Self-care Saturday

[pinstripe_bindi]

Bought a dozen seaweed extract sheet masks. Here's the thing about skincare: I think most of it is a scam. By which I mean, I'm pretty sure how your skin ages is mostly down to genetics and thus completely out of your control. There are small things you can do to nudge it in the right direction, like stay hydrated, stay out of the sun or and/or use

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[chocolate_frapp]

I have the exact opposite problem. I have very oily skin and hair and a lot of the time I can't even find shampoo. For some unknown reason a lot of shampoo companies don't make shampoo for oily hair anymore and the few that do have an unfortunate tendency to make it smell like either grapefruit or tea tree oil, which I really dislike the smell of.

[pinstripe_bindi]

My hair is definitely not as easy-going as my skin, especially since I moved to a climate that is like 1,000% more humid than the one I lived in for 35 years. I want to start using bar shampoo, to cut back on plastic waste, but I haven't bought any yet because the one time I tried it (almost 20 years ago), it was a total disaster.

[chocolate_frapp]

I'm just glad I don't live in the same part of Calif I lived in for a while in the early 80's, the air pollution was really bad there and it fucked up my hair and skin really badly.