high maintenance? (new contacts!)

I fear I might getting a little high maintenance these days. Somehow I managed to go from the twice a day, 2-step face care system of wash face, moisturize to fuckloads-of-steps face care system which at max would involve remove make up (night), wash/exfoliate face, apply toner, apply serum, apply eye cream, apply moisturizer, apply vaseline to lips, apply make up (day). On top of that every now and then there is monkeying with my face like eyebrow plucking, nose strip, moustache waxing, random squeezing of nonexistent pimples, and face mask. Did you notice all those fancy words? What the fuck happened? I use like half a case of Q-tips and cotton balls a day.

I added one more to the routine today, I now have contacts (TA DA!), which apparently take a lot more effort to maintain than glasses. But then again contacts take a lot less effort for my face to hold up.

Instead of wiping glasses on my shirt in the morning I am now learning to wash hands, violently pry my eye open and then delicately place a little silicon/gel lens on my eye, and then hours later wash hands, pry eye open again to PINCH it back out. I also have to wash it in a little pool of special solution in the palm of my hand. Then I have to wash the contact lens case, put new solution inside, and place the lens in their individual left and right cases. I'm still not done, I have to keep track of how many times I've worn them, they go bad after 30 wears. ...Well, at least I remember all these instructions.

So far I like contacts quite a bit. I'm okay with putting lens into eye, but pinching back out seems pretty damn nasty. It's not easy. We'll see how this goes. Maybe in a week I will add eyedrops. @o@