This week I had the misfortune of running into a magnifying mirror. What was supposed to be a quick eyebrow tidy turned in to a grueling pokefest of every pore on my face. I'm going to go ahead and admit it, and secretly I know you share my embarrassing obsession, I love squeezing spots, ingrown hairs and black heads. So when I saw all the blocked pores I had to clean I was in my element, well when I got over the disgust of having them in the first place.
Armed with a cleansing pad and willing index fingers I got to work. But I took it too far and ended up looking like Rudolph my nose was so red. The sides of my nose remained raw for a number of days and the cracked skin took almost a week to exfoliate away. I think I'll stick to normal mirrors from now on!
I'm a fan of D.I.Y. pedicures, mainly because I can't afford a professional one and treated my toes to a fresh lick of paint. As per 'predictable' usual I went for a French manicure. In the summer I usually do this every fortnight. The cracks began to show on my last attempt when I broke my baby toe nail. I got a kick out of going around saying I broke a nail, my 'toe' nail. I guess no one laughed cause it's not that funny. Anywho, I stripped off my old varnish, cut and filed my toe nails, and then I got my good friend Lizzy Arden's 8 hour cream and massaged in to my toes to stop the hard skin and left them over night. It sounds like I was cooking something. The next day I gave one last quick file to the nails to make sure they were smooth and got started. I started with the white tip, when that was dry I moved on to the pink and made sure that was good and dry and then to finish it off I painted on the clear top coat. My sister thought they looked like false toe nails, I was delighted with myself and spent that night eying up everyone else's handy work on their toes.
As a fake tan lover I also have to be a fan of scrubbing. I got a very good tip for a homemade/cheap exfoliator. If you have patchy skin mix ordinary salt with your showergel or for a less drying alternative mix it with caster sugar. Simple and easy!
Operation holidays is continuing. I have just 7 days to transform myself into a goddess and it's looking unlikely. The cellulite treatment is continuing and I can't believe I'm able to say this but it is actually improving. I think the combo of the cream, water and loads of exercise is paying off. Ahead of the dreaded bikini wax I've been keeping on top of the exfoliation, I know scrubbing again, and have been using an ingrown hair minimising gel from Boots. It seems to do the trick. Also my bikni line is finally getting the message that it's not wanted and the regrowth is slower and less, yippee!
Heading off on the 23rd and fairly confident that the day before will be spent filing, scrubbing, de-fuzzing, moisturising and painting toe nails.
I'm off to get to raid the cupboards for salt .......
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