These days we seem to have gone through the looking glass and the popular demand among ostensible feminists is that everyone have some kind of skin care routine - outside the demands of avoiding cancer by wearing sunscreen, why?
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I have seen no answers from the "everyone needs to learn a skin care routine" that don't boil down to "because you must look youthful and aesthetically pleasing and be fuckable at all times".
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"Everybody should moisturize" I mean sure if your skin is feeling tight and itchy it'll make you feel better but otherwise it's not compulsory.
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Human beings age and their skin gets wrinkles and scars. You are allowed to be human and do human things like aging and having the normal skin that comes along with that. You are allowed to not spend your money on a "skin care routine" to fight the clock.
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And watching discourse on the left shift from "why the fuck are women required to do all this shit to perpetually look young" to "EVERYONE should be doing this shit to perpetually look young" over the last 30 years has been depressing as Hell.
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Replying to @NeolithicSheep
Yeah I feel this: I still get guilty when I don’t wash my face every day and then I’m like...why?? It’s my damn skin. I want to avoid skin cancer but argh. And even though I have a routine I have been shamed by other women for not doing “the right one” (oil cleansing or w/e).
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @NeolithicSheep
Like I want to just not have acne all the time and to avoid skin cancer, that’s it. I am really sus of all this stuff because so much of it seems pseudoscientific. I remember looking up stuff about oil cleansing and finding very little from a dermatological perspective.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @NeolithicSheep
And most of it was from beauty influencers promoting products.
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I mean right now if I use moisturizer it is a recipe for painful cystic acne, second puberty is great.
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Replying to @NeolithicSheep @AdmiralHip
Also using the wrong soap? Painful cystic acne. Burts Bees makes a cucumber and mint facial wipe that is nearly the only thing guaranteed to let me get dirt off my face without causing painful cystic acne.
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It’s extremely hard to find stuff that works. I have so many allergies and sensitivities that a lot of extracts and stuff make it worse. I just want people to stop telling me to use rosehip oil or whatever.
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