BCTucker wrote:
beady wrote:
I've tried, really I have!, to adapt to this manacle but I cannot.
I have sensitive skin and react with itching, rashes, or worse to many products. I am so uncomfortable having some substance sitting on my skin or eyes. I also tend to rub, scratch, touch my face so often it's a nightmare.
I have given myself permission to never endure this torture unless it's for some unusually special occasion.
I do admire the look many achieve and think the face can be an artistic and beautiful canvas.
The same goes for most jewelry but I can endure that a tiny bit more easily. Very tiny.
Me too! It sounds like my skin isn't as sensitive as yours, but I touch my face wayyyy too often to successfully wear a full face of makeup for more than a few hours. As for the red spots, yeah, I hate them, and I feel too old for this crap, and I'm sure that the amount of time I spend touching my face doesn't help. But at least now I'm understanding more about why I simultaneously can't stop picking at my face and also can't be bothered to wear makeup to cover the damage that picking does.
For those that can wear lipstick (and someone said lipstick only!!
) I applaud you. When I do wear makeup for special occasions, I cannot for the life of me put anything on my lips that A. looks reasonable when I apply it and B. lasts for more than 5 minutes before I accidentally wipe off the "gunk" I feel on my lips.
I said it's the only thing I know how to use properly, I didn't say I can stand it
I have the same problem with feeling it on my lips. Apparently my lips are ordinarily pale enough for my doctor to make a note of it on my chart, and my mom's said I would greatly benefit from a little lipstick, but I just can't put up with it.
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Yet in my new wildness and freedom I almost welcome the bitterness of alienage. For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.
-H. P. Lovecraft, "The Outsider"