Crackle. Pop.
My complexion is dry, dry, dry as a [insert your own old, tired simile here]. So dry, in fact, that I have to special order gooey, dewy, moisturizers. If I try to put apply my foundation without these emollients, by 10 am my face looks as cracked as a Renaissance fresco.
Apparently, all moisture in my face gravitates toward a few spots at a time, like black holes swallowing all nearby matter. This concentrated grease condenses into Japanese-monster-movie-sized zits. Zits so huge, that yesterday my two-year-old asked about them with great concern. Again.
If I use any anti-acne product, my skin reacts with vengeance – flaming out in even worse dryness, and adding a coverlet of small red dots all over my cheeks, making me look like an albino rhinoceros with measles.
Maybe this is the real reason I always get carded at the liquor store… the clerks must think I’m too young to have figured out how to TAKE CARE OF MY STUPID FACE BY NOW.
April 11th, 2007 at 3:38 PM
This might sound odd, but have you tried putting unpasteurized, raw honey on your face?
I don’t have dry skin, but it has worked well for my now nearly-nonexistant acne.
(You could also try the birth control pill, assuming that you don’t have any medical or moral reasons for not using it. That’s helped me a great deal as well.)
April 12th, 2007 at 10:57 AM
I have not tried the honey – but it sounds intriguing! Do you leave it on like a mask, or put it on in the shower? Do you take it off right away? Do you scrub it with a washcloth? Do you do it after your facial cleanser, or before?
I canNOT take birth control pills. They make me a very scary and sad person. My husband got a vasectomy to spare us BOTH from such agony.
Let me know about the honey..It sounds interesting…
April 13th, 2007 at 5:43 PM
I use it as a mask.
I’ll leave it on for about 10 minutes and then gently wash it off with a washcloth.
When I use a facial cleanser, I generally do the honey treatment last.