I Took BuzzFeed Life's 7-Day Better Skin Challenge

I'm taking BuzzFeed Life's 7-Day Better Skin Challenge and sharing my experience along the way.

Yesterday on my normal meander through the interwebs, I came across a challenge BuzzFeed Life is putting on and decided to take it. It's pretty simple, it is a "7-Day Better Skin Challenge," basically everyday for the next week BuzzFeed will send an email to my inbox with instructions for "tiny tweaks" that I can do to my skincare routine/life in general that will take less than 10 minutes and help improve my skin. Sounds good to me.

I'll share my daily experience with the challenge here, as well as any results I may see (fingers crossed).

I should also mention that BuzzFeed consulted with Dr. Adam Geyer to put together this challenge, so it's medically approved, people (also, the good Doctor is kind of a hottie, so you should check out that link FO SHO).

Challenge Day 1 - Clean What Touches Your Face

Via buzzfeed.com

Day One - April 17

Challenge: Clean What Touches Your Face.

Namely: Cellphone, Pillowcases, Towels

This one was kind of an underwhelming start for me, I already change my pillow cases and towels at least once a week, and my phone is in my hands more than it is on my face (#21centuryprobs), so this one won't effect my routine too much.

I will start cleaning my phone with an anti-bacterial towel, and while I'm at it, I think I will clean my keyboard too, because let's be honest, I don't do that enough and there may or may not be some hot cheeto dust rimming the edges of a few keys.

Also, though this is not applicable to everyone, makeup seems relevant here. I use makeup brushes at least 3 times a week, so I decided that I would give those a wash (something I also probably don't do enough) and decided to make that a weekly thing.

I get what the challenge is trying to do here, but I think what touches my face most is my hands! Should I be purelling throughout the day (also, there are some semi-scientific theories that say purelling is bad! #Sotorn). I assume Dr. Geyer/BuzzFeed will address the face touching later in the challenge, but it seems like that would be a good place to fit this information in.

Overall: my gadgets feel clean, therefore I feel clean. Thumbs up.