I am just beginning to recover from a horrid bout of contact dermatitis, conveniently situated smack in the middle of my upper back in a spot where putting medication and gauze on it required impossible arm contortions. Complicating things was my skin’s concurrent severe allergic reaction to the tape I was using to hold the gauze in place. I had a real party going on back there for a while. It’s well on its way to being healed now, but it was a nightmare for a few weeks. I believe that I was reacting to a new type of hairspray I started using. It’s the only thing I can fathom that would have caused it, and it suspiciously lined up with where my hairline falls onto my back now that I am growing it out to shoulder length. I recently got a new, chunky, layer-y cut and was very proud of my clever styling solution, which involved dampening it slightly and spritzing it with Common Drug Store Hairspray Brand. I didn't spray-bomb, mind you—I’m hair product minimalist—but it was enough apparently to really upset the skin on my back. Then somehow I scratched myself into an open wound and it all became very gory very quickly.
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