Skincare Journey Round Two…post Chemical Peel

so i really wanted to like i should put this on before i start talking to you so i really wanted to change up my setup clearly uh i wanted a little bit more atmosphere i don't know i'm whatever uh but i kind of just feel like i don't know if i like it oh i'm gonna be today i'm going to be doing part two of my skincare journey i need to update you it looks real good from like far but we're gonna get in there uh real before that um just like very quickly i feel like my lips look very like red and swollen i just tried this buxom plump shot new like lip product and they're like on the card it's it's like collagen infused blah blah blah made with um tripeptides collagen hyaluronic acid uh all this [ __ ] but then i put it on and it immediately started singing and i'm like why if you have all these like really hydrating great products do you need to put the [ __ ] in there that like gives me an allergic reaction you know can we just like hydrate anyway uh so they're looking a little just in case tlook bigger i used a lip plumper anyway um so if you didn't see part one of this basically i just explained that i am going on a little skincare journey i'm trying to figure [ __ ] out i don't know anything i am not an esthetician i'm not a skincare expert i'm not a dermatologist obviously i do makeup i'm not even an expert at that dude i i don't think so i'm trying to learn more about it and i kind of just wanted to take you with me you know so a quick little update since the last time we spoke about this stuff um i did go and see the recommendation the person who was recommended to me by a very reliable source and um she's an aesthetician she has her own like practice here i don't know you call it business whatever esthetician type [ __ ] so i had that appointment today is what tuesday tuesday something what's today tuesday may 11th um i had that appointment last wednesday and i have a follow-up tomorrow so really quick i just wanted to share with you i don't want this to be long i just wanted to share with you what i learned from that appointment so basically what she does is an hour-long facial slash like assessment of your skin and then in that like if you book that what's included is a 15-minute mini facial slash like follow-up the following week or two weeks or whenever you schedule it so just basics what i learned from this experience from this last facial is this is like uh it's like going to the dot it's like you can webmd all you want but when you go to the doctor they're like no you don't have cancer you know what i mean you cannot self-diagnose you just can't uh so i went and i was very surprised by the things that she was saying like assessing my skin the things she thought i needed the things that i like should avoid let me zoom you in so we can like get a good look at the [ __ ] here's the face okay so um she did microdermabrasion she did what she called she finished it off with what she called her peely cream which was some kind of clarifying moisturizer mixed with i have the moisturizer to show you mixed with a like an intense retinol um so it's basically like a peel you know i experienced kind of like the same thing that i experienced with the peel that i got at that other place i still have obviously oh she did a [ __ ] ton of extractions i still have areas obviously you can see that are healing um this little spot down here but and you know i have like what looks like in certain lighting texture but it feels very smooth you know like there are some areas that feel like a little bit bumpy but for the most part yeah like in in my problem areas like around my temples and stuff um but for the most part i'm pretty happy with like how my skin looks after that one thing i have noticed is like an overall change in the just like tone of it and zooming out a little this is a little bit close so she told me that my skin is not necessarily oily not necessarily dry she thinks i have combination acne prone skin that i don't have acne but i'm prone to like clogging in certain areas i told her about my curology treatment and she was like that's good stuff but she asked me how often i was using it and um you know the curology people told me to use it every night that you're basically supposed to use it every single day at night and she was like that's too much and i had like around like up here on my cheekbones around my jawline i had what she referred to as a very mild chemical burn which she thought was from using the cure algae treatment every single night because it's just like too much basically so and i do remember that like in my curology conversations with my like my provider tincreased my like dosing of all of my ingredients i don't know how to say all the things i brought it with me tretinoin uh clindamycin and azaleic acid so all of those i think with the maybe with the exception of the clinomycin all of those increased um because i was getting like kind of clogging in this area more breakouts like around here and tincreased that and it and i noticed irritation i reached out to them brought that up and twere like basically uh make sure that like your moisturizer is is non-comedogenic um so i wasn't super happy with that because tdidn't really like address the formula itself it was basically like start off slow and then build up so that you can be using it every single day so i've been using it for like a year and like i said the woman that i spoke to was like they're good ingredients but you like at most use it twice a week i was like good to know so uh that's what i'm gonna be doing from now on so i just wanted to share with you some of the products that i have been using and what my experience has been in this past week i have a bag i have a tote bag so i mentioned in my last one that i've been using the skin fix barrier cream because it seemed like it was supposed to replenish and i had had a peel like a few weeks before and this really helped my skin recover now after this last time there was trying to think of like how the communication went i asked a lot of questions there was a lot of information and it was obviously really difficult for me to remember everything the woman that i spoke to is like the owner of the place and tkind of work collaboratively she has like a lot of us estheticians on her team um so i saw her for the majority of my appointment and it was really great asked blood questions she answered them and she was basically like i can write this stuff down for you she left after she put something on my face some mask i can't remember and then someone else came back to do like my oxygen it was like partially an oxygen facial which i [ __ ] love it's so comfy like it's just feels after tdo like extractions and dermabrasion and all that [ __ ] tlike blast your face with oxygen and it feels so nice um so this next woman came in once again i'm asking lots of questions she's answering them um so twere very lik