Week 1

My mother commented on how severe my face was looking this morning. It's red, raw, and bumpy as all hell. It honestly hasn't looked this bad in years. I recently read somewhere that with a Retin-A initial breakout/purge, you can expect 15 months worth of acne in the span of 3 months due to the accelerated cell turnover. I seem to have experienced that in the span of a week. I kid you not, my forehead was clear last week and rn looks like a pizza parlour started serving pepperoni pizza up in there. This is honestly insane.

I think I'll slow everything down and let my skin rest for a while.

Anyway, I usually drink about 3-4L of water a day, so today I'm substituting about half of that with green tea.

I'm looking in the mirror and just laughing, 'cos I don't know how else to react. A year or two ago, I might just be bawling by now.

Update: current picture here - it's an iPhone photo so it's unfortunately worse irl, but you can see how red and rough my face is when you compare it to my shoulder. I also just updated my first entry with a video taken during my first Accutane course.