Pips_Paradise wrote:

One can?t escape what stares back at them in the mirror, especially first thing in the morning.

I remember, and this is not so long ago my struggles with ache, with a gauze towel covering my face, I developed a method of upper limb dislocation so I could manoeuvre my arms to completely engulf my head, then with a single movement requiring dexterity, skill and a screaming ?banzai ?, I would do a focused twist and squeeze, that would impress Jet Li, Jackie Chan, or even the late Bruce Lee, my face under its gauze cover would go off like GAU-8A Avenger Gatling gun , zits, spots and ache would blast forward in to my gauze mask, all that was needed then was to resemble my facial features, in the initial first wave of facial ?shock n awe? a nose, lip, or ear can become dislodged, in a worst case scenario a full forehead tsunami would form without warning above my temple forcing my scalp and hair backwards, unable to part company from my skull, my head would momentarily disappear up my own backside, but luckily with upper limbs still dislocated, all one needs to do is to grab the gauze tabs protruding from the sides, and yank it back out. Job done.
For a sensitive adolescent Girl this traumatic procedure would be performed twice daily, obviously this had an impact on my confidence.
So when friends and relatives, look sympathetically and say ?beauty is in the eye of the beholder? or ?Beauty is only skin deep? I know they have never as a 14 your old had to physically remove their head from where the sun don?t shine...

Cheered up now sharing that thank you