[Skin Concerns] [Acne] My breakouts that I was continually dealing with cleared up in a week- because I let my skin become very dry which is confusing?

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So I was dealing with CC's and then those turned inflamed, and I was purging a bit from my AHA.One night after drinking alcohol/falling asleep in my makeup, I woke up with a lot of the breakouts dried up and nearly completely gone.Many people hypothesized that this could be due to my skin drying out a bit overnight (makeup, alcohol).So...I started slapping on my BP onto the inflamed spots even more and not moisturizing those spots heavily anymore.Now my skin has ZERO active breakouts (knock on wood). BUT...It's dry as fuck. As in, if you look closely, my skin is pretty white in some spots (dead, dry skin), and it feels tight as hell.I know the solution to this: moisturize and baby my skin. So after my routine tonight, I slathered on my moisturizer, but with fear, because...now I'm scared that my solution to acne is letting my skin dry up a bit (I know dry skin can lead to more pimples, too, but this hasn't been the case for me :( not YET, at least). I'm terrified that getting my skin back to its moisturized, non-dry state (I typically have combo/dehydrated skin) will bring back my breakouts, even though I WAS still using the same moisturizer, just waaaay less of it.Any advice? I'm confused and a bit worried. And my poor skin is stinging a bit with my moisturizer application, that's how dry it is (despite looking gloriously breakout free for once- why must it be this way...)Thanks. Also, sorry for the million mini-paragraphs. Walls of text usually discourage me so I try breaking my words up a bit more.
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