- Share This Post
- submit
- 2
-
Sparkle (0)
Alright, here's the thing: I was going to write about something fun and smoochy and totally appropriate for the impending lovefest that is Valentine's Day, you know, like the glossiest pink lip glosses ever invented or five ways to feel less stupid in edible underwear. And then something happened: I got a cold. And then while I had this cold, I spent five days in a freezing climate, much of it at the top of a mountain, blowing my poor congested nose raw.
The result, as you can imagine, is tremendously sexy. Thanks to the combined effects of both my cold and the cold, I am now the proud owner of a bright red schnozz whose bright redness is rivaled only by its gross and disgusting flakiness. In short, I look SUPER AWESOME HOT right now. And pretty much the last thing I feel like thinking about is Valentine's Day.
And so I got to thinking: how do you disguise a red and flaky nose? Because I don't know about you, but mine kind of ruins my look. My cold is almost over by now, thank goodness, but presumably yours (or yours or yours or yours) isn't, and maybe we can help each other out.
So here's my method: pretty much whenever I remember, I moisturize my nose. Yeah, I know, that sounds weird---trust me, it feels weird when you do it too---and sure, you have to do it in such a way that people don't think you're picking your nose (I find ostentatiously but not too ostentatiously does the trick), but it seems to be the first step in getting rid of the flakes.
When I'm not moisturizing---for what it's worth, my moisturizer of choice has been Mario Badescu Oil-Free Moisturizer with SPF 17---I'm trying to cover up the redness. And this is slightly trickier: while conventional wisdom dictates that you need to counteract red with green---Physician's Formula makes a correcting powder that may well do the trick---I'm pretty much too lazy to go out and buy another product, and so I haven't been doing that at all. (But you should! And then tell me how it works!) Instead, I've just been fortifying the area around my nose with liberal applications of my regular old cover-up-slash-foundation.
And ehhhhhh, I don't know, it's sort of working. I mean, I definitely look a little less like Rudolph, but I probably wouldn't want to kiss myself over a dozen roses and a heart-shaped box of chocolates either. So tell me, do you have a better way to cover up a red and flaky nose? Aside from not actually getting a cold in the first place, I mean? (And yeah, good luck with that.)
