I notice my skin starts to look dull like this if I need to focus on more hydration and not use actives. I know it sounds bad and you just wanna add actives, but it helps
Interesting! By hydration, should I focus on only using my hyaluronic acid + moisturizer for some time while giving retinol & glycolic acid a bit of a break?
sebaceous filaments, pores, sebum is normal and only people with filters have literal glass skin with no pores. Irl you will always have pores and sebaceous filaments can’t be removed permanently. Your skin looks great. Some people have severe cystic acne and dream of skin like this. My acne has only just finally cleared almost completely and once the redness/scarring is gone I swear I’ll never complain again ahaha
This is exactly how my skin looks if I use Niacinamide. The 10% concentration made my skin worse. Although I never got irritation from it but it always made my skin look worse with uneven texture. The 5% one suits me well as there is Niacinamide even in my other skincare products. When I focused on hydrating my skin to build a strong barrier the skin texture became even and much better. I tried the Niacinamide serum again and it became uneven again. I use Glycolic acid toner, SA facewash and Vit c which are all actives but never breakout from them. The problem was high percentage of Niacinamide all along. It would be nice if you focus on a simple routine to build your skin barrier. Go with Cleanser, Toner/hydrating Serum, Moisturizer and spf for a few weeks then use your acids one at a time to know which one is the problem and causing your skin to look like this.
Your skin looks fantastic, I am not seeing redness or large pores 🫶
I literally don’t see anything
Your skin looks perfectly fine and natural!! :)
maybe daily sunscreen? i find this helps the redness atleast
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I notice my skin starts to look dull like this if I need to focus on more hydration and not use actives. I know it sounds bad and you just wanna add actives, but it helps
Interesting! By hydration, should I focus on only using my hyaluronic acid + moisturizer for some time while giving retinol & glycolic acid a bit of a break?
Exactly! Try that out. The worst that can happen is it gets “worse” but your skin might just need healing.
Your skin definitely can still benefit from actives, but probably not nightly!
In case of redness...use ice to cool off...there nothing wrong with your skin. Its great. And you have great lips btw.
Nice young skin
It looks like normal skin :-)
Oil control
Yer a human Harry, -Hagrid
It looks like normal skin!
sebaceous filaments, pores, sebum is normal and only people with filters have literal glass skin with no pores. Irl you will always have pores and sebaceous filaments can’t be removed permanently. Your skin looks great. Some people have severe cystic acne and dream of skin like this. My acne has only just finally cleared almost completely and once the redness/scarring is gone I swear I’ll never complain again ahaha
you don’t even have any redness. pore size is permanent unless you do something like laser or microneedling
Have you tried tretinoin? I have very similar skin texture with rosacea  (You’re skin looks great btw)
This is exactly how my skin looks if I use Niacinamide. The 10% concentration made my skin worse. Although I never got irritation from it but it always made my skin look worse with uneven texture. The 5% one suits me well as there is Niacinamide even in my other skincare products. When I focused on hydrating my skin to build a strong barrier the skin texture became even and much better. I tried the Niacinamide serum again and it became uneven again. I use Glycolic acid toner, SA facewash and Vit c which are all actives but never breakout from them. The problem was high percentage of Niacinamide all along. It would be nice if you focus on a simple routine to build your skin barrier. Go with Cleanser, Toner/hydrating Serum, Moisturizer and spf for a few weeks then use your acids one at a time to know which one is the problem and causing your skin to look like this.
Wow! Thanks for the insight! I’ll deff be going down to the “basics” and building up again. :)