eyes and if I could afford it, I'd wear all sorts of Edwardian and Victorian clothing items. I love skirts and high lace-up boots and jet jewelry and hats and embroidered things. AS it is, I wear velvet year-round, have a trademark fuzzy fake leopard coat and am most often seen in drapey black microfibre pants, which are hard to find. I wear silver jewelry. And heels. I'm 5'9" but I was VERY short and small until I got to high school, and then I was about 5'5". I shot up another 4 inches in college and I have no idea why. I also got bosoms after college, which surprised no one more than me. I usually have a serious, calm expression on my face and I'm thinking of getting a tee shirt that comes right out and says "SHY" on the front.

That doesn't stop me from wearing clothing that other people might find costumey. I like sparkly things and textured things and I'll wear most of my wardrobe to work without worrying about it. I dress monochrome as often as possible. I don't think I'm fat but I'm very sensitive about my stomach, hips and thighs.

More than you wanted to know, I guess.

-- Anonymous, July 14, 2000

heeeeeeeeeeeeeee HuaHuaville

-- Anonymous, July 25, 2000

I'm 34 years old, 6'1" tall, 180 lbs., hazel eyes, glasses (but not boring ones - I should post a pic sometime), hair that was white-blond until I was about two or three years old, then went yellow blond and now finally a nice brown, my best-fitting Levi's 501s say I have a 34" waist and a 34" inseam, my teeth are straight thanks to five years of braces circa 1978-1983, and I wear all kinds of different clothes (I have way way way too many clothes, shhhhh!) - I like to have fun with clothes so it's hard to pin me down with one description.

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000

Paul W., whenever you talk about your love for clothes, it gives me the shivers.

A straight man who loves clothes and ISN'T ASHAMED TO ADMIT IT...
shiver!

-- Anonymous, August 01, 2000

eeek! This si my fisrt post! My name is floosie. I am 23 & i have 1 green eye $ one blue eye. Lets just say its a great way to meat men! I have looonnng strwaberry blondish hair thats down to by a$$. i'm 5'6 and wiegh 120 #'s.

I'm sooooo glad to be here. I think i'm gonna like it hear.

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

Hey...I'm a really fat white chick. Don't like the way I look now, so I'll describe the way I looked in 1996, when I was about 150 lbs smaller and was very happy with my appearance.

5'9", 185 lbs. Size 18 jeans, 38C bra, not perky breasts, big round tush that got lots of attention. Big feet - size 11. Vibrantly red- dyed hair, down to mid-back. Mostly worn in one ponytail. Already had pretty bad varicose veins, but with shapely legs & black hose could still rock miniskirts all the time. Blue eyes, full lips, my mom's WASP nose instead of my dad's Ashkenazi beak. What has been described as a peaches & cream complexion, but high color (turn red easily). Sort of arched eyebrows, never been tweezed (I got 'em waxed for my brother's wedding last month, so they look a bit different now). Round belly and big thighs, hair on my legs because I shaved once in my life at 17. I never met a man that wanted me to shave 'em. I've worn blue mascara since 1983, because I can. Don't wear blush or light lipstick. I developed acne at 17 and often have a coupla blemishes on my chin or cheek. Three piercings in each ear. No tattoos. Bitten nails, or silk tips, or sometimes even my own nails grown long without biting 'em 'cause I'm having some good weeks.

Right now, in 2000, I just dyed my hair. Feria "blush blonde", kind of a strawberry blonde. For a few years I really hadn't done anything color-wise to my hair - it's just been the natural light brown with a gray hair here or there. After the kid & the weight I just didn't feel like being bothered. But I've got changes to make and one of the easiest things a chick can change is the color of her hair...right y'all?

-- Anonymous, September 11, 2000

Blondish 6-3 200 lbs 38/36 501's. Not flat any more. Not like my two 21 yr old boys. But close. Good legs and tush. Wear jeans or shorts all the time unless going out or having print show. Love hawaiian shirts and wear them most of the time. Quintesential southern California bitch, er, beach boy. I even wear my hawaiian shirts at work unless my boss gets bitchy and yells at me to put on some proffesional looking clothes. But he's rrrreeeeeally short and from Chicago so I understand. I'm 51 and don't look it. No grey yet except on my sometimes mustache when I don't shave. Green/gold with decent smile. My wife and I walk wherever we go. We walk to the beach every evening we can. Good for the soul. If I wasn't happily married I'd call all of you great looking young girls up and ask you for a date. I take rejection really well. I still surf so I think the salt has preserved and mummified me. But I don't have a good tan because I have light skin and at my age and having been in the sun all my life I don't need anymore. I get small spots burned off every year just to be safe. Milla, you'ld look real good out here with a light tan and a nice sleek one piece cut high. Gwen you are a doll. If you get tired of Paul, come on out and I'll make a surfer girl out of you. I'd love to see you in that bikini Suki girl. Which coast do you live on? surferboy

-- Anonymous, September 11, 2000

I do usually prefer a one-piece high-cut suit, James. You must be psychic! *chuckle* However, I don't get a tan these days--real OR fake. (My skin is one of my better features but one I don't dare take for granted, being a fellow paleface...I figure that since I still get carded and argued with when asked my age, I'll continue to happily avoid scorching myself.)

-- Anonymous, September 12, 2000

Everyone says I look like my mother only a little taller (5').

-- Anonymous, September 12, 2000

6'0 160 pounds of woman red hair skin so white it's blue gray eyes my build.... well my husband calls me Maximus. I like being strong. I have an upper lip that disappears when I smile, and really nice front teeth.

-- Anonymous, September 14, 2000

I'm 5'6" with brown eyes and high cheekbones. My hair, which falls past my shoulders, is full pretty full with a natural wave to it. It is basically brown with red highlights. It used to be a true auburn color, but as I got older, the red started to fade out. Now, the grey is starting to set in, which means my hairdresser is going to be VERY happy and busy soon. I run, so in addition to keeping my stress levels down so that I don't go postal, it keeps my weight at about 135 lbs, which works for my height. I'm fairly strong - I can carry both of my kids at the same time and they weigh about 100lbs together. I'm fair complextioned, with some freckles.

-- Anonymous, September 18, 2000

I'm doing the rounds tonight, catching up on all these old threads. I'm 6'1", 157 kilos (skinny), long curly brown hair. I'm all limbs, basically and have always hated my skinny legs, but as I got older I realised it was actually a good thing. I love jeans and black turtle necks and black boots, but I am a bit of a hippy otherwise. I love lipstick and cannot leave the house (in confidence) without it.

-- Anonymous, December 03, 2000

Ann I am so late.......you don't shave your legs? or pits? or face? or...more info please..

-- Anonymous, December 05, 2000

I guess I should answer the question. I'm in the top left picture on this page (I'm the girl on the right.) heh http://www.eddieizzard.homestead.com/photos.html

Sorry it's not a link. I suck today.

-- Anonymous, December 05, 2000

oops, confirming that I suck. I meant after the main pic of Eddie, then the first, left pic you come too.....

-- Anonymous, December 05, 2000

Hello everyone; this is my first post and I thought it would be an easy topic to start with. I'm 5'9" and around 150 pounds, I think, with very long legs, narrow hips, a slightly rounded stomach, and average to full breasts. I'm not crazy about my body, but have learned to accept it. My hair is a few inches past my shoulders, thick and wavy, and a golden-blond color (natural) with pale highlights (not so natural). I have grey eyes that look blue, green, or gold at times, thick dark lashes, and fair skin that I wouldn't mind being a little clearer sometimes. I like my facial features a lot and wouldn't change any of them. My tongue is pierced, so are my ears, and I currently have three tattoos (I've had two others removed through laser surgery). One is a very elaborate, colourful butterfly on the small of my back, another is a purple-and-indigo moon and star on my right hip, and the third is the Chinese character for "slave" on my belly, just below my navel. I wear makeup everyday but not much, and have kind of an eclectic mix of clothes -- a lot of trendy fashionable pieces, and just as many J. Crew/Abercrombie & Fitch style things that make me look younger than my almost-25 years. Like I said, there are things about myself I'd change, but all in all I'm pretty satisfied with myself.

-- Anonymous, December 08, 2000

How did I manage to get my own e-mail address wrong?! It's at Hotmail and hopefully will be correct now. :)

-- Anonymous, December 08, 2000

If John Lennon and Janice Joplin had a female love child in 1965 ...that's what I look like. Janice's hair and body, Lennon's eyebrows, complexion, and glasses.

-- Anonymous, December 11, 2000

http://www.digiclix.com/Charlies%20Angels%201.jpg

I'm the one in the middle. But I just dyed my hair back to blonde.

-- Anonymous, December 12, 2000

And that's me as a blonde.

-- Anonymous, December 12, 2000

Are you at a little coffehouse/bar in Galveston in the blonde picture? That place looks awfully familiar!

-- Anonymous, December 12, 2000

Nope, I'm at the Blue Cat Cafe in Boston.

-- Anonymous, December 12, 2000

omigosh!!!! that orange hair chix on tmptation iland looks just like me!!!!!! she culd be my twin1! every body keeps aking if that is me on that show and some one aksed me fro my autograf!!!!

-- Anonymous, January 20, 2001

Well I'm new round these parts but looww me to chirp in.

I'm round bout 5 foot 2 nches and weigh bout 185 lbs.

i am 36 and 34 and 40 i look like the trailer i live in.

-- Anonymous, January 22, 2001

I finally put up a webpage with some pictures so that my Mommy can see them. There are only a few pictures, and very little else because I'm just goofing off.

www.geocities.com/naonea

-- Anonymous, February 12, 2001

Robyn, may I be the first to say "Oh yeah." Terrific pictures. :-)

-- Anonymous, February 12, 2001

Thanks, Paul. I always swore I wouldn't do a website because I just didn't really have anything to share with the world, but now that I put up my picture pages, I understand why everyone does it. It's fun!

-- Anonymous, February 12, 2001

Okay, ya'll. I'm a total idiot when it comes to links and stuff, so I'm just gonna copy and paste my homepage thingy.

http://hometown.aol.com/shanna4745/myhomepage/index.html

It's me with my son at his 2nd birthday party. You can make any jabs at me that you want, just don't make fun of my kid! hehe

-- Anonymous, February 13, 2001

Nice photo, Shanna! Looks like a fun party. :-)

-- Anonymous, February 13, 2001

Awww, thank you, Paul. You're a sweetie. And it was a very fun party. 15 two year olds. A true blast.

-- Anonymous, February 13, 2001

Hey Paul! I was gonna be the first to say "WOW!" but I was speachless for a moment. How do you wolf whistle in print? Nice pictures Robyn. The old perv, James

-- Anonymous, February 13, 2001

And Shanna, To bad we're both taken. Nice looking kid. James

-- Anonymous, February 13, 2001

Thanks, James. I'm kind of partial to him, myself. I agree, too bad we're both taken. *wink*

-- Anonymous, February 14, 2001

Shanna, you and your son are both adorable! Actually, Gwentown seems to be populated by some damn fine looking people.

Thank you James and Paul, you guys made my day!

-- Anonymous, February 14, 2001

Robyn, not that I want to jump your bones or anything, but you are also very pretty. Thanks!!!! I'm all happy now!

-- Anonymous, February 14, 2001

You are most welcome, Robyn!

-- Anonymous, February 14, 2001

To All you folks that wish they weren't big chested consider the following: Twiggy ( super fashion model a number of years ago ) was aptly named because she had the figure of a slender straight branch. Her bra size was a roaring 24-AAA,AAA,AAA. In three shop s she asked for a bra in that size as was greeted by an unknowledgable ..... HUH? In the forth shop she hoisted up her blouse and ask the sales clerk if she "had anything for this." The clerk responded..." Have you tried Clearasil?'

-- Anonymous, March 25, 2001