So I Saw a Dermatologist Finally | Skincare Journey Revealed

i can't tell if this background is like too close to my skin color hi so i wanted to give you a skincare update because i saw a dermatologist so let me zoom you in first let's take a look at the face okay so this is the face currently it's not too bad huh thoughts i mean i still have my like temple situation but it's getting a little bit better um my skin feels like pretty relatively smooth right now my temples i just don't understand i just don't understand i'm making sure that my like skin is clean that i change my pillowcases that i change my towel and my like i'm changing everything regularly i'm having a little bit of breakouts in this area like all really tiny this was a problem for a little while but it's like flat and now i think it's healing and the blackheads on my nose are disappearing which is really nice let me see if i can get any closer you see looks pretty good around the nose i've noticed that i've got some broken capillaries around here which honestly is probably because of my like under eye filler debacle so i don't know i have a follow-up appointment with my dermatologist so maybe we can like talk about i don't know i don't know how you treat that kind of thing but we're getting somewhere we're getting somewhere i want to talk about like the differences uh the different things that i've been doing how long ago did i see a dermatologist i can't remember it was like maybe two weeks ago let me check wait what oh i guess it was exactly two weeks ago i saw the dermatologist so it was a pretty quick appointment but i was like pretty happy with it i so basically tjust like prescribed me um a retinol and a like an exfoliant type deal i showed her i literally took photos of all of someone said take photos don't bring all of the products in and i was like you're a genius i took photos of everything and i was like constantly showing her i was like let me show you these photos this is the group of these things that people recommended and this is what i was using and i saw this and it was like super annoying but she was pretty chill and decent i like i said i have my follow-up appointment and i like have only been using these products for two weeks so first i'll tell you what she prescribed so she prescribed a retin-a micro so this is tretinoin this is 0.06 so she prescribed this and she said to use this every third night for like the first month and then for the second month do every other night and then i'll have my follow-up appointment we can just kind of like see how it's going so far uh what i've noticed is there's something called the tretinoin purge which is basically like because apparently like retin-a is and and retinols i believe penetrate like to the deepest layer of the skin and kind of like bring everything up to the to the surface so like it's working on like the deepest layer underneath i don't know i'm not a [ __ ] dermatologist go watch dr dre or something you know what i mean but anyway so that's why like you'll you'll i guess experience some kind of a purge like your skin breaking out even worse which definitely happened because i started using this i also started using this right before i ate pistachio so if i have them in my teeth i really apologize i think i'm okay um i started using this right before i left for new york city and i was there for about a week and so i was using it like like i said every third so like i used it twice when i was there i think yeah i definitely noticed especially like the morning after using it that like i would have wild breakouts but it was also like incredibly dry and cold there my skin was like freaking out the whole time i was there like i was getting big ass like this was like a big ass painful breakout this was like it was it was rough so again two weeks i haven't really noticed anything yet i think that it probably takes a lot longer than that the one thing that i do know about this is it does cause a little bit of sensitivity if i get any like anywhere near my eyes so i don't know if you can see this little spot right here you might not be able to but like there's this tiny little patch right here that just no matter what if i get anywhere near that it gets like very red and irritated so i have to keep everything like kind of away from that area so that's one thing that i'm noticing i'm realizing how incredibly sensitive my eyes are like around my eyes is so sensitive that's one thing that like i really need to talk to them more about but anyway so this is what i'm using i'm about to i think like next week i'll probably start upping it to every other night because i haven't seen any like irritation in any other areas other than like right here you know so i just have to like basically stay away from that area yeah so i don't i'll keep you posted on that the other thing that she prescribed was i don't know how to say this 1x 1xton a nextin i don't know but it's a clindamycin phosphate and benzoyl peroxide gel 1.2 percent slash 3.7 i'm guessing the clindamycin is 1.2 and the benzoyl peroxide is 3.75 and i'm supposed to use apply a thin layer to my face daily in the morning and then immediately apply sunscreen so that's how i've been using it now i wasn't able to bring this to new york because you're supposed to keep it refrigerated so i was like [ __ ] so while i was in new york instead of this i was using this thing which was a recommendation from dr dre not to me directly but on her youtube channel this is a little la roche posay uh ethical effect i don't know it's a medicated gel cleanser with salicylic acid and it's basically like a you know one of those [ __ ] acid exfoliant type things so i was using this in the morning in the mornings to just kind of like target the areas where i tend to break out this hasn't really been doing anything for me like i just didn't really notice it helping you know it wasn't super irritating if i left it on for too long then i would get like a little bit of redness for like a little while uh so i don't know this this has been very very effective um but just wanted to let you know that like this is what i was using when i was in new york so i and i wasn't like a huge fan of it but this has been incredibly effective so i've been using this every morning and it's pretty amazing it's very gentle it doesn't like cause any irritation but once again i keep it like as far away from my eyes as possible and i go in with sunscreen right after and it's like amazing like it's absolutely fantastic so i this has been really been working i noticed like um i just noticed results immediately with this big fan of this so far but like obviously both of those products make your skin much more susceptible to sun damage so i have been like ridiculously diligent about sunscreen that's the one thing in new york that i was just like obsessed with constantly putting on sunscreen uh so those are the two things that i was prescribed the things that i have been using in uh 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