How I Cleared Up My Skin | Personal Skincare Journey Revealed

oh i need all my things um wanted to i don't know to look at the lens probably um i wanted to take you through my like new nighttime skincare routine this is basically going to be able to get unready with me and i kind of wanted to talk about like how i cleared up my skin because it's been like a very long journey and a lot of you guys know that i was going on like a bit of a skincare journey and i also just want to address things like acne scars and hyperpigmentation yeah and just like overall skin tone skin tone tone of your skin evenness texture all that kind of stuff um so i am wearing if i can like how can i do this hi if i can just like um pop in really quickly so i am just wearing um i'm wearing a little bit of makeup i'm mostly wearing sunscreen sunscreen a little bit of concealer some brow stuff like very very minimal stuff so we're going to start by taking that off um and to remove it since i'm i'm wearing like you can't even see it anymore but i'm wearing like the tiniest bit of waterproof mascara um so when i wear waterproof mascara i pretty much always use my good molecules instant cleansing balm to remove it this is a fresh one that tjust sent me thank you so much and since we're on the topic of good molecules i should probably say this is a collaboration with good molecules but you guys know i've talked about them a million times you guys know all the products but today i'm gonna be sharing a new one with you um so i'm gonna start off with this while i talk about the new product so i'm gonna use a little scoop that it comes with oh to scoop some of the cleansing balm out then on my hands and i'm gonna start working that into my face while i tell you about um actually i probably should have picked it up first so something that is new to my skincare routine is the discoloration correcting serum so this is new and improved this is a new and improved formulation by good molecules and it's meant to help with things like acne scarring hyperpigmentation basically like your overall skin tone working this into my face to make sure that i'm breaking down all of my like makeup and sunscreen you want to put this on dry skin by the way so you guys probably know if you've followed my channel for a while that one of the ways that i first recognized like the texture of my skin changing was when i started using a cleansing balm and i think it was really because i wasn't truly cleansing my face properly so this really helps to just break down all of the makeup before you go in with a cleanser i didn't put my headband on all right now i'm just going to rinse that off all right now i'm just going to go in with a little bit i forgot that i was looking this way now i'm just gonna go in with a little bit of a cream cleanser which is another thing that i started doing after i started using a cleansing balm because i was breaking down all of the you know sunscreen and makeup and stuff with the cleansing balm so i just didn't need something foaming because what i didn't realize was that i was like stripping my skin and a lot of the time that happens your skin ends up actually producing more oil and more breakouts like as a result of dryness and irritation basically i ended up going to a dermatologist because and i will insert photos or video from past video segments from past videos where my skin was just breaking out like crazy and it's insane to look back at because i've had i feel like my skin's been so clear for so long now it's just surprising to like look back at how bad it was but so i ended up going to a dermatologist which i highly recommend for everyone um and she put me on a couple of actives including tretinoin um i have it here i think it's so it's 0.06 tretinoin um and then my daytime treatment was clindamycin phosphate and benzoyl peroxide so 1.2 clindamycin and 3.5 3.75 benzoyl peroxide so that was a really slow process because your skin really has to adjust to the tretinoin it can be really like irritating but it's an amazing product or it's an amazing ingredient and same with the benzoyl peroxide like it can just be very drying it helps to kind of like kill all that bacteria that can cause breakouts and i saw a huge amount of a huge amount of results i saw amazing results pretty quick um but i just had to deal with like irritation and flaking and dryness and that kind of stuff so it has definitely been a journey trying to remember how long it's been at this point probably going on a year is it going on a year but one of the things that i had to deal with after that after i started like having breakouts sort of disappearing is not necessarily actually scarring i don't really like scar that easily but hyperpigmentation from like acne that's healing lasts forever on me because i'm so fair it's very irritating so the new good molecules discoloration correcting serum is really cool it's a new formulation um so tjust increased oh i'm not gonna remember how to say it settle settle settle tran tran wait tranexamate wait tranexamate mesolate an advanced form of tranexamic acid so it actually targets skin discoloration even faster so i'll pop the ingredient list right here and you guys know niacinamide is just like a little magical ingredient that everybody absolutely loves so this is a serum that you can use day or night or both i think you can use it like up to twice during the day but i actually like using it at night as part of my like nighttime routine when i'm not using my tretinoin recently so i use it on my face which i'm going to use it on my face now while my skin is still kind of damp it's supposed to shake well before you use it but it's got a little dropper and i'm going to just take a squirt of this and then i'm going to work it in all the areas where i tend to get discoloration which is in particular around the outer perimeter of my face now one of the reasons that i use this in as part of my nighttime routine is because i actually love using it on my hands as well because my hands are exposed to the sun and experience sun damage just as much as my face and i'm not always the best at wearing sunscreen on my hands in fact i'm pretty bad at it so i don't know if you can see this this right here this has been here for so incredibly long and i always have like dark marks on my hands anytime like this was i think this was like a little burn from a pan but on my hands on my face tjust last for i also have wait oh i've got lint on me from that thing i have this one on my chin which is really annoying right there which is so annoying so anytime i do have a breakout which doesn't happen very often anymore luckily the like after effects of it are just there for like months so this is what that is why i've been using this and it absorbs like really really nicely makes your skin feel like nice and hydrated too it's not one of those serums that like absorbs and then makes your skin feel super tight but you want to make sure that it's fully ab