Girls: What beauty tips do you give to other girls for Competions?

[Amanda525]

Originally posted by goosefrom71
oh yeah! motor grease looks good anywhere! lol, at least i tell myself that about the several jeans, shirts, etc. that are now messed up!!

Hee hee! Do you also decorate your jeans and shirts with random pieces of duct tape? I heard that metal scraps are good for your skin also. As for everybody, I do believe a general first uniform should be issued and a general makeup kit with instructions.

[utishpenguin]

duct tape cloaks

[Elgin Clock]

Duct Tape Cloaks??? no no no... Search on ChiefDelphi for Duct Tape Kilts... Now that's where it's at!!

There was a lot of talk about that last year for Nationals!

[Amanda M]

Ah! The power of Duct Tape! hahaha! I made duct tape pants for Nationals this year. To-night I am making my friend a skirt to wear. It will be awesome! haha! If you want to sugn them, look me up!

[utishpenguin]

duct tape pants..... awesome.... sometimes i cant stand the smell of duct tape... any counter methods?

[Alaina]

There was a team at SVR with duct tape vests. I think they were from Alaska.

[Specialagentjim]

Originally posted by Amanda525
Hee hee! Do you also decorate your jeans and shirts with random pieces of duct tape? I heard that metal scraps are good for your skin also. As for everybody, I do believe a general first uniform should be issued and a general makeup kit with instructions.

haha, for some reason I juss imaginged having the flow chart from the manual in wtih that kit:

1."Could said necklace be caught in a transmission?" Yes/no. If yes, go to question 2a, If no go to question 2a....

lol..yeah...

heh, and motor grease does look great anywhere! (At least to me )

[A. Snodgrass]

Elgin: that same group was the ones who were trying to get me to wear a kimono. I remember them!

[Elyse Holguin]

Originally posted by Specialagentjim
haha, for some reason I juss imaginged having the flow chart from the manual in wtih that kit:

1."Could said necklace be caught in a transmission?" Yes/no. If yes, go to question 2a, If no go to question 2a....

lol..yeah...

heh, and motor grease does look great anywhere! (At least to me )

lol!! hm, you'd have loved the way i looked today then.... between random grease stains and code red, i'm pretty splattered

[Amanda Morrison]

Duct tape is a great idea at FIRST competitions, although I did not see a whole lot at the West Michigan Regional. I kind of missed teams like 648 and their duct- and electrical-taped ninjas.

Considering this year's kit, you kids would have to be messing around with more than just motors for grease - the van door motor, drills, etc. don't have any grease, just the Fisher Price, and that's clear!

[Elyse Holguin]

::shudders at the thought of our cursed fisher-price motor, and the robodawg's fisherprice motor that was ripped apart in semifinals (they got it changed before the finals)::

the fisher price motors supply enough light orangy yellow grease. trust me.

as for the beaded necklaces, they were cute, but i didn't wear them, even those get in the way when you're in the pits, the human players were wwearing them, but they gave them to me during our matches, and i ended up making another teammate hold them. they were a very cute idea, but not practical. same goes for those leis. the only thing i wore were a pair of screwback earrings that i can't ever take off, and they're studs so they don't exactly get in the way, and two rings, but i think i'm leaving one of those at home for nats for fear of death if it gets damaged or lost!

but the duct tape.... we cover part of our team shirts with either duct tape or a button... the school city's administration put something onto our shirts without notifying us and we REALLY dislike it, enough so that the engineers and parents designed and ordered their own shirts. (if you really wanna know i'll show you it @ nats)

[Josh Hambright]

Weren't you guys told not to wear your new shirts to competitions or something like that?


I saw them and i was pretty flabbergasted and can understand why the engineers wont wear them.

The grease on the motors isn't that bad! When it gets on your hands its usualy clear...unless you get the whole GLOB of it.


OHH! I came up with a new tip over during the regionals this year... I dont know is anyone else is a dork and still wears their SME cards but i do...and my old team IDs...and a few buttons from a select teams i really like or that i admire...and a las gorilas bannan i have had since we won Ford Sweet Repeat with them a couple years ago.... anyways i kept getting it stuck in stuff when i would bend over so just throw it under your shirt and it keeps it outa the way! Seems simple but it took me awhile to figure this one out!

[Amanda Morrison]

Haha Josh.

I was so sad they didn't give out SME cards this year. I still have mine from last year, and the tons of ID's that were made for us. I'm still one of the only Team Hammond members/alumni to have their very own IRI Zone Zeal Team Hammond ID.

[Elyse Holguin]

Originally posted by oneangrydwarf
Weren't you guys told not to wear your new shirts to competitions or something like that?


I saw them and i was pretty flabbergasted and can understand why the engineers wont wear them.

no, just the engineers were told not to wear them, we have to, since pepsi won't pay to give us new shirts. but enh, we cover them up, we don't like them, i might just end up wearing last years... oh wait... those things are HUGE! so... gr. yeah, i guess i'll deal with it...

[Specialagentjim]

Originally posted by goosefrom71
no, just the engineers were told not to wear them, we have to, since pepsi won't pay to give us new shirts. but enh, we cover them up, we don't like them, i might just end up wearing last years... oh wait... those things are HUGE! so... gr. yeah, i guess i'll deal with it...

Go sigmaC@T button! juss about the right size to cover it up (at least i thought so...heh)