Congested Skin: A journey

Hey people!

I am here to address the all-time skin problem: the congested skin. A quick disclaimer here, I am in no way a professional and everything I am writing on this blog is my own personal experience.

I have combination skin. It gets very oily in summer and I sweat a lot too. Whereas in winter I have to apply a fair amount of moisturizer. Since I hit puberty though my oily skin conditions aggravated. I would get tiny bumps all over my forehead. I was not particularly worried since all my cousins had that problem. When I was 16 years old though I got a lot of acnes. I went to the clinic took a prescription of azithromycin orally and clindamycin to apply on the affected area. It worked! I was happy!

Fast forward to me being 20 years old, i.e. July of 2019 I had serious skin problems. My skin was very sensitive. Tiny bumps covered all my face. In addition to that, I would have huge acne too. I was frustrated and so unhappy and insecure. I even made an Instagram poll to find a solution.

My skin with sand-like texture and big pimples 

Things were pretty rough. I changed a lot of skincare products but nothing helped. It just made my skin more irritated.

Then finally I decided to visit a dermatologist. She gave a look at my skin conditions and suggested me to do the following:

1. Apply tretinoin 0.025% in 1:4 (tretinoin:moisturizer) ratio at night
2. Moisturize twice a day
3. Apply sunscreen every 3 hours(when there is the sun of course

This is the best thing I  ever tried!

It removed my big acnes and the sandy texture. It also got rid of my forehead acne somewhat. I would not say my skin is perfectly clean now. But who has??

We are normal humans. My skin is not irritated or itchy that is all I care about.

I have inserted some of my improvement pictures below. Check them out and give it a try!

Starting tretinoin

A month after tretinoin

A month after tretinoin

My skin as of now!

So that is everything! I hope you enjoyed the post! Feel free to comment and share your progress.