ahead of my time.

i went through hormonal acne ridden teenage years like everyone else.  i remember popping pimples and loading up on clearasil and being very embarrassed at prepubescent fu man chu facial hair etc.  i remember using stridex for my football helmet chin strap and listerine-ing my mouth piece.  but when i hit 16, i was introduced to skin care by our gang of 7 girls and 3 guys, inseparable for 6 weeks of harvard summer school.  they washed their face, i washed my face.  they exfoliated, i exfoliated.  they did charcoal masks, i did charcoal masks.  they used toner, i used toner.  they used spf i used spf.  they used eye cream, i used eye cream.  at 16, i was moisturizing.  at 16, i was also doing pushups and situps in btwn homework chapters to look like the next marky mark.  and so when i read this..."i was ahead of my time"

 

via echang.

I believe in taking care of myself, 

in a balanced diet, in a rigorous exercise routine. 

ln the morning, if my face is a little pufffy, 

I’ll put on an icepack while doing my stomach crunches. 

I can do a thousand now. 

After I remove the icepack, I use a deeppore cleanser lotion. 

In the shower, I use a water-activated gel cleanser. 

Then a honey-almond bodyscrub. 

And on the face, an exfoliating gelscrub. 

Then I apply an herb mint facialmasque, 

which lleave on forten minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. 

I always use an aftershave lotion with little or no alcohol, 

because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. 

Then moisturizer, 

then an anti-aging eye balm, 

followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion. 

There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman. 

Some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me.

Only an entity— something illusory. 

And though I can hide my cold gaze… 

and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours… 

and may be you can even sense our life styles are probably comparable, 

I simply am not there.

‐ PATRICK BATEMAN, AMERICAN PSYCHO