suncream, zits and wrinkles: rolling skincare thread?

that tingly feeling!

i used to exfoliate every day and my skin was pretty great then. also what ive seen of tza's skin in photos looks pretty great too. maybe its time to start again.

i have a really light exfoliator that i like. it's kind noxzema like in consistency, but it has tiny little scrubbing beads.

i like scrubbing better than scratching, on a regular basis.

depends how my skin is feeling. sometimes every day, sometimes not. but i like to keep smooth, i guess.

I use a scrub cleanser to exfoliate every morning and rinse with water at night. I moisturize at least twice a day sometimes more in winter. Diff day and night creams but same eye stuff.

what i find is, eye gels are really lovely and glow-y, which i love, but they don't blend with my under-eye concealer

whereas my eye cream blends

i now blend and then apply, which has been working wonders in my life

Gels aren't moisturizing enough for me so I use cream only. I just let it sink in for a while before doing concealer.

girl, you don't need no eye cream ;)

LOL. That may be true but only because I've been using it since I was 19! There's no other explanation for my lack of wrinkles as a 31 year old (hopefully soon to be ex) smoker!

everyone needs eye cream (says she who doesn't use and has only been sporadically using moisturizer for fear of clogged pores.)

discovered that a) seattle has ulta, and b) they carry mario badescu now! which means i can buy things without paying shipping! but also means no samples. so hmm.

Everyone needs eye cream, apparently.

susan's right, you know

very much

in Friends With Money, jennifer aniston's character would steal eye cream and put it all over her body

::shrugs::

What Mario Badescu products should I try now that I have noticed that Ulta carries it ?

I have both dry flaky patches and oily acne prone parts on my face. Bleh.

Stop wasting time with the expensive stuff and use the only topical treatment that has been proven to work: Retin A. Retin A in the evening + moisturizer in the morning = good skin.

i need a new eye gel for the morning. something depuffying/soothing? the clarins stuff was alright but not amazing and not really in the budget right now.

tr, try the hyaluronic eye cream. the seaweed toner is nice. also try going on their site and filling out the little questionnaire about your skin and it will suggest products for you (and usually they'll send you samples).

wish i could help tza but i use the Lab Series for men gel.

musically, my aunt uses this retin-a. i remember something about it tho -- does it dry your skin out or something? also, is it just an acne treatment, or is it like a wrinkle treatment as well?

i used retin-a in middle school. shit was harsh. i remember we had to get a note from my doctor to give the insurance company saying it wasn't bc i wanted to get rid of wrinkles/cosmetic bc otherwise they wouldn't cover it.

it's weird to me that it can be so harsh, yet prevent wrinkles. u know?

It's gotta be like some kind of race. Stay good looking long enough to make someone worthwhile fall in love with and spend the rest of your life with you, and then you can just go ahead wake up with puffy eyes some mornings.

but then they have a midlife crisis and leave you bc you too puffy.

I hope to God I pick better than that.

i think it's usually the boys who do that.

OK.

i got talked into this caudalié exfoliator and it's very nice, but even nicer are the mask and moisturizer samples she gave me! it all smells like lavender and is apparently made from grapes?

in love with this btw
http://www.aveda.com/images/products2/large/av_A3X5_162.jpg

way better than the clarins gel.

I got the green science eye cream and holy shit it burns! I'm thinking of taking it back.

ok so here is a thing:

i am currently living a healthier lifestyle than i have in YEARS, if ever, but my skin looks worse than i can remember since middle school! i am currently a broken out mess, possibly due to some kind of allergic reaction to some unknown thing (it's slightly similar to my bare minerals breakout last summer), and i am not sure that any skin product can help. what do i do? is it hormonal? is it age? gahhhhh!

maybe it's change of climate, but i can't imagine the air here being worse than polluted nyc air!

It takes time to work all the deep-down crap outta your skin. It's gotta be bad to get good.

i feel like it all went south when i got a facial :(
i know it's supposed to act up for a few days after but it's been 1.5 months or so and is getting progressively worse.

what about the water? maybe it's that?

6 weeks is nothing. When we start a patients on an acne treatment, we tell them to expect bad skin for another 12 weeks.

i mean like, 6 weeks since facial. skin has been overall worse for like 5 months but definitely better before the facial. but i don't know if that's anything to do with it. ugh.

what the hell kinda facial was it? Have you been using anything new?

it was at aveda. i bought some aveda lotion. maybe that's it? but i stopped using it just in case like... a week ago... and i'm still kinda breaking out.

i should really just find health insurance so i can go to a dermatologist.

after the facial the girl said 'your skin is so perfect! i had a hard time diagnosing any problems at all!' which i kinda disagreed with but compared to now, it was pretty perfect then.

your diet is pretty diff these days, something you are allergic to maybe

When you get health insurance, come see me!

<3

It definitely took a derm to fix my skin problems. Rx Retin-A plus rx spirinolactone is like magic bullet shit.

I do, however, have sunspots and broken capillaries that kinda bug me (lol thirtysomething with past history of sun abuse). Kate what are your thoughts on IPL? That's what my derm recommends.

hey tza the other i was thinking: you're exercising way more than u used to,r ight? sweat might be causing some of the breakouts too

hmm maybe. but i tend to shower right away afterwards.

The only other thing I can think of is old toxins getting worked through and out? Some byproducts of body processes are expressed on the skin -- they are expressed by pores instead of being handled by, say, the digestive system.

what a disaster for my face.