By MAMAMIA STYLE
Do you always take your makeup off before going to bed? How about after a couple of wines?
Of course you don’t.
And neither do we but after reading this it’s given us a skincare wake up call.
One woman donated her face to science by undergoing a skincare experiment to see exactly what happens if you don’t take your makeup off for 30 days. The result?
Clogged pores, dryness, irritation and the skin condition rosacea. Her skin reportedly aged 10 years by the end of that month: wrinkles were deeper and her skin tone was less even.
Anna Pursglove wasn’t allowed to use her usual cleanser but gave her face a “cursory wash in the shower each morning”and was required to reapply new make-up every day.
The writer’s daily makeup routine consisted of: Max Factor Facefinity foundation, Diorshow mascara, L’Oreal eyeliner, and Guerlain lipgloss.
Obviously, 30 days is excessive but the experiment showed by night three she had developed white cysts around her eyelashes and her skin “was so dry and taut, it felt like a mask.”
Pursglove consulted a dermatologist for post-experiment diagnosis who found her skin was biologically approximately a decade older than before she began the experiment.
