u/lowkeycrashingout

hi everyone! as the title says, i need some recommendations! i’m 17 and i am aware that maybe it’s too young for extra skincare products that aren’t a necessity, but i got really burnt due to the sun so my face and arms + hands became 4 shades darker than the rest of my body. i don’t mind being dark but im not really comfortable showing my skin to even out my skin tone - so it feels really weird for my face to be very dark compared to my body. i wanted to restore my skin barrier and at least get it back to my original skin tone. i wear sunscreen but the sticky feeling after putting it on makes me hate reapplying it due to the heat - which is a big mistake, and ill be reapplying it from now on - so it’s a big factor. any recommendations will help, thank you!!

hi everyone! as the title says, i need some recommendations! i’m 17 and i am aware that maybe it’s too young for extra skincare products that aren’t a necessity, but i got really burnt due to the sun so my face and arms + hands became 4 shades darker than the rest of my body. i don’t mind being dark but im not really comfortable showing my skin to even out my skin tone - so it feels really weird for my face to be very dark compared to my body. i wanted to restore my skin barrier and at least get it back to my original skin tone. i wear sunscreen but the sticky feeling after putting it on makes me hate reapplying it due to the heat - which is a big mistake, and ill be reapplying it from now on - so it’s a big factor. any recommendations will help, thank you!! any products that are accessible in the uk would be great!

hi everyone!

so i’ve been using the johnsons baby shampoo (the pink one) up until the last 2 weeks - sadly, i ran out. basically, my hair is really oily and i have this white, mushy thing when i scratch it, so i’ve been washing it 3-4 times in one sitting using the johnsons shampoo, which works well (i suppose). i wash my hair every 2 days as it feels too dry on my ends if i wash it everyday but too oily if it exceeds 2 days

after my shampoo ran out my mom had a spare, which is the dove keratin shampoo. i do the same routine but it’s not doing a great job at cleaning my scalp, so i searched it up and it says that it’s not good to use it too much bc of protein overload - and i’ve been using it as my main shampoo 😭 so my hair has been brittle

im located in the uk so any shampoo recommendations u have is great! anything good for everyday use and is not harsh as i have a sensitive scalp ^^

thank you!!

hiya! so a quick backstory:

i moved to the uk a year ago and i was born and raised somewhere in southeast asia. i just turned 17 ^^. me and my girlfriend met when i was 15 then we got into a relationship 3 months before my 16th birthday. so we’ve been in a long distance for a year and 3 months now

so here’s where my concern is 😅

1. i dont think ill be back in my home country any time soon as i want to finish my a levels and university here (undergrad) then work a few years to go get a post-graduate degree and maybe a phd - this means i’ll be spending quite a lot for my education and might have to live with my parents until the to make my costs bearable as i plan to take on part-time jobs while being an undergrad

2. i have a feeling that my gf would prefer to stay in our home country (i asked her about it once and she said that she’s open to it, but my gut feeling says otherwise) it feels really unfair for her if i ask her to come live with me here in the uk bc that’s where her family and friends are + i know the feeling of being rlly out of place when migrating to a different country. i don’t want her to feel isolated like i did 🥲

3. i’m worried about our relationship bc 1 year is actually so bad, what more if it was like idk 10 years to wait ‘til we live tgt bc i want to get my post-grad and phd 🥹🥹. breaking up is not an option!!! i cannot imagine a life without her

4. if we travel back and forth to see each other - eg every 6 months we go here - then our wallet would die

so im in a bit of a pickle bc im overthinking my future while also thinking ab how to maintain my relationship with my gf ☹️

ik i can talk to her directly but she’s asleep rn and im panicking in the moment

any advice would really help! thank u sm and happy pride month ^^

okay, before y’all judge me for the stupid ahh question, please keep in mind 😿:

- i’m an immigrant who just moved to london 11 months ago w no prior knowledge about a levels n gcses, so they js kind of dumped me here without teaching me how it works (i get majority of how it works but still not that fully knowledgeable about it)

- culture shock in education !!!

- im overthinking right now as this week are my end-of-year exams that make up 50% of my predicted grade - and im panicking + need some reassurance or answers on what i need to do

basically, i do aqa englit lit, business and sociology. business - highest subj so far, sociology - mid, eng lit - the bane of my existence

quick backstory: where im from, we never wrote essays or analyses literature because honestly, our education kinda shit. there is such a big difference between how it works here and my country, so it’s not a surprise i started failing here. i took eng lit bc i luv reading, now i’ve come to realise how much i hate writing so muuuchhh

anyways, i just finished my english exam today - so 2 questions, 1 per topic (gothic and drama/poetry). i wrote a lot of shit in gothic where i didn’t even start in drama. so basically, im cooked asf. no doubt that they’ll be failing me and i’ll be repeating the year

so here’s the big question: if i do fail and have to repeat the year, can i switch out english and do art while moving on to y13 with business and sociology? bc it seems such a waste to redo the year if my business and sociology grades are good. and i rlly don’t want to be an unc - i already take gcse maths classes with y11 (yes, i learn gcse maths and eng lang along w my a levels), and i have no friends there bc i feel so unc and awkward 😭

my options are: move to another sixth form and redo y12, redo y12 in my school, or do y13 doing business and sociology + art in y12 at the same time

do you guys think it’s possible? did any of u guys have the same experience?

thank u!

please recommend me some wlw books! no tiktok books or heavy smut as the main plot please. if the tiktok book is rlly that good, i might consider. preferably books that share the same vibe as the well of loneliness - anything that’s heart breaking and relatable as books r my only source of comfort as a closeted les to my family🥹 thank you!