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[AceEpidermis]

I've been trying to break an irritating habit recently. I wear glasses; without them my vision is acceptable, but I lack the ability to see fine detail. I digress... As one commonly does before they shower I remove my clothing and spectacles. One refreshing shower later I exit the shower, dry off and look in the mirror...

"Hey", I think to myself, "My skin is looking a heck of a lot better! Maybe <treatment here> IS working". I begin to exude confidence and feel 70-80% better about myself. Annnnnd then I put on my glasses and realize any improvement was merely a symptom of my poor vision. At that point my enthusiasm bottoms out.

It's a daily cycle of false hope that never fails to lift me up only to moments later drop my spirits down a ravine. I've been trying to condition myself to not put stock in what I see post-bathing, but I think the true moral of the story is that I should never wear my glasses, ha.

Edited by AceEpidermis, 04 February 2012 - 11:19 AM.

[Ilovemesomevanity]

HAHAHAA thats just like me every morning. i have horrible vision, so when i wake up i think "my skins perfect!!!!" and then i run closer to the mirror and get slapped in the face by reality. aaand then i put my contacts in and kind of just deal with it

[Daphnis]

That freedom and confidence you speak of is exactly what I feel when I remove my contacts/glasses.

That confident is so awesome that I don't even worry about my skin. I wish I can make do without the corrected vision, but I really need my glasses/contacts because without them, I can't get around

[AceEpidermis]

Daphnis, on 05 February 2012 - 07:59 PM, said:

That freedom and confidence you speak of is exactly what I feel when I remove my contacts/glasses.

That confident is so awesome that I don't even worry about my skin. I wish I can make do without the corrected vision, but I really need my glasses/contacts because without them, I can't get around

My eyes aren't terrible without my glasses, but they definitely help. Sadly, what I failed to understand as a child was that the glasses I had been prescribed by my optometrist were corrective. Oh well, live and learn... And then save up for laser eye surgery. Ha!

I've actually been sticking to my glasses recently because of a secondary skin problem, the dark circles under my eyes. They've become especially dark in recent months, more so than the average. I'm hoping to find a remedy to solve that problem, in addition to my myriad of acne issues.