Tag Archive for color

Finally — Bandaids in THE RIGHT Color!

Band-Aid is creating a range of bandages that “embrace the beauty of diverse skin,” including hues that better match the skin tones of black and brown customers.

Band-Aid’s traditional soft-pink bandages have long been a point of contention among people of color who have questioned why white skin is the default shade for a range of flesh-toned products, including nude bras and other garments.

Quoted from CNN’s Band-Aid will make black and brown flesh-toned bandages. To read the rest of the article, click on that linked.

Where Humans Come From

This just said it so beautifully, I couldn’t pass it up for today’s Thursday Thought.

Here’s Eggs-actly What to Do

What to do with egg cartons after coloring Easter eggs: use the bottom half in a drawer to store small items (thumb tacks, paper clips, earrings), or punch drainage holes, add soil, seed, and water, place in a sunny spot, and watch your seedlings grow.  Later on, after the cartons get grungy or torn, toss them into your compost pile.

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I’ve Been Abusing My Blue Jeans!

I’m so sorry.  I didn’t know.  I thought I was doing a kindness by washing my blue jeans after a few wearings.  Now I find out I’m just plain WRONG.  According to this morning’s news (I still can’t figure out who decides what’s “news” and why), I should wash those jeans only once in a great while at most, possibly never.  Washing harms color and shape.  Instead I’m supposed to freshen them with a spray of white vinegar or–are you ready for this?–vodka, and hang them outside in the breeze to freshen them.  To kill off any bacteria that may be growing on them, I place them in the freezer for a day or two.

My only comment to this is, “You learn something new every day, if you aren’t careful.”

 

 

 

The Range of My Discontent (a distressing experience)

I want some choice!  My oven died (RIP dear old, old KitchenAid), forcing me to go shopping.   I searched online and in stores.  I discovered that ranges come in 5 colors now: black, white, and stainless steel and stainless steel and stainless steel. I hate stainless steel.  I know that, when my dishwasher and fridge die, I’ll want to match my range.  A kitchen-full of stainless steel is not that appealing to many of us who have spent a decent portion of our lives in hospitals. Or for people who grew up in the food industry, because stainless steel represents work and sweat and parents who used them as (semi-)slave labor, denying them playtime and movies and TV and couch-potatoing—all those things that cry out “childhood”!  I lived with stainless steel, and I don’t want to do it again.  But black is so, well, dark.  And white…old fashioned white…is so…blah.  I want color.  I deserve color.  Maybe not avocado green again, or that rust color appliances once sported.  But COLOR.  CHOICE. 

 It’s all so distressing.  Sigh.

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