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The Ickiest Beauty Chores You Secretly Love!

3 March, 2024 - 07:45pm by - First Lady | 26 Comments

by BR Natalie

Staying beautiful isn't always pretty - the human body has some areas of maintenance that are, well, a bit icky.  Ear wax.  Belly Button fluff.  Toe nail grime.

But you have to admit, sometimes there's a bit of satisfaction to be had from the more icky beauty chores.  I quizzed my friends and family and here's what the grossest of the bunch confessed to enjoying. 

1.  A spot popping and hitting the mirror.

Second place in the pimple zone - a really long blackhead.

2.  Digging out an ingrown hair that turns out to be realllllly long.

Even if there's blood, even if there's pain, that hair uncurling makes it worth it!

3.  Filing your feet when they're dry and witnessing a cloud of foot dust.

Admit it - you've let your feet go an extra week just to make it really satisfying...

4.  Peeling off a nose strip and being greeted by a forest of long black heads.

Why do we use pore strips?  10% to clean our pores.  90% to inspect them after!

5.  Cleaning your ears out and it turning...magical.  Cough.  Eargasm.

Even better is when you've been out of cotton buds for a few weeks and you really needed that clean.


 So 'fess up then - what beauty habits give you a gross satisfaction?  Share it loud and share it proud, we won't judge!

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3rd March, 2024

Lmao nothing like a good pimple pop!

28th May, 2017

I still struggle with what looks like 'my Dad's feet'. The Scholl Velvet foot file has improved things and because I don't want to scare my partner, I will use when he is not around :-)

25th May, 2017

Definitely #2 & #1. I'm not embarrassed to admit it hahaha

24th May, 2017

Only number 2 here (its so satisfying though) and I like watching pimple poppers on you tube :/ ew right?!

24th May, 2017

Most of these! I dont have ingrown hairs and I dont use a nose strip, although I do have one og those blackheads that comes back to the same place!

24th May, 2017

Guilty of 2 and 3. At least you feel like you have achieved something from it hahaha

24th May, 2017

Hahahaha! Awesome, all of them :) I'm still lolling

24th May, 2017

I've been known to squeeze a zit ,picking at dry skin in my feet with scissors and also sanding rough skin off the soles of my feet.

23rd May, 2017

Love that "why do we use pore strips? 10% to clean our pores. 90% to inspect them after!" So true.

23rd May, 2017

Totally agree with number four! That's why the black pore strips are better. And I definitely do number two.

23rd May, 2017

Eeek, none of those. Sometimes tweezering a chin hair and finding it really long is cool - glad to see it go that is!

Nicolef
23rd May, 2017

Truth

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