#1 reason for corrective laser eye surgery.

I woke up with reptile skin all over my face. Electric heat and northern Atlantic winter being a deadly combination on a gal's dermis, I reached for my coenzyme Q10 eye cream to relieve the parchment feeling and got bit with a sting. After rubbing it all around my right eye a tightening sensation occurred, and my eye watered tears the size of elephants. I grabbed for my glasses only to realize I had just applied a hefty bit o' zit gel all over my "delicate eye area" as cosmetologists refer to it. And not just any zit gel, but really old zit gel in which all of the active constituents had separated and the stingy bits had risen to the top of the tube. I washed it off and applied a great swab of vitamin E oil, but here hours later I still have this puckery red flesh around my eye. Viva la h'hivre.