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October 19, 2007

Who knew?

I've written before about my obsession with skincare products that's so much of an obsession that I can't even see it as such. It's just something that I do every day without question. I suppose I have my mother to thank for this. Since the age of fourteen, I've had a daily ritual that has consisted of new fewer than 3 steps.

But who am I fooling, it hasn't been 3 steps for quite some time. And it hasn't been restricted to my face for quite some time. Right before I left NYC, between face and body, my ritual consisted of 9 steps and as many different products. If cash was tight I was still gonna have my Body Butter. Eliminating such things was simply not an option. I tried to use the best stuff I could find at Walgreens. Not only was it not the same, it was NO WHERE CLOSE.

I am at peace with the fact that this is odd, and that it's just the way it is. My skincare ritual is sacred.

We also know that last July, I became an MK consultant in the name of finding products I liked as much as the Clinique ritual and then finding out becoming a consultant means forever discount. I've been happy since then, but lately, I've kind been missing Clinique. There, I said it.

But this morning, everything changed.

I've always used products for normal/dry. Lately I've had pimples pop up here and there - which has always happened, but more than usual. Enough that over the past month I've been putting some thought to it. I noticed that the pimples always popped up in the "T-zone" and I thought, huh. Maybe I have combimation skin. So I decided that next time I ran out of cleanser or moisturizer, I'd try the combination/oily (because I can just go to my closet and do that. Love it).

This morning in the shower, I squeezed out some combo/oily cleanser for the first time and at first thought I'd grabbed the wrong stuff. It was a completely different substance than the normal/dry I'd been using for a year. WTF. Why didn't anyone tell me? Then I read the directions which advised adding more water to increase lather - wait? Lather??? The other stuff didn't lather!

After my shower and following up with step 2, 3 and 4 (4 is still normal/dry - might have to tweak that one too) I have to say that my face hasn't felt this good in YEARS. I am no longer missing Clinique.

And see, this is what I'm always saying about people talking about stuff: Divorce, sex, money and facial rituals - I could have discovered this facial bliss AGES ago - had someone just told me...

Posted by nikl at October 19, 2007 10:52 AM

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