Girls, please use deodorant.

Ok this is not an advertorial post of any sort although I wish it is.

The other day I was having my first paper of finals and there was this girl who sat at the table next to me in the exam hall. And she had body odour. I literally had a hard time doing the exam coz of the smell. It was horrible.

What I don't understand was, why did she not use a deodorant? Does she not know that she has body odour? Or has she just gotten used to the smell? I'm really not sure.

Believe it or not, I used to have body odour when I was much younger, like 10 years ago. My mom would always complaint about the stinking body odour of mine but I just couldn't care less. The smell didn't bother me as much as it did to her, it fact, it didn't really bother me at all. I got used to the smell. Nobody other than my mom has ever told me face to face bout my body odour, so it didn't matter at all that I had body odour.

Of coz eventually I started using deodorant, not any deodorant, I used Rexona. And I've been using it for years now, every single day. I could never leave my room after a shower without having Rexona on. It's like the secret to my confidence.

Back to the topic. So, the girl I mentioned earlier in the exam hall, she was obviously a smart girl, otherwise she wouldn't even be in the Science and Engineering Faculty. She wasn't super hot, but she was beautiful non the less. My problem, or rather her problem, why doesn't she use a deodorant?

I sat next to her, with a distance, for two and half hour and it was a torture. I could hardly think straight. I couldn't tell her that she had body odour at the moment, coz we were in the exam for goodness sake. Even if we weren't in the exam, I couldn't tell her either, she was a stranger to me. I mean, I bet even her friends doesn't tell it to her, coz if they had, she would've been using deodorant already.

Sometimes it's just really difficult to tell someone in the face that they have body odour. I have a friend who has body odour for years now. I haven't got the courage to tell it to her face that she has body odour coz it might hurt her feelings and trust me, you don't wanna get involve with all the female dramas. So what I did was, I simply brought up the topic bout myself having body odour problem and thank goodness for deodorant, it helped. And I recommended the product I was using, Rexona.

End of the story? It was an epic failed. She didn't get my meaning whatsoever and she did not get herself started on deodorant either. I think that happens to many people out there. They're just so used to the smell that they don't realize they have a body odour, until someone comes along and tell it upfront to their face, hurting their feelings and embarrassing them. It's true. People don't learn until they get hurt/embarrassed, and then they'll hate the person who told it to their face. Marvelous.

Girls are suppose to smell nice. Guys like nice smelling girls, right? But when a girl has body odour, it doesn't matter anymore how pretty she is coz the smell is strong enough to chase a horse away! And there is no way the guy would come up to you and say it to your face "You should use deodorant, if not I won't date you out.". WTF!!! That will never happen in a billion years.

What I'm trying to say here is that, if you're the kind of person who sweats alot, or have cold sweats when you get nervous, just get yourself a deodorant. It doesn't matter if you really have a body odour or not, a deodorant helps reduce the production of sweat and you can avoid having gross sweat stains on your shirt while smelling nice at the same time.

You don't have to get expensive deodorants from brands like Calvin Klein or Dior (if they even have deodorant). You just need to get Rexona. It's simply affordable, and effective. Use it everyday, and believe me, it significantly reduces your body odour even when you're not using them anymore. Don't ask me how, but it just works.

Having body odour is nothing to be ashamed off. It's a medical condition; treat it, not ignore it. So please... Use deodorant. Use Rexona.