Beauty Tips For Body Care
I'm in my early 20s and genetically my family has been blessed with pretty good skin. My mom for example is out in the sun a lot, never wears sunscreen and somehow her skin still looks great. I always figured I don't have much to worry about in this regard.Regardless of that, I decided to try a simple routine of using vitamin C serum (this one) and a moisturiser (this one) every night before bed. Applied to face, neck and hands (since I always had a little extra).Now, I don't care about marketing claims and all that, but I spent a lot of time deciding what products to buy based on ingredients. I read a lot about a lot of ingredients. I wanted to avoid anything questionable and poorly researched (which sadly is pretty impossible, yay for under-regulation of cosmetics) It probably took me a month before finally compromising on buying those two products.After a bit, my skin was a little smoother and that was about all that I could notice different. But that's ok, I wanted to keep my skin looking nice long term, and smoothness was nice. After less than a month, I stopped using it for two days straight. I got lazy, honestly. I didn't expect much of a difference except my skin maybe being a bit less smooth.But nope, it looked worse than ever before. Suddenly I got fine lines where they didn't exist before. So I went back to using moisturiser and vitamin C again, and the fine lines went away after about 2 days. Well mostly? The new fine lines aren't visible to anyone but me after using the routine again. But I can see that they exist now.So then, to ensure I wasn't just being crazy, I tried it again after a week. And the same thing happened after just a day of not using the stuff. Fine lines on yet again new places and generally worse looking skin. I stopped using it on my hands and my hands don't look awful, but definitely worse (I didn't notice much benefit on my hands in the first place).So in all honesty, I regret ever trying this out. I don't know what's going on, but it looks like my skin got addicted and can't take care of itself anymore. Or that the routine is secretly making my skin worse and only appearing to make it look better (which would be brilliant for skincare companies, no?).I do wear sunscreen outside, but I don't consider it a part of the routine, as I don't go outside much anyway.And I understand that it takes some adjustments. I could expect dryer skin or breaking out,or redness, or whatever, anything adjustment-related. But my skin looking straight up older is not what I expected. I've heard people say before that stopping skincare makes your skin look worse than it would've looked without it, but I never assumed there was much behind this claim and I wouldn't expect it this fast either way. Now it's hard not to believe that.My thought of of course that maybe that's just a part of ageing. But it's too early, especially considering my family history and that I always took care of my skin. I stay out of sun, I drink only water and don't eat junk food. I don't crease my face much because I'm fairly expressionless when alone and spend a lot of time alone.I also considered that maybe I just didn't notice those before. But I am very particular (to say the least) with my face and I knew of all of the features of my face. Tiny hair patterns, almost invisible freckles, two under-eye creases - which never bothered me, I thought they are cute - but they suddenly become 3 after I stop routine? It would be impossible to miss.If I sound upset, I am. Not at you or anyone in particular, just at the situation I'm in now. Everyone is super excited about skin care and it basically became a religion at this point. So I thought I would give it a shot, what do I have to lose? But nobody warns you that once you start, it's a forever thing. Do we even know enough of what skincare products do? Based on how under-researched everything is, it's hard to believe that.What if I want to have a lazy day or two? What if I run out and not plan ahead? What if I just want to have my face free of chemicals so I can make out with my boyfriend (vitamin C tastes gross)? I can't do any of that apparently now. Ever again? What kind of life is that?Skin looking 5% better with and 50% without is NOT a good compromise. I just wanted to take care of my skin a little bit, feel good. Instead I've been feeling sad and anxious. I was pretty happy with my skin before and now I'm pretty miserable.So what should I do Reddit gals and guys? How do I go back to normal with out turning into a mummy? Am I doing something wrong? Is there some universal knowledge here that I missed? Is my skin messed up forever now? Did any of you ever tried to just stop using and have experience to share? Is there something ingredient-wise that I missed?I'm sorry for the long message and question spam. I let my skin down and I don't know what to do.
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