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mine is sensitive *

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ive always had these small bumps and acne scars. i used to have really bad acne, its under control now but idk how to get rid of these.

i currently switch between minimalist and cera ve and do basic make up- blush and eyeliner.

what can i change in my routine? please suggest!

I'm 23 & I want to start muay thai..... but i think i'm very late but idk can I start now ?

okay so someone on this sub mentioned kojic acid for pigmentation a while ago and i finally tried a facewash with it

mine has kojic acid + some berry extracts strawberry, blueberry, that kind of stuff. thought it would smell weird but its actually kind of nice

been a week. my skin doesn't feel tight after washing (which used to happen a lot). and i can see a veryyyy slight difference in brightness but tbh could also be placebo at this point lol

the pH 5.5 thing i actually checked, this one has it. not sure how much it matters but my skin hasn't broken out since switching

anyone else tried kojic facewash and how long before you actually started seeing results???????????????

ihave been through a genuinely rough few months. Work pressure, bad sleep, too much caffeine, skipping meals. my skin showed all of it.

but what surprised me was how it showed. Not just pimples. my existing pigmentation got significantly darker. old acne marks i thought had faded came back. my skin looked dull in a way that no amount of glow serum touched.

I went to a dermat expecting her to give me something for the breakouts. Instead she spent most of the time explaining what cortisol does to melanin production and why stress-induced pigmentation behaves differently from sun induced pigmentation and needs a different clinical approach.

I had no idea this was even a thing. And it made me realise how much of what we think is a product problem is actually a skin biology problem that needs to be understood before it can be treated.

has anyone else had a dermat reframe a skin concern in a way that completely changed how you approached it?

- changed how i see my routine ( question )

she asked me what my routine was trying to achieve. Not what products i use but what outcome i am actually working towards and what timeline i have in mind for it.

I did not have a good answer. I had products for hydration, for pigmentation, for barrier, for glow but no actual logic connecting them. Just things i added one by one over the years because someone recommended them.

she said most people's routines are a collection of individual decisions that were never made together. And that is the core problem. A real skincare routine is a system where each step knows what the other steps are doing.

I have been thinking about this since and looking at my shelf differently. The products haven't changed but my understanding of what was missing has. I needed something designed as a whole not assembled in parts.

has a dermat ever said something to you that made you rethink your entire approach? Curious what the insight was