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really sad about this - only went once, but I thoroughly enjoyed my time there

newbie to bleaching my brows. when i touch it up once a week, there are all these little hairs that don’t get bleached and i don’t understand how/why! i use a spoolie and brush the bleach in every direction then also put a thick layer on with dyeing brush before putting cling film on for 10 min. this salt and pepper is driving me nuts pls help meeee!!!!

eta: to clarify, this photo was taken immediately after bleaching tonight. not even hours after

eta2: okay yall, i think next time i will try leaving it on longer and also making sure my brows are clean beforehand!

i’m somewhat of a noob to cross stitch - this is like my 3rd/4th project, so i’ve had this happen before, but not as consistently! right now it’s happening with almost every stitch and it’s awful and looks awful 😭 it’s doubling if not tripling the time it takes to stitch.

what is causing this? i’m trying to keep my aida as taut as possible, but it lasts .5 seconds before going loose again. i saw a thread about washing aida before use to soften it and make it easier to tighten, but i don’t really feel like washing my piece mid project. are my stitches too loose?

help!! 🫠

please help me figure out how to get rid of these bugs, i am on the verge of a nervous breakdown and i don’t even have a bug phobia, but there’s thousands and they are EVERYWHERE.

historically, we’ve gotten a small amount of these during the summer, but they are completely out of control. i live in vermont and dont have ac so i have to keep the screened windows open. we’ve tried zevo (pictured), we’ve tried spraying our window screens, we’ve tried bowls of water with soap and vinegar, we’ve tried vacuuming them up, we’ve tried fly paper. they’re not fruit flies because they are not near any produce/scraps/trash (also have dealt with those before) and hang around the areas with open windows and lights. people have said they look like fungus gnats but i keep reading those are predominantly from indoor house plants, which we do have, but as you can see they are also all over the exterior of the house and don’t hang around the plants. they are also appearing in rooms with no plants whatsoever. today we kept all the windows closed after 7pm except for one, whose screen we had replaced with a finer mesh, and they still got in. they’re completely gone during the day and start appearing after 9pm until there’s hoards of them. the pictured zevos had only been in use overnight before having to be replaced. there is a single room in the house with a window ac with a door that is always kept closed, and even with tape around the ac they still get in (albeit a smaller amount).

i am BEGGING and DESPERATE, as i sit here crying. i feel so uncomfortable in my own house and wish i could drop an atomic bomb on it.

new england usa. you can see the size compared to a water droplet.

we get them every now and then during the summer inside (just a little usually), but we just returned from a trip and they are EVERYWHERE - the kitchen, the bedrooms, the screens outside, the outside of the house. how do i get rid of them STAT? I can’t read without them landing on my book or leg. they are small and black

it had a yellow chest I believe. hope you have a good laugh at my human voice recreation lol

edit: common yellowthroat!

this sink at my job has been like this since we moved in 3 years ago. how do i make it less awful? TIA!

regardless if legit or not, i don’t plan on responding since it doesn’t seem to be mandatory