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Hi, Im 30 years old and ive had these static wrinkles showing for the past 8 months. Ive tried retinal for the past 6 months but it seems they worsened. Do you think prescription tretinoin will help or is botox the only option? I really dont want to start botox now. I am also not sure if i have dehydrated skin. But the thing is I use matrixyl 3000 the ordinary, la roche posay hyalu b5 and olay collagen petide max 24 moisturiser so on paper it should be okay hydration wise. Please help because Im really worried about this 😅

Thank you, Reddit 🥹
I just wanted to come back and thank the person who recommended azelaic acid to me because it genuinely helped me SO much.
Before college, my skincare routine was literally just face wash + aloe vera gel. I barely ever had acne this bad. Then I started college and suddenly my skin went through it 😭 I had so much acne and honestly didn’t know what to do.
Someone on Reddit suggested azelaic acid, so I gave it a try. It did burn/sting a little in the beginning, but I kept going slowly and eventually started seeing a difference.
This is the progress I’ve made over the last 3–4 months, and I’m honestly so happy with how far my skin has come.
So, wherever you are, random Reddit person who recommended azelaic acid to me — thank you. You probably don’t even know how much that recommendation helped me. 🫶

PLEASE HELPI have dry and peeling lips 24/7 mainly along my lip lines where lips meet. I wake up in the morning with white slimy gunk all on my inner lips and mouth then a hour later the dry sensation starts again! After talking a lot or being out for a while I get gunky white stuff on lip line again! I have tried every single lip balm on the market with no results, have tried using Vaseline, cerave healing ointment, aquaphor, lanolin you name it but nothing works at all! I’m having to apply something to my lips all day long to stop them from feeling tight dry and irritated. I have also changed toothpaste to no SLS, changed shampoos to no sls but nothing I try seems to make any difference whatsoever! Have been to derms for swabs but all come back negative and all the advice they give is use Vaseline!! If anyone has any idea what I can do or any advice I would really really appreciate it!

Hi, I’m a 30-year-old man. I’ve never really had acne problems throughout my life, but this year I started noticing acne on my forehead. The pimples would appear, then go away, but after a while the same spots would become inflamed and come back again.

I started using Acnelyse 0.05% (tretinoin) in March and continued until the beginning of June. Since I didn’t feel like it was making much of a difference, I switched to Azelderm 20% (azelaic acid). I’ve been using it for about two months now, but I don’t think that’s making much of a difference either.

What kind of routine should I follow at this point? Should I go back to tretinoin, continue with azelaic acid, or use them together? I’d really appreciate some advice.
My current routine
Am - bioderma sunscreen
Pm - cerave cleanser , azelderm aa (%20) , cerave moisturizer
P.s : in second photo i was not using anything that was march first day

here is more foto

can anyone tell me why this is happening to my face? I use minimal makeup and the spf ive been using for over an year

Started out by using ZO skincare. Now im doing a Simple prescription routine which is way more effective

Vanicream cleanser

Vitamin C Serum

Azelaic acid prescription 15%

Tretinoin cream .5%

Vanicream HA moisturizer

Estrogen cream prescription

The cheaper routine is much more effective than the expensive line!

The second picture is of my forehead, I have this werid texture tbat won't go away. I've used salicylic acid and glycolic at diff times but neither helped.

i’ve had this issue with flaky redness around my nostrils for a while now, but over the last few months it’s spread down to the sides more. i switched to malezia cleanser and moisturizer like four months ago under suspicion that it was seborrheic dermatitis so as not to feed it but they didn’t really do anything even though the moisturizer itself does feel really good. i’ve also been putting nizoral anti dandruff shampoo on it for like 2 minutes when i wash my hair but that hasn’t done anything either. it’s starting to get a bumpy look which worries me.

what do y’all think this is, and how do i get rid of it? i’m shiny in this photo because it was after moisturizing, but typically the skin there has a tighter and dryer feeling to it, and gets really flaky (soft/white flaky, not thick/yellow, aka seemingly just skin and not crusts)

Drylendar is currently available on iOS and will on Android by the end of the year!

https://apps.apple.com/fr/app/alcohol-tracker-drylendar/id6756030804?l=en-GB

Recently ordered the Celimax retinal shot, but the packaging seems wayyyyy off. If anyone has a tube, please confirm.
thanks.

I have tried everything from chlorhexidine, ketoconazole, sulfur, azeliac acid, hypochlorous acid, oral fluconazole, fungal acne safe products and nothing will get rid of it! Started on my back and spread to my chest, neck and face - the spurs themselves have got bigger and increased in quantity over time. Everything I try will seem like it’s working for a few days then makes it worse - I’ve seen my GP three times now and a referral to the dermatologist will take over a year (I live in England).

I have pretty heavy/fast beard growth, and I’m having to shave basically every single day to keep my face clean.
The constant shaving is starting to damage and irritate my skin, and I’m honestly getting fed up with it. Even after shaving, I can still see the dark beard shadow/stubble.

Any advice or personal experiences would be really appreciated.

It started after I was using tretinoin while working outdoors on canal cruises, and my forehead became quite irritated/peely. I stopped tretinoin about a year ago. The pigmentation is mainly on my forehead and cheeks (more noticeable on the left), and recently I’ve noticed some around my nose/upper lip too. It’s light brown and became much lighter over winter with Vitamin C, niacinamide and SPF, but got significantly darker again after a trip to Egypt and more recently during the summer heat/UV exposure.

I’ve now been using The Inkey List tranexamic acid (~4x/week) and azelaic acid 10%, plus niacinamide, moisturiser and SPF, and have stopped glycolic acid. It seems to be fading again, but very slowly. I’m wondering whether this sounds more like melasma or post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation, and whether I should continue with my current routine or see a dermatologist/consider other treatments

I’ve worked for FedEx as a delivery driver for over 2 years, and I’ve never experienced anything like this until about a month ago. I haven’t changed any of my products or skincare routine. I’ve always just used African black soap, and I have extremely sensitive skin. This is also only on my forehead & no hair products nothing.

The trucks get insanely hot, especially with no AC and only a small fan. For the past month, this has been happening nonstop. Every time it starts to get better, I get overheated at work and it comes right back.

I’m seriously reaching out to anyone who might be able to help because I’m desperate. I feel like I’ve tried everything, and nothing is making it go away. It’s gotten so bad that I genuinely don’t even want to leave my house anymore. I feel like I want to crawl out of my own skin. I just need some help figuring out what’s going on and how to make it stop.

Already using Tranexamic & niacinamide serum and Nivea moisturizer