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So, I'm a little more sunburned than I thought I was.

There are lots of good remedies for sunburn, some of which very closely resemble a salad dressing recipe, none of which are going to fix the fact that half my face is sunburned, and I looke like a Harlequin (clown, not romance novel; I could wish). The lulz tomorrow will be epic. I am the face of the company, and the face of the company needs to remember his sunblock.

All this being the case, I've spent much of today in bed, or rather on bed, slathered with Noxema. Figuring that actual medications aside, one cure is as good as the next, Noxema is what I've usually used for sunburn and the smell makes me nostalgic for the many epic burns of my youth. It's not that I take masochistic pleasure in the idea that I'm barrelling towards skin cancer, but most of them were the result of good times, and I'm all right suffering for my pleasure.

I did a fanfic this morning that a) didn't go where I expected and b) involved me looking up both Lady Gaga's youtube and the lyrics to Hotel California. The only really upsetting thing is that A is not the direct result of B. My browser history could be titled "Portrait of the Artist with Too Much Time On His Hands".

Comments

[ellid.livejournal.com]

Just tell your co-workers it's an homage to the Frank Gorshin episode of Star Trek.

[rednwhiterose.livejournal.com]

Best. Episode. Ever.

[air-ocean.livejournal.com]

Ouch, I hope your color returns to normal soon. Noxzema is amazing, I try to stock up on it every time I go to the US (not available in my country). The smell reminds me of my teenage years as well:)

[eofs.livejournal.com]

Paint the other half of your face with rouge?

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

You know I've had a lot of suggestions for concealer; this is the first one for recolouring the healthy half of my face :D

[eofs.livejournal.com]

What can I say, I'm a natural problem-solver.

(What does it say about me that it did not even occur to me that you could use make-up to tone down the red side?)

[minkrose]

Clearly, a combination of both is the answer. A little redder on the unburnt side, and a little paler on the other....

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Ouchie! Sounds like you've got the symptoms under control, though.

Maybe you could pretend you'd made contact with alien life-forms last night? (This would depend upon how much you look like the young Richard Dreyfuss (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_Encounters_of_the_Third_Kind).)

[lanarien.livejournal.com]

I'm with you on the smell of Noxema, too! Many fun kid memories from that stuff.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I was an adult before I realised it was used as anything other than a sunburn remedy :D

[jwaneeta.livejournal.com]

Foundation. Any CVS will have a nice selection. :)

[marymac.livejournal.com]

Colour-correcting green stuff, if possible, too.

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

Noxema/sunburn OTP!

[robling-t.livejournal.com]

My browser history could be titled "Portrait of the Artist with Too Much Time On His Hands".

Heh, I don't even know where my Muse was last night, but she came in wearing a traffic cone, so I'm assuming it probably involves a similar story...

[samisaurus.livejournal.com]

This!

Taking a tea bath reduced the time on my awful back burn from the week and a half it would usually take to about four days to be all gone. It was only painful for about a day!

[riva-today.livejournal.com]

I'm personally fond of responding to comments with a blank stare and "What sunburn?".

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Oh, now THAT is brilliant.

[keestone.livejournal.com]

In my experience witch hazel helps bring the color down very quickly. (The extract has tannins in it so it's probably something to do with that, but it is a traditional burn remedy and feels lovely too.

I usually dab a cotton ball or pad soaked in witch hazel all over the area and then follow up with aloe.

[happi-feet.livejournal.com]

I have discovered that I can freckle. Apparently growing up under the sheltering layer of smog and air pollution in Atlanta saved me of a lifetime of freckles. Now that I have moved to the country and its clear skies and bright, unfiltered sunlight, I am suddenly covered in a sprinkling of fine, almost microscopic freckles -- just the sort I longed for as a child, but never had. The kids are almost as freckled as their daddy. Well, he grew up here. Now I know where he got his.

I still burn, though, and peel, but I don't tan any more than I ever did. I still have to take off my watch to tell if I've tanned any or not.

[eponymousanon.livejournal.com]

When we were kids, my sister fell asleep on our boat lying on her side... needless to say I laughed at her for the next two weeks while she tried to correct the drastic difference in skin tone between the two sides of her body. So, at least it's just your face?

[chocochan.livejournal.com]

Argan oil is really good for sunburn. I've only used it once on a serious burn (I made the mistake of subjecting my sunblock-free face to the ravages of the southern sun), but it helped a lot with both the pain and the boiled-lobster look I was sporting. Some places overcharge for it, but I've gotten it pretty cheaply from Amazon. Feel better!

[calliope-jones.livejournal.com]

The only thing this comment has to do with sunburn is that I'm currently in Florida where I got much sun... but I thought of you when my father handed me a bag full of cuff links, tie clips, collar stays and COLLAR BARS. At least 5 of them. I LOL'd, then thought if I knew where you lived I totally send them to you in a tote bag.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

LOL! Why did your dad have a bag of men's shirt-oriented hardware? Or give it to you? :D

[calliope-jones.livejournal.com]

My dad dressed up every day of his career, so people gave him all sorts of tie and shirt related things. Pack-ratting runs in my family, so he kept it all long after he retired. He gave it all to me in hope I can make jwelry or something useful out of them. Though, I'm thinking I need a french cuff shirt to start wearing cufflinks, because some of them are so cool.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Oh, you really should, they're so lovely and elegant on anyone. Are the collarbars the barbell kind or the pin kind? The pin kind you can wear with most collared shirts, the barbell kind need special collars.

[calliope-jones.livejournal.com]

There are both kinds. Mostly the barbell kind I think. But I can actually revamp plain collars to work with them. Either that or I'm gonna embellish them some how and make them steampunk.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you can sew barholes into collars, that's true. You are looking at a whole pile of fashionably retro, bb!

[calliope-jones.livejournal.com]

A pile... I just packed up all the vintage jewelry, broken strands of fake pearls, watches and doodads that I was given this trip and it weighs about 8 lbs. Getting through airport security will be fun.

[britini-chu.livejournal.com]

When I was a kid, we just cut off an aloe vera frond and applied the ooze directly to our sunburn. I miss helpful cacti just being nearby.

[sirlig.livejournal.com]

This. Yes. Though not so much sunburns as normal burns. I have a sorry tendency to lose focus during cooking.

I was so surprised when, after I burned myself cooking with friends(I love people with huge kitchens) and automatically snapped off a piece of aloe, that most people keep aloe plants as something decorative(What?!) and not as a medicinal plant.

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

Are you saying that Lady Gaga did a cover of Hotel California?

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

No, but don't you think that would be the most awesome video ever?

[et-puis-bonjour.livejournal.com]

Find a half-mask, slick your hair back, and respond to any queries in song. Bonus points if you use Andrew Lloyd Webber lyrics.

[cupcakery.livejournal.com]

I completely second this option.

[elsajeni.livejournal.com]

Well, this is what I was going to recommend.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHA BRILLIANT.

[et-puis-bonjour.livejournal.com]

And then you can give the next person who ignores your advice the evil eye and intone "You will curse the day you did not do/All that the admin asked of yoooooouu!"

[kevin-hy.livejournal.com]

They sell this stuff called "Solarcaine". It's a spray, loaded with aloe and mild analgesics. Helps heal, also cools.

I know these things, I'm a youth soccer referee. Also my 1/8th Irish heritage manifested itself almost exclusively in my skin.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I bought some this morning! I can't wait to spray it on :D Especially since a bunch of the burn is on my back where I can't quite reach.

[minkrose]

I grew up using that! Works great.

Though now I have an aloe plant, and I have to agree that olive oil is one of the better moisturizing agents you can use. Good luck with the Solarcaine, Sam!

[bluejeans07.livejournal.com]

Sliced cucumbers are the best thing to sooth your face and just bring down the angry red. It works reeeaaally well and they feel good on your face too!