Early last month, right after we got back from our slamming little Jamaican vacay, I decided I wanted to do a little sprucing up, so I booked a light chemical peel with one of my fave derms, Debra Jaliman.

I’ve had loads of antioxidant peels administered by Debra, and they are great great great. So I was looking forward to my office visit, which was long overdue.

Except that I was in deep denial. I had let my face get a little sunburned (bad, bad Momover Lady) on our trip, and I didn’t think it would be smart to add acid to the equation.

I reluctantly unbooked. And now my schedule is completely bananas, and there’s no way I can carve out the time to get in to see her for weeks and weeks.

After throwing myself a little pity party (I always get sad when my calendar gets packed like sardines in a tin can), I decided to rally and do my own DIY skin sloughing by stepping up my usage of my Colbert MD Intensify Facial Discs.

Love. They’re a little grittier and rougher than a peel pad, which makes all the sense in the world because they’re actually for microdermabrasion rather than peeling. And also, if I were using them correctly – by rinsing them first rather than just sand-papering at full strength – I’m sure they’d be perfectly gentle.

Still, I’m finding that my complexion is responding really well to these little numbers, which are laced with lactic acid and pineapple enzyme. For a blue-eyed, fair-skinned creature, I’m kind of a tough cookie.