Day 219
so my breakout of little red bumps around my mouth from yesterday became whiteheads and popped literally overnight...i'm left with red marks today and that's it. SO WEIRD! is this normal? what does...
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two more whiteheads came up last night, popped this morning. so gross. i also am seeing a couple clogged pores surfacing on my forehead. will switch my whole face over to retin-a micro .1 slowly, in...
View ArticleDay 233
at about 8 weeks of using retin-a .1 on my forehead and i like it! in a few more weeks i will gradually start to use it on my whole face. in certain light, my forehead still looks bumpy, but it's...
View ArticleDay 241
soo i'm about to get my period so i'm breaking out around my mouth. i thought it wasn't so bad but the whiteheads i've had this week have left little red marks longer than normal. plus everything looks...
View ArticleDay 242
even though i think my forehead is still purging, it somehow looks better today. less oily? it's like individual clogged pores are emerging, which makes me hopeful, so even though you can see them the...
View ArticleDay 245
UGHHH so tired of this. these stupid whiteheads around my mouth WILL NOT GO AWAY. they last for a day or so, pop and leave a red mark, then i get another one or two in the EXACT SAME SPOT. literally,...
View ArticleDay 246
OF COURSE got another whitehead right in the middle of my cheek. all but one of the others have popped. ughhhhh have to give a presentation today, who doesn't love worrying about their skin while...
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Day 248
i'm having a good skin day...i can see a clogged pore on my forehead that's been there forever start to surface i think. i wanted to write this down because i'm hopeful about retin-a .1 and i don't...
View ArticleDay 255
now that my period is over, i haven't had a whitehead around my mouth in a week! part of it i'm sure is hormonal, but i've also started (actually following the instructions on my bottle of spiro)...
View ArticleDay 269
quick update: ever since i switched toothpastes/starting taking my spiro with water, i have had probably 4 whiteheads in the last 3 weeks (significantly down). not sure if it's due to those changes or...
View ArticleDay 269
quick update: ever since i switched toothpastes/starting taking my spiro with water, i have had probably 4 whiteheads in the last 3 weeks (significantly down). not sure if it's due to those changes or...
View ArticleDay 280
bad skin day. my forehead looks suuuper bumpy. improvement, but not great. i feel like i need to exfoliate more but my skin is so dry. thinking about going back to the derm. this is so frustrating--i...
View ArticleDay 296
my forehead is so bumpy. i made a derm appointment for tuesday. i've been exfoliating with baking soda...i really like it but i'm definitely getting more clogged pores on my forehead. hoping it's...
View ArticleDay 315
so i went to the derm last week, so told me that SOME (not all) of the bumps on my forehead are sebaceous hyperplasia...which you aren't normally supposed to get until you're in your 40s or 50s. lucky...
View ArticleDay 324
i've been using tazorac on my forehead every night for a week now, and have been using it everywhere else every other night for almost a week (the skin on the lower half of my face is much for...
View ArticleDay 328
the dryness/burning is subsiding, esp when i apply just a little bit of moisturizer around my mouth before using tazorac. that's good because probably my least favorite thing about retinoids is feeling...
View ArticleDay 19/day 2
decided i should stop using misleading labels for these entries...i'm definitely not almost 300 days into tazorac, although i guess i am almost 300 days into spiro, which i still like. i'm at 19 days...
View ArticleDay 21/day 4
3 weeks of tazorac on my forehead...i think the clogged pores are purging, especially around my hairline, but the good news is that they seem to be going away within a few days, instead of popping up...
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think i'm getting a little more into an initial breakout...a couple of the giant clogged pores on my forehead around my hairline have gone down, but more popped up. i have a few more clogged pores on...
View ArticleDay 28/day11
today is 4 weeks of using tazorac every day on my forehead...still very bumpy. it's so weird because yesterday i thought it looked awesome, and today it looks like the bumps are bigger. other than that...
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