We’ve all heard the phrase in life: “Beauty is pain.” Sometimes, we’ll go through pretty traumatic or painful procedures to “look our best,” or, you know, fit into this general norm society created for beauty standards. While simple things like tweezing our eyebrows or shaving our legs are fine and dandy, I’m not about to sit under a laser and feel some intense pain just to look a certain way. Hard pass, y’all. But, there are some women who have a higher pain tolerance than me (probs all of you because I’m a giant baby), and to you, more power to you. But, I know one thing is for sure–I am not about to do one of those “peel-off” face masks on my entire body to have glowing skin all over.
I’m all for face masks–they’re great. I’m someone who has a lot of blackheads and really, really big pores, so I use face masks frequently (ugh conforming). They’re easy, they’re cheap, and they’re not super painful (unless I forget to take them off in time and then, ouch). But, to put one on my entire body? Highly, highly unlikely. One YouTuber decided to partake on this magically painful journey because–people on YouTube do really weird stuff, I’ve discovered.
Nicole Skyes is pretty popular on the video sharing network with over 2.9 million subscribers. She does a lot of funny videos and also Internet challenges–like this “full-body” mask one. She had seen another YouTuber do it and thought it would be hilarious and fun–and, probably painful. Turns out, it was painful–as anyone can see by her red, blotchy skin. She did, however, say her skin felt pretty soft after and it peeled off all of her dead skin–so kind of win?
Either way, this was painful AF to watch.