TL;DR: On Hormones [Part 1]: Why I Stopped Wearing Makeup

First off: Happy New Year, and hello to 2014. I hope you all had a wonderful, happy, and safe holiday season, and that 2014 has started off kindly for you. Now for today's post.

I didn't want my blog to become too busy, and so I've thought about this a lot. Long story short, all the 'health' details - at least in relation to birth control and laser hair removal - are very much beauty related for me, and as this is a predominantly beauty-based blog, they are indeed relevant to this blog's content.

Or you can call me lazy, which is fine, but I indefinitely want to share this, period. I don't care where or how. And I want to share it now. Especially now.

My name is Nikki and when I was 9 years old I went through what I like to call child's depression. That is, the phase of 'depression' that most kids/teens eventually crash through, where they 'hate themselves' and 'want to die' over whoever and whatever. For me, it was a matter of my parents getting divorced, my body hitting puberty just a year earlier, my face being covered in acne, and my grandmother having a stroke, which meant my mom spending a huge portion of her time in the hospital. I was used to going with her and my brother places, and with her temporarily out of the picture I had a ton of free time. I had my first laptop and Word became my best friend. For the next two or so years I would tear myself apart verbally in daily diary entries.

TL;DR: On Dermatitis [UPDATED 06/04/13]

If you've read any of my previous posts - specifically the beauty reviews - you've heard me complain about my skin. My complaints started showing up on my blog beginning with 'severe chapped lips' - this IceBlock post here is in fact completely dedicated to the solution I found for them, after nearly two months of being unable to wear lip products (they looked disgusting on my lips). In reality, my problem started before though, although it wasn't annoying enough for me to think much of it. It began with a dry patch on my left cheek - one that I kept picking and scratching at whenever it itched or got drier than usual. I thought it was just dry skin, and perhaps it really was, but once 2013 came around, that patch turned into a whole rash on my face that would soon be diagnosed as dermatitis.

TL;DR [1]: On Motherhood

I'm finally starting this series that I talked about in a previous IceBlock post. I'm not sure how 'long' these posts will necessarily be, but the topic matter will be indicated by the title. As such today's topic is motherhood. And I apologize in advance because I'm sure this post will be controversial, but it's my own personal thoughts and therefore inevitably bound to be disagreeable to plenty.