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[Trolololol]

Hi everyone, I haven't posted for a long time but this past year, I've been having a lot of problems with these tiny bumps that keep forming on my forehead, cheeks, and on the sides of my face. Right now, I have the most on the side of my face. I have done many research on these bumps on acne.org and other websites and I have yet to find an exact description of the symptoms so I decided to start my own post.

 

So these bumps I've been having, they show a lot when direct sunlight hits it and I can feel them when I touch my face. They feel hard and forms in clusters. I've tried to extract them before. The ones that I managed to extract, has this hard substance that comes out. Hard pus? The color is kinda yellowish, greenish, whitish, lol I don't know but it's hard and it usually comes out as a whole. Then, there are other ones that won't budge when I tried to extract. The part of my skin that these bumps appear on looks kind of shiny/scaly, like the skin there is very dry or something.

 

I don't know if these appeared because of my face makeup(which I've been using for the past 3 years with no problem) or if it's because I've been overdrying my face. I've tried almost everything... retin-a, benzaclin, clindamycin, benzoyl peroxide, salicylic acid... etc.. nothing seems to get rid of these. It just makes the area very itchy and dry which I think causes even more bumps? A year ago, I'd only have a few bumps but since I've started to use these products, I've been getting more and everytime I stop using it, they still don't go away. I'm feeling very hopeless and frustrated right now because they just won't go away !!.

 

I'm not sure if they formed because of overdried skin, acne cosmetica or if they're comedones... can someone please give me some advice as to what I should do to get rid of these ??? Any help or comments are appreciated! Thankss.

[putrieh]

If its what I think it is, you may want to read http://www.acne.org/makeup.html

[butternut]

Hi there, 

 

I have the exact same thing!!!!!! Did you ever get it under control?

[akko]

Hi,

 

It sounds like what I used to have: lots of tiny clusters of bumps along my hairline and forehead, filled with hard sebum.  In my case, I got rid of it by washing my face with Nizoral shampoo- letting it sit on my face for 5 minutes before rinsing.  In less than a week they had dried up and flaked off.  It also got rid of that oily-but-flaky skin.  You should give it a try!

[priyankaa]

Hi,
 
It sounds like what I used to have: lots of tiny clusters of bumps along my hairline and forehead, filled with hard sebum.  In my case, I got rid of it by washing my face with Nizoral shampoo- letting it sit on my face for 5 minutes before rinsing.  In less than a week they had dried up and flaked off.  It also got rid of that oily-but-flaky skin.  You should give it a try!

What percentage nizoral did you use????

[akko]

The 2% one.