The viscous cycle of stress-acne

I never thought that stress would affect me on a physiological level. Surely it does to many people, but when it comes to stress, I've never had it directly impact my body. I have gone through periods of my life with chronic stress (like the IB program), and I've had back problems due to muscle-tension, but the cortisol has only worked on my brain. Until now.
Maybe it is that my body was so used to stress during high school, that it just built up a resistance to it... Anyways, during the months following graduation, I was finally able to cool down and lived a life in tranquility. But when I came back home from Italy, my life became "normal" again: I was put under more pressure than I had felt in six months. And maybe that was why my face flared up with bumps. Surely I would have to take the change of climate into consideration, but I don't see why my face would break out from the cold, when it hasn't ever done it before.
Now finally we arrive at the point of this blog-post: when I realized I was about to break out, I started panicking about it. The result? Now I don't only have clogged pores covering my front and my chin, now I also have acne break-outs, and the worst I've had in years.
The lesson to draw from this is that when you start to feeling symptoms of stress, don't panic over them too, it will just make things worse.
My tips: plan as much as you can beforehand, write lists of what you have to do. Not only will you nit be as likely to forget to do things, but you might even be reminded of them in good time, maybe leaving you to do something you enjoy!

Chocomania!

For those of you who know me a little bit better might know that it was the Body Shop that got me interested in cosmetics.
And, for about two, three years now, I am a chocoholic. I love everything with dark chocolate.
Therefore, I couldn't help myself but to be very exited when I read about the new chocolate collection "Chocomania" which will be launched towards the end of January!

Can't wait!

Picture source: http://www.umassmed.edu/healthyheart/chocolate.aspx