Anti-bucket list for my skin: Things I don’t want my Skin to experience in life
If your Skin was a person, and IT spoke to you every morning when you looked in the mirror and every night before your night-time skin routine, what would you want it to tell you? It was a Thursday, the day I talk to my Skin. We had a long chat and the Skin spoke IT’s Skin-out. It told me what it doesn’t want in IT’s life and asked for my help. I grabbed my mouse and laptop and started jotting down the list. Here it is: 1) No big-Pores, please ! So my Skin gave me a “Told-u-so” moment. IT reminded me of how I would pop and squeeze my pimples, IT used to also warn me, frowning furiously by giving a disgusting appearance immediately after the pop. But I aimlessly kept doing it. Yes, I was addicted. Now I know why! Because popping pimples releases Dopamine, a neurotransmitter that is responsible for many other addictive behaviours. When you are in that Pain situation, Dopamine affects your emotions by giving you a temporary feeling of Pleasure and you w...