Burning Up

For a long time I've been aware that I have a problem wearing my perfume (Cristalle by Chanel, if you're interested) - I remember not long before marrying Andy in 1990, I read an article in a woman's magazine that said to make your perfume last longer you should soak a cotton wool ball with it and tuck it into your cleavage. Because the perfume isn't actually on your skin it would take longer to evaporate and disappear. So, that's what I did on my wedding day, and on my wedding night when I got undressed, I found I had two cotton wool ball shaped 'burns', one on each boobie, which took months to heal and disappear completely.

I went through many years when I rarely wore perfume, but for the last year or so it's been an everyday thing for me. Well, a girl's gotta smell nice, right? When I started wearing it again I soon realised that I was in fact allergic to it ... if I sprayed it on my skin I would end up with bright red, sore patches of skin that itched and burned ... so it wasn't too long before I cottoned on to the fact that spraying it on my clothes instead was the way to go.

Yesterday I went to get my hair done (my highlights needed redoing), and when Andy dried my hair he gave it a very liberal spraying of hairspray. I actually considered buying some, but I'm so glad I didn't. I was aware when he sprayed it that some of it landed on my skin, but I didn't realise that I was allergic to it too ... by last night all the front of my neck looks red and angry, and burns like hell ... ah well. Great hairdo and a gross neck, just my luck! Let's hope it doesn't take too long to heal this time.