Anyone for Coffee? (no boys allowed)

[toni]

I guess since we're still talking periods I'll throw my two cents in about the whole thing. Well, actually I'd like to go back to the whole feminine products thing. I buy my stuff in bulk because I loathe shopping for those stupid things. The only problem is that the place I buy them from doesn't provide bags so you're stuck carrying your big giant box of girl stuff out to the car sans bag.

One time, I went shopping there with him and he was in a huge rush to get out of there while I was in my female shopping stupor. There I am wandering slowly around not paying attention to anyone around me, gazing at anything and everything whether I needed to buy it or not and he's urging me along. Finally he goes off with the shopping cart and apparently he heard that we were finished shopping even though I said no such thing, and he goes through the line and pays for everything.

The only problem is that we never did go by the feminine hygeine aisle. So, I send him back in alone since he rushed on out, and he had to buy them all by himself without a bag. And this place checks your receipt at the door, and there he is with feminine hygeine products and no bag.

He gets back in the car and tells me that the receipt checker, who was some goofy old man, made some comment about how he had to buy the tampons, ha ha ha.

I take delight in small things.

That's hilarious, Shalot. It also reminds me of my 12-year old brother, whom we send to the grocery to buy the feminine stuff when we (we are 3 sisters) suddenly have a visit from the monthly visitor. He gets teased a lot by cashiers and baggers and usually comes home with his face as red as a tomato. Sadistic sisters we are.

[browneyedbailey]

Last year, a boy named Kolby was going through my friend Tiera's purse and found a tampon in between a few peices of paper, and asked what it was. lol, all the girls at our science table started laughing a little untill Brandon told Kolby what it was, hahahaha. Kolby got sicked out and threw it on the table and we all laughed all day and teased him about it. hahahahaha.

[papayahed]

Holy Crap!!! I have a huge zit on my cheek, It's about the size New Hampshire. It's taking all my willpower not to try and pop it.

[Shalot]

Holy Crap!!! I have a huge zit on my cheek, It's about the size New Hampshire. It's taking all my willpower not to try and pop it.

Last Monday I woke up with one on my forehead. It was GIANT and it was painful and popping it wasn't even an option because it was painful too, and popping it would have only made it redder. And, not only was it giant, but it was huge underneath and beyond the red raised part of it, if you know what I mean. It was gross.

Are zits contagious? The reason I ask is because I went on a weekend trip before that Monday with my family, and my brother had slept on the pillows I used the night before. (It was a two bedroom deal, and I only arrived on Saturday night, instead of Friday night, so my brother had to go sleep on the sofa sleeper). He's seventeen and he gets zits regularly, so I am wondering if by sleeping on his pillow case I somehow contracted the giant zit...

It's not like I don't get zits anymore because I do, but the size of this thing was just crazy...It was not your usual everyday zit.

[Niamh]

i dont think so Shal.
I get them from time to time, but thankfully not too often!

[papayahed]

arghh, I can't stop touching it!!

[Tournesol]

you really should NOt interfere with your pimploid [my sis and I call the really BIG ones PIMPLOIDS] cause if if pops, it might leave a mark...and you don't want that on your face for months!!

[Nightshade]

Holy Crap!!! I have a huge zit on my cheek, It's about the size New Hampshire. It's taking all my willpower not to try and pop it.

Just pop it...with a steralized needle ( Niamh agrees!) and why arent you supposed to pop it..
or speed death with tea tree oild course that makes it burst in the middle of the night and leaves icky marks on bed linen!

[applepie]

arghh, I can't stop touching it!!

I have the same problem I've actually been thinking of trying Proactive since they've been so bad in the past couple years. It had been mostly gone before having my daughter, but now they're horrible again. Anyone know if it actually works?

[motherhubbard]

I don't know, I just use lye soap and that has taken care of it.

[applepie]

I don't know, I just use lye soap and that has taken care of it.

I have super sensitive skin. I think some of my trouble is the cleanser I use, but I'm already using the Dove for sensitive skin. I'm hoping maybe the Proactive will not dry me out and make things worse the way the other cleansers and such do.

[amanda_isabel]

love the zit-talk, girls.

got a really big zit myself a few months back. nasty!!! i was just thankful it was by the hairline so I just changed the way i part my hair to hide it. It was huge for days (about the size of my thumbnail when I don't grow my nails) and was so painful when I smiled. (what a headache!)

I happened to take a trip to the dental chair then and the dentist, who had to get at an angle to work on my teeth, rested her arm on my head--and on top of my zit--for like, twenty minutes. hellishly painful, really. I almost didn't notice the drills.

it popped about three days later, on its own. (that's not to say I stopped touching it.) it had three eyes in the pus, and I was like, oh, that's why it's so big!

it scarred. about two weeks later the zit scar became a zit again, but it was not as bad as the first time.

what a persistent zit!

[Madhuri]

I have the same problem I've actually been thinking of trying Proactive since they've been so bad in the past couple years. It had been mostly gone before having my daughter, but now they're horrible again. Anyone know if it actually works?

Proactive does work; my brother used it, and it worked for him. It tries to contain the sebum production and that helps in reducing the pimples/acne.

[papayahed]

I popped it. It was about ready to blow so I helped it a little bit.

MH: Lye soap??? Doesn't that dry out your skin?

I've never tried proactive.

[Lily Adams]

I use Seabreeze in the morning and Noxema at night and then I use acne cream at both morning and night to fix those special spots that need extra work.

I have basically no acne. And apparently it makes my face skin really soft.

So those are my two cents.