♡ 菱°Corner ♡: March 2010

Friday, March 5, 2010

The Unethical Beauty Salon

It is very rare that the beautician is ethical enough for not insisting you to buy her products. I hate those salon who keep asking you to buy this and that, as if it’s all your fault for not using those products if your skin condition doesn’t improve. So you end up adding products to your skin care regime, endlessly…… until one day you just suddenly realize that you have a handful of useless products which is not helping at all.

I am rather skeptical about the salon skin care products, especially those not very well known. I have a friend whose sister is doing one kind of business, which she buys the skin care products in bulk, repackages and sells them to the local beauty salon. The beauty salon will then brand it with their own name and sell to the end users. You will never know where is the origin of the products and whether the contents are actually tested and approved. My skin is too sensitive along with complicated problems so I am very cautious on this.

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

The Skin Disaster

It has been a nightmare on my face, all the skin disorders, you name it, and I have it. Blackheads, whiteheads, comedones, scars, enlarged pores, acnes, wrinkles, lines, rashes, redness, oiliness, peeling etc etc……

The very first acne started to breakout since I was only 11. I can still clearly remember, it was on my nose. And ever since then, the breakouts never stop. From one zit on the nose, they slowly spread to the whole face, the forehead, the chin, the cheeks and even the jaw lines.

I have very complicated combination skin type. It is indeed very oily, but at the same time it peels and is very sensitive. The oil secretion is so active that the sebums resurface as soon as half an hour after I’ve just cleaned my face. The face temperature is always warm, and my face always looks red. The blackheads, whiteheads, comedones are all over the face, whenever I tried to remove them, they appears again the next day.

I have tried all sorts of remedies, doctor’s prescriptions, and even facial courses but they never cure my problems. The doctor’s prescriptions have been effective in suppressing the breakouts but once the prescription is stopped, the problem reappeared and became more serious than before. I have taken two types of precription. the first time is Diane-35 when I was 14 and the second time is Antibiotics when I was 17. Each course took about 6 months. Both precriptions have not cure the acnes permanently but instead worsen it after I stopped the course.

I got so frustrated with the medicine that I went for facial courses instead. I was asked to purchase all sorts of skincare products by the beauty consultants. The same thing happened, the breakouts were suppressed by the skin care products and again, once I stopped using those products, the acnes came back and became even more serious. I am currently still going to beauty salon but I have stopped using all their products.

I am currently using mostly open-shelves skin care products which supprisingly have my acnes under-controlled. From time to time I still get minor breakouts but at least it is far better than before. However, my skin is still sensitive and I have rashes here and there on the face.

Here are some pictures of myself today, after washing and before applying any skin care product. I shall keep these pictures for future comparison.

chin & jawline

nose

right cheek

Left Cheek

Now I’m exploring the way to get rid of the comedones & scars, to tighten the badly enlarged pores and to reduce the wrinkles that have started to appear on my forehead, under eyes and my cheeks lately. I am 27 now and skin aging has started to take effect on my face.

This nightmare has haunted me for almost 16 years and I really hope that I could be waken up from the nightmare one day.