The Battle with the Zits

The Troy is currently on HBO. Have seen that one, well, Brad Pitt pulled me to. I was never really interested in the Greek’s ancient, except a bit on the Aphrodite, the Zeus and the Poseidon. Never came thru Agememnon before but I guess his character has always been the one who started war, any war in the world. The greed in one’s heart, the face one can’t lose, the sins one can’t forgive, these can lead to many soldiers being murdered by the fake cause they are made to believe, to the war.

For right now, I am having a great battle with the zits. Zits! I never have problems of such since I was 14. I have lived the life as a woman who is always free with zits, of course, one or two small ones came up but it went of easily less than two days.

The battle. It started with one great zit, at the upper left of my forehead. It built up within four very long days, and each day I waited to see tip of the zit, so that I can seize the white thing out which will then end the pain I’ve endured when the skin get tighter and tighter each day.

While I went through each day with this first zit, another one rose proudly at the south west of the First. This one look the same, it went up higher and bigger but the tip was no where to be seen. Then, another small one rose at the right side of my forehead. By this time, I couldn’t hold on to my fingers anymore. I poked the First with the tiniest needle I could find and squeezing I was. After two pokes, nothing came out but blood. No white thing, I agitated!

The Second, however, could tolerate the squeeze. The white thing came out with a pop in front of the mirror and I could not help but feeling like I won! Even I know the scars will stay by all these three and the zits actually have won the war.

However, like King Priam has said, “But even the enemies can show respect”, I religiously applied moisturizer on the area where the zits reside. I feel that the skin will soften and the zits will choose to leave my ever soft and clear forehead. I, then, will stay as perempuan Melayu berdahi licin!

The war, however, can’t stop me from analyzing on why such occurrence. I thought of the way I’ve been handling my face all these since the li’l one arrived.

1. I never found time to go upstairs and wash my face coming back from work. Jacket is thrown off everytime we got home, and to the kitchen I straightly head to.
2. After the Kinabalu peak conquest, I was prescribed as having the sun sensitivity problem, which I thought was originally a panau (fungal infection on your face resulting white spots). Dermatologist Ranjit has prescribed me Cetaphil for cleansing and an EGO SPF 30 for moisturizer. Cetaphil was very mild and my skin always react differently to SPF more than 15.
3. It could be the Make Up For Professional, both the liquid foundation and the powder.
4. It could be the Facial Treatment Essence SK-II, I used that for less than a day before the First one appeared.
5. It could be the hair mousse, I might have touched my forehead after applying them on my long hair. Have solved that by cutting them short.
6. It’s the time of the month.

One of these, combined or not, is definitely the culprit.

I pray hard that this battle will end, soon.