
The Virgoan designer Tom Ford has featured here before (Virgoans Of Fashion) BUT I was just reading in Details magazine that he is known for walking up to complete strangers and straightening their ties, doing up a button or otherwise tweaking their look.
And, well, it reminded me of my friend Not-The-Typical-Virgo. Her thing is labels sticking out the back of someone’s collar. She will intervene for sure. Terribly pleasantly, of course. She has never – that I know of – done an intervention on someone’s tie or button situation but i think that’s just shyness. It would have crossed her mind.
So, courtesy of Tom Ford, what is your Virgo Quotient? Do you tell strangers when their shirt label is showing? Or only if their skirt is tucked into their knickers or something similarly over-the-top???
See Also: How Virgo Are You?
Tags: astrology fashion, Details astrology, Tom Ford, Virgo, Virgo astrology, Virgo Men, Virgo traits, Virgoans of fashion
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I have Virgo moon, can not stand people being late. HATE IT hehehe
There’s NO such thing as fashionably late, its just one big turn off
I’m messy as anything though.
Also love Tom Ford anything, all his stuff is tastefully awesome, and all of it wearable I believe.
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I tell people about their clothes being skewiff but I make sure we’re alone; I think it’s a bit rude to do it in front of other people. It wouldn’t be nice to draw more attention to it.
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I used to have TOO many Virgo foibles, borderline OCD when I first had the kiddies but after near bursting into tears once when someone dropped in unannounced and I had unfolded clothes on the lounge (gasp) – had one child so clean he ended up with sores as his skin had no resistance to germs (lolol) and could not take the ‘ZOMG you only just scrubbed that floor yesterday – you could eat off the toilet, jokes any longer – I prefer to just guilt myself to death than do the physical work load these days lol keeping up with lazy teens and a destructo aries hubbo is enough to bash the anal retentive OCD’ness out of ‘anyone’ BUT I DO still notice everything and laziness/lack of caring for items is my main bane of contention these days – have to put the rest on ignore lest I go completely insane
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I’ll flip someone’s label back in.
I’ll tell them if they’ve got a crumb or something on their face.
Ya, I’d fix someone’s collar or tuck something in that needed to be tucked.It’s just second nature.
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I am a chronic offender… tags on clothes, spinach in teeth, bra straps (or the harbour bridge thing at the back that women get when their bra is too loose around their body – years in the lingerie biz cannot get away from it) skew-iff clothing (especially wonky boobs or mis-calculated buttoning), even boogers hanging out your nose.. I’m your woman
Oh and if I get asked if someone’s arse looks big in this and it does, they will be told… in no uncertain terms….
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Fascinated about the harbour bridge thing. Have tried to picture it, but I can’t. Maybe it’s because I’m a Melbourne girl? Please explain….
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what’s the harbour bridge thing at the back that women get when their bra is too loose? Who wears a bra that is too loose? I can’t imagine!
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Its where the back of a lady’s bra rides up, drives me mental, think of the shape of the Harbour Bridge (upside down bowl sort of). Is that a better descp? I just want to go up an yank them back down adjust the straps so there is a right angle and smile at them asking – Now doesn’t that feel better??? I do refrain from fixing this, my bf does notice when its getting to me…
It usually happens when the bra gets old and comfy or when ‘the girls’ go up a size and women think the number gives them more room in the cup – it does but it also gives you extra width (2 inches) at the back too… (if your 12B’s are now giving you the 4 boob look go to a 12C not 14B- better yet try them both on and a 14A (same cup size as 12B)see which one works best!- fiddle with the straps and different styles and brands all fit differently- and end bra fitting 101
sorry!) And VC soooo many women wear a bra that is too loose!! I had one old dear who used to come in to be fitted and she would had a singlet on under her bra along with about half a can of talc on her skin, if the bra touched her anywhere it was too tight…
You would be amazed at what people wear under their clothes (and the state of some of them too!)
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I do things like this all the time! Virgo sun, rising, and venus. I especially do it for those I love. Tucking in shirts, fixing collars, fixing hair, ties, “Oh you’ve got such and such on your face, dear,” “You are aware there’s a big stain in this place on that garment?”, “Honey, there’s a rip in your clothing, let me fix it for you,” untied shoe laces, fuzz or strings hanging off clothing, ties peeking out, bra straps, you name it I will mention it. I even at times goes to the extreme of, “Darling, this colour does not suit you. Especially in THOSE pants. Try blahblahblah instead! Would be so much more chich and really highlight your skintone”. I try to not do that too often but there are simply some fashion faux-pas that must not enter my line of vision. Can’t help it!
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Before this I hadn’t considered this a typically Virgoan trait.
To me it’s just a grooming kindness to share with someone. I am careful to make sure that the person with grooming slippage is not embarrassed though. It would defeat the purpose if I roared over to someone and started tweaking their ensemble. Quietly mentioning whatever slippage, and then admitteding that this is something I’m pleased if people point out to me, seems to strike the right balance…mostly. Yeah 3 planets in Virgo; Venus, Uranus, Pluto.
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I like that expression – “grooming kindness” – & totally agree.
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Somehow I picture a lion licking it’s cub in an act of ‘grooming kindness’!! They don’t like seeing the bub with fur sticking out at angles either… Maybe it’s the leonine forthrightness and generosity? Ha.
Mars in Virgo.
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Oops, darned tickly touch settings, thanks hubby… Meant to say, have Mars in Virgo and cannot visit my sister’s house as it is replete with small figurines, crazed and unwholesome mixing of styles, patterns and colours and is also just messy. She is the only one in the fam without some Virgo in her chart and frankly, it’s as if she is blind.
Once, in our student days, I house-sat when she went away for six weeks. I imbibed some energy sustaining substance (ahem), re-arranged the furniture then cleaned for two days straight. When she came home she yelled at me and told me to leave. Ah, no pleasing some! Labels? Please… that’s just a conversation starter.
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Anon, I’m wondering if your sister has any taurus in her chart, because well, if she did she was actually being low key about you moving her stuff. Though I’m not sure what chart influence I would attribute ‘crazed and unwholesome mixing of styles, patterns and colours’.
Oh and my children tend to groom me. lol. I have the leoninic mass of hair, but it’s very fine in texture, so I end up with stray bits on me all the time. They’ll just without thinking about it groom me. Cracks me up.
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o this! I was reading these comments and not really feeling it but wham! you have completely reminded me and it is Odd, so obvious: my sister (Virgo) and her partner (Taurus) – actually not as bad now – but they used to live in a literal shoebox and it was just Awful Chaotic, terrible use of the space, Laundry Piles and Dirty Dishes two metres from their Bed and I would occasionally stay there and be feeling SO restless and frazzled by that space! I used to calm myself by just doing the washing up, furtive wipe downs of surfaces in their bathroom but one visit I cracked and asked them if it as OK if I could clean and rearrange for them (I know? Audacious!) and they were gorgeous and generous and said, Go For It!
It’s been there since childhood – parents (Aries and Aquarius Suns) artists and hoarders and I would have these burst outs of decluttering corners of the childhood home, and learnt to be very low-key about it all . . .
and myself, Taurus sun and Saturn in Virgo in the 10th house as well as the nodes in Virgo and in the 11th house – none of which I Get very well but any explanations very welcome!
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Leonine Librarian – it was audacious but the need to rearrange was so uncontrollable for me I still don’t , she handled it pretty well the sis’. (I am not sure of her rising sign which could be Taurus, but I doubt it). She is Aqua girl with Moon in Gemini and Mercury in Capricorn? No doubt has her mind on other things as she has loads of Saggi.
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Ha! does he? I totally get that. I imagine after having that much invested in design and styling it would be hard to to adjust or tweek people a bit.
After working in wardrobe and styling I would find it hard not to follow the talent around and adjust them constantly- I mean its your job but it’s the line between pro and compulsive. Non professionally partners and friends absolutely!! It’s a love thing and its automatic sometimes. My lovely leo ex is also my best friend and is the main subject of my tweeking with his clumsy piscean asc, I roll sleeves, adjust hair suggest jackets (he has even stolen my unisex military style jacket- which women swoon over when we are out…) esp the hair, he always messes it up and unflatters his shape. Everytime I am in a new relationship I end up re jigging the wardrobe cause I can’t watch men get dressed who don’t know where anything is.
Now I am no virgo but I have virgo north node, saturn and mars conjunct jupiter with my moon venus conjunct neptune in the 6th
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i don’t touch random people but i let them know if they have food on their chins or their bra is showing, their shirt is inside-out… Stuff like that.
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These are the traits of a pick pocket in training. A good pick pocket is great at finding little reasons to touch you, fix you, etc.. and who would ever guess !
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There are two parts to this thing. The first is that one should be “Virgoan” enough to notice that something’s out of place. The second is the urge to put it right. I suppose we would hope that some caring person, Virgo or not, would politely point out that we have parsley stuck between our teeth or a label sticking out or, God forbid, our skirt tucked into our knickers. What I can’t handle, but would never dream of sharing for fear of copping all sorts of anti-Virgo astro-bigotry, is when someone is wearing, say, a skirt where the stripes or checks are mismatched at the seams. Do you agree, Tom?
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@virgo to the max- what a great eye.
it’s true I think virgo design eye is more about seams and collars than parsley in teeth, there in manners in social behaviour and then there is design and style.
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My Virgo friend & I once chased an older woman across a park because her skirt was tucked into her knickers a little bit. She was so mortified but grateful. We felt good all day.
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Yep, Virgo rising and guilty as charged. Although I usen’t to tell people untill one day a lovely ex-colleage of mine came back from the loo and got up me for not telling her that her mascara had smudged all over her bottom eye-lid – now I tell.
Like you Gala, I find people are grateful to be told of wardrobe and make-up malfunctions. I know I am, but it’s gotta be done in a nice way not making it an accusation.
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sorry for all the typo’s I can’t type today at all. Last 2 days my brain has stopped thinking in sentences.
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Are you in Adelaide?
My brain is on meltdown & i’m boggling it myself trying to decide between
‘natural’ overhead fans in each room or a portable air conditioner, cannot choose!-
Hey Peg, I’m an NQld girl. The overhead fans blow the hot air back down on you, ( unless you have the ones with reverse switch) Use the portable a/c!
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Oh, & Virgo To The Max, I have extremely strong feelings about how people dress but I never say anything unless they ask, & I really can’t stand it when people don’t tell you if you have something in your teeth, on your chin, etc. I always tell people that kind of thing, in the most charming way possible. The two seconds of embarrassment are so much better than finally getting home & catching a glimpse of something horrifying in the mirror, DEAR GOD. With friends like those, etc. etc.
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food in teeth or on face, label out, the usual suspects, I’ll tell. I think it’s rude not to, and actually more embarrassing for them. A friend of mine once did an exam with a leaky pen and by the end (unknowingly) had ink all over her face. She was talking to a guy afterwards for a good 10 minutes and he didn’t say a thing! It wasn’t until she went to the loo that she saw what had happened.
Some things i would only mention to friends and other loved ones. Misplucked eyebrows for example. But i always notice when things are askew. I put it down to being well trained by my Virgo mother.-
eye brows are my weird compulsion. I will tweeze stray brow hairs of family and friends…though certainly not strangers. I hone in though…like i can see a mispluck from 100 feet away. And criticise criticise criticise….from afar.
Have told strangers about skirts tucked into undies and those sticky clothing size labels still on their jeans…
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so called Virgoan traits swing both ways here……….
tardy arrival – ESPECIALLY in biz – I loath being late as much as waiting for someone utterly peeves……. tho cant say the same for tardy punctuation…..
afflicted with art direction as an inherent trait / career mainstay – yes never fail to notice the upturned tag / twisted bra strap / undies up around neck etc BUT will only intervene if appropriate….. nothing worse than some unstyled stranger diving in unannounced to adjust yr rig – check if is cool first yeah?
conversely – I pull off subtle ’saves’ can untuck skirt from knickers, delete kink in poorly cuffed trousers or refold kerchief virtually without recipient either knowing they’d been ‘tweaked’, or if they’re knowlegde is required, leaving them so darned entertained, they dont not know what hit them other than a blast of entertainment, preening overlooked……agree re drawing line where professonalism stops & life as it happens continues.
working in the interior sector – I dont walk into every house & mentally rearrange them.
only the interesting spaces, with inhabitants open to the production redesign….. even better if they be creative as well!!thoughts on Tom Fords new movie?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tCxRO67gyk
art directed within an inch of his life, looks like a 2 hour perfume commercial, tho who else will see it if not for sheer curiousity alone??
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I know he’s a world class fashion designer and all, but I think it’s a bit cheeky going up to strangers in the street and straightening their ties etc. I’d be like, “Get off, you weirdo!”
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got no virgo oh except for pluto – will say if someone has lippy on their teeth but unfortunately i am one of those you all want to tweak as generally despite having libra rising look like worlds best teenage boy !
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Ha ha I too only have pluto in virgo (and libra rising)and my tweakery is always telling people if they have lippy on their teeth or a blob of mascara on their cheek. I am a makeup artist though…..
But stangely enough I am never told myself if these mistakes are visible…. and recently spent the whole day up town with my shirt on inside out and no one told me until I got home and my sweet double aqua-man said “Honey you didn’t go anywhere today did you?? your shirt is on inside out!”
Yep got dressed in a hurry and at least it WAS one of those shirts that is hard to tell, all finished with overlocked visible seams…. but from the back the big tag with size 18 VERY visible!!!-
I’ve hated the time or two where someone hasn’t told me about some silly thing I’ve missed when I’ve been in a hurry…now I just unpick labels when I buy anything new. As I’ve been known to do the inside out shirt thing before. It’s actually pretty Saturnish now I think of it…advance planning saves me from fashion slippage. The other thing that I try to do is if I really like an item I spend some time resewing the buttons on properly….and sometimes even sew the spare button on an inner seam.
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You ROCK!! LL
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Mars in Virgo….have learned to keep my mouth closed
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Virgo Rising, Moon in Aqua, Cancer Sun, Venus in Leo, Mars in Cancer.
Yes, I notice things out of place, and with mental precision have analyzed exactly why it is so. My Venus in Leo cannot stand clashing colors, failed contrivances, or the fact that one is not “set” for the scene. But both mars and the sun in cancer behoove me to do it quietly, kindly and even at times secretly.
An example: There is a meeting. Prior that I would have personally already debriefed each participant one on one unbeknownst to all about what to watch out for, what not to say, who’s sensitive to what. Then I show up acting like I am so grateful for everyone being so gracious to everyone else because it was their idea in the first place.
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MS i too had a leo ex pisces rising and was forever straightneing him up but it was endearing.
i have no virgo but will straighten people up ( quietlY) just like paintings on a wall – have to straighten them up no matter where i am.What house does this relate to does can anybody tell me?
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hey v v – lol re shirts ! the other day i got to work and i sat down and i couldnt even remember if i had brushed my hair or not that morning ! oh dear.
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i don’t have that problem ’cause i don’t brush my hair. I just zoosh it several times a day.
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I love it when Virgos do this. Tom Ford can tweak my look any time he likes. I find it incredibly relaxing knowing that I need not fear any kind of unknown sartorial mishap when in the company of one. Also, their tweaks tend to be subtly brilliant. Perhaps it’s because I’m a Capricorn and approve heartily of such OCD aesthetic shenanigans.
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I was once at a sweaty punk gig, when I suddenly felt a hand flick out & touch the back of my neck. Someone with something-in-Virgo despite suppposedly being in a place where you can let your hair down could not resist tucking in my label. I found it damn rude, as I actually I do most Virgos’ control-freakery.
I’ve had constant traffic over the weekend from bossy Virgos asking me to advertise an event I am organising, when in fact I spent the entire weekend advertising it, they just didn’t have the patience to wait for the emails to arrive in their inbox. But then again, maybe it’s just sexism!
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@pegasus – no I am in sydney but only just re landed from otherside of the planet so I am very wiped out by the heat at the moment. Hear you on the virgo mars. Funny story, all the women in my immediate family have mars in virgo sun scorpio..
@librian rockstar publicist -2hr perfume commercial- classic . But back on art direction being virgo not at all, an eye for style isn’t so virgo its the detail compulsion of minor details I was commenting. 2 best art directors I know are taurus actually. Spacial genius. -
@leogroover- REALLY OMG! I love the guy to bits but yeah totally 2 left feet style wise which is weird as all the other leo’s I know are a little more gifted in that department, but he’s hot so that helps. I am usually a pisces whore but I am trying to give them up nowdays
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Today i told a work colleague he kinda smelt of damp washing. I am Virgo and Venus in Libra. I thought it was cheeky of me but i had smelt it two days in a row and thought he should know as i would want to know if i smelt. I do get very Virgo when it comes to such things… i see it as letting someone know what i would want to know… I probably wouldn’t fix it for them unless they did not mind. I would mention it and see if they cared enough to fix it themselves… most of the time they do… 99.9 per cent… the rest don’t do anything out of pride.
Spinach and parsley on teeth has to be pointed out… i can not have a proper conversation with someone who has not been told they have food in between their teeth and i owe it to them to give them all my attention…
Hardcore huh? I am a Virgo though….
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Do you mean he smelled like mold? Oh dear.
Smells are one thing I’d have problems telling people about – the potential humiliation factor is too great for them, depending on their sensitivity. Also, I know not everyone has the same sense of smell & God forbid I tell someone they’re stinky & it turns out to be some super-exotic perfume (this almost happened once.)
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come to think of it, in shops i always refold items and put them back in original place making sure all the stack of say t- shirts correctly aligns…virgo rising…
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Since I was a kid, I have been rearranging books in bookstores for fun. If there’s a book series on the shelf, I find it almost impossible not to arrange it in the correct volume/chronological order. (And I am so pleased when they are correctly arranged that I will spend a few extra minutes just starring at them, basking in the contentment of correctly-arranged books.)
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hehe… that’s the best part isn’t it – basking in the contentment of correct arrangement!!
Mars in Virgo here. I find it soothes the soul and calms the nerves.
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That’s exactly it, Scorpalicious – it’s a tranquility generator.
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I love Tom Ford. So incredibly creative – absolutely the last word in wearable couture. He guest edited an edition of W magazine and the photos were just unbelievably sexy and a little shocking.
My Virgo thing? I always thank sales assistants if I have browsed and not purchased.
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What a gorgeous couch ! I want that.
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Pfffoaw…..he is smoking……who was it on here that mentioned they had a thing for virgo’s? I have to say I skimmed and thought…naw.
I get it , I get it, I get it!I am an Aries, and I can be wrong.
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I have Venus, Uranus & Pluto in Virgo. I would never dream of touching a stranger w/o their permission, but if they don’t have scary/hostile energy, I will definitely tell them:
- if their tag is out
- if they have their clothing inside out (but first I’d evaluate if it was a style thing)
- if their bag is hanging open (& looks like it shouldn’t be)
- if they’re about to drop their sweater or scarf (or the deed is done)
- if it’s someone I know a little bit, I will tell them if they have obvious sleep in their eyes, food in their teeth or “need a tissue.” (I will usually offer said tissue)Basically, I’m doing what I wish people would do for me. I’m always very Libra-nice about it.
In a less helpful & more judgmental realm, I have been known to talk severely to people who litter. I cannot fathom littering – why would you want to further uglify a world that’s already suffering from a surfeit of ugliness. (Pity the Libra w/lots of Virgo planets – life is a never-ending series of aesthetic disappointments).
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haha yes i do that mystic… always! me have virgo mc and virgo north node in 10th house!
i do it politely and they are usually very happy that someone’s told them…
clothing labels, food on faces, things not quite right, whatever… anything.haven’t read all thread yet but am pretty much the same as odette above re when and what.
i’m an aries with mercury, venus, mars, chiron, south node in pisces, but … in my draconic chart i have sun is libra, and all those pisces planets switch to virgo. hmm so very virgo indeedy!
suz
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Ok all you virgo’s. Here is the big heads up and the greatest thing I have ever ever learned in my 5 decades of being a virgo. Ok maybe some more profound things have got thru. But If you want to get someone to clean the parsley out of their teeth, start doing it yourself and offer a toothpick. If its a nasal emergency ( God forbid ) touch your nose looking directly at them. They will respond unconsciously usually, at first, and then if they are astute they will ask you “do I have a booger hanging out of my nose ?” Or reach for a tissue when they discover it. It’s all about body language. People mimic you when you do something to your face and you are looking directly at them. If you want to be really really mean, keep doing it sporadically, they wont get it conscciously but just go insane. This is a long post but I have to tell you my funniest virgo moment. Waiting to sing on stage at a pub, I had drunk copious lemonades and the time was getting closer but I needed to pee so raced to the toilet, pulled undies and funky skirt thing back up to race out just as they asked over the mike was I there. Ran to the stage, and this woman stopped me. She pulled the toilet paper out of my undies. I turned and saw that I had unravelled the whole roll and it ran from the toilet entrance right to the front of the stage. I am virgo sun. Like the trooper I am ( 3 planets in Leo) I got up and sang a terrific jazz number pretending it never happened…
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Tamberlaine, you deserved a standing ovation for that one.
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Love your style! The body language one is a great tip – except with sensitive types who just go “is there something on my nose?”!!
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I told my boss his name badge was upside down. (No, we don’t all work in retail – we’re suits – I know).
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A numerologist once picked a thread off my arm and then said ‘I’m a virgo. That’s why I do that.’ And I said ‘I thought Virgos had good manners.’ To which she scowled.








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