Why You Should Stop Touching Your Face Right This Second
I wasn?t a day over nine when my mom first scolded me for touching my face. My sister, who was 13 at the time, was well into her middle school breakout phase, and I imagine my parents were just trying to keep my skin in check early. This was also 1997, mind you?a time when acne commercials wanted you to literally set a salicylic acid bomb on your face in the name of clear skin, so, safe to say acne knowledge was limited.
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Throughout the next five years or so, my sister, the compulsive picker, would be called out the second her hands went above her neck. The same went for me for fear of a pre-adolescent skin freakout, and it barely took six months of reprimanding before I was conditioned to flinch any time someone touched their own face. I watched on, just assuming that any time my sister had a breakout, it was because she must have touched?and inevitable, picked at?her face. All throughout high school, I was dedicated to the cause: I?d only use those disposable sponge wedges to put on my moisturizer or makeup?we?re talking pre-Beautyblender days?and a washcloth to take it all off. There were zero exceptions, and I barely had so much as a whitehead. I know, I’m the worst. But then came college, a time where my mom couldn’t yell at me for missing curfew or going to town on my face with abandon. (I really live on the edge.) I spent hours getting ready in cramped bathrooms where I was subject to an un...
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