Damn spot

[superbadgirl]

I don't like admitting it or talking about it, but sometimes I get blemishes along my hairline and behind my ears. It's gross. It's not that I don't bathe or anything, but hair on my neck and sometimes even an itchy clothing tag will cause problems. A bit of tea tree oil usually clears the problems right up.

Anyway, for the last year or more, I have struggled with one spot. I could feel it back there, so I'd hit it with tea tree. Failing that, the next step was glycolic acid. When that too failed to solve the problem, I'd douse it with salicylic acid. I did all of this by feel, and the bloody thing just would not go away. I actually avoided hair salons and putting my hair up because of this blemish - who wants to flash something unsightly if they don't have to? (I'd eventually have to go get a hair cut, cringing with embarrassment all the while, of course.)

Yeah. Uhm. Today I finally had the wherewithal to grab a mirror and look at this bothersome blemish.

As it turns out, salicylic acid treatments will do nothing to get rid of a mole.


LOL, how stupid am I? (Don't answer that.)

While I'm here: Murder in the City by The Avett Brothers. Nice little song, in a twangy kind of way. The last line of lyric is especially poignant, I think.

Comments

[khek.livejournal.com]

Oops?

On the bright side, now you can put your hair up again, and hairdressers can look forward to you coming!

[superbadgirl]

Hehe. I feel really silly about it, which is the only reason I shared my mortification. ;)

[el1ie.livejournal.com]

Lady MacBeth has a rival eh?

I'm staying silent on everything else...

[superbadgirl]

Hey, if I can't laugh at my own stupidity...

[betacandy.livejournal.com]

OMG, OUCH!

But actually not that stupid. I get little bumps on my back and I scratch off, and it has never (until now) occurred to me that I might want to make sure they're not moles. Oops. :D

[superbadgirl]

It was so confounding that no matter what I'd throw at the thing, it'd remain to taunt me another day.