Update on Project Clear Skin
It has been 2 weeks since I announced I was on project: clear skin, I said I would limit the amount of makeup I used to just 5 products which included no foundation or tinted moisturiser.
The 1st week I was eating healthily, wearing hardly any makeup and using honey.
The 2nd week I was eating healthily, wearing a moderate amount of makeup and not using honey.
The 1st week my skin was much clearer and I was actually feeling comfortable without any makeup with no new spots to report.
This week I reached out to the foundation as I had an outburst of spots on the sides of my face and I scar quite easily so I was having to cover up. I stopped using the honey as I had ran out, I'm wondering if this had anything to do with it or I got the spots because I started wearing foundation again?!
However the 2nd week was the end of my menstrual cycle, so more than likely they were hormonal or perhaps even stress related. I'm really not sure.
My problem is that once I see even the smallest spot I have to squeeze it, it's like I have some magnetic connection that I have no control over. Yesterday an underskin spot emerged just under my cheekbone which hurt SO bad. I squeezed it, but no joy, it was not squeezable. So, like an idiot I attacked it with a hot needle to burst it (I know this is wrong but, like I said I can't help it) and still no joy. So I had to put loads of salicylic acid on it to calm it down.
I'm just so fed up, I know if I relaxed and stopped picking, squeezing and attacking my spots they would be alot better. luckily for me, the honey is really helping diminish the scars. Currently I am sitting here typing this with honey slathered all over my face :)
What I need to do is choose a skincare routine and stick to it, I was enjoying using the Garnier Pro X range, but I really want to try the Luxtural range also. Or, do I just go back to Neal's Yard? Oh this is just too much!
The 1st week I was eating healthily, wearing hardly any makeup and using honey.
The 2nd week I was eating healthily, wearing a moderate amount of makeup and not using honey.
The 1st week my skin was much clearer and I was actually feeling comfortable without any makeup with no new spots to report.
This week I reached out to the foundation as I had an outburst of spots on the sides of my face and I scar quite easily so I was having to cover up. I stopped using the honey as I had ran out, I'm wondering if this had anything to do with it or I got the spots because I started wearing foundation again?!
However the 2nd week was the end of my menstrual cycle, so more than likely they were hormonal or perhaps even stress related. I'm really not sure.
My problem is that once I see even the smallest spot I have to squeeze it, it's like I have some magnetic connection that I have no control over. Yesterday an underskin spot emerged just under my cheekbone which hurt SO bad. I squeezed it, but no joy, it was not squeezable. So, like an idiot I attacked it with a hot needle to burst it (I know this is wrong but, like I said I can't help it) and still no joy. So I had to put loads of salicylic acid on it to calm it down.
I'm just so fed up, I know if I relaxed and stopped picking, squeezing and attacking my spots they would be alot better. luckily for me, the honey is really helping diminish the scars. Currently I am sitting here typing this with honey slathered all over my face :)
What I need to do is choose a skincare routine and stick to it, I was enjoying using the Garnier Pro X range, but I really want to try the Luxtural range also. Or, do I just go back to Neal's Yard? Oh this is just too much!
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It just came out of nowhere and it was horrible. I've been having CACI face up treatments once a week for 6 weeks and using Elemis Balancing cleanser and toner. I'm seeing a big, big difference.
I also use Elemis daily shine control. It's helping a great deal to keep oily face syndrome at bay. I too go without foundation now unless it's a really spesh occasion.
Having said that, I still have a few blemishes but I try to keep my hands off them! A little trick I do if the spots are really unbearable, after a day or so, is I'll use a hot flannel and gently push them out.
I find it's gentler on the skin and doesn't leave long term scarring which is my biggest worry! Enough of my babbling, keep at it, I'm sure your skin will balance out soon enough! xx
@london darling thanks for ur comment girl, that really helped, ive hear so many good things about elemis, i might have to try it one day. oh and the hot flannel to push the spots out, excellent idea, will remember that - thanks. xx
@fantastic thats real good advice, i must agree, the more i stress about it the worse i look and feel. xxx
Maybe the honey is to blame? I stopped using it, and everything is going back to normal.
Im curious to see what brand you end up using.. im trying a new moisturizer and i miss my faithfull old vite cream.. so i can imagine you want to swin in your neals yard Orange flower water!! What are you going to do?
Maybe use the hubby as a guinea pig for the other brand hehe xx
@princess sparkles maybe when i have the time one day, i'll go :) x
I had tried the honey and it caused me to break out quite badly, maybe go back to basics, I find the less I overload my skin the better it behaves. I'm just using your recommendation of Orange Flower wash and Jasmine Enriching cream,and exfoliating once a week with the Neals Yard Rose scrub, which have all worked wonders!
Hope you find something to help soon, don't let it get you down :) xxx
I need to re-asses the situation. Maybe something to do with my foundo too. Or maybe I should give the honey a bash.
Mx
@lilyg nope i still havent..
@sherona deffo, my skin has been so confused, alot of ppl r saying that honey has broken them out, could it be true? :s i doubt it, i think mines just hormonal & stress related xxxxxx
@fantastic thats great news, i will probs be sticking with the gycolic acid cream until it finishes, as its already scabbed up the spots :)
@jo i want my orange flower water :( boo, i think that the neals yard was the best regimen, however i think i needed a lighter day cream with spf in it.. xx
@marie we must stop picking and squeezing them!! x
I'm going to start taking chlorella & see how that helps with my skin, fingers crossed!
xxx
Anyways, I do agree with lashikakool, give tea tree oil + vit e a try. :)
Zazil*
The Prettiest Me.
Leave your face to calm down by itself, and keep using the honey! Sadly I haven't seen any difference with the honey mask, but maybe I was expecting too much for my skin...
However I have to report positive outcome after the start of Project Clear Skin: I 'm super thorough on my skincare routine (pimples are minimized) and don't wear anything on my face, except when I 'm going out at night, thankfully my face seems to like this...!!! :)))
Keep it up and relax and you 'll surely see improvement, I know it! :)))
xoxoxo