Regime not regimen

I'm on the subject of product overdose because of a work project. And I'm looking at my two (yes! I don't just have one) vanity tables/shelves and realise that I have at least 40 products out, some half used, some waiting for the last dollop to be spent and others plain used once. And then I remember I have about 3 boxes full of other products including 4 bottles of limited edition Shu Uemura cleansing oils (a relic of my old job).

Of course this all ties into a great article by Fiona MacRae at Femail (Daily Mail) who reports that women are absorbing up to 5lbs of chemicals every year through their skin. Over in her think piece, experts claim that absorption is more dangerous than actually eating it -- their reason being eating it means digestion breaks down some of its parts with saliva and enzymes but absorption doesn't. And for once, the Japanese haven't gotten it right -- using more products doesn't mean squat when it coems to beauty. (The Japs are famous for their 8-step, 40-minute nightly regime).

It brings me to connect a poster i saw at the Changi Airport when i was coming in from Paris -- it was one of those construction partitions that hide scaffolding and concrete debris... along with great factoids about Singapore was this curious one: "Women eat up to 4lbs of lipstick in their lifetime". Haha!

Then connecting the dots, I read about an internet urban legend email that was warning instant noodle fans not to drink the soup the noodles are boiled in. Wax which coats the noodles, simply melts into the soup, then when drunk, doesn't digest in the system and clogs up the intestines.

One+One=Three, as they may say. If wax doesn't get digested, and lipsticks are made of wax, and we lick off so much of it in a lifetime... aren't lipsticks just as dangerous?

There's a great tasting lipstick on the market -- the L'Oreal Glam Shine Gloss. Tastes like berries, if you must know. And no wonder when i commented that this gloss makes me want to reapply my lipstick more often, my sister hastily warned. "Stop eating your lipstick!"

I really should start listening to her.