Lately I have been having a problem with adult acne. I blame
it on some phantom hormone in one of the pills I am taking, or maybe it’s
because of my shampoo or maybe I touch my face too much – I don’t know. What I
do know is that I am breaking out like a fourteen year old.
This week while examining my blemishes with close anguish, I
discovered something even more depressing: wrinkles.
Frown lines, to be exact. Not laugh lines, or even crows
feet, I have frown lines.
It’s as if my body is saying to me “Welcome to thirty, bitch.” It’s a little preemptive, even,
(I’m not thirty for another couple of months) but obviously cause for dismay. Can’t
my face pick an age to be? Am I thirteen or am I forty? Should I be buying
wrinkle cream or Proactiv? (If I put both on there will my face self destruct from product confusion?) And can’t I age gracefully with some wrinkly form of
happiness? No, of course not. Frown
lines, as if I have spent more years of my life sad than happy (is that true?).
I am slowly coming to grips that my hot twenty year old bod
has been replaced by something a bit more dumpy. In the back of my head, maybe
I still wish I will get that back, someday, but mostly I understand. I am an
adult woman, thus I will have the corresponding body type. Okay. Fine.
But frown lines and
acne? What kind of a world are we living in? Or perhaps I have simply descended
into some level of hell where all the people who thought they would be pretty
forever are sent to after twenty-nine. Am I being dramatic?
Oh yes. Yes I am.
Take THAT thirty!
7 comments:
I'm 29 at the end of the month, and have a delightful zit/wrinkle/grey hair combination brewing. I'm pleased to know that I'm not the only one dealing with "WTF, skin??" pimple issues!
Hormones ladies, hormones. If they are not in balance, then your skin will be one of the first places to show it.
My sister and I both have sensitive acne prone skin and we both swear by Paula's Choice products. She has make-up too. www.cosmeticscop.com
Melbourne - I am happy to report that I do not yet have grey hairs. At least none that I haven't directly plucked out of my head. AGING. OI!
LSF - You are likely right about the hormones. Is there a natural way to tinker with that?
eMerly - There are A LOT of little tubes in her product line? Any one you particularly like?
P.S. - thanks to you who are delurking! Come around more!
I would use both AHA and BHA, although your skin might hate you for the first week. I use AHA one day and BHA the next. After that it will be smooth as butta'. Also wash your pillowcases A LOT if you use product in your hair.
http://www.paulaschoice.com/product/resist-weekly-resurfacing-treatment-with-ten-percent-aha/bha-aha-exfoliants
http://www.paulaschoice.com/product/skin-perfecting-two-percent-bha-gel/
Also she reviews makeup/hair products etc in her monthly newsletter, which is good because I can't afford to have her make up brand shipped her every time I run out.
It's awful, isn't it?
I find it helps to "wash" with jojoba oil. Just put some on a cotton pad and swipe it across your face. Since adult acne isn't the same as teen acne, the oil doesn't make things worse.
Jojoba removes make up and it pulls the nasties out of your pores really well. You can follow with a hot cloth on your face if that makes you feel cleaner, but I find that leaving the oil on makes my skin look and feel better. Just wipe off the excess with a clean pad.
I get my oil at Trader Joes, I find it is the cheapest there, like $7 for a bottle that should last 6 months or more depending on how much make up you use.
Any super bad pimples can be helped along with a paste made of honey and crushed aspirin tablets, left on for 15 minutes or so once a day. Aspirin is salicylic acid!
Neutrogena used to have a line of wrinkle+acne products. I don't know if they still do or not!
I know this makes me sound backwoods and hippie dippy, but I swear by it!
Acne as a "grown" up is bad news.
I had one grey hair, which I plucked. But more worrying than it being gray was that it was STRAIGHT.
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