The Price of Beauty

This is me, sitting on a dinosaur. I sat here to ponder why I throw things away so efficiently.

I wanted to tell you the story of how, today, I tried to use a homemade pore strip recipe that SL people were Plurking (Add me!) about enthusiastically. And I wanted to illustrate that story with a picture of my avatar wearing a pore strip.

Now, I clearly remember owning a prim pore strip. If I remember correctly, it came with a set that included a bathrobe, hair turban and cucumbers for my eyes. But was it in my inventory? No. I searched everywhere and finally came to the conclusion that I must have thrown it out, thinking foolishly that I would never use it. Or the asset server ate it. I am not sure which happened. (And actually, now that I think about it, I never would have thrown out the robe and I could not find that either...so it was the asset server after all! Damned asset server!!!! Keeping my inventory small against my will!!!!)

After my napalm-like finger burns heal and the skin grows back on my nose, I will probably email a very sad note to the evil girl who made the video below. (Ok - I may have left it in the microwave for way too long and used my fingers instead of a brush and let it get too dry. Oops.) Trust me -- $10/box for the real pore strips is a bargain. (OMG! I just realized that the Bioré® people are totally behind this video!)

Just in case you are a masochist and want to try it yourself, here is the video:

Beauty is so much easier to maintain in Second Life.