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oh-bonerline · 11 months

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kiss prompt 20 please 🥹🥹🥹

20…on a scar. (another one that was requested by a handful of people, so here you go! also, just fyi, there is some slight filth in this one.)

Matty has Ross stretched out on his bed, moving over every inch of his skin with his mouth and his fingers. He is cataloging him. He is learning him. He knows most of his tattoos by now, but there are some that are newer and less familiar and there are some whose meaning Matty has forgotten. (“I just liked it,” Ross usually says when he asks.) And he is still memorizing the constellations of freckles on his back, on the insides of his arms, on the backs of his thighs. He is still studying the routes of his veins, the depth of his pores. He is still exploring the seemingly unmarked parts of his skin for anything of interest, any landmarks or curiosities.

“I wanna draw a map of your body,” he says, bending to press his mouth to a freckle at the base of Ross’ spine, dragging his lips up his back.

“D’you know anything about cartography?” Ross asks. He’s lying on his stomach with his head turned sideways and half smushed into the pillow. The half of his face that Matty can see is smiling, scrunched up, teasing.

Matty loves him. Matty adores him.

“No,” he says. “I could learn though.”

“I’m not losing you to another YouTube tutorial rabbit hole,” Ross says, trying to sit up a little so he can properly turn and look at Matty. But Matty is sitting on the backs of Ross’ legs, effectively pinning him to the bed.

Matty leans down and takes a bit of Ross’ skin between his teeth, a soft bit of skin under Ross’ shoulder blade. “Fuck you,” he growls, completely unserious.

“Ow,” Ross says because he knows it’ll get Matty to bite down harder. Matty does, sinking his teeth in and leaving behind red tooth marks. He kisses them and then rubs gently with his fingertips until they’re mostly gone.

He continues his survey of Ross’ body and finds himself thinking of the people before him and what they might have discovered and laid claim to on Ross’ body. Who might have planted their flag on the trio of moles on Ross’ left side, just a few inches below his armpit? Who might have given a name to the expanse of unmarked skin between his box tattoo and his compass tattoo? Who might have made their home amongst the soft, dark hair on his forearm?

Matty allows himself a moment of sadness over not being the first one–not being the only one–to make this trek and know this body. He resolves to be the first one to know it entirely.

Acting on this thought, he spreads Ross’ arse cheeks apart. He has explored this part of Ross with his mouth, his fingers, his cock, but not with his eyes and not in broad daylight.

“Hey.” An immediate but half-hearted objection.

“Hey, what?” Matty asks, studying the hair growing in his crack and letting his fingertip brush against Ross’ hole. “Don’t get shy on me now.”

Ross squirms under him and Matty lets his dry finger slip inside him briefly, watching Ross close his eyes. “It’s different when we’re fucking,” he says.

“Who says we’re not fucking?” Matty asks because he is in fact hard and has been this entire time. He pushes his finger in a little further.

“Matty,” Ross says in his Big Boy voice and Matty obediently removes his finger.

“Alright, fine,” he concedes. He makes a quick note about a small mole down near Ross’ perineum and then takes his hands away from his arse completely. He kisses one of Ross’ cheeks, wet and sloppy, just to make Ross laugh again.

And then, Matty notices something he hasn’t seen before, low on the left side of Ross’ back. A small spot where the skin is lighter and raised a bit, an old and mostly faded scar. The mid-morning sunlight is coming through the window just right and illuminating it for Matty–a new discovery. He touches his fingertip to it, feeling the slight difference in texture.

“What’s this?” he asks, his voice low as if the scar might be scared off.

Ross twists his neck to see and then drops his head back down. “You don’t remember?”

Matty keeps his eyes on the scar, not wanting to forget where it is. “Remind me,” he says.

“2009,” Ross says. “That awful party we went to. One of George’s weird friends was throwing it.”

“Hmm,” Matty says, distracted. The scar is oval shaped, maybe a quarter of an inch long. There is something pearlescent about it as it catches the light. Something achingly beautiful. He imagines it as an abstract paining–thick oil paints on canvas.

Ross pushes himself up onto his elbows so he can better turn to look at Matty. “You really don’t remember?” There is hurt and disappointment in the question.

Matty closes his eyes so he can refocus and think back. But, frankly, George had a lot of weird friends who threw parties in 2009. He tries to think if any were particularly notable and then it comes back to him all at once, like cold water thrown in his face.

“I gave you this scar,” he says, opening his eyes and looking at the scar again.

“Well, technically the hob someone had stupidly left on gave it to me,” Ross says. “But it was your fault.”

The specifics of the party–whose house, who else had been there–are blurry, but the important details come rushing back.

He remembers Ross had been in a bad mood that night and had almost stayed home. Matty had pouted for ten minutes, only half joking when he told Ross he wouldn’t have any fun if he wasn’t there. Eventually Ross gave in.

He remembers there weren’t that many people there, only a dozen or so. He remembers someone there had coke, but Ross had given him a look from across the room–annoyed and apprehensive–so he’d waved it off, opting to chain smoke instead. He remembers feeling quite virtuous about that sacrifice, quite clean and good. He remembers hoping Ross thought so too.

He remembers everyone was playing a ridiculous and confusing drinking game where the rules were being made up as they went along. This had, of course, infuriated Ross and he’d walked out after the first round, moaning about no one playing fair. Matty was enjoying himself, but losing miserably and getting too drunk too quickly, so he decided to pull himself out of the game after the third round and go find Ross.

He found Ross in the kitchen where he was staring moodily out the window above the sink.

“Game’s shit,” Matty said, standing next to him and looking out too. There was nothing to see out there but a flickering streetlight, a beat up old car, a tree without any leaves.

“Yeah,” Ross said. “Whole party’s shit honestly. Whole night’s shit.”

“What are we looking at?” Matty asked, trying to change the subject. He wanted to know what was wrong, wanted to ask Ross if he was okay, but they were twenty year old boys so of course he couldn’t just fucking ask him.

He moved in a little closer so they were shoulder to shoulder. He stood on his toes to match Ross’ height, as if he was trying to see through his eyes. The scene outside the window remained the same, but he could see the sliver of the moon now.

Ross just blinked and looked over at Matty like he’d forgotten anyone else was there. “Nothing,” he said, turning away from the window and leaning back against the counter.

“Alright,” Matty said, turning around as well.

They were still standing close and their hands were resting next to each other on the edge of the counter. Matty let his hand rest against Ross’, his pinky just barely touching Ross’ pinky.

There was something about Ross when he was in a dark mood like this that Matty felt drawn to. He turned mysterious and unknowable. Ross, who was normally so open, suddenly became someone with a myriad of secrets that Matty was dying to know. Matty was drunk enough by then that he could admit to himself he had a huge fucking crush on moody Ross. He wanted moody Ross to take him home, put on the Cure, and kiss him in a bruised lip, sad teenage poetry kind of way.

He felt Ross’ pinky uncurl and brush against his before quickly moving away again. He uncurled his own pinky and hooked it into Ross’, not letting go. He was drunk enough to admit to himself that he had a huge fucking crush on Ross no matter what sort of mood he was in.

There was a burst of laughter from the living room. George’s voice rising above it all to say, “Oh, fuck off, you have to drink now!” And then more laughter, more shouting.

Matty felt Ross tense up at the sound. “You wanna go somewhere else?” he asked, tightening his grip on Ross’ finger, moving his arm closer so he could feel Ross’ skin against his.

Ross looked at him sideways, a small smile on his lips. “Nah,” he said, but he shifted on his feet so that his side was fully pressing into Matty and he moved his hand so that it was covering Matty’s.

Matty still doesn’t remember who turned first, but suddenly he had a fistful of Ross’ t-shirt and Ross’ hands were on his face and they were kissing furiously, desperately. There was no art to the kiss, no skill, just their mouths seeking contact and more contact, seeking whatever they could get.

And that’s when Matty put his hands on Ross’ hips and tried to push him back into the counter to regain control. But he pushed him into the stove instead which neither of them realized had been left on. Ross hissed suddenly and yelled out, “Fuck!” And Matty tore his mouth away and stepped back from him just as Adam and George and a few of the others came in from the living room to see what all the commotion was about.

The room was suddenly too crowded and Matty stood apart from everyone, observing it all from someplace dazed and blurry. Adam was looking seriously at the spot where Ross had been burned as if he were a doctor, saying, “I think you need cold water.” George was cracking up at the whole situation. Ross was angrily asking who the fuck left the burner turned on.

“What the fuck were you doing, mate?” George asked through tears of laughter.

“Who fucking cares? I’m injured!” Ross yelled.

“Oh, he’s injured!” George said mocking Ross’ shrill tone and nudging Matty with an elbow, eyebrows raised.

Matty could feel that his cheeks were burning, and he tried to laugh along. But he was thinking about the split second before chaos had erupted–his bottom lip captured between Ross’ lips, the taste of him, the feeling of him. He was thinking about how everything had gone wrong just as they were about to get it so right.

“Fuck off,” Ross said to everyone crowding around him. He sounded legitimately angry which was rare from Ross, out of character, so people listened and obeyed. They left the room, leaving Matty and Ross alone again.

Matty found an old dish towel and ran it under the cold tap, handing it to Ross without meeting his eyes.

“Would you? It’s hard to reach” Ross said, turning his back to Matty and lifting up his shirt.

The skin there was red, angry. Matty pressed the towel against it gently, pulling back when Ross inhaled sharply, and pressing again when Ross nodded to him.

“Sorry,” Matty said.

“Well, it was fun while it lasted,” Ross said, turning to look at Matty over his shoulder.

“Yeah,” Matty said, smiling up at him, and then he lifted the towel off of Ross’ back. “Does it still hurt?”

Ross’ cheeks were red and there was something sparkling in his eyes. “Not so much,” he said.

Now, Matty leans forward and presses his mouth to the scar, licks at it with his tongue. “Of course I remember,” he says. He kisses it again and again and again.

This is his scar, he thinks. This is where he will center his map. This is where he will plant his flag.

“Not many kisses leave actual scars, but yours did,” Ross says, sounding far too soft and poetic for Matty to handle.

“I love you,” he says, kissing the scar again. He stretches the length of his body out on top of Ross’ back. He kisses the corner of Ross’ mouth, the back of his ear, his beard, any place on Ross’ face that he can reach.

“I love you, too,” Ross says, laughing and twisting his head so he can catch Matty’s mouth with his own.

#asks #kiss prompts #the 1975 rpf #matty healy rpf #ross macdonald rpf #matty and ross #fic #anyway everyone go to the dermatologist get your moles checked!#about to move all of these to AO3 as well because it's making me anxious to just have them floating around on my tumblr

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treesbian · 10 days

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being mad at my parents for events long passed hours

#man my mom used to have my sisters help her pin me down so she could pop all the pimples on my face. bruh that fucking hurt. also.#worst thing you can do for those... i was having age-typical acne and i guess she just didn't like to look at it?? idk.#the acne itself didn't hurt but there was a lot of it so just like. you know how it does indeed hurt to pop those. well there were a lot #and she didn't stop even when i was crying and screaming bc she wasn't done??#and she did it to my back too and some of those grew on nerves and hurt even fucking more #and no she was not using properly sterilized equipment or even fresh washed hands thanks for asking <3 she acted entirely on impulse lol #i mean. i guess she knows its wrong **now** bc she hasn't tried anything similar with my baby sister....???#and shes starting to get acne like i used to have.#idk is that dramatic to be upset about. just imagine being pinched and pricked nonstop for like 2 hours. maybe it wasn't 2 hours.#but also physically restrained too like straight up sat on. is that fucked up.... thats not normal right???#and uh. a few years ago they held me still to shave my armpits with my dad's clippers bc mom is completely convinced #it isn’t possible to be hygenic as a 'woman' with pit hair or anything bc of Pheromones!!! and when i say goddamn fine #i'll just use men's hygiene stuff then she says that won't work bc Pheromones!!!!#like having a slightly different endocrine system makes ppl a different species or something #anyway. i cried just a little bit when they did that <3 gave me razor burn #and after my dad asked like 'is growing that hair out like. important to your identity or something' and.#well i dont know but that fucking hurt and you violated the choice that *eye* was making with *my* body #man i know mom still thinks she never physically abused me bc she didn't ever like. beat me up or anything but. thats abuse right??#she still thinks i was calling her abusive out of fucking nowhere.#sometimes she asks 'when was i ever abusive' and i give her an example and she goes 'well that was JUST BECAUSE--' and like. girl.#you think just bc you can justify it to yourself it wasn't abuse? every abuser can justify it to themselves....#talk tag #man i keep forgetting about how she used to physically restrain me to do her not-dermatologist approved extractions.#i guess it mostly didn't hurt that bad but like. the forcefullness and duration of it. lmao #anyway i found her a late mothers day gift today. its a hairstick with a dragonfly charm #abuse tw #sorry if that triggered anyone b4 i remembered to tag it

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zapsoda · 2 months

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you know how when your tonsils suck fucking shit and make you hurt they get taken out. wish that could be done with my motherffucking hair follicles

#uuuuuughhh why did this start happening. evolutionarily speaking #my face hurts #i am all for skin positivity or whatever. i dont care about the way it looks #i just would like to be able to wear a face mask. or lie down and go to bed. without Hurting #mayb i do need to see a dermatologist ugh

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citrlet · 3 months

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#i have a teeny tiny pin prick red spot on my nose thats been there for a few days i think #and its bothering so much every time i look in a mirror its all i can see #i was hoping it would go away but it doesnt seem to??#im on the fence about calling my doctor or a dermatologist about it because what if it goes away #but then on the other hand i tried looking up what it could be and saw some awful things so im like 💀#this is random sorry haha but i was hoping maybe someones had this and could give advice on what to do

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iwishiknewyouwantedmeuh · 1 year

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So, I have this dermatologist appointment tomorrow, and I'm feeling pretty nervous about it. Let me give you a little backstory on why this is such a big deal for me. See, ever since I was a kid, I've had to deal with health issues on my own. My mom always believed that going to the doctor for small issues was pointless, and I understand where she's coming from. I mean, why bother a busy doctor with something that seems trivial, right?

But I think it's because of that upbringing that I developed this kind of aversion to doctors in general. It's not that I don't see the importance of seeking medical help when needed, but there's always this lingering feeling of unease whenever I have to face a doctor. Maybe it's the fear of being judged or feeling like I'm wasting their time, I don't know. But hey, time to put my big girl pants on and face the world, cause sometimes it’s hard getting things done when you’re naturally a loner. <3

#mine: text #dermatology #dermatologist #doctors appointment #medical field #rambles #tbh i'm really close to fraking out and cancelling #but i know if i don't do this i'm going to constantly whine about all the issues i keep having

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todayisafridaynight · 1 year

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Mine follows the morning routine from American Psycho to the letter Y/N

i want to believe in him to know that much exfoliation and daily cleansing can be bad for the skin i KNOW he knows better not to do all that....

#snap chats #//banging from the inside of a car// MINE YOU DONT NEED A SKIN MASK EVERY DAY !! JUST ONCE A WEEK !! MINEE !!#not HIS beautiful skin.... i know his skin isnt raw as all hell 😭#a LIGHTER routine maybe but not one as. INSANE as bateman's.#my reasoning uhhhh listen if he has a particular protein shake he likes. i wanna believe he knows Enough bout cosmetic health #dont ask how the two relate just trust me <- never listen to someone who says Just Trust Me #the american psych morning routine makes me scream tho. if i havent made that clear #at least bateman's right about the alcohol though- dont do that to your skin. Allegedly. Im Not A Dermatologist #but alcohol does dry the skin really well..... post-swim meets were horrible for my hair and skin.....#admittedly chlorine isnt as harsh as alcohol but i think that just emphasizes my point ☠️ Allegedly ☠️

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sonicenvy · 6 months

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Rating Every Lotion I've tried so far from Trader Joe's

As a backstory to this post, I love Trader Joe's, despite its bougie, expensive nature. They have a lot of random fun products, and a few food goods that are for bizarre and inexplicable reasons the cheapest price around despite being sold by a mini bougie grocery store. (noodles at 99¢ for a 1lb bag comes to mind.) There's one near the library I work at, so I go there a lot after work. Their produce kinda sucks, so I usually go to a different grocers which is closer to my house for that. They do have theee best snacks and desserts however, (also box mac and cheese from TJ's is 👌) so I go there for that stuff. They also have an impressively large collection of soaps, lotions, shampoos, conditioners, etc. for a grocery store. I liked the first lotion that I bought there, so something possessed me to go, hmm let me try aaaaallll the TJ's lotions to find the BEST TJ's lotion. I have skin (especially on my hands) that is drier than the Sahara. (it's all the pottery). Note that this is not a TJ's ad, as I am in no way you know, sponsored by literally anyone. Without further ado:

The first lotion I tried ever from them was their "Ultra Moisturizing Hand Cream" This seems to be a product they always have in stock, so it must be a staple product for them. idk.

Texture: Thick, creamy, medium greasy. You don't need a lot of this lotion when you use it. For your hands you probably need like, a bit the size of a small pea. I find it to be fairly pleasant, as long as you don't use too much of it at once. I give this an 8/10, docked only for the slightly greasy factor when too much is used.

Scent: This lotion is unscented, which is nice for all of us with sensitive skin. 10/10 love unscented lotions, because I don't have to worry about whether the scent is going to disagree with my skin.

Container: This lotion comes in a metal tube that looks exactly like those tubes that acrylic or oil paints (and fancy water color paints) are sold in at art supply dealers. It's a charming aesthetic and makes it easy to throw in your bag on the go, which is what I typically use it for when I buy this. It has a plastic screw-on top. The container is sold in the store in a cardboard box, which feels a little unnecessary from a materials use POV, but makes sense from a "This makes it easier to display on store shelves" POV. The flaws to this design are: the plastic screw on top can crack, making it difficult to put on or take off, and when the lotion gets low in the tube, the metal of the tube becomes quite hard and difficult to squeeze with your hands alone. This makes the end of the lotion difficult to get out of the tube. I haven't tried cutting it open, since I like my scissors and my box knife a little too much to sacrifice to that experiment. I am also fairly certain that this container is not recyclable. This is probably the worst part of this lotion. 4/10.

Moisturizing efficacy: When the right amount is used, this is very effectively moisturizing lotion. Not perfect, and it takes a few tries to get the right quantity, but I liked it a lot 10/10t

Overall Rating: 7.5/10. The major downside to this lotion is its aesthetically charming, but difficult to use packaging. It gets major plusses for being unscented, thick, creamy, and very moisturizing.

The next lotion is the "Nourish Antioxidant Facial Moisturizer". A thing that sucks about TJ's is that sometimes they pull a product from shelves and it doesn't return for like, months. I assume this is because their stores are small, and they want to make room for limited seasonal products (which they have in spades for every season). This lotion seems to be currently off the shelf, which is a shame because I actually really like this one.

Texture: Thin, medium grease, mildly watery, but like, in a good way that makes it easy to spread quickly. No complaints about texture here. Big fan. 10/10

Scent: This is also an unscented lotion, which all facial lotions should be imho. 10/10 for that.

Container: This lotion comes in a small plastic pump container. This is great for at-home use, but bad for on the go, but honestly I'm not taking it anywhere, so I don't mind. The pump pushes out just the right amount to cover your face with a single pump, which is great. I haven't gotten to the bottom of this one yet, so I can't say how it will do at the end, but for now, it seems to be chugging along great, and isn't getting jammed. Also probably not recyclable. 8/10.

Moisturizing Efficacy: The single pump is enough to cover my whole face, plus leave behind a tiny bit to moisturize my hands with. Because it is a little bit thinner (but not, like watery) my skin seems to absorb it pretty quickly, and is nice and soft after use. It pairs nicely with my cerave face wash and my super goop unseen sunscreen (which I literally cannot recommend enough -- absolutely worth the high price). 10/10, no complaints, would buy again (if they still carried it that is...😥)

Overall Rating: 9/10. Outside of my general distaste for pump containers, because I think they're somewhat wasteful, I love this lotion and am very sad that it seems to have disappeared from the shelves of my local TJ's. Maybe it will come back in the spring???

Next up the "Coconut Body Butter" This one's a year round product that they seem to always have on shelf:

Texture: This one's nice, thick, smooth and creamy, also medium greasy. It's pleasant to use for that. However, my tub had a few weird solid/gummy chunks in it, that I was not a fan of. I think they were, like, hardened chunks of the lotion that came from the lid as I used it? They weren't there when I first bought it. 6/10

Scent: Fairly strong, but definitely pleasant coconut oil scent that lingers. Fortunately it didn't seem to aggravate my skin which is a plus. I personally find the scent pleasant, but if you aren't a coconut person it's probably deeply unpleasant, as it lingers after use and you can smell it on someone else who has used it from a couple of feet away (ie: across the dinner table.) 7/10.

Container: This lotion comes in a classic round lotion tub. The tub is made of unusually thick, clear plastic and has a screw off lid. The lid was sealed off with a bit of "sealed for freshness" type plastic, presumably to prevent people from opening it in the store. When it was completely full on the store shelf, I almost mistook the thick, clear plastic for glass because of its weight. But there's something, uh, funny about the lid! You're actually not supposed to open the lotion by screwing off the lid! Instead it has a flap life in the lid that you're supposed to use. I find that those things are typically fragile, annoying to use and prone to breaking at the joint, so I just forgo using it like that entirely and unscrew the lid instead. Round lotion tubs are nice because you can get every last bit of the lotion you paid for out of them, and you can clean them out to recycle them or re-use them for something else. Nifty. 7/10 for the confusing lid.

Moisturizing Efficacy: This stuff leaves my skin fairly soft after a use, if a little greasy. I can tell that my skin is absorbing it because when I had to wash my hands with soap and water not long after an application, the scent and some of the smoothness remained. I think some of it was certainly washed off, because my hands were no longer greasy. It's not as effective on my hands as the hand cream, but it's pretty good. 7.5/10

Overall Rating: 7.5/10. Docked mostly because the scent is pretty strong and the container is weird and confusing. Overall decent product however.

Up next, the "Firming Body Butter + bright clementine scent". This also seems to be a limited lotion (maybe a summer/early fall product?), as they don't have it in my store now that it is December.

Texture: This stuff is thick, creamy and pleasant to rub around on your hands. It is probably the greasiest of the TJ's lotions that I've tried, and it takes a while to absorb into your skin. If you get this stuff on your clothes, you might get a light grease stain which I'm not a huge fan of. 7.5/10.

Scent: As the tube notes, this lotion has "a bright clementine scent". I love citrus-y scents, which was why I picked this one up in the first place. The scent is very strong, much stronger than the coconut one. However, I am a huge fan of the scent! Every time I wear this around my mom, she's always like "What is that scent?" but like in a good way, and I have to tell her it's lotion, after which she always seems to ask if she can borrow some lol. 8/10 despite the strong scent because, uh, I like the smell. I don't wear perfume, so using this lotion's probably the closest I'll get to perfume lol.

Container: This comes in a pretty classic, soft plastic squeeze tube. It's matte and soft to the touch, with a cute, bright color. It's easy to use, and will probably be very easy to cut open to get the stubborn end of it out when you can no longer squeeze it. The light color matte tube does stain easily if you carry it around, so it looks a little janky after a while lol. It is also definitely not recyclable, which is not unusual for every beauty product ever. 8/10

Moisturizing Efficacy: The skin of my hands is pretty smooth and soft after use, but very greasy for quite some time as it takes a while to soak all the way in. Because it sits on top of your skin for a while, if you have to wash your hands off very soon after applying this stuff, you'll probably be washing some of it away. Otherwise quite nice. Between the strong scent and the longer lasting greasiness I'm definitely not about to put this stuff on my face, but it's great for my hands after the studio. 7/10

Overall Rating: 7.5/10 Plusses include pleasant scent, nice texture, easy to use container and decently moisturizing efficacy. Minuses include a little greasier than I'd like, takes a long time to soak in and the scent is particularly strong. Overall decent hand lotion though.

For today's final lotion review, we have the Trader Joe's "Fragrance-Free Body Butter" I've only just bought this one, so I don't have the full experience. I guess It seems to be a new addition to their line up, because they were handing out samples of it in the store when I was there the other day.:

Texture: creamy, soft, moderate thickness, somewhat more watery, medium grease. It almost feels like meringue and overly thick whipped cream had a baby. 9/10

Scent: As the name suggests, this is unscented lotion, which I like! 10/10

Container: Classic round plastic lotion tub with screw top lid. It's the same size as the coconut body butter, but made from a thinner plastic. It also does not have the weird, confusing lid of the coconut lotion. Maybe someone at TJ's design realised that that was a bad design choice and corrected it for this new lotion? Either way, this is probably the best lotion container style. You get to use all the lotion you paid for (easily) and can wash it out and re-use it or recycle it. I've re-used lotion tubs like this one to keep bar soap in when I travel since the lids are nice and tight. 10/10

Moisturizing Efficacy: Pretty moisturizing, if somewhat greasy. Definitely faster absorption than the clementine or the coconut lotion. Good to use all over since it's unscented. Not perfect, but hey, nothing's perfect. 9/10

Overall Rating: 9/10. I think I've found my new favorite TJ's lotion (That's not the facial lotion. This one has the benefit of, like, still being in the store lol).

That's all (for now) folks! Stay tuned as I try even more TJ's lotions. There are like 6 more on shelf that I've seen and not tried. At least. I think there might even be some fun mini scented ones in gift packages. I'm always trying out new lotions, because, again, my skin is drier than the Sahara. This is a combination of the universe going "fuck you" to me and gifting me dry ass shit skin, doing pottery, which makes your hands even drier and living somewhere where it gets cold as shit (and consequentially dry as shit) for like a solid 1/3 of the year.

#lotion #trader joe's #long post for ts #margaret babbles #I'm not sure why I decided to spend my day off saturday morning typing up this post #but uh here ya go #side note if y'all have ANY lotions that you are obsessed with please drop them in my askbox or my dms or the replies to this post #I want to know about ALL the lotions because again i am the victim of dry ass shit skin #y'all let me tell you that YEAR ROUND my skin can get dry enough to bleed especially around my knuckles and the bottoms of my feet rip #it is also scaly as shit all the time. y'all i got old people hands in my 20s because of this #my dermatologist thinks that my dry ass shit skin and my bouts of skin cancer could be related to some mysterious thing that's fucked up #about my immune system 🤷🏻‍♀️#yay for medical mysteries I'll never solve because I'm too broke to see that many doctors

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itsays · 7 months

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that post going around about not getting profesional diagnoses is crazy. but what are they talking about? just adhd or? because you need a professional diganosis for treatment so why wouldnt you?

#also the idea that the government doesnt need to know? im lost how do doctors work in the us why is the government involved fkekqjjsjd #doctors just lie all the time to help you out what are you talking about?#the average doctor will lie for you so your insurance covers everything like. you don't even have to ask #are doctors not like that there?#insurance doesnt cover any type of mental illness so my psychiatrist has me registered for 'migranes' lol #and literally all doctors do this fkdkndkanab #even the dermatologist does this for me

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lovphobic · 11 months

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i was tagged by @nuclearstorms umm three weeks ago (oops) to do THIS uquiz for my ocs! thank u bestie mwah mwah mwah

i am not sure who to tag because ummm all of my oc mutuals either tag me in these or are tagged with me in these. so. um. if u have ocs and want to do this then i tag u :)

— 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞?

𝒔𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒓𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆 . . . 𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳, 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘯

your heart is very lonely, isn’t it? is your fortress of ice self-made? are others afraid of you, or are you afraid of them? are you afraid of hurting them, or of being hurt? vulnerability and connection can be frightening, but that’s no reason to shy away from their light, to tuck yourself small into corners, to build up frigid walls to keep yourself from feeling. you will heal when you allow yourself to draw closer to the flames and thaw.

𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒕 . . . 𝘢 𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴

who are you without the company of others? you aren’t sure, but you know that you aren’t fond of whoever it is. you are an actor, a pretty face and a pleasant song. many idolize you, or love you, but you can never be sure of how sincere it is. your heart is buried under the letters they leave you, sealed with a kiss. it can’t be untangled from the red strings they’ve attached to you. you deserve to find something, someone, true and faithful to hold your heart in place. you don’t have to be everything to everyone.

𝒗𝒂𝒍𝒅𝒚𝒔 . . . 𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘥𝘰𝘰𝘳, 𝘢 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘩

your chest is wide open, and your heart is a home. others are welcomed in readily and asked to stay. you are comfort and love, everything you were never given but so desperately want to provide for others. you have built this welcoming hearth with your own two hands and won’t see anyone else left out in the cold. be careful to not burn yourself out trying to keep everyone else warm.

𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒚𝒂 . . . 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘯, 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘪𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦

your heart has been torn before, chipped and maybe even shattered. some pieces will never be recovered, and you are shaped by the loss. but it can still be shaped into something tangible, something good, even with its flaws and imperfections. you don’t have to do all the work of rebuilding by yourself. allow other hands to leave their fingerprints on the new heart you create from the remnants.

#can i be so honest. i did this quiz for them when u tagged me. like minutes after. in the dermatologist waiting room #but im so glad i retook it. because now all of them have different answers. i think i was just trying to get it done that first go of it #to have something to do while i waited #i feel like. truthfully. personally. id switch valdys and thalya's results #like their results fit the other SO much better. so much more closely #but i will not forge the results. this is what they got!#THANK U AGAIN. SORRY IT TOOK ME SO LONG #i didnt really want to post this bc i was like. nobody give a shit about my ocs #bc i cant develop them well. ive never been terribly creative.#but i AM passionate about them. i just dont have a lot to say like u guys do #but i was like. ehh. fuck it. whatever #so here we are #oc: tag games

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