Yesterday my mom and I decided to venture to the local high school to play some tennis. At one thirty in the afternoon. On the hottest day of the year.
So right now I'm trying to decide if making bad choices, stupidity, or just being unyieldingly stubborn to the realities of the weather runs in the family.
Like the occasionally responsible adult woman that I am, I applied sunscreen to my face prior to sun exposure. This actually turned out to be a horrific idea. You know why?
Because it took about 4.2 seconds for me to start sweating profusely in the 95 degree heat and humidity in the air. I quickly discovered that not only was my sunscreen running directly into my eyeballs on a gushing stream of sweat and burning my eyeballs into a blind and fucking horrendous sensation-of-stabbing-a-billion-times-over-and-over oblivion. But my mom and I have kind of unspoken challenge going during tennis, where it's a battle of wits and the weaker person always stops to get water first.
No way I was going to succumb.
BUT then disaster strikes.
As I continue to sweat and my pores continue to open and the sweat/sunscreen witches brew of DEATH continues to pour itself all over my face, with no respect for internalized battles of stamina and wit, I discover that I'm actually allergic to this sunscreen. *#$#(*$& allergic.
Apparently having these chemicals seep directly into my skin, pores open like tiny surprised mouths, in direct and severely harsh sunlight magnified my reaction.
I genuinely felt like I was melting. MELTING.
Needless to say, I caved first. I caved and proceeded to dump an entire water-bottle over my face, create a tent out of a beach towel, and camp my happy ass sprawled-out on the court until I realized that I would be much more comfortable in the air-conditioned car.
Never in my life did I think that placing ice directly into contact with my face would be a good plan.
It was.
My face is still kind of swollen today and feeling a bit sensitive. I have an appointment with the Allergist after work, so he can tell me that I AM in fact allergic to everything under the sun, not that it would be much of a surprise.
Wrinkles can be damned, I'm never wearing sunscreen prior to sweat-session again.
Plus I can always get a little Botox. I hear Groupon has deals for that these day.
(Kidding)
But seriously, if it weren't for modern medicine, evolution totally would have weeded me out.
Hope you had minimal eye burning this weekend!
XO Sare
Oh, sweetie! This is hilarious and awful all at the same time!
ReplyDeleteThis has happened to me, too! Why do people expect us to be responsible adults when this is the thanks you get for trying to be all conscientious and shit?
ReplyDeleteNothing but commiseration from me. I used the WORST sunscreen this weekend and my face overheated from it. I had to literally scrape it off when I got home, so not fun.
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