Beauty Tips

Here's What Happens When You Stop Showering for a Month (See the Pictures)

Could the secret to perfect skin lie in giving up soap, shampoo and all beauty products? We threw hygiene out the window for 30 days to find out

by Jill Provost | COMMENT

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Day 1: My No-Makeup Debut I wake up exhausted from a night of tossing and turning. I'm surprisingly stressed about going to work without makeup. Whether self-imposed or not, there are expectations of how the editor in chief of a beauty web site should look. And when you work with a team of editors who appear as though they've never had a bad skin day in their lives, it's intimidating to walk into the office without concealer or lipstick -- especially when you're 41 and sleep-deprived.

Once awake, I retrieve my mist from the refrigerator, strip down, spritz myself with microbes, brush my teeth and get dressed. I'm ready in exactly five minutes. This, I think, is what it's like to be a guy. Lucky bastards.

At the office, no one bats an eye at my makeup-free face. All in all, it's a surprisingly normal day -- though my armpits are distractingly damp and clammy. I thought I would smell worse by the end of the day than I do. Or maybe, I panic, I'm the only one who doesn't detect my own stench.

SEE NEXT PAGE: Day 2: We Already Smell Bad

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