{"id":364,"date":"2022-05-30T15:28:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T15:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/josordoni.co.uk\/skin\/?p=364"},"modified":"2022-06-20T16:00:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T16:00:07","slug":"diary-march-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josordoni.co.uk\/skin\/diary-march-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Diary : March 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Skin barrier is a real buzz phrase right now, and I agree, it\u2019s really important, and summer is a good time to work on it, as most people are using less makeup, allowing their natural skin tone and texture to shine through. I just wish I had known more about it when I started working on my awful lock-down skin back at the end of March 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a check in photo I took of my skin at the end of March (I thought I had more photos, but the focus was out on most of them, so this is what is left. I may be many things, but a photographer is not one of them…) :<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In retrospect it wasn’t so bad, but I was so unhappy about how my skin looked and felt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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:My pores felt really massive and cloggy, easily visible, and the texture was showing badly through my makeup. Not just on my nose, as I might have expected, but on my chin, my upper lip and above my eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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: I had dry patches either side of my nose, running into the patches of rosacea I suffer from sometimes. Not flaky, more corky, and feeling like sandpaper under my fingertips, along with dehydrated, tight patches down the sides of my cheeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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:flabby, saggy patches under my eyes. Not dark circles, not puffy, just saggy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, I read up: I scoured Google. Oh! I found lots of advice, most of it reviews of how to use actives \u2013 hyaluronic acid! Niacinamide! Use lots of peptides! Use lots of ceramides!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hit Sainsbury\u2019s, as I also read that \u2018drug-store\u2019 budget skincare was just as good as expensive products, and I have a relatively small monthly budget for skincare and cosmetics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I bought Revolution serums with Hyaluronic acid and with Niacinamide (each under \u00a310) – they are really good for a lot of skins, but it was too early for me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I bought CeraVe moisturiser (under a fiver!) to hydrate my dry patches – it didn’t like my skin and I was so sad as I’d heard such good things about it. I think I bought the wrong type for my skin, and I’ll be using this up for my body, as it is wonderful on the back of my arms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I\u2019d run out of balm cleanser, so I found Q+A Grapefruit balm cleanser. Sadly, the grapefruit extract didn’t like my rosacea, though the texture of the balm and the smell is delicious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’d recommend all these products, none of them are bad. But I have to scream it from the rafters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before you get with the active ingredients: Go Slow. Go Gentle. Go Bland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because if you don’t, you might find…<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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It was all too much, too soon. My face was worse than when I started. My rosacea flared up, I had large red bumps on my cheeks, and my forehead went lumpy. My dry skin started to soften, but my pores just got larger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The thing I far too slowly came to realise is that a lot of advice out there is great for skin aged under 30, but not when it is double that. Because, no matter how much I want to be young again, I’m not.
So I stripped it all out again and went back to Google and read up on skin barrier repair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’d lost a month and I had to start over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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