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TIFU by going to a job interview with a white substance on my nose 🥲

This actually happened yesterday but I’ve been thinking/panicking about it for like 24hours. For context, I quit my shitty job a couple of weeks ago and have been job searching since. I had an interview for a position with good pay and hours that was definitely a step up from my last job (retail). I also have a piercing on my left nostril (small nose hoop), which has been doing fine the past few months up until about 3 days ago when a huge irritation bump popped up on it basically overnight. I thought, ‘great, ofc I would get this gross thing on my face just before an interview’, and tried to get rid of it or at least reduce its size. I did this by putting a sea salt solution on top of it, and slapping a bandaid on it overnight. Typically, this has worked in the past at reducing the irritation, but alas no such luck this time. That’s fine, whatever I think, and wash my face. Here is where I fuck up: I clean it again after washing my face with a sea salt solution, but this time only rubbing it on with a q-tip, and rinsing off (what I thought was all of) the residue with the opposite end of the q-tip dipped in water, and go about finishing getting dressed. I look at my face after leaving, but am only really focusing on making sure my makeup is clean/even.

I go to the interview, get there on time, it goes well yada yada but the interviewers don’t seem quite… enthusiastic. I think, whatever, this is just their job maybe they don’t care all that much. I get home, decompress after the stress of having an interview only to go the bathroom and see in the mirror… Dried down, white sea salt residue on my nose. Right in the corner and outside of one nostril from cleaning it both in and out. It looked like I had done a line of coke 🥲.

Now, I don’t even know how to go about this. They both (and everybody else I saw) surely noticed. One of the interviewers asked me about my piercing on the way out, which I thought she was pointing out because she had the same one. My only consolation is that I brought up to her how irritated it got recently, and how I’ve been doing at home cleaning solutions with sea salt. I’m scared she won’t make that connection though, and just think I did a line before an interview. How do you even start an email like that, “Hey, thanks for sitting down to meet with me yesterday. That white stuff on my nose if you noticed definitely wasn’t coke haha” 😭.

TLDR: I fucked up by not wiping away all of the sea salt cleaning solution on my piercing before an interview, leaving a suspicious white substance on my nose.

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