Face Shaming

Earlier this week I was in a small six-person meeting. I looked exactly like this.

Someone on the call was making chit-chat and remarked, "We can tell what Ellen did yesterday: she got some sun."

"No ... Why do you think I got sun?" I was genuinely perplexed. 

"Because of your face. You got a sunburn."

I explained that no, I had no sunburn, that was just my face. And then I blamed the cholesterol medicine, not because I believed it, but because I hoped it might embarrass him, and it did, and I was glad. 

And then I balanced things out by poking my face to prove my skin became white. This amused them. So I was gracious and didn't let them know that for God's sake don't comment on an older woman's face. 

Comments

[KC]

Personally I think your Cholesterol Medication Glow looks more like you put a little bit of beet into a homemade facial mask on the theory it was healthy without remembering it'd dye your skin slightly pink, rather than sunburn - the color is slightly different, although that may be zoom. But yes. Do not comment on weight for anyone, presumed pregnancy status for anyone, or on skin unless it is to ask for product recommendations since their skin looks so good, approximately.

(but also, to be fair, if he had assumed you were 30 instead of... older than that... due to your apparent lack of wrinkles, at 30 it might be safe to assume a bit of sunburn. *Maybe.*)(that zoom filtering is wild. That is literally approximately how many wrinkles I had at 30.)