Ive never done one, except for the super mild exfoliating products for my acne scars - and the products i used are about 2 to 5% of a bunch of different acids, like salicylic or glycolic, and if I used it more than once or twice a week my skin got super sensitive. Some dermatologist grade peels get to as much as a fifty percent concentration, and come with a giant list of aftercare steps. The idea is to literally burn off the first layer of skin, where the scars/acne/sun spots/hyperpigmentation/whatever complaint are, so that new skin can grow on top of that. In lower concentrations it just sort of... dissolves the first layers of dead cells so that pores dont clog as often and stuff like that. The one person I knew of who did a strong peel like that had pretty bad cystic acne, and it was effective, but she also needed two weeks of basically diaper rash cream/industrial grade moisturizer for the face three times a day, a month of wearing a large brim hat, and like six months of very high SPF sunscreen because her skin got very sensitive.
Nthing the Log Horizon rec, and you might like Girls Und Panzer? It's (from what I recall, it's been a while since I watched it) a school anime where the kids all live on ships for Reasons which are never really explained, and one of the competitive school sports is tankery. Literally, girls team together and fight in tanks.
thanks for the data. i don't have an acne problem unless i heck up my shaving, so i reckon i'll leave the whole peel concept alone.
i mean for me coffee grounds and coffee-containing tonics help somewhat bc it does do Something when applied topically but it sure does not reduce redness lmao you want rose or lavender or chamomile for that usually, bc these all have soothing properties (I occassionally use coffee grounds as a combination peeling and skin tightener on my cellulite-wrecked thighs which is an exercise in futility given my connective tissue is Barely Functioning At All but an enby can dream.........)
The way it works best according to my readin/experience: if you can, shave in the shower (get a fogless mirror for face shaving) and use conditioner (like for hair) for a skin lubricant, not shave cream. Exfoliate to whatever level works best for your skin (I like really mild sugar scrubs because I can make them at home for cheap and experiment with ingredients) then pat dry once you're out of shower and moisturize.
From what I know scrubs/physical exfoliators are good enough for shaving-acne, yeah! You could use a mild chemical exfoliator/peel if you had any hyperpigmentation from that that was bothering you too much, but it's not usually necessary to solve the problem.
no, i don't have pigmentation or redness problems, i am a bowl of elmers glue except at the end of summer when i have three (3) entire freckles. i use an electric razor bc blades shave too close and i get ingrown hairs. do you think just a good scrubbing with a cotton washcloth would suffice for exfoliating? i'm not trying to look like a movie star, i just want my face to feel like a face instead of like a crumbling ruin, and every time i stand up a countdown clock starts running, so the fewer steps the better. anyhow, trying to make a habit of shave -> scrub face in shower -> moisturize immediately after drying off, and hopefully this will keep me from looking too much like a zombie, being itchy, having skin flakes in my eyebrows, birds nesting in my eye bags, or any of the other things that suck about winter.
It should be good if it's a very soft cloth! Face skin is more delicate and can get scratched and irritated, so it depends on how thick it is. If that happens you can either try a honey and sugar scrub before shaving (scrub, wash, shave) or some kind of specific pre-shaving facial soap; now that grooming is getting popular you can probably find something in the pharmacy.
it miight but i might not? Take with a grain of salt, I use sugar scrubs which are up there in roughness. Otoh i can give you a recipe you can literally mix up in your kitchen.
Highly recommend a fine muslin cloth for very gentle exfoliation of face. They dry quicker than cotton terry cloths and need less pressure to be effective, IME.
Tends to work for me, and my face resembles the before-shot in one of those commercials for moisturizer if I don't regularly scrub and exfoliate when I'm stressed. I tend to go for whatever's available for scrubbing, too, so bar soap has worked just as well in my experience as anything else.
happened across a reddit thread about first date disasters, and boy were there a lot of close calls from people who were apparently getting scouted by a murderer or something on an online dating service, who stopped talking to them when they indicated they had a roommate or refused to give their address or something. and it occurred to me, gosh, if you were a serial killer, that'd be a real easy way to get victims -- pose as a nice young woman on dating sites and give the creepers the address of your murder lair. they'll handle your opsec themselves! they're sure to have told absolutely no one where they're going, and made sure they aren't seen going inside, and of course they weren't using their real name and photo on the site, and neither were you. so when they step into your parlor expecting to strangle a co-ed, and instead maxwell's silver hammer comes down upon their head, no one will ever connect their disappearance to you. goddammit muse, when do you expect me to write this? you can't even decide if it's going to be horror or murder mystery. i need you to take a break from torching abandoned cars and help me do the work part of writing.
Plusses: Your targets handle your opsec for you. Minuses: Your opsec is being done by people who would try to pick up an underage girl on an online dating site and have it work out well.
That might be a point in favor of "murder mystery." You could get a pretty interesting investigation out of the cops having to track down the serial killer mostly via the stumbles of their much less competent would-be murdercreep victims.
yeah, that's what i was thinking. especially if they had previous victims themselves -- so the detective has to figure out, for each missing creep, whether he's missing because he's dead or because he's the perp and is hiding.
beck's 'lazy flies' is probably not a pablo neruda reference but my brain insists it's a response to 'united fruit co' and that's that.