You Have Food On Your Face!
Farmers Market Facials – Tomatoes! (Video Tutorial)
Woohoo! We made it through a whole week of facials based purely around produce you can buy at the farmers market. Now, granted, we could have done SO much more – but I’m exhausted. And out of produce. Those tomato slices you see there? The last thing left in my veggie drawer. Just in time for farmers market tomorrow.
And we’re ending the week on the crunchiest note I can think of – tomatoes and a video of me making a mess of my face.
I have to warn you, the video gets a little graphic toward the end, and I questioned whether I should even leave it in there. But, like any person who’s made 15298 facial masks in a week will do, I’m throwing caution to the wind and keeping all the gross peelies in there. Because I’m exhausted. I might have mentioned that already.
And the tutorial? The most nostalgically effective homemade peel-off mask I’ve ever made. It was also the first one I’ve ever made.
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Farmers Market Facials – Carrots!
So I spent the day with carrots – cutting them, grating them, chopping them, and otherwise pulverizing the heck out of them to find some recipes that worked. My heart and soul I poured into this crunchy endeavor.
And after trying the hair clarifier and finding it inconvenient for my long hair (we’ll get to this later), I decided to cajole Fiance into trying it. I mentioned it on Twitter, and someone said, “I hope it doesn’t stain his hair.”
Freaking out commenced.
I searched Google high and low for instances in which carrots stained someone’s hair. And luckily, none came up. And it did not stain.
But before we get into the recipes, let me state this caveat right now: Carrots stained neither my hair (which is very dark) nor Fiance’s hair (which is fine and a pretty light brown). However, I can’t speak for blondes. Redheads, carrots probably have you covered.
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Potatoes. They’re lumpy, dirty, pocky, and misshapen. Clearly not the winner in the Miss Veggieverse Pageant. However, today we’re going to award these big dumpy doofuses Miss Congeniality – because they’re just so darned useful in homemade beauty products.
A few months back, someone (was it you? ) was joking about whether or not you could put mashed potatoes on your face. Not so funny now, is it? Because you can! And you should.
And, okay, it’s still funny.
The fact o’ the matter is, potatoes have been used for about one bajillion remedies and beauty secrets over several hundred years. And many of the beauty products you use today have derivatives that come directly from potatoes.
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Let me give you a little run-down on what goes into these particular kinds of posts. It involves researching for half an hour in my books and an hour online in the morning, two to three hours of recipe creation and photography in the afternoon, and another two hours of research in the evening – all before writing.
You can understand, then, why perhaps I feel I have become the food I’m writing about.
In this case, I am a pumpkin. Right now, I am a pumpkin.
It seems a little masochistic to suggest, then, if I’m a pumpkin, that you cut into my solid flesh and put my innards on your face. Oh ho! But that IS what I’m suggesting. Whips and chains – bleh. That’s boring.
This particular veggie was very exciting to create with, because I was bound and determined to make a homemade facial mask and homemade hair mask with pumpkins that would rival the $EleventyWTF you’d spend on haircare and skincare containing pumpkin.
Even better – maybe the best thing I’ve ever done in my life – I found something to do with the stringy pumpkin mess that sticks to the seeds! You’ll never guess what it is.
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