Beauty Tips For Body Care
The main news: Got extractions done my an aesthetician.I have some newfound wisdom after emerging from that experience that is relevant to starting BHA or any other type of chemical exfoliant that can trigger the purging process.For anyone who has been following along, hello again! For anyone new, I have been chronicling my experience beginning to use BHA Salicylic acid. If you weren't aware, chemical exfoliants can trigger a process of skin purging, where the cell turnover rate increases, pushing impurities out from deep within the skin over the course of roughly 8 weeks. The product is working if your purging happens to start working specifically on your problem areas (like mine did with the deep CC's on my chin. The rest of my face has been flourishing with no problems at all).You can find my first two accounts in the comments below, the second update includes my day and night routine.*Deep inhale* *Sigh*Its been a journey. My last update I was still deep in the purging phase. I decided that my next update would be after an extraction facial because I'm an impatient person lol.I've learned something.If you can, get an extraction facial for closed comedones BEFORE starting your exfoliant of choice. *I highly recommend it*. Especially if you have specific areas that are needing acute attention/ are not inflamed. You skin can build up right on the surface, so even if you're using your exfoliant that triggers turnover, you might have a buildup right on the surface of your skin that is thicker and takes time to subside. This can impede those stubborn CC's from exiting your skin drama free, and can create an inflamed and embedded situation. Painful emotionally and physically.Purging takes time for stubborn CC's. They're happy right where they are. They're ~home~. Kicking them out takes time.I estimate that my purge would have lasted about another 3 weeks (making it around 11 weeks of purging) if I did not opt for extractions. I fixate on this issue and its been hard not to pick. I have on several occasions actually, while lucidly knowing it was not a good idea, especially without much tactical prowess on extractions myself.My goal with this sort of journey was to be in the healing phase of this situation by week 9, and I'm on track for that, thankfully due to the push I got from extracting the CCs. Again, if I used just the BHA, I would have needed probably 3 more weeks than what I expected initially, my little problem area has been lurking for a while, pretending not to be there lol.Next, I will be focusing on healing my chin area from all its been through over the last 8 weeks as well as continuing to use BHA to regulate my skin cell turnover, thus (hopefully) preventing the same CCs from popping up in the future.The BHA has minimized the pores on the rest of my face, specifically around my forehead and nose, which has been nice.Talk to you guys in a week or 2 to let you know if I'm still on schedule with the healing & prevention phase.
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