Billie Gold
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A human woman, apparently
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Does Dermarolling really work?
Hold on to your best Borat "wow wow wee wa's" because I'm going to give you my month long dermarolling experiment in detail. Here is me and what I would love to look like without layers and layers of makeup. The below image is a product of excellent makeup and 100 selfies to try and find the right angle to hide my biggest cystic spots, and is essentially, a big fat lie.
By Billie Gold 4 years ago in Blush
Is Dyke a dirty word?
The history of LGBTQ+ language is ever changing and highly personal. We are constantly changing and finding new ways to express ourselves, and even take back words which were once harmful, and still are depending on who uses them, keeping them safe in our community to be reused as powerful identity markers.
By Billie Gold 4 years ago in Humans
Art on primal pleasure
I fucking love art. I did a study a little while ago on the senses, and how different senses provoke different memory receptors, unsurprisingly smell is the only sense that lingers in your olfactory system for long enough to actually create new neural pathways, hence why sometimes when you get a whiff of engine oil you're reminded of an old boyfriend, or the smell from a bakery can almost bring you to tears because you remember it so fondly from your childhood walks with your mother.
By Billie Gold 4 years ago in Filthy
Cruelty and its loving legacy
Some women don't inspire us by their humility, they don't inspire us by loving us through thick and thin. Some inspirational women don't even like us. They don't have a kind word, a piece of wisdom to share, or ever held our hand and urged us to keep going. Some women inspire us by simply showing us how to fight never to be the person that they are.
By Billie Gold 4 years ago in Families
The Ultimate Lockdown Survival Guide
Since we went on lockdown I have macgyvered several different ways to at least make myself feel somewhat normal. There are so many services and things that we like to do on a daily basis that we don't even notice when they get taken away, until our nails start growing out, or skin protests, and we can't sneakily leave the house at 11pm for a totally not a hookup that is a hookup. I’ve done the legwork for you. I’ve compiled a little list of what my followers said they miss the most during lockdown, and hopefully some remedies to try yourselves with just some pva glue, poster paint and pipe cleaners, (I’m kidding please use none of these things).
By Billie Gold 4 years ago in Lifehack
7 Ways to stay sane as an extrovert in Self Isolation
I think we can all agree that at the moment we collectively hate this episode of Black Mirror. Everything has come to a halt and we are all worried about our friends, our family and ourselves, however the one thing that’s going to make an impact more than anything right now is our mental health. Having the right outlook impacts how we survive this without going completely batshit crazy, and how we help each other. People on their own are calm and collected, whereas people in a group have about the same level of chill as a clowder of cats on catnip, (yes the word for a group of cats is a clowder). In this article I, an extrovert, am going to help you with ways not to completely fall down the rabbit hole, and use this time we have in limbo well.
By Billie Gold 4 years ago in Lifehack
9 Tips to destroy acne
I didn’t get acne as a usual pubescent teen. I was relatively fresh faced in the mid noughties and thought id dodged it right up until the age of around 20 when literally overnight my face started to erupt so badly that I was convinced that it had to be an allergic reaction to something. Unfortunately that wasn't the case, ground zero for my cystic acne starting was unclear although hormonal birth control may have been a catalyst to what was going to be a life long condition which I’m still wrestling with at 29. I have spent years and years trying to find the sweet spot to keep my acne away, however the flare ups will come and go, and like a lot of acne sufferers its something I have to deal with. With your own skin it really is a matter of trial and error, there is no magical cure, but I’m going to share my own journey and what has helped me gain some control over my face and perhaps it might be the little bit of wisdom that’ll help you too.
By Billie Gold 4 years ago in Blush
Unhappy Camper
I have a theory. There are many things in life that we would regard a hundred years ago as genuine torture, if you asked most people if they would like to be submerged into sub zero temperature water with no guarantee that they could get out, or if they would like to run for miles and miles to the point of vomiting, they would probably look at you like you’d just said that you were an Instagram influencer on a first date. However ice swimming and marathon running are two tried and tested pastimes that our modern society deems leisurely. And this is my issue with something I have been told to enjoy my entire life as I’m sure many of you have, camping.
By Billie Gold 4 years ago in Wander
- Third Place in Behind the Beat Challenge
The alien that saved my life Third Place in Behind the Beat Challenge
I was at my show after a singing gig the other day and someone said that I looked just like David Bowie. They are wrong of course, the only thing I have in common with the late great David Bowie is being short haired, slim, and that I can sing. What that statement meant to me and what she actually saw was something far more meaningful than she could ever imagine. Bowie encapsulated masculine and feminine simultaneously, chaotically, and perfectly. He stood for every oddball in the school yard, everyone who thought they weren't actually meant to be on this planet, and everyone who believed so viciously in their art that they would constantly break the rules to do it. And if she saw one ounce of that in me, then I was already doing what the song that sparked my desire to live again told me to do.
By Billie Gold 4 years ago in Beat
6 things no one tells you about being a stripper
I have a strong belief that we all sell ourselves in some way, others just seem to be more socially acceptable. I spent three years as a professional stripper, and sex work has never left me. Why has it never left me? Because it was the most important thing to happen to me and my understanding of human connection. With social media making sex work more main stream, with every one opening up “only fans” and “Patreon” accounts, I thought id share some of my experiences as a sex worker, and it might not be what you think.
By Billie Gold 4 years ago in Filthy
- Top Story - January 2020
7 Things I learned when I shaved my head Top Story - January 2020
I have been a proudly buzzed woman for about two years now, and shaving my head single handedly changed my life for the better. As a woman in our current social media and celebrity obsessed climate we are taught to care for our hair like a new baby, treating it to every super expensive hair mask, shampoo, and colour treatment going. Getting rid of all that showed me the woman that I was, and it made me feel fierce.
By Billie Gold 4 years ago in Blush