It has, and typically, in a negative way, as I’ll get lazy and off my routine, which ends up being a very, very minimal skincare routine until I step back and assess that I’m happier and healthier when I am consciously taking care of my skin vs. doing the least I can get away with.
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Rather the same. My new place is isolated and winter has been brutal. It is now April and determinedly hovering around the freezing mark with ice and snow. Honestly, finding it difficult to motivate myself and the first thing to suffer when I am feeling this ambivalence is skincare.
I feel your pain, Wednesday. At least I can see some ground around my house. That is a step in the right direction! It will start raining soon and turn the snow into slush and will freeze at night making walking outside treacherous. At least we are closer to spring!
Fear and anger about not having a place to live (as of today, but the new LL is cutting me some slack) The first thing that went/was packed was the m/u. I have scent and skincare out, but a billion boxes of m/u. Will do an even deeper purge if I have the time. Like sweaters, it was try, then the usual moving choices: give away, toss, or keep. The only m/u I have used since ~ Thanksgiving is TM with cocktail in, concealer (must have at least 25 out.). Not packed are one red Becca l/s a Sephora mauve one, and a tubing mascara. Never use the colors. Somehow this is a good thing. Not only does it encourage critical thinking (no, don’t bwahhhaha) about m/u, but it makes you evaluate your relationship to it. I know I have been vastly too extravagant.
Yes, but in a different way.
Mental health problems usually cause physical reactions in my body. At my worst, skin tends to become dry and I develop eczema patches. I need to be even more due diligent with skincare in those bad moments.
I think that small things, like keeping up with skincare and makeup, were saviours during multiple of my breakdowns and mournings, like an anchor point to some sort of superficial reality.
My anxiety, obsessions and depression might manifest in many bad ways… but at least I could always get up in the morning, do skincare and see where it takes me from there.
Definitely, in a different way. When I am depressed or just feeling low, I tend to sit and pick at my face. This isn’t something I do all the time and thankfully, when I get in front of a mirror and see red spots that I have picked, I will usually be more conscious of it and will stop. I don’t mean picking acne as thankfully I don’t have that but I just start picking at a completely normal area of my skin and then make it red. Hard to describe. Luckily this doesn’t happen often. During really bad periods of depression, I will go to sleep without even washing my face, which is gross sounding and gross behavior. Again, after a day or two, I can usually break the cycle. I am, once again, looking at changing my skincare routine. I haven’t been happy with it for awhile and this whole winter my dry skin has really bugged me. I have no idea what I am looking for though! I feel like I want to change everything and basically start over with all new skincare. I am looking for the fountain of youth, but then again, aren’t we all. I am hopefully going to be attending my 50 year high school reunion this summer, yikes!!! I am nostalgic about my youth, my youthful skin and just feeling younger again. The old adage about youth being wasted on the young is so true!
Oh, and by the way, does anyone know how to lose 50 pounds in two months, LOL!!
No – even when I am feeling overwhelmed (as I did when the family was living with us) my skincare regime was always important to me. I do keep it fairly simple – cleanser, night oil, serum (sometimes) and night time moisturiser and taking care of my skin was one way of taking care of myself. Even during the darkest days of lockdown + caring and looking after a family of 8 people, it was the one thing I could do.
No, because I cannot just stop with my skincare routine, especially the bedtime part. Mainly because if I do, I know that I will pay the price. Hopefully now with those polycystic ovaries gone, this will no longer be a constant battle with acne breakouts at 63! But, either way, I definitely enjoy my skincare routine.