I'm so susceptible to advertising. I once drove 30+ minutes to have some Taco Bell after seeing a commercial during my junior year of college (in my defense, it was a Saturday afternoon and I had nothing to do!). In any case, I've always been intrigued by Biore's Ultra deep cleansing pore stripes. The commerial, if you haven't seen it, features a girl who talks about clogged pores ... and then they have this great little graphic where the strip pulls out these little black beads from a profile of your pores. Obviously the black things are 'bad' and should be removed if I want to have nice, clean skin. Whenever I watch this commercial, I start getting a bit antsy and unclean (maybe I'm a bit OCD) ...

In any case, I've never been able to buy one of those boxes of Biore because it would utterly undermine my manliness. I just want to try one, damnit!

Well guess what I found in my sister's room today?!?!? That's right!!! THE ULTRA DEEP CLEANSING PORE STRIPS. Now I can try first hand and see how much crap is clogging my nose pores.

This isn't the first time I've gotten obsessive over personal hygiene. After Nasty Nate expounded the joys of Debrox, I had to give it a try. (Debrox is this ear wax removal ear drop.. you drop in like 3 or 4 drops and feel it work it's magic. The cool thing is that "upon impact with earwax, the eardrops start foaming... so you can hear a little crackling in your ear as the mighty forces of Debrox wipe away the evil earwax from your ear!) I was so excited that I went a little overboard and dropped in like 8 drops into each ear... and promptly heard a bunch of fizzing (gross). It was fun though.

So yeah, this strip is getting kinda starchy and hard (just like the packaging said!. I get to take it off in about 10 minutes... oooh I'm so excited).

This could be the saddest post in the history of my journal.

Update: WOW. That stuff really works well! I didn't know there was so much crap clogging the pore of my nose... WOW. I'm halfway tempted to go into my sister's room and get another one just to make sure I've gotten all the little bastards.

P.S. I like girls.