Another DIY beauty fix....

Uh-Huh.

I tried to make homemade Biore strips.

I don't know why. I haven't used them since I was a teen... maybe early twenties. (so, like a year ago... ahem...)

I thought... yeah. Those are totally cool. You peel them off and see a bunch of munchy gunk that was in your face.

Who wouldn't want a chance to do THAT again with a practically free homemade recipe???  :) haha

The story began on Pinterest. I saw this lady with a recipe -and it 'only' had two ingredients in it! boo-yah. I'm sold. Milk - any kind, and plain gelatin. (NOT lime Jello people. Knox gelatin. This is an important step to pay attention to.)

So you mix a Tablespoon of gelatin with just over a Tablespoon of milk. Then you heat it in the microwave for 10 seconds, then stir again, and then slap the goo on your face and wait for it to become so hard that if you smile it might crack. Then you peel it off and have amazing beautiful skin. Waa-lah!

We don't have a microwave. Let's just say my problems started there.

So I think... do you really HAVE to heat it???

The answer is yes. Yes you do.
I had a pile of goopy-goop on my face. That doesn't work. It looks like you have gorilla vomit on your face. Like you walked under a bird, and said, 'yeah, sure, poop on my face'.

Oh. I'd like to add something here. DON'T - for the love of LOVE... don't put it even if ever so accidentally - on your eyelids. That is not, is not a pleasant experience. Just take my word on it. And.. if some should get on your hair - hair that fell onto your face from your head, or on to your eyebrows. Lord a mercy. Don't pull it off. You will be bald. Just get the other stuff off first and then wash the 'hair' part off with warm water.

So I tried again this week. (first experiment was a week ago.) I tried again last night because apparently the first time caused all the 'reasonable thinking' brain cells to be plucked from my head.

This time I heated the mixture on the stove for a few seconds. MUCH better. Then, I also applied Vveeerryyyy carefully.

I applied it too thick. You want this sucker on thin. Thin. If it is too thick it doesn't dry and you just have goop on your face for the second time. Most of mine did dry though.

I don't know how helpful this whole process is. I ripped every single fine baby hair off my face that I wasn't even aware was there. I don't really have acne. So, I don't know if it helps that. (I thought for some reason this process would just be....fun???) But... today I seem to have an entire face breakout - the irony. ;)
Maybe I can blame the gelatin????

Anyway. Ripping it off. It compares to having ...I don't know. Maybe...slamming your hand in a door. It hurts. Much more than I remember Biore hurting. Maybe I'm just 'old' and not willing to have pain for beauty. If you decide to try this, there are two things:

1. Tell me how it goes.
2. Seek medical help. There is obviously something wrong in your head.