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Spiro Day 38, Tretinoin Day 29
Posted by shawnabowbawna,
10 January 2013
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I have quite a few updates.
I've been continuing to alternate the BP and Tretinoin in the evenings and it has been working out very well. All of the inflammation is down. Its so nice to not worry about new cysts and whiteheads popping up and waking up every morning feeling around for new ones to prepare myself for looking into the mirror. It can be so dramatic and such a pain to cover up. I'd take a face of hyper-pigmentation over a handful of cysts any day... Anyway, this treatment is great. In another week or so I'll try going 2:1 on the Tretinoin to BP until I can phase out the BP completely.
I just moved this weekend, so now I'm all comfortable in a new apartment and focus on my skincare a lot more. I recently bought some hair-skin-nails vitamins. My nails have been very brittle all of my life, so I'm looking forward to seeing how these work. If they can help my skin too, then great! I've also started exercising again and focusing on my diet. I mostly just try and keep my sugar intake low. I've never noticed a significant correlation between exercising/diet and acne, but I believe both can help.
So, all things are going well again and it feels good.
I purchased my first B.B. cream a few days ago and it is supposed to arrive tomorrow. I don't normally use liquid makeup. I've been using Physicians Formula redness correcting powder for as long as I can remember with the Dusty Rose blush. I have been seeing B.B. creams popping up all over the place in blogs and never considered them an option to me until I finally read about Skin79's pink B.B. cream. So I bought it. I haven't even read up on the ingredients because I'm so hopeful that it will work well and not break me out that I don't want to become biased by discovering that it contains something bad. I've done a lot of reading (nomoredirtylooks.com) about make-up and acne causing/irritating/toxic chemicals that are often used in formulas so I usually have a difficult time finding new products that fit my requirements. I'll give it a go this weekend and post some pictures.
xx Shawna
I've been continuing to alternate the BP and Tretinoin in the evenings and it has been working out very well. All of the inflammation is down. Its so nice to not worry about new cysts and whiteheads popping up and waking up every morning feeling around for new ones to prepare myself for looking into the mirror. It can be so dramatic and such a pain to cover up. I'd take a face of hyper-pigmentation over a handful of cysts any day... Anyway, this treatment is great. In another week or so I'll try going 2:1 on the Tretinoin to BP until I can phase out the BP completely.
I just moved this weekend, so now I'm all comfortable in a new apartment and focus on my skincare a lot more. I recently bought some hair-skin-nails vitamins. My nails have been very brittle all of my life, so I'm looking forward to seeing how these work. If they can help my skin too, then great! I've also started exercising again and focusing on my diet. I mostly just try and keep my sugar intake low. I've never noticed a significant correlation between exercising/diet and acne, but I believe both can help.
So, all things are going well again and it feels good.
I purchased my first B.B. cream a few days ago and it is supposed to arrive tomorrow. I don't normally use liquid makeup. I've been using Physicians Formula redness correcting powder for as long as I can remember with the Dusty Rose blush. I have been seeing B.B. creams popping up all over the place in blogs and never considered them an option to me until I finally read about Skin79's pink B.B. cream. So I bought it. I haven't even read up on the ingredients because I'm so hopeful that it will work well and not break me out that I don't want to become biased by discovering that it contains something bad. I've done a lot of reading (nomoredirtylooks.com) about make-up and acne causing/irritating/toxic chemicals that are often used in formulas so I usually have a difficult time finding new products that fit my requirements. I'll give it a go this weekend and post some pictures.
xx Shawna
