r/SCAcirclejerk•6 yr. ago

Please help me get rid of my problem I don't have any skincare routine whatsoever and haven't done any research on my own and just need you to answer the exact same questions about the exact same skin conditions multiple times a day

Sauce in particular, but there are constantly posts by people with super common (for the sub) issues that haven't tried anything (including using the search bar), up to an including "has anybody heard of tretinoin" and "has anybody tried The Ordinary". EVERY SINGLE DAY.

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puffballcutiepore•6 yr. ago

help MY SKIN STRESSES ME OUT IT BOTHERS ME SO MUCH but not enough to even CAST A GLANCE in the direction of the sidebar/search bar and will instead MAKE THIS TOTALLY UNIQUE POST begging to be SPOONFED

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Hol_1•6 yr. ago

30 something year old here who has NEVER taken care of their skin!! Literally what even is a TONER amirite hahahaha !!! 🤪🤪🤪Anyways I wash my face with dish soap every few days and I was thinking of adding The Ordinary’s Peeling solution every day as well as a retinol ?? I’m not gonna add a moisturiser or sunscreen though and I’m gonna ignore your comments saying this will be too much and to do more research because ‘I’ve never had skin sensitivity before’ 🤪🤪🤪🤪 Ciao pores xoxox

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Toboleckopore•6 yr. ago

Pore yes you go girl don't listen to the haters, your glowing skin will be proof moderation is never the way to go! More is always more duh!

Edit: a word

Hol_1•6 yr. ago

Want 2 be Glowing bright enough to give someone a melanoma ✨

Toboleckopore•6 yr. ago

That's the spirit 🙌

sashimi_girl•6 yr. ago

Don’t patch test either! Every product all at once GO HARD OR GO THE FUCK HOME

siakou•6 yr. ago

OMG I literally saw a couple of days ago someone arguing with others because as she said “the dove bar does the job at cleaning my face because it’s a soap that’s all it matters I don’t understand why people are so against it” all the while she was asking for more products to improve her routine! and I remember thinking that dish soap is also soap you can clean your face with it if you want but decided not to say anything because why bother really?

starkanthonye616•6 yr. ago

I have a friend who legit washed her face with dove soap (the white indented one?) And tbh her skin looked pretty good. I subtly bought her skincare for Christmas last year and she's been using that, and she gets more breakouts. Like, what!? YOU ENTIRE BUTTCHEEK.

Our joke is that any time I recommend something (hair, skin, nails, food etc) she'll scream "SOOOOAP" and I'll just rage scream.

Brookany40•6 yr. ago

One week later:

WhY iS mY sKiN sO dRy?!?

sweeties_yeetiespore•6 yr. ago

WoW qweeeen let’s see that glowing s k u l l under those pores!!!

_d2gs•6 yr. ago

I don’t actually know or understand what toner is despite reading about it in the side bar. I can’t really call myself a sca expert like I’ve always wanted bc I’m too dumb to understand what toner and why you would use this. Wow this really reads like a jerk lol.

chubster157•6 yr. ago

You’re not alone. What does it do?!?

Snwussy20% ascorbitch acid in silicone•6 yr. ago

srs It depends on the individual toner, but in general they're just water with other ingredients lol. Some prep the skin for active acids by lowering the surface pH (how effective this actually is, I'm not sure). Some are astringent (think witch hazel), some are hydrating, and some are active acids themselves (e.g. The Ordinary glycolic acid). I use one mainly to moisten my skin and deliver a safe amount of tea tree oil lol, but lots of people consider them to be useless or unnecessary.

Turkic-Warrior•6 yr. ago

I use rosewater as a toner.

youmakememadder•6 yr. ago

When I was younger they helped remove excess cleanser. I only use one once or twice a week nowadays, if I’ve done a home microdermabrasion or something else and I really want to layer on the product.

Otherwise, I don’t like things sitting on my skin too often and despite all my trials, many do.

melodymonhoe•6 yr. ago

Reading and researching unfortunately isn't encouraged and ingrained unless you bully people into it. 😒

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siakou•6 yr. ago

In SCA They downvote comments that encourage OPs to do their research before posting/buying.

Seeing the same posts asking about the same issues every singe day is just what SCA has become now.

Emotional-Product•6 yr. ago

I wonder when that changed ? I remember being active over there a long time ago and I used to help people with beginner questions like these but usually there were always comments pointing out they should do they’re damn research themselves.

siakou•6 yr. ago

I have no idea I’ve been in SCA for a long time but as a newbie I was always only lurking around and searching from the existing questions.

That’s the main reason why it’s beyond me how people can’t and won’t look up anything ..

Emotional-Product•6 yr. ago

I don’t understand it either.

Also they know their skin best - whether it’s dry or gets oily quickly or if it’s rather sensitive. And then they expect a complete stranger they never met before to give them accurate advise and they TRUST that random person on the internet and follow what they’re told without doing the tiniest bit of research. It’s baffling really.

ayaPapaya•6 yr. ago

I’m not justifying it, but the research is really quite overwhelming.

commmandersamvimes•6 yr. ago

Maybe there is a different ways to see this. Maybe some people do try to do their research but it is overwhelming and they do not understand the terms or know what they need in order to research it.

I won't go into specifics, but I work in an environment where it's difficult for beginners to get into because the documentation does not really consider them and tutorials go from this is a brick now build a castle to let's make a bigger castle. Some people try to do their research but don't understand the terminology or where it fits and need a guidance. A guidance is not necessarily a hand holding it can just as easy be pointing in the correct direction. For this reason I feel a lot of empathy for people that just drop by and have the courage to ask for advice.

I don't think that people that do these posts are people that are lazy. I think they are either way too young to know better (like teenagers asking about acids and worrying about aging) or not well off enough to have the time and the resource to do their trial and error of product.

Let's never forget that skincare is not a poor people game.

decemberrainfall•6 yr. ago

The documentation is pretty clear. 'New? Start here!' It is sheer laziness and lack of willingness to click a few times.

Source: I write documentation and manuals. You can put that shit right in front of people and they still don't wanna read it.

commmandersamvimes•6 yr. ago

I am not talking about reading. I am talking about having the capacity to understand what you read.

I am not sure what your "source" part adds to the discussion. Because you write manuals you know why people do not read manuals and your opinion is more valid? Genuine curiosity.

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decemberrainfall•6 yr. ago

I'm not saying my opinion is more valid. I'm saying that even if you give people all the information they need (which the wiki does), people still want to be spoon-fed information because it's easier. The beginner's guide is geared to beginners. People have the capacity to understand it.

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untethered_eyeball•6 yr. ago

are you a programmer lol

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rococobitch•6 yr. ago

Here is a photo of my face, kinda blurry, with absolutely no information as to what I’d like to focus on skincare-wise or my issues, skin type, or climate. tHoUgHtS u gUyZ? AnY rEcOmmEnDatiOns????

Alternatively: here’s my haul I did after browsing the subreddit for all of one day ^yay! Now it’s your guys’ job to tell me how to make a routine out of this shit, plzzzzz n thank yew~ wHaT SidEbAr?

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effybeanz•6 yr. ago

Are those not...freckles?

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GlotzbachsToast•6 yr. ago

A horse of another color!

siakou•6 yr. ago

When they don’t have a routine but they ask to make them one for their SPECIFIC needs (acne, redness, pores, you name them they want to treat everything altogether. Things that typically need acids etc) and when you tell them (or anyone else for that matter) that they need to figure out a BASIC routine first before adding anything to target any issues, they’re like NAAAAHHHH I asked for a specific thing thank you for not being helpful, NEXT.

LIKE ??? You’re in a page called skincare ADDICTION asking for stupid shit that many others did before you, you did no research whatsoever and you find the first logical advice you got not helpful. NICE

Flibiddy-Floo•6 yr. ago

It's for my face honey NEXT!

moshlikealady•6 yr. ago

Oldie and goodie. Thanks for the lols.

Olive767•6 yr. ago

Step 1: look at this subs photo Step 2: buy that moisturizer. Buy the matching face wash. Bam. You have the skincare routine that solved all of my skin issues.

TunaToes•6 yr. ago

Make sure whatever you use has lots of essential oils!

_ginger_snapped_•6 yr. ago

Srs I’ve noticed multiple times that a guy can post nothing but a picture of his face with a title like “I’ve never washed my face” and he’ll get a lot of advice and even compliments.

percybitchshelleyniacinnamonide•6 yr. ago

I see this allllll the time and it's so annoying. Like just get Tinder guy. Leave the skincare forum alone

NotYetASerialKiller•6 yr. ago

I have never seen this .-.

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branluvr•6 yr. ago

dOeS aNyBoDy KnOw WhAt ThEs-

Milia. They're fucking milia. Yes, you can get rid of them. No, they aren't causing any harm.

Anly147•6 yr. ago

In the sauce I think the brown spots that were being referred to were the damn freckles. Freckles. Who has gone this long to be old enough to post to reddit and doesn’t know what freckles are?

Edit: granted, I’m on mobile and can’t see the photo very well, so I could be wrong. Still though

branluvr•6 yr. ago

Unjerk- I was referring to how the sub gets filled up with the same few questions over and over

Anly147•6 yr. ago

Oh oof, disregard me then

branluvr•6 yr. ago

No worries 😊

twerkfornasdaq•6 yr. ago

And then they end up getting 25 acids and 3 forms of vitamin c and then a retinoid that were recommended and then they’re in a worse spot than they started

decemberrainfall•6 yr. ago

SCA has adopted an attitude of 'disagreement=rudeness'. So if you tell someone to do research and not slather that fucking red peel on their face, they will scream like a child who lost their lollipop.

percybitchshelleyniacinnamonide•6 yr. ago

Yeah I think people in general just act kind of entitled to being taught by others. I wish SCA was less tolerant of these kinds of posts and that would force people to do the research themselves. I mean if the wiki is too overwhelming just use the search bar and read previous posts. I really think it comes down to laziness and/or just being generally oblivious.

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scajunkie•6 yr. ago

think...? for my..self?! *surprise pickachu*

I think at least some of the TO posts are shills. I've seen one in the past that was pretty obvious paula's choice shills and when I called them out, they deleted it.

nzodd•6 yr. ago

My skincare routine is just a flowchart with each step listing topics to shitpost about on r/SCAcirclejerk. I haven't even washed my face in years.

Merryanne76pore•6 yr. ago

I just googled skinare and I found this list of all natural chemical free oils... they're by young living? And they're supposed to cure the plague. Anyway i bought all of them it cost me 2,000$ how do I use them?

paparigani•6 yr. ago

Srs i think this started because people themselves wanted to prove that they are experts in skincare thus gave advice and started this circus

Meanderer027•6 yr. ago

I’m getting so sick of people wanting to be spoon fed the fact they should use a cleanser, moisturizer and sunscreen. And people continue to respond, I wish the mods would remove the posts and just say to use the fucking side bar.

Vnewb•6 yr. ago

Or just not respond to them. Then they are left but only a choice to be more independent. Save yourself the burnout. Someone else might come along and answer but that’s their choice to expend their time as they see fit.

Your job is just to look after you. Not how a person comes by their info and not everyone else who’s willing to give the info.

Cuz we’re all kind of responsible for ourself. Whether it’s searching in a sidebar or burnout that you’ve not noticed you’ve passed your own boundary so you just get annoyed at everyone else just for asking or answering.

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