HEY Y’ALL!
It’s that time of week again! A progress update for anyone considering purchasing The Regimen from acne.org! This is my third week on the products and while I haven’t noticed a huge reduction in the redness of my skin I’ll let you all know some of the things I’ve noticed this week and things I’ve learned along the way so far!
Last week I started off with telling you guys how horribly dry and flaky my skin was! While it’s still flaky and I have a problem with the dry dead skin around my temples getting into my hair (making me look like I have dandruff) it has lost all of that dry, cracking, stinging feeling which is AWESOME! I still get a little bit of uncomfortable itchiness at night when I put on more of the benzoyl peroxide treatment but I think my skin is finally getting used to it! While I’m not back to having crazy oily skin, it is starting to produce more oil than last week so I don’t look like I have dragon scales anymore! I have noticed more this week that the dry skin is flaking off my face, allowing for new skin to come to the surface which is making my complexion much smoother! I’ve honestly never felt my face so smooth! It’s also good because I’ve been DYING to exfoliate throughout this process because it’s no good for acne to be trapped under dead skin!
Now this past week I have been AWFUL about touching my face and reverting back to picking my skin so it is ENTIRELY my own fault for being more red this week than I was in my last photos but I can’t stress enough how much better the texture of my skin is!
I’ve posted below a photo of my skin that I took WITH makeup on before I started The Regimen to show just how bad the texture of my skin was before I started and a picture I took this morning with makeup on to show the difference! Before I started this skincare routine I had not only red pimples and acne on my face (mostly my chin and jaw) but also all of these tiny little bumps that were almost whiteheads all over my cheeks. I had never ever before in my life had bumps like that. When my acne started in around 7th grade, the majority of my problem was on my forehead and chin and that T-zone area right around the nose. Even through high school and most of college my cheeks remained fairly clear with some pimples coming up every now and then. So when I really started to get all of these tiny bumps on my cheeks I just got completely fed up. THANK GOODNESS for this skin care routine because it has saved my sanity.
Before starting
Today
I mean, JUST LOOK AT THE DIFFERENCE! You can see that there are still some small bumps along my cheekbones but for the most part they’ve gone down an INCREDIBLE amount and it makes my makeup go on so much smoother every day! The bumps don’t show up as much in the progress pictures but once I put on makeup and even out my skin tone they become REALLY visible and I’m so thankful they’ve diminished!
So now onto the progress pictures! Like I said before, there is more redness in these pictures but that is ENTIRELY my fault because I was bad and picked at my skin (old habits die hard right?!) But I’m trying to be more conscience about when I touch my face throughout the day and trying not to slip back into bad habits!
Left Side START – Left Side WEEK 1
Left Side WEEK 2 – Left Side WEEK 3
Right Side WEEK 2 – Right Side WEEK 3
Right Side START – Right Side WEEK 1
Forehead WEEK 2 (top) – Forehead WEEK 3 (bottom)
Forehead START (top) – Forehead WEEK 1 (bottom)
So there’s my progress for week 3! So far I’m REALLY happy with the results and am getting close to needed to order more! For anyone wanting to order shipping is fo FREE with orders over $40 and every single kit is over $40 (the basic is $44) so if you’re considering buying it but are worried about the cost I completely encourage you to save up and order at least the basic kit! It has helped me tremendously so far and I can’t wait to finally have clear skin! Thanks for reading love bugs!
xoxo,
Kristin
Baking up Beautiful 