Friday night was kind of a tough night for me, leaving me with puffy eyes on Saturday. Since I was hosting a dinner that afternoon, I wanted to get rid of those puffy eyes. I remembered reading in a magazine recently that the best way to relieve puffy eyes was to rest cool, wet tea bags on your eyelids for about half an hour. The caveat was that it had to be caffeinated tea, because it's the caffeine that reduces the puffiness.

I looked through my cupboard for caffeinated tea, and the only kind I had was chai spice green tea.

Let's think about this for a minute. Spice + eyelids.... hmmmmm...

Well, I didn't think about it. All I cared about was getting rid of the puffy eyes. About five minutes into this beauty treatment, it felt as if someone had placed stinging nettles on my eyelids. I was so desperate to get rid of the puffy eyes that I actually weighed the pro's and con's in my head. Should I put up with stinging eyelids and get rid of puffy eyes, or should I immediately remove the tea bags, splash my eyes with cold water and live with the puffy eyelids?

Common sense got a hold of me, and I opted for living with the puffy eyelids.

Truthfully, I probably would have lived with it longer, but I started wondering if whatever was causing all the stinging might also cause some bizarre looking rash on my eyelids.

So there you have it folks, in my world vanity trumps pain, and imaginary rashes trump swelling.

..you know, in case you were wondering.