I just totally made the mistake of putting lotion on my face again. INTENSE, BURNING pain. I have no idea why they said this lotion would “soothe.” Also painful today: makeup. Applying foundation hurt like a motherfucker. The good news is that I think the peeling is almost done. It’s very weird watching an entire layer of your face peel off. The pieces just come off in these big flakes and they dry up and harden really fast and it’s like, “Woah, that’s what my face is made of?” The bad news about the peeling being almost done is that it leaves beneath it a lot of raw, red, uber-sensitive skin that REALLY HURTS a lot of the time. It hurts to move it at all — to talk or to smile. But nothing hurts as bad as that damned lotion. It’s hard to tell if I’m going to like the final results or not because right now my face just looks like it has the worst sunburn ever. But now that the peeling’s done it’s easy to cover the redness up with makeup — well, easy except for the SCORCHING PAIN. But, ya know, I should be able to go into work tomorrow without frightening any of my coworkers. I’m hoping my skin will heal some overnight and makeup will be less painful in the morning.
Anyhoo, I had a very lazy day today, got some work done and met up with some girlfriends to watch the Emmy red carpet. Oh, and I went grocery shopping! For probably the first time in a month or so. Every night I’m like, “Damn, why don’t I have any food in the house?” and then the other day it occurred to me that if I went grocery shopping maybe I wouldn’t have to wonder about that anymore. So now I have food in the house and I feel very mature and responsible and domesticated.
