Beauty Vices and Virtues

Everyone breaks the beauty rules sometimes. Here are some of my worst habits:

• I pick my split ends. A lot. Plenty of people have told me not to, but I don't really want to break the habit. I find it strangely soothing. Besides, it's just hair. I can trim it and grow it back anyway.
  
• I pop pimples. Yeah, gross, I know. I just can't stand when they turn into whiteheads that concealer won't stick to. Yes, I end up with red marks because of it. They go away eventually, though.
  
• I neglect my feet. I forget to put sunscreen on them when I'm wearing flip-flops and jeans, which is pretty much every Saturday and Sunday of the year. Aside from the melanoma risk, the tan lines are not cute.
  
• I abuse my cuticles. Get hangnail. Try to bite it off instead of locating cuticle cutters. Make hangnail worse. Repeat steps 2 and 3 ad infinitum.
  
• I keep mascara too long. Who wants to spend $20 on mascara, just to throw it out after five weeks?
  
• I abandon my routine. Every once in a while, when I'm too tired to get ready for bed, I skip the makeup removal/face washing part of my evening. Invariably, vice #2 will follow within days. 

It's not all bad, though. Here's what I get right most of the time:

• I wear sunscreen on my face and hands. Always.
• I avoid rubbing my eyes. It drives me nuts to see people do this! Besides risking infection, it also pulls at the delicate periorbital skin, causing wrinkles, roughness, and discoloration. I pretend that the skin around my eyes is tissue paper. 
• I get plenty of antioxidants. I'll do a full posting on antioxidants sometime. For now, suffice it to say that antioxidants, like vitamins C and E, are effective both ingested and applied topically to prevent the damage ("oxidative stress") done to your skin by harmful free radicals like smog and cigarette smoke.
• I don't smoke. I hope that in this modern day, that's a pretty self-explanatory one. 
• I sit up straight. Good posture alleviates back pain, enables deeper breathing, opens the organ systems, and prevents the hunch effect that sometimes comes with age. It's also slimming!

Well, there you have it. Do as I say and not as I do! What are some of your best and worst beauty habits?