This is Getting Old

I have never had great skin. I guess it's genes, or hormones, or because I don't wash my makeup off at night or because it is just a bunch of bull! I don't think it's fair for a 27 year old to get blemishes. I think this is a mean trick. I couldn't wait to get older when I was in high school because of the false dream that I may have "great skin." Wrong!! This must be a funny joke to God. Well, I'm not really laughing anymore! Doesn't He know that He needs to give the teenagers the zits?



Will I be 45 still getting these blemishes?



The Proactive commercials are just so tempting. All their celebrity endoresemnts, their before and after pictures really makes me excited about great skin. Then I'm too lazy to go and get my credit card out of my purse! I guess I may just be too lazy to get great skin. For a while I was washing my face at night. But it got old. I was tired and wanted to go to bed. By the time I splashed my whole face with water and soap, I was wide awake for another hour. So instead, I manage the blemishes and complain.



Sometimes I get one giant blemish! I cover it with makeup and more makeup and more makeup. It only looks worse, like a big mountain caked with skin colored goop. So I wash the crap out of it, as if to make up for all the times I don't wash my face. It only dries the sucker out so much I have the worst dry spot on my face in history.



I almost want to make an announcement when I walk into a room or go to dinner.

Yes, go ahead and quickly glance at the spot that has taken residence on my face. Yes, I am a grown ass woman that still breaks out. Yes, I am aware this make-up may be making it look worse. No, I have not named it yet!


Recently I was walking through the mall and behold!! I see this:

Hallelujah! Hallelujah!! A Proactive Vending Machine. It's as easy as getting gum?!

Now my first thought, is of excitement! So easy to get!! My second thought was if I was to stand here in the middle of the mall and start the buy process, I am pretty sure someone from high school would walk by and try to make small talk while I'm trying to purchase some zit cream. How embarrassing! Worst idea EVER! It would probably one of the girls with "good skin " too. Nothing could be more embarrassing, except maybe buying condoms and running into your parents or something.

I guess I will just keep managing these horrid blemishes, praying about them and reminding God I'm not 16 anymore, and continue not washing my face at night. I will just be a walking- before ad for proactive! Maybe when I am like 90, I will have good skin, or it will be so wrinkled it won't matter anyway...