Teeth Whitening

I've played with them, years ago. Back when I worked at the hotel, my associate Mike and I would stick them on our teeth and bet money on how who could go the longest interacting with customers before the customer said something.

I'm a smoker, and I have fucked-up teeth. But I am not about to go out and spend $40 on Crest White Strips so my teeth can be blindly white. I'm happy with what I've got.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by AliceNWondrland

Well obviously you have to brush your teeth, silly. But I'm an ex-smoker and a big coffee drinker, and brushing your teeth gets them clean, but only gets them so white. If you want dazzling white movie star teeth you have to bleach them.

Just out of curiosity - why would you want "dazzling white movie star teeth?"

Are they, like, the standard of beauty these days?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by OmagnusPrime

My question exactly. I'm quite happy with normal white-ish teeth thanks. Why would I want to look like someone's painted the insite of my mouth with white emulsion? No thanks, I don't see the need to abide by superficial celebrity 'beauty' standards.

On the same note, at which point do these freakish standards start to drift so far away from....human looking that people will start ignoring the standard?

Already you can see people in the movie business who look so horrific and similar to painted corpses.

But then I suppose beauty IS mutation. Sigh.

Alice, whiter teeth make you look younger? O_O Howso. (This country and the quest for eternal youth. ;_; )

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by AliceNWondrland

Because people's teeth grow yellower as they get older, obviously. Teenagers, for example, have whiter teeth than someone in their 30s. Yellow teeth make a person look older in the same way that wrinkles do, Sass.

Honestly, I'd rather have wrinkles than yellow teeth, though. I've always had this fixation on teeth, for some reason. It's the first thing I notice about a person.

But bleaching one's own teeth to obtain a "whiter smile" (and, you know, fucking stripping away some of the tooth enamel) seems so silly.

I just don't get this irrational fear of wrinkles, and aged teeth, and all the bad shit people associate with older age. I can't wait for gray hair.

But I am not going to rag on you for being so silly Alice. ^_^ Difference in opinion and lifestyle, suppose. <3

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by AliceNWondrland

I wouldn't expect someone in their 20s to be overly concerned with the effects of aging. When I was your age I didn't worry about it, either. But when you look in the mirror one day and realize that the Grim freaking Reaper is staring back at you, little things like wrinkles and yellow teeth start to become a tad more frightening.

Sure. It's easy for me to say now. But I do look forward to aging. There are many more benfits, if you ask me.

But I look it in a different light than you do, I imagine. Neither way is right or wrong - I just look forward to being experienced in life, knowing things, and learning things about people as I get older.

I can't really see the drawbacks in getting older physically, with the exception of the physical inability to do what I do now. Though I plan to not let that get to me.

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Maybe you'll be one of those women who really doesn't mind getting older...who knows? I wish I was more like that.

I have my mother to thank, I guess. The woman is getting so old and I can see it happening so fast. It's depressing to see her propelled into old age, but she does it so gracefully. I look forward to having wisps of gray hair and the like. To me, it just screams wisdom in some ways.

I don't think I could ever give a shit about wrinkles or anything of that nature. Especially aged teeth. It comes with the territory of humanity, and you know me - I embrace it. ^_^

I was speaking idiomatically.