#THE ORDINARY GRANACTIVE RETINOID 2 EMULSION FOR ACNE SKIN#
But afterward, I had this newborn-baby skin that I couldn’t stop stroking.
To combat the dryness, I switched from using it every day to twice a week. I felt like I was my eighth-grade self back on Accutane. It was terrible … but then glorious.įor two weeks, my skin was red, dry, and weirdly furry. My ugliest retinol uglies were from prescription 0.05 percent tretinoin by Actavis. It made my skin itch and left me with red flaky patches at first, but it was gone after a week. My first experience was Neutrogena Healthy Skin Anti-Wrinkle Cream, which gave me great bang for the buck and no uglies. How gnarly was it? I’ve been using retinol on and off since high school. Make aggressive eye contact, and remember to enjoy the feeling of moral superiority when you emerge, months later, from this Biblical purge, as smooth and poreless as the famous Instagram egg. If you encounter someone whose eyes keep flickering towards the breadcrumbs disintegrating from the retinoid-ravaged patches on your face, simply stare them down. Her advice: A good moisturizer and sunscreen are your allies, and something as basic as Vanicream or Cerave will help ease the tightness and the peeling. Once the zits had gone, my face went from resembling a sea creature shedding its carapace to one generating its own bioluminescence. If you use a very strong retinoid on severe cystic acne, the pus-filled zits start dying and they leave behind these little hollowed-out corpses, scattered husks of pimples, dead skin, and dry flakes. My retinoid uglies were such a defining experience that I wrote a whole essay about it. I’m like the dad from My Big Fat Greek Wedding who spritzes Windex on everything, except only with my gnarled tube of Retin-A. I’m afraid this is my whole personality now. How gnarly was it? I’ve been a regular user of Retin-A since 2015.
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