Beauty Tips For Body Care
I’ve posted before asking various questions regarding skincare, and as of last week I hit my breaking point.I was scrolling through google photos and saw several pictures of myself + Various people, and was blown away by how clear and normal my skin looked. This was going back about 1-2years. My routine before was... nothing. Nada. Wake up, rinse my hair, go to work. Come home, shower. That’s it. That’s all I did and I had perfectly normal skin. I’m a male, so I know it’s different as I don’t wear any makeup.Fast forward to last summer and I started breaking out again. I was in a job transition and was stressed out as it was a new field for me. I started buying skincare products to remedy it and it snowballed from there. I have always been rather analytical and obsessive, and having previous dealings with acne in my teens (I went on accutane when I was 16, I’m 24 now) I couldn’t deal with it. “I’m an adult. Why do I have spots again?”I tried so many products and spent so much money it’s disgusting. I did research on research on research, and would find new shit to try and to buy, and it always failed. It made it worse.Well, last week, after waking up in the morning and seeing yet another 3 large pimples forming underneath my skin, I gave up. I threw away my ordinary products out of anger, I put my cleansers and oils in a bin, and stashed it away. That was it- I was done, and I wasn’t coming back. I went to work and continued on with my life.Now, it’s been 7 days. I wake up in the morning, brush my teeth, and don’t even check the mirror; I don’t care anymore.I drive at work, and I check my mirrors to change lanes, not to see if a new bump showed up.I come home and change my clothes. I don’t come home and investigate my skin.The only thing I do is shower at night time, and moisturize if I need it around my nose/eye brows where I get more dry. I also moisturize my neck after I shave or before bed if I feel like it.I’ve been taking these for the past 6 months, and still take them for general health: -Krill oil 1000mg -Zinc 50mg -Multivitamin -D3 2000IUMy skin hasn’t looked this clear since those photos I browsed in my phone. I still get bumps, I still have some acne on my shoulders etc, but it doesn’t matter. For me, it became so unhealthy, it was like an addiction. I was addicted to the idea of having perfect skin.I’m not saying this is a “fix”. My issue isn’t the same as yours and vice versa. I became 100% obsessed with fixing this “problem”. I would look at my face and my body and go over my skin again and again and again. I finally realized, who even cares about it? Who even SEES it? Who stands 2 inches away from my face?!?!The answer was, myself. I was making it worse by fucking my moisture barrier raw, day in, day out, and OBSESSING over it, every minute of every day.I don’t care anymore. I feel much happier just not caring.
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