hit a bump in a parking space that kind of nicked the front of my bumper and it looks like some kind of plastic peeling away a bit. What is that and is there something I can do to make it lookup "better"? It looks like skin peeling after a bad sunburn or something...

 

You may want to post a pic of the damage.

 

Without seeing a pic, my guess is it's your paint and/or clear peeling.