Biography 08: Dry skin

 In my childhood, I spend most of my time by running, jumping and climbing. It was difficult for me to sit or walk. I didn't want to waste my time by taking care of myself. So, elders faced so much trouble to make me take a bath, comb my hair or any other personal care. Taking lotion or cream stayed far away. Then I faced the consequences. Some skin problems started on my leg, below my knee. It looked really bad. People can easily notice as I use to wear frocks. My mom noticed and put some medicine on it. It recovered, without keeping any mark on my skin.

But it took a while to recover. During that time, kids, kind of banned me in the playground. They played with my older sister. One day I was standing at the side, while other kids were playing. They directly told me, we won't play with you because of your problem. Then a little girl, named Lucky came to me and hold my hand. His brother was also there with other kids and my sister. He told her, "What are you doing? Can't you see her condition?" Lucky looked at me and said, "It's OK. I will play with you. Let's go!" I smiled and run with her to another place and we started playing. After that, we became a very good friend. She is the only person who stood up for me against every single person including her family. We had a small group of 3/4 years old kids.

But my luck was always the same. Nobody stayed in my life. On those days we use to live at South Komlapur, Dhaka. Lucky's brother's name was Russel (Probably). They moved to some other place and I have lost my best friend forever. Still, whenever I feel alone, in my mind I hold my little friend's hand and say, let's play.

Later I have started work in offices. Most of the day I had to stay in a air conditioned room. That makes the room a little dry. So, again I have faced skin problems on legs. This time I went to a skin specialist. They told me, my skin is dry. So, the whole year, I have to put lotion on my skin. Every time I wash my legs or take a bath, I have to put lotion, otherwise, it will create problems. I have followed the doctor's recommendation and my skin problem was gone.

When I have decided to live in Canada, I knew I will again face problems with my dry skin. And yes, I did. Now after every 6 hours, I try to put lotion on my skin. To make things better, planning to move to British Columbia. Where I will get rainy weather. So, I am assuming that will be good for me.

Biography 2: skin color

I have born at Dhaka Medical College. After getting birth, the doctor hit me to cry. To clear my vocal. My dad didn’t like that. So, to annoy him doctor kept hitting me and I kept crying. My dad couldn’t stop himself but to ask the doctor to stop. They laughed. Till now I found some people hurt me without any reason, just to enjoy.

 

My mom was happy to see me. Because she saw I didn’t take my father’s skin colour. My skin colour was white. As she told me that I had the brightest skin colour among all brothers and sisters (I doubt). But I couldn’t keep her happy for a long time. By 3 years I became just like my father. Quite dark skin.

 

In Bangladesh, people called me, black skin. But they always tried to make it sugar-coated. Like, you are black, but there is something attractive at your face, which makes people look at you, black rose etc.

 

I am not conscious of my skin colour. I rarely look at the mirror. So, most of the time I forget what my skin colour is. During my teenage, I noticed, all colour dresses aren’t looking good at me. I had to avoid some colours which make me look worse.

 

My skin colour became the most important thing in life, when I had started to think to marry. I know I'm not beautiful. But I didn't know I am that much ugly. For example, I'm giving you two comments, ugly girls like me always try to catch beautiful boys otherwise no one will marry them, My face looks so dirty I don't wash my face after getting up in the morning.

But I never tried to hide my colour. I even don’t put makeup on my face (Actually I even don’t know how to put on makeup, I don’t have any). I think, my face has different shades of colours, I don’t need to put more colours on it.

 

After arriving in Canada, I got to know, my skin colour is brown. But one day, one of my teachers told me, you are black. I didn’t hear like that for a long time. Then I looked at him and saw he is from Latin America. His skin colour is yellowish-white and very beautiful. So, obviously, my skin is very dark in his eyes. I didn’t mind, if he thinks like that, he has the right to let me know that.

 

I know, not only for my skin colour but because of the way I look, many people don’t like me. Some of them can’t hide it. It’s ok not to like me. But I am what I am, and I think I am a very good person to hang out with.

বাড়তি কোন সময় না লাগিয়েই ত্বক চর্চা (Skin care without taking any extra time)

সুন্দর ত্বক সবারই (ছেলে/মেয়ে) পছন্দ. তবে বর্তমান আবহাওয়ায় কোন রকম যত্ন ছাড়া ত্বক ঠিক রাখা ভারী মুশকিল. এজন্য আমাদের প্রতিদিন আলাদা সময় বের করতে হয়. এমনি বিউটি পার্লারে গিয়ে ত্বক পরিচর্চা করার জন্য কয়েক ঘন্টা সময় বের করতে হয়. ঘরে বসে নানা ধরনের প্যাক তৈরী করতেও সময় লাগে আর সেটা মেখে শুয়ে থেকে শুকাতেও সময় লাগে. এরপর পরিস্কার করার কাজ তো আছেই.

Boys or girls, everybody likes to have good skin. But in this weather, it’s really difficult to keep good skin without any care. So, we had to make some extra time for taking care of our skin. If we think to go to a beauty parlor for skin care, we had to make several hours for it too. Even if you make face pack at home, you have to give some time for it. Then you have to keep it on your face for some minutes and then clearing all these. 

আমরা মেয়েরা, যারা মা হয়েছি, তারা খুব ভাল করেই জানেন, নিজের জন্য খানিকটা সময় বের করা কত কঠিন. প্রয়োজনীয় যত্ন নেয়ার সময় হয়না, ত্বক চর্চা করা সেখানে প্রায় অসম্ভব. দোকানের ক্যামিক্যাল প্যাক লাগিয়ে আর কতটা উপকার পাওয়া যায়? আর নিজে ঘরে বসে যে হারবাল প্যাক বানাবো তার সময়ই বা কই? কোন মতে বানালেও লাগিয়ে শুয়ে থাকব, সেটাই বা কিভাবে সম্ভব. এদিকে রান্নাঘরের ধোয়ায় আর বাইরের আবহাওয়া ত্বকের, বিশেষ করে মুখের ত্বকের বারোটা বাজিয়ে দেয়. নিয়মিত যত্ন না নিলে, ধীরে ধীরে ত্বক তার উজ্জ্বলতা হারায়, তারাতারি বয়সের ছাপ পরে. এছাড়া নানা রকম ত্বকের সমস্যা তো আছেই.

The women who became mother, knows very well how difficult it is to make some time of our own. We feel very difficult to make time for necessary daily cleaning of our body regularly, then how can we think to take care of our skin by giving extra minutes. If we buy chemical face pack from shop, we don’t expect much benefit from it. But you had to when you don’t have time to make herbal face pack at home. If we could make homemade pack somehow, when will we use it? But kitchen smoke and outside weather make damages of our skin especially on face. If you don’t take good care of your skin it will slowly reduce its freshness, soon it will look like aged and you may face different skin problems.

দেখা যায়, বিয়ের আগে কত কি করা হয়েছে, আর এখন কোনো মতে মাসে একবার পার্লারে যাওয়ার সময় বের করতে পারলে মনে হয় অনেক করা হলো. অথচ প্রতিদিনই প্রয়োজন ত্বকের আলাদা যত্ন.

You will see, before marriage, a girl do many things to make her skin look good. But after marriage woman became so busy that very rare they could make time to go to the beauty parlor once in a month, where you need to take care of your skin daily.

তাই ব্যস্ত মেয়েদের জন্য একটা সহজ টিপ দিচ্ছি, যাতে তারা সহজেই ত্বকের যত্ন নিতে পারে. রান্নাঘরে আপনি সারাদিন নানা ফলমূল, সবজি কাটেন. তারপর সব ফেলে দিয়ে পরিস্কার করে ফেলেন. এবার থেকে যা করবেন তা হলো সব্জির বা ফলের খোসা কেটে প্রথমে নিজের মুখে হাতে আর পায়ে ঘষে নিবেন. এরপর ফেলে দিন. ঘড়ির দিকে একবার তাকান. সময়টা খেয়াল রাখুন, এরপর আবার কাটাকুটি, রান্না আর পরিবেশনে ব্যস্ত হয়ে পড়ুন. ১০ মিনিট পর (ঘড়িটা আবার দেখে নিন) হাত, মুখ, পা ধুয়ে ফেলুন. রান্না ঘরের সিংকেই ধুতে পারেন. এরপর নিজের মতো কাজে লেগে পড়ুন. এতে আপনার আলাদা করে সময় বের করতে হবে না. অথচ ত্বক হয়ে উঠবে টান টান সুন্দর, আপনি মেকাপ ছাড়াও কোন জায়গায় যেতে ভয় পাবেন না. দু একদিন করলেই আপনি নিজেই ত্বকের পার্থক্যটা বুঝতে পারবেন.

So, I am giving a very simple tip for girls (or boys) so that they can take care of their skin without giving any extra time. Every day at kitchen you had to cut many fruits and vegetables. Then you clean all the fruit skins by throwing them out to the bin. From now on, before throwing out the fruit skins, rub them on your face, hand and feet. Then you can clean the kitchen. And after rubbing, please look at the clock and mark the time in mind (no problem if you forget it). Then again you can become busy with your daily work (cooking, cutting, serving, cleaning etc). After 10 minutes, just wash your face, hand and leg. You can do it on kitchen sink too. Then again you can continue your work. So, actually you are not giving extra minutes on skin caring. And your skin will be fresh and beautiful. You won’t hesitate to go outside without any makeup. You will see and feel the difference within 1 or 2 days.

খোসা না ঘষেও আপনি ফলের রস লাগাতে পারেন একই ভাবে. এতেও অনেক উপকার হবে আপনার ত্বকের. কারন কাটাকাটির সময় আপনার হাতে ফলের রস লাগেই. সেটাকে সহজেই কাজে লাগাতে পারেন.

If you don’t want to rub your skin with fruit skin, you can use its juice too, in the same way. That will also help your skin to stay younger. When you cut fruits and vegetables, your hand became full with juices, use it. Just add it on your face, hand and feet.

যেসব ফল আর সবজি আপনি কাজে লাগাতে পারেন, সগুলো হলো: লেবু, শসা, টমেটো, গাজর, তরমুজ, আপেল, আলু, আম, কমলা, মালটা, কলা ইত্যাদি. আপনি খেয়াল করে দেখবেন, যে কোনো ক্যামিকেল প্যাকের চেয়ে আপনার এই খোসা অনেক বেশি উপকার করছে.

You can use many fruits and vegetables for your skin. Like lemon, cucumber, tomato, carrot, water melon, apple, potato, mango, orange, malta, banana etc.

একই ভাবে কাজের মাঝেই আপনি, বেসন, দুধ ইত্যাদি লাগিয়ে রাখতে পারেন. এগুলো ও বেশ উপকারী আপনার ত্বকের জন্য.

In the same way, you can use grind lantern, milk etc. These are also very good for your skin.