I know I’ve complained about shaving before, but this is miserable. I guess this is the first winter I’ve actually tried to keep myself smooth and sexy all the time – last few years I’ve dressed, I was only shaving when I wanted to do photos. Well anyway, between the cold and the dry air from furnaces I can’t keep my skin hydrated no matter what I do. Which means shaving just doesn’t go well. That, and getting goosebumps while shaving is really not good . . .

I guess it would help if I did a better job keeping up with lathering myself in lotion, but when it’s so damn cold that the lotion gives me goosebumps too, I don’t exactly look forward to doing it. Plus goosebumps stimulate hair growth and feel really icky when you have mostly shaved but really thick hair follicles. I get so disgusted though if I have any hair growing if from not shaving . . . so I can only stand a couple days and then I just soak in lotion for a night and shave everything off the next morning. I’m such a girl

The other thing that’s terrible about the cold weather is not getting any sun. I’m not one to go tanning or anything, and I actually like girls (myself included) who are a little pale . . . but a little dose of sunshine on a daily basis goes a long way for clearing up my skin and keeping it smooth. I would totally buy a tanning bed and use it for 2 min/day all winter. I wonder if that would be worth the money . . .

I know, I just need to move somewhere that doesn’t have cold winters . . .