The Wardrobe Therapy girls have been posting about their skin, hair, and body-care routines. Ugh. This is something I really need to focus on. Reading about the products these girls use and stuff they do to pamper themselves makes me depressed. Makes me feel like less of a woman or something.
I've just never been one to focus on myself too much. Like, yeah, I prefer to be clean, smell nice, and look slightly put-together...but beyond that? I just don't do much. But I want to. I don't, because not doing is what I'm used to. And I'm lazy. And poor.
Very poor, so the products I use are lamely drugstore-ish. The makeup I use is el cheapo crapo. No fancy haircare products for me. Not that that stuff bothers me - if it works.
Let's examine skincare today:
I use Dial body wash. My favorite flavor is Soy and Almond Milk, but I can't find it everywhere. Actually, the only place I can get it now (that I know of) is fucking Wal Mart. And I don't have good feelings about WM. Dial body wash washes my body well. Satisfied. No expensive products needed in this area.
I use some junk on my face called Neutrogena Oil-Free Acne Wash Daily Scrub. I use it in the shower on my face, shoulders, and chest; and at nighttime on my face. It's ok...I'm sure it helps somewhat, although I don't see stellar zit-control results. So, meh.
I know I should moisturize my face, right? I've been told that even if you have oily skin, you still need to use a moisturizer. This is just counter-intuitive to me.
My hands are a fucking mess, pretty much nine out of twelve months. They do ok in the Summer, for whatever reason. As oil-slicky as my face is, my hands are SO DISTURBINGLY DRY. They crack easily, too. I do clean quite a bit - don't wear like rubber cleaning gloves or any nonsense like that. Also, hand-washing is pretty important to me. I wash my hands tons less than I used to. I'll admit to being quite obsessive-compulsive about having clean hands in the past...so I'm not going to feel bad about the amount of washing I do today. Anyway, I use all kinds of lotions/creams on my hands. I like Aveeno Daily Moisturizing Lotion for lubing up throughout the day. Lubriderm, Curel, Olay - I'll use 'em all. At night, my go-to product is Neutrogena Norwegian Formula Hand Cream. The stuff is pretty amazing. It's thick, though, and kinda greasy, so I just use it at night. In the Winter, if I skip a night, my hands are cutty and cracky and burny the next day. I need it that bad. I'm very pleased with the Norwegian Formula, and will love it for always.
My hands are also big, ugly, man-hands. I totally hate them. My fingers are fat and stubby. My nails are generally short, although I did let them get a little length on them for a manicure a couple of months ago. I might be inclined to let them be prettier if I knew how to paint my own nails. That's right. I am female and am 35 years old and don't know how to properly paint my nails. Lack of patience? Lack of a steady hand? Lack of the nail-painting chromosome? I dunno.
Blech. Enough on the hands.
My feet - ugh...more drama there. Hate 'em. Ugliest body part by far. However, the skin isn't bad there. I throw some lotion on them occasionally, and that seems to be enough for them. I don't generally have gross calluses or stuff like that, though I think my heels could look better. As much as I despise my feet (they are wide and fat and big and the toes - eeek. sick), I love getting pedicures. Crazy, huh? Like to have polish on my toes. I guess any improvement is a positive thing in my book, so that's that. My friend and I have talked about getting prof. pedis monthly, so that's rocking.
I think that wraps it up for skin stuff? Did I leave anything out? Up next? Hair and Makeup. Bet you're on the edge of your seat.
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