Beauty Tips For Body Care
being stupid, i tried and tried again to love paula's choice AHA. probably mostly because the BHA liquid worked so well for me!! however no matter how much i tried to like them, they came with insane itching/stinging on my face and an unpleasant texture, smell, and taste. worst of all, there was no improvement in my skin texture whatsoever. i think it broke me out too, but i can never be sure with my acne prone skin if its just another bad day or im actually reacting badly.eventually i decided i hated glycolic acid. but i still desperately needed AHAs as my closed comedones on my forehead and my mouth area would not budge, no matter how much BHA i used. id been doing research before and mandelic seemed quite promising. i considered lactic, but for some reason i felt like mandelic might be more effective, idk, it was just an arbitrary choice on my part tbh.well anyways, within less than a week of using mandelic, the closed comedones have CLEARED UP!!! I bought the MUAC 20% toner, you can get a really cheap 1oz sample sized one to try out. the only con is that it feels like youre putting straight alcohol on your face, as mandelic works best when its in alcohol apparently, so if youre not about that alcohol life mandelic will not be the greatest. i feel that the slight dryness is a small price to pay for its benefits haha, but that is a caveat.my skin is not perfectly smooth yet, but this is the best it's been in more than 8 years. i struggled with bad cystic acne in high school (so bad that i decided to PAINT it senior year) which cleared up right before i left for college, but acne never really left me. i always had few or more big pimples here and there and my forehead, cheek, and mouth area was just closed comedones city. now, i LOVE running my hands over my right side of my forehead and left cheek, because they are sooo smooth (they have always been kinder too me, but right now they feel SO GREAT!!) and even if some bigger pimples pop up i have found that i can make it go way with minimal resistance in a few days with my actives.i wish i had discovered skincare earlier when i was in high school so that i wouldnt have acne scars, but im doing the best to remedy it now. i really feel like i know how to manage my skin now. its a sense of control i've never felt before when dealing with my skin. and having recently discovered that mineral foundation works wonder to minimize the visibility of my acne craters (i.e. ice pick scars) on my face, i am on the road to something greater. so another FYI, if you feel that even the lightest of liquid foundation makes your skin texture look even worse like i felt it did, try mineral!!!anyways, all of this to say mandelic worked for me to clear my closed comedones while glycolic sucked dickbutt and possibly made it worse. the end
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