Confession: I do not wash my face at night. Or in the morning.
The only time I wash my face of it's dirt and makeup is in the morning, when I take a shower. And even then, "washing" it consists of sticking my face in the flow of water and rubbing my hands around to remove any stuff.
My mother in law is an avid face-washer. Every morning and night she diligently washes her face and applies approximately 27 creams, moisturizers, anti-wrinkle serums and other animal by-products to her lovely face. On more than one occassion she has given me a stern lecture about the dire consequences of not washing my face on a regular basis. My own mother also is a daily face-washer, although her products are less in number.
What is the deal with washing your face?? Is it REALLY that important?? Are there any elderly people out there who didn't wash their face every day? Have you suffered any dire consequences because of it? Is your face horrifically marred? Do you have an above-average number of wrinkles?? Has your skin melted from your bone structure??
Here's my reasoning: It's just a little makeup - what little is left of it at the end of the day anyway. I don't wear a whole lot, and I don't wear expensive makeup, so by the end of the day I figure, most of it has blown away in the wind or melted into my bloodstream from the heat of the sun. I'm not obsessing over wrinkles and laugh lines - as I get older, they'll come, and I don't care. The other day I noticed some around my eyes, but I really could care less.
And besides, if I didn't rub what was left of my makeup on my pillowcase every night, I wouldn't have any motivation to do my laundry.
Dirty faces of the world unite!
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Again, present and accounted for : )
I figure I'll have fewer wrinkles because I don't push my skin around twice a day.
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smenita-the stuff left over from yesterday's makeup job.
I am deffinately a non face washer. Can we get clob jackets or something??
Good more people like me. I could care less about left over makeup. It comes off when I wash my face in the shower. Why go out of the way to try and keep it off twice a day besides that daily shower?
Notice a generation gap here?
So, I put on a little makeup and then I use cleansers, produced and marketed by COSMETIC COMPANIES, to take off the makeup. These cleansers are made with Paraben and Xylitol and NO. Red this, and No. Yellow that, and it melts into the porcelain on my bathtub that I then have to use TOXIC chemicals, like CLR, to get it removed. Do I really want THAT on my face? The ONLY reason I use makeup is to not look like a Zombie. A little bronzer blush, wahlah, I'm alive, I'm alive! Plus, I occasionally like to have "relations" with my spouse, but let's not go there.
Nope, I'm a dirty girl. Glad to see I fit in. Pimples, anyone?
27 Creams - I think NOT! Vanity - thy name is not Sue! Let's see now --- morning, I wash my face with water and then I apply moisturizer ===== evening, I "wash" my face with cleansing cream and then apply night cream! I don't think that adds up to 27.
ok, mom n - I confess that you most likely do not actually APPLY 27 creams and moisturizers and other products every night, but YOU must confess that you probably OWN that many. Come on...I've seen the contents of your bathroom drawer.
:)
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