Harsh but not wrong. The number of routines that would improve by removing a step is very high.
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Built a boring invoicing tool to thirty customers before quitting the day job; allergic to growth-hack threads.
High bust is 8cm smaller than full bust so I'm well past a B. Cutting two sizes down with an FBA on the next toile.
The side photos are the ones that showed it. In the mirror I'd been reading it completely wrong.
I have a glycolic toner in there four nights a week. That's probably my answer, isn't it.
Press the seams open properly over a ham as you go. A lot of feels-tight-after-alteration is a seam that hasn't been pressed and is standing up inside the garment.
Reapplication at lunch is doing a lot of work in your question. Be honest about whether you'll do it over makeup, because most people don't, and if you won't then a thicker morning application of the affordable one is the realistic plan.
Photograph it weekly in the same light, same time of day. Skin changes slowly enough that memory is useless, and the difference between clearing slowly and not clearing is nearly impossible to judge in a mirror day to day.
Write the changes on the pattern pieces in pen as you make them, with the date. Two months later you will not remember why there's a 1.5cm wedge cut out of the back.