My lotion scares me a little bit

22 June 2006 1 Comment

Granted, my lotion does not scare me nearly as much as yellow sauce does, but… when’s the last time you really looked at your lotion?

Mine happens to be purple. It smells like plum. I don’t particularly like it (the color or the smell), but it was free. *shrug*

Normally, I don’t pay any attention to it. It’s lotion, you know? But as I was putting it on today, it occurred to me… where does the purple coloring go? If I used enough of this stuff, would it dye me purple, the way eating too many carrots can apparently turn you orange?

Yeah, ok, I didn’t really wonder if it would dye my skin purple, because I’m not six years old. But I am a little creeped out at the thought of rubbing purple stuff on my hands and having the purple color just… disappear. Or green. My old lotion was green: same question. Where does the green go?

Or Mineral Ice, which is a wicked-cool blue gel… the blue also disappears. Mineral Ice, however, is tingly and squishy and generally fun to play with. Lotion is just… lotion. There’s less gel-ly fun going on, so nothing to distract me from the issue of the disappearing dyes.

Anyway. I have to go wash off this plum scent because it’s driving me crazy, and the act of washing it off will probably counteract whatever good I did by putting lotion on in the first place, but I can handle dry skin—I cannot handle this stink.

Plum. Purple. Good grief.

I never worried about the color of lotion before, you know. Maybe I’m sick—it must be all that dye. *twitch*

If you don’t hear from me in the next few days, it’s because the cats have mistaken me for a… whatever sort of food you use plums in, actually; I wouldn’t know… and eaten me. Good grief; should you be able to smell this stuff from three rooms away? It has presence. And possibly bodyguards and a press secretary. It really does scare me.

Inane and Mundane

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