Don't look at it too long; it knows what scares you.
No filter, you know, obviously.
I very rarely get spots, not because I'm old, which I am, but because I bombed the shit out of my body with two cycles of Accutane in my twenties. There were potential side effects- whatever, whatever- I didn't care, I just wanted clear skin. I don't think I even I had bad skin until I was about 15 or so, and I started to get some gnarly black heads across the bridge of my nose. I guess it was bad...maybe? Honestly, I didn't know it was so bad until my father made a point to explain to me how bad it was. So, I got kind of a complex about it for a while. Please don't worry, I'm not going to go on and on. My dad's kind of a prick, whatever, and now my mom's dead and he's just sort of there in his home, simmering in his awfulness. I'm not mad at him; I have come to terms with all the old stuff. I'm from California; we tend to get that shit out of the way early.
So, anyway, I got a spot this week. Stress, maybe? I have a book (available for pre-order!) coming out in October. I'm appearing at BookCon next month. I have this site, a YouTube thing I'm doing, I'm writing a trilogy, and then the whole husband and kids thing. Very hard on the skin, generally. I dug through my products and I was low on camouflage. Any excuse to use them CVS ExtraBucks, yo.
I very rarely get spots, not because I'm old, which I am, but because I bombed the shit out of my body with two cycles of Accutane in my twenties. There were potential side effects- whatever, whatever- I didn't care, I just wanted clear skin. I don't think I even I had bad skin until I was about 15 or so, and I started to get some gnarly black heads across the bridge of my nose. I guess it was bad...maybe? Honestly, I didn't know it was so bad until my father made a point to explain to me how bad it was. So, I got kind of a complex about it for a while. Please don't worry, I'm not going to go on and on. My dad's kind of a prick, whatever, and now my mom's dead and he's just sort of there in his home, simmering in his awfulness. I'm not mad at him; I have come to terms with all the old stuff. I'm from California; we tend to get that shit out of the way early.
So, anyway, I got a spot this week. Stress, maybe? I have a book (available for pre-order!) coming out in October. I'm appearing at BookCon next month. I have this site, a YouTube thing I'm doing, I'm writing a trilogy, and then the whole husband and kids thing. Very hard on the skin, generally. I dug through my products and I was low on camouflage. Any excuse to use them CVS ExtraBucks, yo.
I got this stuff, Neutrogena SkinClearing Blemish Concealer. It was ok. It has a strange kind of orangey color, all of the tints do for some reason- you can actually see it in the tube above. It has a cool, flocked tip, though, and it treats the blemish with salicylic acid. It covered pretty well (see below.)
Yeah, I know. You can see up to my brain, here.
Better, right? It's good, but it wasn't may fave. That would be Maybelline Instant Age Rewind Eraser Darkspot Concealer and Treatment.
Damn, that was a lot of words. As you might be able to ascertain from that explosive diarrhea of a product name, it's meant for dark spots, not pimples, but the lighter color really brought the discoloration of the spot up to my natural skin-tone, and it also works well for under eye circles and darkish shadows to the sides of the nose. It also works gangbusters for a bruise left for infinity after a pimple. Results below:
Damn, that was a lot of words. As you might be able to ascertain from that explosive diarrhea of a product name, it's meant for dark spots, not pimples, but the lighter color really brought the discoloration of the spot up to my natural skin-tone, and it also works well for under eye circles and darkish shadows to the sides of the nose. It also works gangbusters for a bruise left for infinity after a pimple. Results below:
See? Basically invisible. So, there's that. Both cover up jobs took significantly less than five minutes; I dabbed directly on the spot and blended with a clean ring finger, making sure to do this near a window for natural light. When covering a big spot, a job that look awesome in your bathroom will look like a face-full of Spackle as soon as you leave the house. Will I take the three minutes to cover a zit before running off to Market Basket for coffee creamer? Yeah, probably not. But I could. It's a free country.
Sorry, guys, that you had to look up my nose as much as you did. You're the REAL heroes.
Sorry, guys, that you had to look up my nose as much as you did. You're the REAL heroes.
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