Thanks to all for your replies.
No, not very beguiling, is it AndBreathe?
But that's okay I'm not normally 'beguiling' by any means, what with the nasty rough patches under my eyes where my glasses used to rest, all day and every day, until I had lens replacement surgery end of last year - wayhay!
and then there's the large nasty brown patch under my left eye - that's recent, plus the double chin, sour looking down turned mouth (all those painkillers), thin lips, strange way one lip quirks upwards when I talk, and the nasty growly voice, odd gap in my left eyebrow where the glass in my glasses cut a gouge out when I broke them by walking into a post while I was at boarding school, and now the white streaks developing in my hair (cos I've not been able to get my hair coloured again) - I don't think scabby facial skin is even going to be noticed!!!
If I had my way I'd have rainbow hair and no one would notice anything but that!
I have had eczema, on the outside of the lower part of both legs ever since we lived in Oman for a few months, a long time ago now, it comes and goes, sometimes it keeps me awake at night, sometimes I don't notice it for a few weeks - but my husband has that too - probably caught it off me - poor lamb!
Haven't had it anywhere else though.
I've had good skin on my face (and most everywhere else too, bar the legs) all my life, never used moisturiser, or anything else and rarely make-up either (not a lot of point) so having to use anything is going to take some fierce remembering, a new addition to the regimen of a quick wipe over and run... or these days more of a stagger! Lol!
I have got hold of a bottle of "Dermol 500" lotion and I bought myself a tube of Nivea facial scrub - to try and get rid of the scabby rough patches under my eyes and hoping to reduce the nasty new brown patch at the same time. (Fat chance!) so I could try those, I did try the lotion yesterday and it did seem to smooth my face a little so that it didn't feel so bad to my hands.
I've found myself stroking the front and sides of my face, absently and also when tired, you know a sort of single pass, to wipe away tensions? I couldn't do that when I wore glasses, so I was liking being able to do that ... until I felt these rough and dry patches everywhere! Bit of a shock, that!
Some is in the eyebrows, Squire Fulwood, and some at the inner corner of my eyes just underneath, some on my nose, some around the lips - you start to feel like you are crumbling away! But at least I don't have to shave! That must be awful!