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Brand New and Need a Routine

Routine Help

Hello, everyone! I (27) am brand new here, and I'm looking to set up a skincare routine tailored to my needs.

I get dry skin sometimes from cleansing, but moisturizing fixes it easily. I get acne between my eyebrows, on my chin, and on my nose. I have massive, awful permanent blackheads on my nose, too. I get a bit oily on my forehead, nose, and chin.

I'm starting to show a few tiny lines around my eyes. I have dark circles around my eyes a bit, too. I'm okay with slowly gaining wrinkles, it's going to happen, but I'd like to put it off as long as possible by keeping my skin healthy. The dark circles just make me look constantly sickly.

I want to reach a point where I'm comfortable enough to not wear foundation. I'm pretty comfortable, but having acne kills my confidence. I don't wear makeup daily, but I just started an office job and I'd love to look nice.

I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing, I don't even know the steps in a routine. I started looking up routines or tutorials online, but they always try to sell expensive products without explaining why you need them for your skin type.

I am willing to spend some decent money on products, but not anything crazy like $135 for a single product. I do understand that sometimes a fantastic product is super expensive but worth it, and I'm willing to consider stuff like that ($50 range for irreplaceable, max quality stuff). Otherwise I'd like to keep the price around $25 per product max, the cheaper the better.

Anything that will help my skin look smoother, my pores look smaller, and help keep my acne away would be amazing!

Posted Sep 9, 2020, 2:09 AM UTC

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beautyskincarelover•

I would suggest using a basic four step routine at first! A cleanser, a treatment, a moisturizer, and a spf! Gonna edit this later with more detailed suggestions!

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FindingQuestionsOP•

Awesome, thank you! I feel like I need a fairly standard routine, I just have no idea what that is or what actually works 😅 when you edit later, can you clarify what the "treatment" phase does? Thanks in advance!

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choco4chocopups•

Retinol is great for dealing with fine line and wrinkles because it increases the production of collagen. It doesn't sound like you have a huge problem with dryness but hyaluronic acid can definitely combat that. As for oily, try looking for oil-free moisturizers, but you should definitely moisturize regardless of oily-ness because not moisturizing can cause more oil!

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FindingQuestionsOP•

Oh, maybe I should start moisturizing regularly then! That's really helpful to know, thank you.

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greeneyeddoll8•

Definitely moisturize everyday REGARDLESS of how oily you feel! When your skin is too dry your body freaks out and tries to produce more oil making you even more oily and causing you to break out more.

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greeneyeddoll8•

I recommend using Differin gel and a niacinamide serum! The ordinary has one for like $6, natrium has one that’s $16, and the good molecules has one for $6 as well! The retinol (Differin) will help with acne, wrinkles, dark circles and will even out your skin texture! The niacinamide serum will help with the oil production in your skin which will help with your blackheads. Niacinamide will also help the uneven texture, fine lines, make pores smaller, etc. With these products you MUST use spf and MUST have a good moisturizer! I recommend cerave face lotion because it’s noncomedogenic and gives good hydration. Also for cleansing you should be double cleansing! Oil based cleanser first then water based cleanser! I recommend getting a hydrating cleanser such as cerave or macha hemp cleanser from KraveBeauty! Hydrating because the retinol will make your face dry! If you do decide to use the Differin gel make sure you’re slowly bringing it into your skin care routine. Start off with once a week and then gradually to 3 times a week then every other night. Just work slow! LOL hope this helps! I have such a passion for skin care so if you have any other questions let me know!

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SneakyElves•

You should definitely start with a basic 4 step routine! I highly recommend you look up Hyram's videos on youtube, he's a skincare specialist and his videos helped me build a great skincare routine for me and i also learned a lot!

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