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What is Dollhouse?

dollhouse is the proof concept for a highly personalized creator website that can do it all, monetize it and be fully owned by the creator. using AI to create highly customized websites at the click of a button based on each creator's needs. currently a work in early progress. current features include: podcasting, blog, live streaming, video on demand, store for physical & digital products, pay wall options for everything, deposit & pay what you want pricing options, BTC payment option, email marketing, automated content posting to all major social media - all from one interface - on your own domain with your own branding. Read the full article

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Dollcast: The Dollhouse Podcast

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Met Gala Post Mortem

when you tell me the Met Gala theme is Karl Lagerfeld, I know what to expect. lots of monochrome, black & white, pearls, tweed, black leather, gloves, sunglasses and Chanel. not expecting the avant garde or interesting for this theme because Karl was neither of those things for me - if I could say something positive it would be I expect great tailoring - Karl always looked well tailored. well now that the gala is over and the pictures are out, let's do an autopsy of what was worn at met gala 2023. kicking it off is the belle of the met gala ball - Rihanna. Rih can do no wrong in my book, she looked adorable while pregnant and dressed like a Valentino wedding cake covered in camelia flowers. the lashes on the sunglasses were a reference to vintage Chanel sunnies designed by Karl. my favorite part of Rih’s look was her rocking a 9 carat diamond ring as a toe ring. the worst part of Rih’s outfit was A$AP Rocky. this man had the nerve to stand next to Rihanna at the Met Gala in bedazzled denim. the worst part, the denim was topped with a plaid kilt with a train. if you’re gonna wear a kilt at least have the fortitude to skip the pants. why even try to stand out at the Met Gala next to Rihanna, just be happy you’re her date and don’t embarrass her - that’s your only job. Cardi B never disappoints - she’s a true NYC princess fashion it girl. she wore multiple outfits of course, but this was my favorite. she looked like a cute cake topper in her Chenpeng Studio gown featuring camelias and Chanel signature quilting in black pvc/latex, a white collar and black tie - a signature of Karl’s. she also wore her hair silver as another nod to Lagerfeld. Doja Cat came as Karl’s beloved pet cat Choupette. her look featured a hooded Oscar de la Renta gown with kitty ears & facial prosthetic makeup to make her look like like an actual feline. if there’s one thing I love about Doja, she’s gonna commit to the bit. she even gave carpet interviews as a cat - responding only in meows for some of them. Cara Delevingne came to fuck your bitch and do all the cocaine, that’s the vibe she’s giving and I respect it. Cara resurrected Karl’s ghost with her look - silver platinum hair & fingerless black leather gloves a nod to the deceased’s signature look. her outfit was designed by Karl himself. a crispy clean white mini shirt dress with a dramatic cape, leather thigh high leg warmers with simple black ankle strap heels. Caresha aka Yung Miami of the City Girls showed out for her first Met Gala carpet. she absolutely stunned in a custom Chanel gown dripping in pearls featuring an extra dramatic neckline in black tulle. this was such a strong Met Gala debut look. my only critique is the makeup, not loving the cut crease eye shadow, I would’ve preferred a smoldering black smokey eye and devastating red lips. one of the biggest personal disappointments of the night for me was Naomi Campbell. she came in 2010 Chanel couture, but as a muse of the man's I expected more than pink silk satin with silver embellishments. she's worn so many iconic Chanel runway looks I cannot understand why she chose that one. another thing that made me sad about her was she's overdoing filler to the point where her features are changing.  Anne Hathaway, one of my personal favs of the night. she gave us a deconstructed tweed high slit Versace gown w camelia flowers for cups adorned in gold and pearl safety pin style broaches. Gisele has been glowing in every picture I’ve seen her in since she divorced football man. attending the Met Gala solo for the first time in 15 years, Gisele relived her Lagerfeld Chanel moment by wearing the archival bridal Chanel gown that she wore for a 2007 Harper’s Bazaar editorial photo shoot. Kim is always gonna serve baddie but I was really surprised that she invoked her Playboy spread with a pearl draping Schiparelli dress. my gripe is that she could’ve bared midsection instead of giving us Spanx/Skims and the necklace was unnecessary. the best accessory is her dramatic layered shawl. If Kylie is gonna do one thing, she’s gonna serve a fast fashion look. Kylie has the rare talent of being able to take something elegant and expensive like this silk satin lined Haider Ackermann for Jean Paul Gaultier dress and make it look like a stretch polyester bodycon dress. Keke Palmer wore a look that aged her so much I thought she was Angela Bassett at first. everything about the look from the hair to the shawl was more appropriate for a woman 20 years older than her. her tweed mermaid Sergio Hudson gown did at least accentuate her fantastic figure. I also feel like her necklace was stolen, it looks like it’s missing. dropping your first viral single to the met gala in one year, Ice Spice’s career is on warp speed and I’m happy for her. Anna Wintour extended her a last minute invite, as a result she didn’t have time to tailor her white sequin cutout Balmain dressall in all a predictable Met Gala given the theme. conspicuously missing was Megan Thee Stallion & Nicki Minaj. I hope Anna revoked Nicki’s Met Gala passes for showing up looking like a pilgrim’s shoe for years. In my fashion fanfic world Anna chose Cardi over Nicki and snubbed Meg for Ice Spice. Gallery Anna is so committed to her bit - never serving.Sora Choi in Thom Browne triggered all of my bisexual androgynous daddy tendenciesKendal showed up in a recycled Lady Gaga street look from 2012tfw you divorced Tom Brady and took his life force with youRussell Westbrook wore call center ballet flatsRami Malek came as a busboyPete Davidson came as Inspector Gadget Subway Flasherit looks like a maxipad and sexy pope costume at the same timeParis Hilton is boringMindy Kaling's facial expression is exactly how I feel about her lookif there's one thing Mary J Blige is gonna do, it's a thigh high bootLil Nas X came as Karl's cat Choupette and successfully photobombed every person who walked the carpet behind himKristen Stewart looks like she reeks of stale cigarette smoke in this lookJennie Kim's dress looks like an off the rack Jessica McClintock prom dress from 2005Jared Leto came as a furryErykah Badu came as the shaman that guides you on your ayahuasca tripDiddy as Sean John Snowyou cannot convince me that isn't a Baby Phat puffer jacket Previous image Next image Read the full article

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Imagining Marie Antoinette’s Fragrance Cabinet

perfume fable has it that in 2005 Francis Kurdjian went to Versailles to undertake a study to recreate the signature scent worn by Marie Antoinette. FK had a friendship w a historian who was working on the biography of Marie Antoinette’s perfumer and says he recreated the scent from original formulas. Marie Antoinette was a trendsetter for her time apparently, preferring large florals that were cleaner than the musks that were popular of her time. aptly named Sillage De La Reine, the marketing for the perfume was just as fitting, it was sold at Versailles. Ten bottles were sold in Baccarat crystal for 8000 euros a piece and another 1000 bottles sold for 350 euros. referred to as a “ghost of a perfume” Sillage De La Reine was composed of 100% natural ingredients. notes of rose, iris, cut jasmine, tuberose and orange blossom, alongside a heart of cedar and sandalwood with a base of Tonkin musk and precious grey amber. I wonder what a vintage bottle of this costs on the perfume grey market. Read the full article

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Snooping

Going through your significant other’s phone should be considered a cardinal temptation. A few swipes and a world of communications you’re not privy to is in your hands. A simple sentence could hold the power to make or break your relationship. It’s almost like being able to access some form of ultimate truth about a person.

I asked my Twitter followers what their thoughts on snooping were and it seemed to divide into two camps; the first was you should definitely check your significant other’s phone and the second was that it is a huge breach of trust and if you distrust your significant other to the point where you have to go through their phone you shouldn’t be with them.

I’ve been in both camps. I once checked my significant other of 3 years’ phone, found nothing and felt so dumb about it I never did it again. I’ve also had exes go through my phone, Facebook, emails, and even other people’s phones to check my communications with them. Admittedly they found some shady shit, and I was horrified by the violation of privacy. Because of these experiences it’s my current policy to never go through someone else’s phone.

Going through your significant other’s phone can only end in two ways, you find exactly what you were fearing most, or you receive reassurance and insurance that your partner is faithful at the cost of breaching their privacy.

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Freelancing Finances: Getting Your Shit Together

Oh money. We love it, we hate it, we need it, and we’re supposed to magically teach ourselves how to handle it by the time we’re adults. I’ve made and spent lots of money, but I’ve done a pretty poor job of handling my personal finances for many reasons, namely - unsteady income, no budgeting and impulsive spending. Still, even as a free spirited freelancer, I’ve always wanted security. Savings, investments, assets are all very appealing yet elusive concepts to me. If you can relate to this, I believe there is hope for us.

For the majority of my life I’ve worked in an off the books capacity. For years I hustled my survival, bringing home cash. My income was as erratic as me. After I turned 18 I was reporting my taxes wild inaccurately not because I wanted to, but because there was hardly any paper trail to the money I had made and spent. All I really had was bank statements with cash deposits and debits made to cover the bills I was paying. Any simple accountant could look at my statements and know I was up to small time shady shit in my teens and early twenties. Instead of trying to track my income I said “fuck it”, deciding I was too small of a fish for the IRS to care. Nowadays, I don’t care about getting audited, I care about knowing my financial behavior. That being said, the most important lesson I learned is: Just because my income is erratic, does not mean my money habits and finances have to be too. I may not know exactly how much I’m going to make every month like Sally Salary, but I do know that whatever I do make will be recorded so that I can analyze, budget, save and invest.

ANALYZE

I use financial apps on my iPhone to make things easier. Mint plugs in all my bank, credit, and loan accounts and gives me a financial analysis. Foreceipt lets me snap and save my receipts quickly so I don’t have to hoard paper receipts. I also keep track of everything in a spreadsheet. I made the spreadsheet template I use available here. Basically the spreadsheet tracks your different sources of income, your expenses, sets a budget for spending and a goal for earning. You can customize the pay periods and pretty much anything else about it that you want. Simple and basic, but filling it out will give you a lot of insight into your financial habits. Taking an Adderall before you do it will also help A LOT. When I did this for the first time, I was APPALLED at myself. The amount of money I spent on eating at restaurants was atrocious, there were months where I spent more on shopping than on all my other expenses combined. I realized I was a hot financial mess. But I didn’t let it discourage me, I let go of judging and berating myself for the past and focused on what I could change and set goals and budgets.

BUDGET

I think the best way to stick to a budget is to establish a realistic one. A realistic budget takes into account any regular vice expenditures that may not show up on traditional budgets. Meaning if you smoke hella weed or buy drinks at bars every weekend or spend money on sex workers or get lots of tattoos, and you have no plans to stop, put it in your budget. Leaving out shit you know you will spend money on is setting yourself up to fail at budgeting. I’m realistic about my weed and shopping habits, so I allow myself an allotment to indulge. Setting a budget for your vices seems tricky but it’s easy once you’ve analyzed your finances and know how many shady ATM withdrawals you make every month.

When budgeting be forgiving and give yourself some wiggle room, I give myself a $200 “whatever comes up” allotment in case I overspend on any of my budget items or shit happens i.e. traffic tickets, phone bill overages, medical emergency, car problem, you get the idea. Ideally, for every month that shit doesn’t happen, you roll over that $200 into an emergency fund that you keep growing, IDEALLY.

#GOALS

As a freelancer, having financial goals is just as important as having a budget IMO. We don’t have a guaranteed income and we don’t have external forces pushing us to work so we need to create internal forces (goals) to push us to work and earn what we want. A good way to set financial goals is to set larger life goals. In order to do this I make a “Passion Roadmap”.

I learned this trick from the instructions in my Passion Planner. You can either buy a physical version (and use [email protected] as your reference!) or if you follow this link the planner is available for download for free. Download it and read the third or fourth page that’s titled “Your Passion Roadmap” and do the activity. Basically you spend 5 minutes making a comprehensive list of goals, short term and long term, realistic and far fetched. Once you make the list you pick 4 goals that would have the most immediate positive effect on your life. You take those goals and then map out how to achieve them. It’s an easy and practical approach to figuring out what you desire out of life, what desires are best for your life, and how to achieve those desires. Here’s how it looks in action:

My big long term goal is to become a sex therapist, in order to achieve that I need to achieve these smaller goals

Save money for grad school application process & tuition

Study for and pass GRE’s

Research & visit universities

Apply to grad school

Finish grad school

Do my certification hours

Notice the building block to making any of these goals happen is MONEY, thus goal number 1 is the most important. Take your building block goal and do the same thing you did to your long term goal, extrapolate the smaller steps needed to achieve the goal. How it looks in action, again:

Save money for grad school application process and tuition

Work/hustle/whatever you do to make money

Spend less on XYZ

Start a savings

Put at least $XXX in savings every month

Notice the pattern? You can do this ad infinitum, breaking down goals into smaller goals into even smaller goals, do this until you reach a tangible step you feel you can take. Using this method you can turn the biggest mountain of a goal into tangible baby steps that are easy to take. Like my budget, it is crucial for me to keep my goals easy to meet. By setting the bar low I don’t defeat or discourage myself. To counteract the complacency that comes with setting the bar low, I get competitive with myself and try to beat my financial goal by a certain percentage. Trying to beat my own record every month becomes a personal game after a while.

SAVING AND INVESTING

I am by no means a financial expert on saving and investing, I cannot recommend the best savings plan for you, I cannot tell you about what stock options are hot. What I can tell you, is how you can go from being a financial mess to saving and investing small sums of money. The key for savings and investing to work for me personally is, it has to be automatic and it has to be small unnoticeable amounts with the option for me to invest big chunks when I feel like it. So, given these parameters this is what I did.

Instead of opening a savings account which requires $XXX to open up and maintain, I opened a Google Wallet account and hooked it up to my checking account. From there I set up a regular deposit to my Google Wallet from the app, a tiny amount, an amount I wouldn’t even notice, $1.50. Sometimes when I’m feeling baller I’ll transfer double digits into my Google Wallet. I plan on doing this until I feel I have enough money to move to a more substantial and permanent savings routine.

For investing, I opened up an account with one of the many financial investment apps out there. I use Acorns (if you use my Acorns referral link, you get $5 free to start your investment account). Basically, the model of these apps is simple. It links to your bank account and either makes a tiny investment every time you spend, or you set it up to invest $X dollars however often you want. The people who run the app invest the money for you and you can withdraw the money at anytime. Acorns has a feature where you can set the aggressiveness of your investment strategy. So far it’s been going well and I can happily report my investment is in the triple digits without my even realizing it’s gone from my account.

LASTLY

You will fuck up. You will not stick to your budget all the time. This is okay. Keep going.

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Regular Girl Blowjob Advice

Here’s some straight up advice from a regular girl just like you, who happens to give amazing blowjobs.

1. Always keep in mind that a blowjob is basically your mouth trying to recreate the experience of a pussy. With that in mind, aim to recreate the experience of not just any pussy, but a warm wet tight pussy.

2. Be sloppy. No one wants a prim and proper blowjob. This means spit a lot and make it wet. I noticed that drinking something sugary like Sprite beforehand thickens your spit and makes it more lube like.  

3. Keep contact at all times. Whether it’s with your hands, lips, or tongue don’t break contact.

4. Deepthroat, or at least try. We can’t all deepthroat like the pros but it’s fun to try. Guys like to watch you gag and choke on it while you try to take it as far down your throat as possible. Bonus points if you do it until your eyes tear up.

5. Make some noise. Moan or dirty talk while you blow and stroke him.

6. Eye contact. Look in his eyes. Guys love that shit, dunno why but they do. I call them doe eye blowjobs.

7. Play with yourself. Whether your squeezin on your tits or playing with your clit you should be making yourself feel good too.

8. Don’t forget the balls.

9. Know his hot spot. The most sensitive part of a guy’s dick is the underside of his head. Use that knowledge to your advantage.

10. No teeth. Remember the goal is to recreate the experience of a warm tight wet pussy with your mouth, and short of vaginal dentata, pussy don’t have teeth.

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What do u do if a guy doesn't text back but is clearly on social media

STOP TEXTING HIM

ALSO CONSIDER THAT HE HAS PUT YOU ON DO NOT DISTURB

ALSO CONSIDER THAT HE MAY BE USING SOCIAL MEDIA FROM A COMPUTER AND IS AWAY FROM HIS PHONE

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Hi Claudia, What's your body care routine ? Which body lotion do you use ? Any recommendations on brightening body lotion (to even out skin tone) Kbeauty or not ? Thank you :)

I go to the Korean spa for body scrubs

I use these body towels https://dollface.shop/collections/all/products/body-scrub-towel

I use the body scrub towel in tandem with Lush rose jam shower gel cuz it has lactic acid in it and is my fav smell.

I’m obsessed with this scrub/body oil but it’s out of stock rn! https://dollface.shop/collections/all/products/missha-crystal-salt-rose-body-oil-scrub

Crystal Salt Body Oil Scrub Rose

I used to use a Korean anti-aging lotion on my body but I can’t find it anymore and don’t recall the name.

Right now I’m using Lush Sleepy body lotion.

I bought some of Azealia Banks soaps to help with evening skin tone - she makes retinoid and other soaps to help fade scars etc. but tbh I haven’t used them enough to be able to report back, I’m also waiting on a snake oil body peel from her cheapyxo line.

Also any leftover face products I’m tired of I use up on my body, I use leftover and sample face serums, oils and creams on my body.

I also use SPF 50 oil when I’m at the beach to prevent my hyperpigmentation from getting worse.

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How do you deal with Eurocentric beauty standards

lots of Korean skincare and faith in my genes 🧬

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Advice for a young couple moving out together for the first time for both of them? Thank you Claudia the queen 💗

have your own spaces!!!

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Do men really care if a pussy is shaved or hairy

men r just happy to be getting pussy period, have u seen these men out here? they using real dolls and fleshlights

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i cant cum without using a toy on my clit even during sex and idk it feels kinda shameful like i can’t get off properly. any tips?

there’s no wrong way for a Woman to cum as long as she not violating anyone else. to say “getting off properly” is with dick only is a warped view.

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I’m in a long distance relationship. So whenever I see my GF We suffer from me cumming too quick. She’s thrown out the idea of an open relationship, but I’d really rather just try to please her. What can I do about premature ejaculation?

when you’re about to bust, yank your balls down really hard, it’ll stop it. Or so I’ve heard.

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why do u like prose better than olaplex

I feel the Prose treats my specific hair and scalp needs more, Olaplex doesn’t make my scalp as nice as Prose does. I don’t see the harm in using both by doing olaplex treatments every couple weeks while using Prose