u/SelinaFreeman

I've got the Geek & Gorgeous Vit C, and I love it! Only problem is that it stains the skin around my nails (apparently it's the thicker skin that gets more affected, I read on Lab Muffin.).
I go to the fridge, drop some product in my cupped palm, try and evenly distribute it between both hands, and then rub into my face and neck. I then immediately scrub with a firm nail brush and blue Fairy - and still it stains my nails and skin. I'm so over it - even tempted to give up Vit C entirely.

Then I thought - could I attach a spray nozzle and use it as a kind of face 'mist'? Would it absorb as well if it's not rubbed in but left to dry on its own?

Help, oh wise ones!

Just got myself some hydroquinone online - for melasma/HP - I already use 0.025 tret or 0.2% retinal daily/every other day. Trying urgently to lighten some darker pigment patches on my forehead, top of cheekbones, and upper lip.

Just opened the seal on the tube and wheeee, the stench! It smells like a super amplified level of hair removal cream, yanno, that eggy sulphur farty smell?

Is this how it's supposed to smell and oh god my life is ruined? Or have I been sold a dodgy batch? (I think this online pharmacy gets theirs from India?)

The jojoba had been in there a bit too long, started to smell rancid. So I took it all apart, cleaned it out, and left it to dry on the coffee table (the ledge under the tabletop is where I keep my files, oils, etc).

Couldn't find it for love nor money, but I know I am forgetful, so I asked my OH if he'd seen it.

"The thing in three parts, on the table? I threw it away, as it was just sitting there empty."

Me: 🥺 Without asking??

To be fair, he wasn't totally wide of the mark, as I have previously used some of those cheap ones from Amazon/China, that are impossible/very hard to pull apart and refill, so are essentially single use.

So he'd assumed it was one of those, and binned it.

I'd just emptied the vacuum dust cup in the bin, too - and I went rummaging through it all (🤢) to find it, my beloved!

Bit of bleach water on my hands and swilled it all around. Now it's once again drying in three parts, but he KNOWS.

Phew!