Posting here mainly to link in another thread honestly, someone was asking me for tips with acne and it's hard to do without a pictures 😅

So first photos are my skin prep (at night I add cerave sa lotion, but otherwise same in the am and pm after washing my face) and all my daily use makeup products, all in the order that I do them

Excuse the half awake pre-makeup pics, but wanted to show the acne scars and red spots - after doing the skin care, while that soaks up, I do my eyebrows and eyes, and then I do the color corrector (the one from Dollar Tree is AMAZING), I haven't ever had luck with brushes or blenders for liquids so I just dab with my fingers to blend things in 

Then foundation on top of the color corrector once it has had a minute to dry, then I apply the blush down from my upper cheekbone, and then I set everything with the kimchi powder - which if you need a powder, get this one, it is the BEST powder I have EVER used

I do put the same eye shadow that's in my inner corners on my cheekbones, the tip of my nose, and the brow of my lip - I love Physician's Formula for highlighters (and blushes), but I ran out, so I dump the Dollar Tree one into the empty pallete from it since the brush that comes with that is utterly horrendous and it's a dip powder, it works alright, but that's why they're both in the products photo

I then spray it down and put on mascara last, since the setting spray always makes the mascara run (and yes I know the mascara needs to be burned and is old asf and probably moldy, I tried to replace it but the one I had got is legit worse, so I'll get to it lol) - if anyone could recommend a cheap mascara that can handle my wet allergy eyes like a champ, I'd love that, I have no idea what to look for in one honestly, I only started doing mascara a few years ago when a friend gave me one and I'm still using that one 😅

But yeah I can go into more detail on any aspect if anyone wants, but this was mainly just to show the acne

I don't really have any acne active currently, it's in the healing phase, I have hormonal cystic acne and I'm just under 2 weeks out from the last cycle - it's mainly just the one on my cheek that is still healing, that one was a mountain of a beast, but there's some little spots along my chinstrap that are still slightly red and getting the dry skin I have to exfoliate well for

As you can see, I have some texture. That spot on my cheek did not cover completely. There's some pitting scars. When that spot was still weeping, because it actively was for about a week, I was using pimple patches to cover it, and it probably will take a couple more weeks to heal and might even be a new scar

But yeah, makeup will look like makeup

You are still hot even with texture and unevenness

You can't force things to cover perfectly every time, and that's okay 

I certainly have days I disagree with all that, but it doesn't make it any less true

I'm on Spironolactone 150mg and Tretinoin, and at the end is a photo of my skin a year ago

I had a hysterectomy recently that has my hormones resettling and making my acne flair again, but it's getting better every month and nowhere near the previous intensity - before the hysterectomy, after about 6 months of the combo, it had cleared completely

And while I look forward to it clearing again

I know it's okay in the meantime 

Because it gets better.

Hope everyone has a good day and that this helped someone feel a bit better about having skin!

Acne & Makeup