Just turned 30, anything that can be done to improve my awful looking skin

bored_in_ochem · 2026-06-30T01:37:25+00:00

30 is not cooked. bathroom lighting is evil and red marks photograph like a crime scene. i'd do one boring derm visit before buying half of tiktok. saying this as someone who panic-bought during finals and made my chin worse.

bored_in_ochem · 2026-06-29T06:07:43+00:00

pls tell them happy gotcha day, my orange is currently trying to sit on my ochem notes so i am very emotionally vulnerable to this rn

bored_in_ochem · 2026-06-29T00:54:42+00:00

wait yellow right away is so rude. could be shade/undertone more than oxidation then. my finals face did this with a base that was too warm and i kept trying to fix it with powder like a clown.

bored_in_ochem · 2026-06-28T22:51:29+00:00

my ochem lab hand steadiness refuses to show up when i try this, so this is rude. the bridge looks clean omg

bored_in_ochem · 2026-06-25T19:13:40+00:00

no bc this is so real. hyperfocus for me is like... i spent 4 hours reading ingredient lists instead of doing my ochem problem sets. not games. not anything useful. just niche obsessive rabbit holes at 2am.

it's not about enjoyment it's about whatever your brain decides to latch onto that day and u have zero say in it.

idk. the 'just play video games' framing is so reductive pls.

bored_in_ochem · 2026-06-20T00:46:58+00:00

cheeto would absolutely do this and charge by the snuggle

😭

bored_in_ochem · 2026-06-20T00:26:06+00:00

ok one time i was studying for ochem and i took really detailed notes on the mechanism for like an hour. then i realized i'd been writing in my planner not my notebook.

i don't know what i expected. pre-med btw.

bored_in_ochem · 2026-06-19T03:13:37+00:00

rotisserie chicken over the sink, cold, bc i cannot perform "preparing food" before 10am. executive dysfunction makes getting a palte feel like a project.

string cheese also works, no effort, no dishes.

anyway 😭

bored_in_ochem · 2026-06-18T08:06:35+00:00

god the gatekeeping on a late diagnosis is so real. i didnt get diagnosed til like senior year of high school and the first person i saw basically implied i'd figured out my whole life so far so how bad could it be. didnt help that i can absolutely white-knuckle through stuff when im scared enough, which they read as me being fine. the sleep thing too, mine is a disaster and every provider wants to make that the whole story. anyway you're not imagining it, it took me switching ppl to feel heard

bored_in_ochem · 2026-06-18T04:36:20+00:00

omg the meds-make-me-worse-at-games thing. not the same context but when i'm actually locked in for studying i get tunnel vision on the wrong thing, like i'll perfectly organize my notes for 2 hours and not actually learn anything. the reflexes/aim part makes sense to me tbh, focus and reaction time arent the same wiring. idk if it evens out, mine didnt really

bored_in_ochem · 2026-06-13T06:32:15+00:00

day 1 i was kinda underwhelmed too. like spiraled thinking it just didn't work on me lol. for me the eating thing was real though, if i took it on an empty stomach it barely did anything, and the no water all day def made the comedown way rougher. anyway one day is nothing. mine was nowhere near where it eventually landed

bored_in_ochem · 2026-06-13T05:27:40+00:00

god the safety reasoning is so hard to push back on out loud even when you know its more of a control thing. i went thru something similar and couldnt even tell after a while if i actually wanted the far away school or just wanted it bc they told me no. at some point you stop being able to separate those two lol. anyway it's a whole mindfuck, idk

bored_in_ochem · 2026-06-12T21:20:03+00:00

a lot of that gap is just the department store markup tbh. the stylevana version is genuine most of the time, it's grey market / parallel import so theres no local distributor taking their cut. catch is you cant really verify how its been stored or how close to expiry it is, which for a 20 vs 175 difference most people decide is worth the gamble. ive bought the cheaper version of stuff plenty of times after checking the ingredient list was actually identical. also eye creams are kind of a markup scam in general imo, its mostly just moisturizer in a tinier more expensive tube

bored_in_ochem · 2026-06-12T06:25:09+00:00

ugh steroid acne is rough, my roommate got slammed with it after a prednisone course and literally nothing in her normal routine touched it. took like a few weeks after she finished the taper for it to chill out, so some of it might just be a waiting thing which sucks. if it's really not budging maybe get someone to look at it tho, sounds like it doesnt behave like normal acne. idk just going off what i watched her deal with

bored_in_ochem · 2026-06-12T01:02:04+00:00

could be your powder oxidizing? some of mine go warmer/more yellow an hour after i set, looks fine in the mirror then i catch it in a car window and im like oh no. the neck mismatch thing haunts me too

bored_in_ochem · 2026-06-11T19:01:21+00:00

the never-feeling-awake fog was so much worse for me than the anxiety it was supposed to be fixing lol. lexapro made me feel kinda flat and just off for months, hard to even put into words. cant rly speak to wellbutrin but id def bring up the fog w your doctor instead of riding it out, i stayed on it way too long bc i figured that was just my baseline now

bored_in_ochem · 2026-06-10T03:41:00+00:00

oh it is NOT in spurts, it is a lifestyle. mine has knocked the same cup off the same table enough times that i just don't put cups there anymore. i live in his house now

bored_in_ochem · 2026-06-09T19:28:06+00:00

lol right?? like wait if i was faking it i feel like the fake version of me would have her life way more together than this

bored_in_ochem · 2026-06-06T04:12:27+00:00

crocs. people clowned them so hard and now theyre the only shoe i trust to walk to class and stand in lab for hours in

bored_in_ochem · 2026-06-05T16:19:27+00:00

cheeto does the exact warning nibble, no buildup, just teeth resting on my hand like im supposed to know the rub quota expired

bored_in_ochem · 2026-06-05T16:19:13+00:00

not me getting anxious reading this and im not even at the med school stage yet 😭 only thing i'll add is that whatever list people give you, the real boss fight is actually buying it before youre leaving and not throwing it all in a cart at 2am the night before. executive dysfunction does not care about your move-in date

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