Honestly, I feel a bit like a moron right now. I went shopping at Wal-Mart early today in order to pick up a few groceries and some essentials and I completely spazzed on health care products. Well, not entirely, but for the most part I did.

I was right there in the aisle looking at face creams, because my face skin has been so gross lately, and was just disgusted with the selections. You see, here lately, while my forehead gets a little oily at night the skin on my cheeks, nose, and surrounding my nose, gets very dry. The end result is every morning my skin is flaking and just looks gross. I have baby lotion at home as well as various scented body lotions and cremes, but none of them seem to be working on my dry facial skin. So while I was shopping at Wal-Mart I browsed the beauty section looking for facial cremes that might do the trick. Nada, zip, zero, zilch, nanimo, nothing. There were a ton of different kinds of anti wrinkle eye cream, facial hair remover cremes, and even some sort of creme that is supposed to help with acne and blackheads. But just regular old facial cremes? I was out of luck there.

I was pretty frustrated that there absolutely nothing to help me and just hauled ass out of that section and finished up grocery shopping. Since I went to the Wal-Mart on Valley street, any other stores I could think of that would offer a decent selection of beauty supplies were on the other side of town, and I so was not wasting gas to buy facial creme.

The downside (and purpose of this post)? I completely forgot to pick up more body wash and shampoo.

Oh, don’t get me wrong, I still have some here at the house, it’s just all scented or part of a perfume set. I meant to pick up some regular body wash, Dove soap, and daily clarifying shampoo from Suave. I like switching off with non-scented stuff and I prefer to use it when I plan on using certain body sprays, lotions, or perfumes, that are scented so that this way there aren’t a ton of different cloying scents all over me. But since I got all huffy over the lack of regular facial creme I didn’t pick the stuff up.

So now that I’m out of the shower I smell really….fruity. I guess that’s the right word anyway. Making do with what I had, I used Vanilla & Cinnamon scented shampoo, Peaches & Creme conditioner (because sadly that was the only conditioner I had left and my hair was in terrible need of conditioning), Black Raspberry & Vanilla scented body wash, and now I’ve topped it off with Vanilla scented lotion.

I’m sure I’d be setting off people’s allergies. But hey, I’m clean and smelling pretty regardless! And at least I kind of had a common theme – vanilla!