This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of ZYRTEC®.
My son is afraid of flowers.
Or, as he will explain to anyone listening, he doesn’t like blooms. Which are different from summer flowers. Blooms bad; flowers good.
His fear goes back to Easter morning, when we filed into a church filled with Easter lilies, tulips, and hyacinths. The visual effect was beautiful, but the scent was a bit overpowering. My poor son spent most of the service sneezing and sniffling, while I choked back coughs. Yep, I have seasonal allergies, and my kids have inherited them.
Ever since that morning, my son has been afraid to get close to blooming flowers knowing he will have to deal with the red eyes and runny nose that will accompany them. I am all too familiar with the bummer of being allergic to nature. Every Spring my sinuses get stuffed up and the dark circles under my eyes get worse. Did you know that was a thing? Allergic shiners are another fun family trait. My poor daughter got stuck with that one as well as a “leaking” nose.
When I was in grade school, I had to undergo allergy testing. It was the test where the allergist scratches your back a million times and puts different allergens in each scratch. You lie there waiting for your back to explode into a million itchy bumps to determine to what you are allergic. The process was exactly as much fun as it sounds. Afterwards, the allergist decided I needed meds for my allergies, something that back then was only available as a prescription.
Thankfully, those same allergy meds are now available over the counter. And they work! I went from having one sinus infection after another to being relatively symptom free. Now I only have to take my meds when the pollen is high aka right now. When the pollen is ridiculous like it is now, I still get the under-eye circles and other symptoms of ALLERGY FACE®.
Celebrity makeup artist Jamie Greenberg has developed beauty tips for allergy sufferers. Her six different makeup looks focus on areas that we allergy sufferers have to deal with — watery eyes, red nose, puffy face, all that fun stuff. Combine those tricks with the 24-hour relief of ZYRTEC® and flowers don’t seem quite so scary any more.
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of ZYRTEC®.
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