Hi I have prom in like a week and I just need some free tips to help me like reduce the amount of acne on my face like as quick as possible. Context - I have acne on mostly my cheeks, forehead, and around my mouth. If u r gonna recommend a certain product can u make sure it’s sold at target 🤞 Thank u sm

HELP MEEEEE I have tried tretinoin, doxycycline, arazlo, winlevi, Korean skin care, 2 step routine, holistic healing, spironolactone(made me black out) and I don’t eat dairy, gluten and rarely sugar. I eat very healthy and extremely clean also workout everyday and have got rid of all external acne causes like changing my pillow case regularly and not touching my face with dirty hands. I have deep painful acne and all the other types to. what is wrong with me?!!!!!

Hey everyone, recently I started accutane and I’m kind of concerned about the sensitivity affecting my work. I currently have a part time job working as a student labourer working 20-30 hours a week. From what my doctor said, accutane makes your skin really sensitive and prone to burning which sucks because I’m typically exposed to the sun for like 5 hours straight. I do naturally have fair skin which I’ve been able to manage but with this increased sensitivity, I’m not sure what to do. I currently apply sunscreen every 2-3 hours, drink a lot of water and where a basic baseball cap while I work. I also normally were a t-shirt while working but from what my doctor said I should wear a long sleeve shirt. Simply I’m unsure how often I should re-apply sunscreen and what should I wear while being outside for long periods of time. If anyone has any suggestions please share them! Thanks!

I'm an 20 year old women, and I have constant pimples all over my face (though not cystic or anything thankfully) and I'm pretty sure my acne is caused by stress/hormones.

I figured this because when I go on vacation I eat horribly, don't drink as much water, and don't wash my face often, and I never get a single pimple. But when I get home/back to work and back to stress I am just covered in it.

I can't take accutane or anything that will make me sensitive to the sun because I work in it all day. And I'm afraid of the side effects because my family has a lot of health issues. So what do you all do?

Hi all, this is an encouragement post. This is my journey with adult acne. I’m 30 and my acne went away in my 20’s & came back with vengeance at 30. First pic was March 2023, second pic is currently, May 2024. I started tretinoin gel 0.05% February 2023 along with 75mg of spironolactone. I’m still on it to this day. I also started taking 4% hydroquinone cream last week to help with evening out my skin tone. This is how my routine looks like currently: lol

AM:

• I don’t use any cleanser because my skin is very dry due to using Tret gel. I just rinse with water.
• apply i’m from rice toner, this makes my face soo soft and supple I love this toner, I pat it into my entire face
• hydroquinone cream
• moisturize w. la roche cicaplast baume b5 and elf holy hydration daily moisturizer (blue tube)
• then I go in with sunscreen. I have a few that I like and switch around every few days (just personal preference) they are: Versed GUARDS UP DAILY MINERAL SUNSCREEN BROAD SPECTRUM SPF 35, Bliss Block Star Invisible Daily Sunscreen SPF 30, and Cetaphil Sun Sheer Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50. These all work great on my skin and works great with my acne prone dry skin.

PM:

• double cleanse first with clinique take the day off cleansing oil, massage for 40 seconds.
• Wash with La Roche-Posay Pigmentclar Cleanser on some days and other days I use Kate Somerville Goat Milk Moisturizing Cleanser. The LRP cleanser is very drying so I don’t use it everyday. The goat milk cleanser works great for my dry skin.
• on non tret night I usePaula’s Choice SKIN PERFECTING 2% BHA Liquid Exfoliant
• go in with hydroquinone cream
• then I moisturize with la roche cicaplast baume b5 and elf holy hydration daily moisturizer (blue tube)
• if i am using tret I’ll then apply it on top of my moisturizer
• i then go in with my moisturizer again along with Vaseline and slug.

This is what works for ME. I slug every other night because the tret dries out my skin really bad and for me when my skin is moisturized it looks and feels healthy and smoother. Yes I use tret and hydroquinone cream together.

These 2 pimples under my nose won't leave. If I don't pop them, they'll come back a day later. If I pop them, they'll come back a few hours later. I've used benzoyl peroxide to get rid of it and it doesn't work, BP works on any other pimples I get. + I tried my best to not make the photo look like a jumpscare but oh well!

Both products contain 5% benzoyl peroxide and the larger one is for in the shower I believe. Also wondering if I should use moisturiser with them.

Can any one give suggestions what kind of acne is this and how can I solve this. I am 19(M) and I do have an

I'm now almost 30 and my acne has gotten better, but the problem is that when I do get pimples, they stick around for a WHILE, and then they inevitably turn into acne scars that linger. I've tried many different products. I've tried using The Ordinary's Azelaic Acid. I've tried Neutrogena's Stubborn Acne spot gel. I've tried 0.3% Adapalene gel. I use Cetaphil's moisturizing lotion every morning and was using CaraVe's hydrating cleanser every night.

And yet...the acne still lingers--the pimples, the scars. It's so annoying. Besides these named products, has anyone tried anything else that actually worked.

I’m 18 and my acne has been getting worse. I’m not sure what kind of acne I have I’m currently using panoxyl and haven’t noticed a difference yet I’m on week 4. any suggestions?

I seem to only get pimples around my lip line and on the sides of my nose. I always wash my face after I eat, so I don't think it's food residue. Anyone have any ideas why this is happening? I'm tired of being called shit lip 🥺

Product recommendations for fading acne scars?? I have lots of hormonal acne breakouts and even after they go away, the scar remains forever, and I have old scars that have been on my face for years it’s so frustrating! Also, I have very sensitive skin and currently take speronolactone from my derm

Is anyone using Nicazel forte? I’ve been using it for years but the pharmacy I order from hasn’t had it in stock for months. Wondering if you are, where you are getting it from? If not, any substitutes that come close?

I stopped taking birth control last September. Since then, I have had consistant acne on my face, chest, and back. My skin has always been pretty clear other than the occasional pimple here and there. I am wondering if anyone has had a similar experience and if so, did it ever clear up on its own? My gyno told me there’s a pill I could take every day to control it but one of the reasons I stopped birth control was to not have to take a pill everyday.

Hi, I’m a 21 year old female and I am looking for some advice on what to do for my acne because I have actually run out of ideas.

To start: I have had acne since I was like 11 years old, it wasn’t super severe but definitely noticeable and very persistent. My mother and brother both had cystic acne when they were growing up and treated it with accutane.

I used a variety of topicals growing up to fix it salicylic acid, benzyl peroxide, and a number of other over the counter topicals that I cannot remember the name of. I even got some esthetician facials too.

At the end of high school I wanted to try something different so I went on birth control (unfortunately I don’t remember the name of it). That made my acne so much worse, cystic & super painful.

I stopped taking the birth control and was put on doxycycline, that didn’t do anything at all.

Eventually I got on accutane, that cleared my skin a lot. For about a year and a few months my skin was perfect. Then a few months ago i started to get acne again around my period. So I went on winlevi, trentinoin, and benzoyl peroxide. I used those for around 2.5 months and nothing really changed, clear-ish skin part of the time and acne around my period.

It’s gotten worse lately where it’s not just on my period anymore I’m getting a little bit of acne around my chin and cheeks constantly. I stopped taking the win Levi about a month ago and now I’m just using the trentinoin and the benzoyl peroxide every other day.

Some other info: I’m 21, female. My periods are super irregular and always have been. My family is of Irish heritage which I heard something about that impacting hormones. I also will say I do eat a lot of sugar and I always have.

I’m going back to a dermatologist soon, any advice on things I could try? I’d go back on accutane if I can but like, will that actually do anything? Also, it would be incredibly expensive as my health insurance isn’t great. It seems like my problem is hormonal and I have heard that accutane doesn’t do a lot for that.

The only thing I haven’t really tried is cutting things out of my diet or maybe spiro. I’m worried about going back on birth control cause what if the same thing happens or other worse side effects. I also don’t want to go on anything that could make my skin way worse, what is happening now is irritating but at least it’s better than it was pre-accutane.

Perfectionism, lack of self-love and excessive criticism cause pimples. You are not perfect, no one is, we are evolving. Take care. Love yourself!

Hello!! Yesterday, around noon, I used the Skin1004 Madagascar Centella Air-fit Suncream Light SPF30 PA++++. At night I noticed that whiteheads started appearing on my cheeks. I have a lot of pimple scarring on my face and some cystic acne but i’ve never gotten that many whiteheads. There are also new ones even though it’s been a day and I’ve washed my face. My face is also kinda itchy and more bumpy than usual (besides the pimples). What can I do to fix this? Is there any possibility that it’s some kind of allergy?

I currently live in ottawa, but whenever I go back home to milton, within a day I break out all over my face, and have the worst painful acne. the only difference between the two cities are the water, so i've concluded its definitely a hard water problem. now my question is, if I get one of those water softener shower head things, can I just use that during my stay?? and would it actually help?? last time I visited I washed my face with fiji water LOL, so im looking for any alternatives to prevent breaking out so bad. THANKS

Posted this post a week ago but never been posted but I have update on my face since then.

Dealing with these 4 deep pimples next to each other on my lower cheek. Been prescribed dapsone gel 5 months ago done overs. It got rid of my 1 pimple that was deep on my lecf cheek and now it’s flatten. But it still won’t get rid of these on my cheek, I feel like I constantly get it around this spit. My right cheek it always breakout little. Last night I thought maybe I would try benzyl peroxide WITHOYT dapsone gel to see if that made differences. But my skin got so dry flaky and itchy. So now I’m hydrating and repairing it. What can I put on it to flatten and it’s itchy. I’m scared of it scaring but I don’t pick at it or anything. Everything else is clear but there and I don’t know what else to try. Can I still use my dapsone gel if my skin barrier is damage or no?

Now I been applying BP for a week since and those pimples gotten lot more smaller. Less red, irritating, and looks lot more better. But since then I still dealing with it being raised when I rub my finger across it. But it’s not a deep feeling like before. Ite not painful at all anymore. The 2 pimples on my right cheek on on jawline it’s gone. Left little pigmentation. Though and possibly PIE?

I don’t know why those pimples haven’t gotten away or especially it’s raised feeling still?? Why? I read something of you don’t treat a cystic pimple it will scar? Will it scar even if I’m using BP? Is that treating it? Is a pimple suppose to leave little raised after healing? Or is it not healed? Any tips

What are some common foods that can help with removing acne and some foods that can cause acne?