#skinnnnnnn

[shiftythrifting]

there was a post i saw on your blog with a vid of a sing a ma jig that only sang “SKINNNNNNNN”. i wanna see it again

https://x.com/4eyes_/status/805851294292381696?s=20

[boxingcleverrr]

So with the mind-boggling hilarity of people feeling the need to defend taking care of their skin, I wanted to do an update of my original skincare post. That I of course can't find, presently, as the search function on this site is still useless!

First of all, come to terms with the fact that you are walking around with a giant organ on the outside of your body (ahurhurhur).

Yes, preventing skin cancer is priority one when it comes to your dermis. Sunscreen isn't the only defense, having skin with a healthy moisture barrier is part of that prevention as well. ALSO, one thing a lot of those posts desperately yelping "It'S nOt BeAuTy StAnDaRdS!" leave out is, uh, the scary shit that can happen to your skin when you're elderly. Your skin WILL get thinner, that's just aging. Taking care of it now (keeping it stretchy and moisturized) gives it a better chance of not being paper-thin, to the point that the person taking care of you has to be mindful not to freaking tear it off of you just helping you get dressed.

If you have a strong stomach, go ahead and read some stories from hospice and other types of elder care workers. There's a whole contraption for lowering people down slowly if they're about to fall, all to prevent skin splitting or sloughing off.

Age spots are beautiful. Care-worn wrinkles and laugh lines are beautiful. Your arm skin sloughing off like a glove is not.

Fucking moisturize.

Is a side effect of that care often fewer of those lines? Sure, MAYBE, sometimes. It also doesn't at ALL require 18 expensive steps. Even before I left my job I was mainly using the best I could find for the least amount of money. Almost everything listed I've been using for over a year at least! Aldi-brand skincare is amazingly quality, as you'll see.

Washing:

Lacura Foaming Gel Cleanser: Super gentle and nice for a daily face wash. When I want to use it as a makeup-remover, I'll pump it into a super-soft sea sponge so I can scrub a bit more, albeit gently.

I don't get big breakouts much at this point (regular cleansing and moisturizing will usually chill your skin out eventually re: feeling the need to over-produce oil). But I do keep some Neutrogena Face Wash around for when I get breakouts anywhere, maybe a handful of times a month.

I don't know how much benefit I REALLY see from toner, as far as my pores. They seem fine! Mostly I just loooove the feeling of swiping it on fresh from the fridge, and the coolness does calm down the skin and sooth any puffiness. I still make my own Rosewater Toner with wilting discount grocery store roses and a few drops of lavender oil.

Goops:

Lacura Day And/Or Night Creams: These are SO AFFORDABLE (I'm using Amazon links for ease of reference, they are WAY cheaper directly from Aldi) and make your skin feel like butter. After washing and toning one or the other is what I glop on next, and a little goes a long way. Night cream is important because the skin under your eyes especially is so super thin, it needs that protection as we get older. But eye creams tend to be STUPID EXPENSIVE. Lacura is around $4 at Aldi and I legit see very little difference between it and the unsustainably expensive ones I've tried in the past.

Ponds Dry Skin Cream: The old reliable. I have used it since I was 19 and Oprah said it was good, lol. If you use nothing else on your face, use this (but also sunscreeen, dear gods). After Day or Night cream, this comes next.

A good rule of thumb for all moisturizers is that you don't want it to disappear into your skin immediately OR stay too greasy. As I've gotten older, this one sits on my skin longer, so I tend to only use it at night in the summer. Once it gets cold and dry out, though, morning and night baby.

Vaseline Cocoa Radiant: For the all-over-rest-of-me, you really can't beat it. After every shower or bath, all over everything, damnit. LUBE YOUR DERM.

Oil:

Olive Oil Squalane: My last step of the night is topping my face with a good Squalane before bed. My old job discontinued the one I swear by, pictured above, which, I have no idea why? It feels soooo nice and I saw such good results in the winter especially. I bought up a bunch of bottles from work before it disappeared, haha but there are soooo many options out there for a lot of different prices. Basically you want the main ingredients to be Olive Oil & Herbs, usually Rosemary.

Treat Yourself Tier:

Innersense Harmonic Treatment Oil: I was given a gift card to them for my birthday last year, and yeah they're reeeeeally wom-wom and a little insufferable in their marketing, and they're expensive. HOWEVER, this stuff is infuriatingly great? Nothing was helping my dry scalp until this. I use it instead of the Squalane maybe once a week on my face as well, and it definitely clears up any redness or irritation right away. How dare it be good and also $25 an ounce. But if you can treat yourself, why not!

Dead Sea Mud Masks: Masks are FUN, damnit. If you can ignore all the annoying "detoxing" claims and blah blah, it is a fact that mud masks can really flush out those pores. And they feel nice!

General Habits:

Wash Your Pillowcases: They're full of your face goo, skin cells, and slobber. Not only good for your skin, but just nice. Wash your sheets/bedding more regularly in general, if you're like me then I know you're not doing it enough. Make the change to fragrance-free detergent now if you haven't already, that shit could start bothering your skin at ANY time. My mother never had a problem with good ol' Tide, until she turned 60 and suddenly ANY fragranced soaps made her skin explode.

Wash Your Makeup Tools: Same as above, I regularly gross myself out watching all the GUNK that's stored in the pretty pink makeup brushes.

Wash Hats, Headbands, Etc: Hopefully the pattern is sinking in. If it touches your skin regularly? It should be washed regularly. It's easy to remember that your clothes do, of course, but there's so many other things as well that are fulla your skin cells, various products, pollution, and sebum. Scientists could probably clone you with access to the inner band of your favorite hat alone.

SUN SCREEN: EVERY TIME YOU GO OUT IN VIEW OF THE FIRE ORB. Sensitive face/skin? Baby sunscreen. I know texture is a big thing for people, but there are lots of different brands out there that have lots of different textures, ingredients, scents, etc. Don't give up on it just because Coppertone makes you break out, you owe it to yourself to find the thing that works for you. Skin cancer is a bitch that spares no one, not even Hugh Nicest Man Ever Jackman.

Drink Water: You know it, I know it, same as above, find the way to get regular hydration in that works for you. I personally like making my own fruity flavored syrups to dash in things. Hydrated skin begins from within, blah blah blah.

Vitamins: Take a multi-vitamin, get your vitamin D. The sun is not BEAMING VITAMINS INTO YOUR PORES, it synthesis it. A quick google will tell you that 8-10 minutes in the sun A DAY is all you need. So don't let anyone tell you BUT YOUR VITAMIN D!!!!!!! when you're layering on your sun screen. Take your vitamins, get a teaspoon of sun regularly, and then GOOP UP.

I'm no expert, just someone with a mother & grandmother who greatly regret/regretted their lack of skin care as younger women. My mom is 75 and she has lines and spots, and she's beautiful! But her skin can tear after a clumsy trip into a door frame. She's listening to her dermatologist now to the letter, and I too would like to avoid that as much as possible! We all deserve to like how our spongy flesh prisons feel.

[puretopia]

[rusty-gloinks]

hello Murder Drones Mutual (or person I just see everywhere I think we're mutuals but I can't... rmeber exactly) how are you feeling about this occasion (I don't even watch murder drones I just saw the finale premiering and I was like i bet the murder drones person is going crazy rn)

uzi murder drones

[dinosaurstirfry]

Peak secret boss dialogue /j

[sleepykitty5549]

Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

[sillybilly-room21]

a mosquito bit me i’m gonna start screaming

[qualityrabbitsoup]

maybe i should attempt to write something

[sophopolis]

I I I CAN SURVIVE BUT I DONT KNOW IF I WANT TO TURN OFF THE MACHINE IVE SPRUNG A THOUSAND LEAKS I CAN FEEL EVERY GODDAMN THING

[cerealandchoccymilk]

can my beautiful tboy pussy stay beautiful and not insanely itchy. thx

[whotfelsewantedtobelynnyx]

ART DUMP TIME!!!! But with a twist 😈

No, this isn’t my art. I’m not that good :) this is all work that my beta reader/semi-coauthor/illustrator Charkaway has done- mostly for my Hazbin Hotel stories- and I think it’s the only fair that my tumblr fam gets to see it too :) :)

THESE GORGEOUS CHAGGIE ARTS guys i love them so much you have no idea. 😭

Husk and little Vaggie, from my series “Did It Hurt When You Fell” on AO3. A GEM AND I’M SOOOOO GRATEFUL TO HER FOR IT

Asked her for a simple sketch. She took it up a notch and I’m so proud of her 😭

Some more baby Vaggie sketches from DIHWYF she’s sooooo cute and I laughed for an hour the first time she sent me the first sketch

AND FINALLY THIS WONDERFUL BEAUTIFUL FANIMATION THAT SHE WORKED HER ASS OFF ON AND I’M SO FUCKING PROUD OF HER IF I HAVEN’T ALREADY MADE IT CLEAR 😭😭😭

-why won’t it let me link it

Y’all I am STRUGGLING with the links today okay 😭 y’all will just have to check her page out for yourselves and see it 😉 @charkaway the animation is at the top of her page and it’s AWESOME!!!

And here’s some of her non-fanarts because I’m so proud of her for too and she’s working on more of them 🥺 (she also drew my PFP!)

LOOK AT HOW GORGEOUS GUYSSSSSSS I WANNA ETCH IT INTO MY SKINNNNNNN- oh wait, she also drew my tattoo* 😎

But on a serious note, huge shoutout to this wonderful person. Before she was my beta reader, she was my best friend of over a decade. Without her company, her talent, her sense of humor, and her love, none of my work would EVER be possible. This girl is my rock, my inspiration, and my safe space all in one and I’m so overdue to hype her up as much as she does me. She’s worked SO HARD on all her art over the years and I’m so happy to see her finally getting all the love she deserves. I hope this post does get some visibility so my people can see how amazing she is, but even if it doesn’t get much…at least I get to show her off.

Love you, C. I’m so proud of you 🩷

*she did draw my first tattoo, but because it’s pretty identifiable I won’t post pics of it here. Y’all will have to just take my word for it! Also please don’t repost her art without permission- I have permission, and I technically posted it all in the first place :)

[nomairuins]

he took that man back.

do NOTTT take that man back take the car and GOOOOO

[peachielabel]

GET IN THE BOX NOOO GET IN THE BOX NOOO GET OUT OF MY SKINNNNNNN

Am I really going to spend the last month of my free time before college starts fixating on a villain AU me and my boyfriend are making for a Roblox fighting game? Yes. Yes I am. I have no regrets. This AU will not get out of my head, so might as well feed the demons 😭. It's given me motivation to draw so I'm just accepting it atp LOL.

I wanna yap on Tumblr about it before we finish and drop the Google Doc, but idk what to yap about so like...

Have a lil Villain Rocket for your troubles ^_^

[pretttylitttleliarr]

he is so fine i just wanna be in his skinnnnnnn!!

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[romaritimeharbor]

If you can parentify Pantalone (that man should not be a father) you can parentify Lotor ❗️❗️❗️❗️ (I love encouraging ideas™)

GET OUT OF MY SKINNNNNNN ❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️

[doodlebloo]

HIS SKINNNNNNN