another hidden gem of a store! Slope Suds is great for gifts

the chipster

Slope Suds in the south slope (7th & 14th?) is an awesome find! They make their own scrubs and creams, and my favorite new gift to give people is their fizzy bath balls. They smell DIVINE and the price is great. Funny how you can find really great stuff in these places that have been around awhile. There are some other interesting stores in that stretch of the slope if you haven't been.

apollonia666

For anyone not familiar, Slope Suds is a salon too. I just got my hair cut there for the first time a couple of weeks ago and really dug the place.

The woman who cut my hair (Vivi -- she's teh awesome) told me that the owner makes all their stuff herself. They aren't carrying quite as much inventory of their own products as usual right now because the owner just had a baby, but they still have a pretty good selection. So if you liked what you found there just recently, you'll probably be able to find even more after a couple of months or so.

Their makeup artist, Elke, is supposed to be really great, especially with eyebrows -- I'm going back tomorrow to get my forehead caterpillars done.

bullyboy

How does anyone cut your hair with your head moving like that?

Shout out for Slope Suds stylist Milla. She's given me two great cuts that look good whether I blow my hair dry, flat iron it, or leave it to air-dry. Really nice touch with color, too. Hooray for a stylist who really listens.

carmen

dude the eyebrow waxes there are like $45. no me gusta.

bullyboy

My eyebrows need a trip to Jenniette, in Manhattan, south of Union Square, 13th Street. A little wax, a little threading, snip snip, done.

apollonia666

Carmen wrote: dude the eyebrow waxes there are like $45. no me gusta.

Yeah, but she's supposedly a miracle worker. My plan is to take pictures after she's done it and see if I can then replicate the shape on my own from then on.

atheistnun

bullyboy wrote: My eyebrows need a trip to Jenniette, in Manhattan, south of Union Square, 13th Street. A little wax, a little threading, snip snip, done.

why does she use wax and threading? how much is it and where exactly is she located?

bullyboy

Wax for the big areas, threading for the details.

Not all of the aestheticians there do it that way. All are good. (Rosa is the best.)

13th Street between Broadway and University. $20 and up, according to the website.

I went for years when I lived in that neighborhood. Haven't been recently, as my eyebrows will testify...

bob123

what's the website?

bullyboy

Ah, I misspelled it in my first post.

http://www.jeniette.com/

Not really a "day spa," as they like to think, but a great place for a quick wax!

All this talk is making me feel really furry...

shishkab

apollonia666 wrote: I just got my hair cut there for the first time a couple of weeks ago and really dug the place.

The woman who cut my hair (Vivi -- she's teh awesome)

me, too! i LOVE what Vivi did for me, and she is so nice she really really is teh awesome

booklaw

Is "teh awesome" a misspelling, or am I just two damned old and out of it to understand current usage?

Thanks.

mkgartland

booklaw wrote: Is "teh awesome" a misspelling, or am I just two damned old and out of it to understand current usage?

Thanks.

It's deliberate. ....and it's past your bedtime

booklaw

Ok, I found it in Wikipedia:

As slang

Along with pwn, teh is a standard feature of leetspeak.[3] Originating from the common typo, it has become conventionalized in a variety of contexts. It is often used ironically,[4] and can be used to mock someone's lack of techie knowledge or skills, as an insult, or to reinforce a group's elitism.[2]

As slang, grammatical usage of the word teh is somewhat fluid. Besides being an alternate spelling of the, teh also has grammatical properties not generally applied to the; in general, it is used somewhat like an intensified "the". The spelling derived from a typographical mistake seen as the symptom of excitement, much the same as the interjection of the numeral one between exclamation marks. It can be used with proper names, as in "teh John;" compare the usage of the definite article in Greek: ο Ιωαννης (o Ioannes), literally "The John". A similar usage comes from colloquial German, where the definite article is used as a specifier to modify the noun: "Der Johann", again literally, "The John", could be used to identify John, and not Phil, as the subject performing a certain action. In Latin, the similar word ille and its declensions, which was at first an intensified article usually translated as "that", is the source of the derivations of the simple word for the and the personal pronouns (he, etc.) in the languages derived from Latin.

Furthermore, teh can be used in front of a verb in a novel form of gerund, and it has the ability to turn nearly any word into an intensified noun, which can take the place of a superlative. The best-known example of this is the word suck. Thus, the phrase "this sucks" can be converted into "this is teh suck" ("teh suck" being equivalent to the superlative "the suckiest"); the word pwn can be similarly converted (teh pwn or teh pwnage). The latter phrase is primarily used by the computer gaming community, and often intended humorously.

In English, the can be used as an intensifier for the superlative form of adjectives; compare "that is best" and "that is the best". Teh has a similar use as an intensifier for unmodified adjectives, generally marking a sarcastic tone. For example, "that is teh lame" translates as "that is the lamest". This is similar to the use of the definite article el in Spanish. For example, "Soy el mejor" (I am the best) and "I am teh good". This contrasts with the use of the in English to construct mass nouns (substantives) from adjectives, as in "blessed are the meek", where the meek denotes a class of people who are meek. On the other hand, "blessed are teh humble" would refer to an intensified group or individual who is "the most humble".

[edit] As a legitimate name

Due to the popular slang usage of teh in certain circles, particularly among software developers, it has been adopted as the formal name (or part thereof) of software projects. For example, in the realm of web-based applications, TEH is a minimalist blog engine written using Google App Engine. TEH Engine is a prototype 3D game engine – TEH in this case is a recursive acronym for "TEH Extremely Hardcore" (making two references: one to the slang teh and the other to GNU)."

It's teh pathetic that I have to consult a dictionary to keep up with folks here!

shishkab

booklaw wrote: It's teh pathetic that I have to consult a dictionary to keep up with folks here!

don't look at it that way! think of it as broadening your edumacation

the chipster

i am teh lamest?

shishkab

not if your fizzy bath balls smell DIVINE! :clown:

apollonia666

So when I was in Slope Suds earlier today (Elke is indeed a magical eyebrow wizard), they had a sale going on all their Slope Suds homemade stuff - 50% off all the bath fizzies and such!