Canada's "Zit Stick" Alternative

Day 16: BC Spa Body Clay Masque

Alright, I have had many of you ask (clients and consultants alike, via email, comments, Facebook, texts, and calls!) what I do for pimples. I always tell you how gross my face is if I don't use anything, and how even then it sometimes breaks out. I tell you all about how no other products, in my nearly 30 years, have kept my face as clear as BeautiControl has. Not Clearasil, or Clean & Clear, or Noxema, and don't even get me started on ProActiv (the only thing that it cleared was the dye from all of my linens & pj shirts!).

It's simple, really. Follow your SPA Facial regimen, and spot treat (or if you like the luxury of a full-face masque then go to town!) with the BC Spa Body Clay Masque. It's designed to use anywhere on your body, but by far the most common is the face. I will be honest and say I've never used it below my neckline, so if anyone else has I would love to hear about your experience!

Personally, I love the smell and wish to have a food that smells just like it, so that I don't have to wish I could eat something that's not edible. Or maybe a candle. On second thought, probably a candle would be better. So what do I do? There's not exactly a magic recipe, you wash your face, dry your face, apply the masque (I like to apply my lip Apeel here, because it reminds me that I have a masque on my face & not to go outside since I'll likely scare the neighbours), leave on as long as I like/can stand, rinse with help of a facecloth so I don't drip water down my sleeves (since at this point I'm probably dressed, and there's nothing I hate more than wet sleeves. I swear it happens at least once a day anyways, but why invite disaster?). Follow-up with tonic & the rest of your spa facial bliss. Continue day. If I have a bad pimple, I will do this twice a day until it's gone (usually only 3 treatments required before a giant mothership has turned into what can be mistaken for a freckle (God bless red-headed parents and their dominant freckles - I don't have a lot of them, but I'm sure it's the only red-headed gene that the Middle Eastern half of my DNA couldn't override!).

I've had many consultants and clients give me with the "Riiiight...sure it was a unicorn that pulled the dogs tail..." look when I tell them this is what I use and that it works, but really it does. Unfortunately I can't have you all here when I get a major pimple, but lucky for me they do come by frequently enough (and for the silliest reasons!) that I actually had a chance to demo this to my director last fall. I did a 3-day BeautiYOU training extravaganza across Ontario (Ottawa to Sturgeon Falls on Friday, with BeautiYOU Friday night; Sturgeon to Kitchener on Saturday with BeautiYOU in the afternoon and a spa party at night, Kitchener to Cobourg on Sunday with BeautiYOU in the afternoon, then dinner, then home to Ottawa on Sunday night. You obviously have the Internet, Google map it yourself if you're lost) with my director and another director from the Ottawa-area. 

Since I forgot my pillow in the car on Friday night and was way too exhausted to even care, I slept with the hotel pillow. Which is feathers. Which I I haven't had in my pillows since I was 4. Never mind that I'm allergic to the world around me (not to any foods, but to the world in general) and should probably live in a bubble, let's not even talk about the sinus issues the next morning. But I woke up with the world's biggest zit you've ever seen, right on my jaw line where it's super obvious. The kind that hurts if the skin around it moves, but there's no way to pop it because it's just not ready. And it's hard to speak without moving your jaw. And the rest of my face was red & itchy too. And I was supposed to demo the 5-minute face at BeautiYOU that afternoon. Thank-you Big Bird. 

The great news is that I was stuck in the back seat of a minivan for the next few hours, I had only washed my face before leaving the hotel & had planned to do the rest in the car, and my director's life supply of BeautiControl products were (mostly) within arm's reach. Hellll-llllloooo opportunity! (Not to demo anything, just to get rid of the pimple. Obviously.) So with my director in the driver's seat trying to watch me in the rear view while and make sure I don't go searching the wrong bags or mess anything up, while still staying on the highway (can you tell she has twin boys who usually sit back there? She was a pro!), and another director wondering what the heck I was doing and when the next smoke break would be (another allergy of mine. I don't want to talk about it), I found the Clay Masque and went to work! 

Courtesy of McDonald's napkins and my trusty water bottle I was able to rinse it off before our next pit stop (I definitely didn't want to be Ontario's most interesting Saturday morning roadside attraction!) and go on to a few more mind-numbing hours of Tetris. It wasn't until my director stopped driving, we finished setting up BeautiYOU, and we were introducing ourselves & our favourite product (guess what mine was that day?!) when she realised the giant cherry tomato that had been on my face was almost entirely gone. A little wet/dry & concealer on top, and it was like nothing was ever there! The end! Don't you just love a good fairy tale? Me too! Try it, I'm telling you it's like magic!

There are other products that help with maintenance & prevention, but today is about the "pimple stick" replacement that, actually, I can honestly say I enjoy more than our American counterparts' quick-fix. And how cool is it that you're actually helping to get all of the toxins out of your skin, rather than just focusing on pimple-causing bacteria? Alright, I know it's a little too school for cool, but I can't help it!