If you know me, you are probably aware that I am slightly obsessed with teeth. I am not quite sure what the obsession stems from, maybe years of braces and extractions, head gear, palate expanders, rubber bands. I had 9 teeth extracted before I was 18, two were permanent teeth. So yeah, I technically do not have all of my teeth. Just had my sole wisdom tooth removed in December. Apparently I only had one. Oh, I bet you're so freaking interested in this post at the moment.
My other obsession is my skin. It sucks. I'll be 25 in a month and I break out like I'm 15. I've been taking doxycycline, which sucks, makes you nauseated as crap. I've been taking it before bed so I sleep through the nausea. I'm also using this retinoid creme called Tazorac. (That a link to a fellow blogger's Tazorac story.) Anyway, this stuff literally makes your skin peel off. I have to super scrub my face with a brush and with facial scrubs a couple of times a day to not look like a snake. One of the awesome side effects of this medication is that it is a powerful anti-wrinkle creme. Less breakouts and no wrinkles, right on. Also using a benzoyl-peroxide/clindamycin creme during the day. Anyway, my skin is barely broken out. Most people would be freaking if they had half of the zits that I currently have, but I am like SCORE! :) Please let this keep up.
So, yeah. My face currently does not look like any of those photos. Yay. That's why I'm obsessed. Now I just need to get obsessed with going to the gym.
You worry too much, lol.
ReplyDeleteHave you tried a turmeric mask and dabbing your breakouts with tea tree oil? I am older than you and have adult acne (sucks balls), and those two things seem to work for me. But I feel your pain.
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