I’ve been rather lucky in life (knock on wood before I jinx it) that I’ve had relatively good skin. No teenage acne saga, no adult “why now?” breakouts. My skin and I have had a stable, mutually respectful relationship. I feed it soap and play and seek with the sun, and it minds its own business.
In fact, on two separate occasions in Seattle and Macau of all places, strangers stopped me on the street to tell me how perfect my skin is. Which, let’s be honest, is an odd compliment. “Excuse me, your pores are magnificent!” feels like a line from a skincare cult recruitment pitch. Still, I’ll take it. People have commented on my skin tone, too. I smile, thank them, and internally credit genetics, hydration, and a lifetime of being slightly afraid of the sun.
But what a weird world we live in now when it comes to skincare. It used to be “wash your face, maybe moisturize.” Now it’s a 27-step process with ingredients that sound like a chemistry final exam.
Enter TikTok. The birthplace of many beauty “innovations” (and I use that word loosely). Coconut oil for wrinkles, beef tallow as moisturizer, onion shampoo for hair growth. Yes, you read that right. Somewhere out there, someone is slathering steak grease on their cheeks and wondering why their pillow smells like a burger.
The latest craze? Skin flooding.
Which, I’ll admit, sounds less like a beauty regimen and more like something you should call a plumber about.
Apparently, “skin flooding” is the art of layering multiple hydrating products such as toners, essences, serums, and moisturizers to “saturate” your skin. It’s like giving your face a drowning lesson in luxury. Supposedly, it locks in hydration and gives you that dewy glow.
But as someone who subscribes to the KISS method of “Keep It Simple, Silly”, I’m skeptical. My idea of skin flooding is accidentally falling asleep after a sheet mask. I can’t imagine my face needing a hydration stack worthy of a Jenga tower.
At what point do we say, “Enough, face. You’ve had your fill”? Surely, there’s a fine line between moisturized and marinating.
I get it. People are searching for comfort, ritual, maybe even control in the chaos of the world. Skincare routines can feel grounding, a small daily act of self-care. But somewhere between self-love and self-lather, we might be losing perspective.
So while the internet debates hyaluronic acid ratios and “slugging” techniques, I’ll keep doing what works, which is water, sunscreen, sleep (when I can), and laughter. Because, honestly, that’s the best glow there is.
And if someone stops me again in a foreign city to comment on my skin? I’ll just smile and say, “Thanks. Must be my natural resistance to TikTok trends.”
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psychologistmimi 
Hehe Let’s ask AI
The Google Flavored
Search Engine
About Healthy Skin
“Exercise benefits skin by increasing blood flow, which delivers oxygen and nutrients, while also boosting collagen and cellular regeneration. Both aerobic exercise, like running, and resistance training are beneficial, and activities that induce sweating, such as HIIT or hot yoga, can help cleanse pores. Facial exercises, like Face Tapping or a Lion’s Roar, can also improve circulation
and tone the face.”
Indeed Genetics Counts
Yet Circulation is Key Blood Makes
A Difference With Rosy Cheeks too
So Many Folks Suffocate the Face
With All the Add-ons to Make a Buck
Hehe Not Surprised if Even Alex Jones
Sells this Stuff Dear Miriam i Suspect
All the Steps You Do In a Day Traversing
New York
New York
Helps too Yet even more
i Suspect the Genetics of
Coming From an Island closer
to the Equator like my Wife’s Genetics
in Pacific Islander Way
Who Never Wears Make-up and at
55 Continues to get Mistaken for 30 Something
Counts
Most True Along
With Not Roofing
for a Living in the Hot Sun…
Hehe a Waitress at a Local Seafood
Restaurant Also Recently Noted a
Certain Glow of the Skin Tone
of my Wife and me
i Also Credit
Not Having to
Work for Pay
18 Years for me
And 22 Years for Her
Stress is Okay as Long
As We Burn off the Stress
Hormones and Get Some Rest
(Cigarette Smoking Death to the Skin)
Considering all the Years i’ve Spent
in the Sun and Decades of Stress
i’d Probably
Look Older
than i am
If Not for
Strength
Training to
the Max since
12 Years-Old
Regenerating
All Parts of the Body
As Science Shows Now
More than ever before like
Last Century Where Exercise
Was Considered Low Brow and
Only For
‘Brutes’
Or Perhaps
it is the ‘Lion
Roar’ At the Gym
i Make Leg Pressing
1540 Pounds 12 Reps
Use it or Lose it Counts
In All of What Existence
Does now
for
Next…
Make Up
For Make
Believe not
Required Either
From an Anecdotal
Perspective Kind Loving Peaceful People
Age Slowest oF All at Least They SMile…
Without Orange
Halloween Year
Around
Pancake
Make up hehe
Or Bleached
Blonde Wannabe D’s…
Where All of Existence
Is Basically A BOld Face Lie..:)
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Circulation is key, I would agree. Keep dancing! 🙂 cheers
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Nothing Like
A Happy Dance
Cheers Indeed☺️🙌🎶
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Haha, “resistance to TikTok trends”, I like that. My mother always said that women would take a hammer and hit on their fingernails to turn them blue if that was launched as a trend.
I can’t do totally without cream anymore, unfortunately, my skin has become drier with age, but my routine is a three step one only. 😉
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