Maybe millennials are said to look younger than we are because we all spent the 90s scraping the skin off our faces with St Ives' ground apricot stones - ThreadSky

amandawtwong.bsky.social • 34 days ago

Maybe millennials are said to look younger than we are because we all spent the 90s scraping the skin off our faces with St Ives' ground apricot stones

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theeddiebear.bsky.social•34 days ago

Replacing that skin with Proactiv did the trick.

teen-cthulhu.bsky.social•34 days ago

I'm pretty sure it's all the microplastics

Which is what that St. Ives shit was/is. We were just smashing microplastics into our skin, like a poor persons botox

nicholenextdoor.bsky.social•33 days ago

yep 🤣

jamph.bsky.social•34 days ago

We were the first generation to consistently use proper sunscreen from a young age.

juleshortstuff.bsky.social•34 days ago

This is such a specific and accurate burn, Amanda.

amandawtwong.bsky.social•34 days ago

I know, I can't believe it's being wasted on people who would rather do generational posturing about sunscreen or whatever!

thethirdgordonf.bsky.social•34 days ago

for me it’s because I spent half my 20s depressed and inside

banjelerp.bsky.social•34 days ago

"Oh, don't use that, it's so bad for your skin."

I mean, evidence to the contrary....

thesaxbygale.ca•34 days ago

Axe deodorant is actually full of super-preservatives

gertiemarie83.bsky.social•34 days ago

Spent the 90’s? Like I shouldn’t still be doing it?

shanathalas.bsky.social•34 days ago

Do you think GenX didn't do likewise?

thgeneral.bsky.social•34 days ago

past tense? I just did that this morning....

aila.bsky.social•34 days ago

I did scrape off a lot of skin with those walnut shells.

I think as a generation who mostly said no to cigarettes, that probably helped too.

jessica1603.bsky.social•34 days ago

I can smell it to this day.

ohtheprofanity.com•34 days ago

LOLOLOLOL guilty!

willow420smokeweed.bsky.social•34 days ago

Pretty sure its from the micro plastics we etched into our skin using the erasers from no. 2 pencils actually

pk-gaming.bsky.social•34 days ago

It's probably a universal thing but I definitely think we were a weird bunch growing up

laurenshea.bsky.social•33 days ago

I definitely used that!! 🤣

oneinahundred.bsky.social•34 days ago

I think there was something in the Sunny D.

artlife4me.bsky.social•34 days ago

That and then burning it with Noxema.

concreteangel16.bsky.social•34 days ago

For real though. I told someone a few weeks ago that I'm 39 and they just couldn't believe it.

ahabofgilead.bsky.social•34 days ago

X-ennial here. I’ve had four people at this point tell me I look younger than 45.

emberdione.bsky.social•34 days ago

I think it's a combination of things:

We used sunscreen more.
We didn't smoke as much and indoor smoking was banned.
We understood how to wash our faces and moisturize better.

rundevinrun.bsky.social•34 days ago

It actually prematurely ages 😭

But I do think we’re the gen that wears sunscreen more often than not

aapples43.bsky.social•34 days ago

Oxy pads took a layer of my face every morning between 1995-96

amandawtwong.bsky.social•34 days ago

Hahahaha same! (I didn't even have a huge acne problem, I was just so desperate to start growing up that I wanted the ritual of a skincare routine)

aapples43.bsky.social•34 days ago

I would get occasional breakouts like most kids, but was obsessed with the idea the dirt and oils caused breakouts, didn't yet know that stripping yr skin of natural oils and some "good dirt" was actually a lot worse..dry and red all the time

startrekdiscopod.bsky.social•34 days ago

😂😂😂😂

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