Skincare Routine, April 2014
Ceci n'est pas une skincare post . I hesitated for a while before writing this post, because I've had a skincare routine for only two years, which makes me an utter amateur compared to my favorite beauty bloggers. Before the age of 24, I did almost nothing to my skin. I never moisturized, because I didn't know that women under 40 used moisturizer. I wore SPF only during the summer. I'd always had good skin, so it never occurred to me that I might need to put anything on it. Why should I when it looked like this? 19-year-old me in biology lab. Look at that fresh-faced, rosy-cheeked little jerk. I call this photo "Our Lady of the Arthropods." I forget why 24 was the turning point for me. Maybe it was the melancholy realization that I could no longer claim to be in my early twenties. Maybe it was that my discovery of makeup meant more time in front of the mirror, and more mirror time meant closer examination of my epidermis, and wait, were those lines under my e...