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Festa Junina or Festa de São João
Translating literally, June Festivities or Saint John's Festivals is a celebration on the months of June and July in Brazil. It originated from European midsummer celebrations and includes some similar traditions like a large bonfire (that seems to make a lot more sense in the southern hemisphere because it happens during winter months) and also a dance derived from palatial European court balls, modified and redefined with new meaning, related to popular and rural themes and paired with brazillian "forró" or country music.
Dressing up and dances
Traditionally everyone wears plaid shirts/dresses, straw hats, painted on gap tooths, very blatant blush on cheeks and lots of painted freckles, girls wear their hairs in pigtails and boys paint on moustaches and beards. This is the stereotypical exaggerated rural look, and is more common for kids to dress this way, while in parties with mostly adults it's more common to just wear plaid shirts, a straw hat and do some make-up.
The dances are choreographed but very standard between places, with someone announcing vocal cues for specific dance steps, switching partners, doing coordinated group moves and sometimes ending in a mock wedding.
Traditional food
Now, the best part of it all, my favorite thing from this time of the year, THE FOOD!
The traditional foods are super delicious and mostly made out of corn, like corn cakes, cural, pamonha, but there's also peanuts, specially sweetened peanuts, popcorn, sweet or salted, caramelized apples, quentão, which is a warm spiced drink, that may or may not be alcoholic and is one of my favorite things.
I'll try to update the thread with some recipes later or maybe just talk more about food, but I can't promise I actually will.
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I know there's a lot of factors, but how long ish should I expect laser to take me? Brown hair, white skin, I don't think my shadow is too bad or anything. I've heard people talking about like 8-12 sessions, if I start after the move, how long is it going to take? I'd love to be able to be full time out next summer (if hrt allows 🙏) but idk what laser will have done for me in that time.
I've been doing it for 18mths but I only need a touch up every 8weeks now. The other day I realised I'd gone a week without shaving because I had long white bristles but only those.
It varies a lot depending on your body, the skill of your practitioner and how strict your goals are, but 8-12 sessions should make a world of a difference for what you're describing. I don't have a beard shadow at all after 10. I still shave daily, but it's to feel smooth, most of the remaining hair is grey and barely visible. If people would notice it would probably look like peach fuzz. I sometimes think about doing a few more session for cleaning up some tiny patches of dark stubble below the nose and chin, but i honestly don't know if it's even worth the effort, just as i wouldn't bother with electrolysis anymore (i had originally planned to do that after laser).
That's definitely my eventual goal (or maybe a bit less hair then that, idk if electro is worth it if it's barely visible peach fuzz but I'd love to not have that either). Thank you :cat-trans:
I think I lost the 5 o'clock shadow around 5? Around 10, it all became scarce and just fine soft hair, but I don't think it ever fully goes away with just laser.
First few sessions are quite effective since there is a lot of hair, after that its battling the leftovers.
It only took me 2 to 3 session for when growth would slow or thin out enough that I could shave every other day. Id be smooth as a boiled egg for an entire day and the next day, a little stubble but not visible (the shaving was for me to not have scratchy dysphoric face hair lol). I think I ended up with 9 total over a couple years?
You have to wait 6 weeks minimum between laser sessions or therabouts
Oooh that's so exciting. I was worried it would be a lot longer.
Thought it was 6 weeks, kinda unfortunate even 3 sessions would take 3+ months. But at least it's only that and I should be good to go by spring.
When i started out, we did sessions every 4 weeks. At that point, there is so much hair that it's worth it even after just 4 weeks. And after 3 sessions, i was already at the point where i did not need orange concealer anymore, shaving and light foundation was enough by then.
The 6 week+ interval is to time the sessions along your hairs' growth cycle. For me, we could catch the maximum amount of actively growing hair with intervals of 7-8 weeks, but it can be a bit more or a bit less than that. You'll probably figure that out after a while, you can actually see how the lasered hairs are dying off and falling out, how it's very smooth after that rough initial phase and how more and more untreated hairs are growing in after you've passed that sweet spot.
I had very noticeable results after one session. My facial hair was like 40% of the pre-laser amount. Each session after brought it down another 5-10% and made it so that the regrowth took longer and longer. After nine sessions I shave about once every two weeks and there's only a few dark hairs left. I just need finish it off with electrolysis at this point.
Oooh 40% less would be huge for me, even if the rest takes a while. Thank you!
I think for me it will end up at potentially 1 ½ years, depending on how many I need. Started last fall, had 6 by now, quite a patchy beard, takes longer to grow out for that which is still there. We're pausing it here throughout the summer and I'll start up again in fall, that's why it ends up taking that long.
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Also are we deadass because some areas are definitely white already. Fuck my fucking life I've heard electro is so expensive and time consuming. Most is still dark though.
I need electro, hopefully you can get a lot of it done with just laser though.