Skin Care

What the skin needs, and the ultimate routine.

SKIN CARE

11/27/2024

I'm 35 with pale, sensitive, combination skin with acne scars and premature aging. Here's my perfectionist skincare routine that I rarely do all of and am trying to do more of:

  • Oil cleanse - I use The Face Shop Rice Water Bright morning and night, it gets my skin clean like nothing else without making it feel dry or irritated. "Like dissolves like" and I feel my pores getting unclogged with this stuff. I haven't tried anything else, but they're probably similar.

  • Toner - ACWELL Licorice pH balancing Korean toner morning and night after cleansing.

  • Retinol - The Ordinary 0.5% in Squalene - MWF at night after toner or maybe skip the toner. It doesn't feel strong enough so I think next I'll bump it up to something else.

  • Vitamin C - RoC Multi Correxion Revive and Glow 10% - MWF in the morning after toner or maybe skip the toner. This stuff is incredible, it makes my face look brighter, evens out my skin tone. I've only been using it a couple weeks and I was worried because I was using The Ordinary Vitamin C Suspension 23% and that stuff burned my face and gave me some weird wrinkles on either side of my chin, like acid damage or something. Definitely too strong for my sensitive, annoying skin.

  • Snail Mucin - COSRX Snail Mucin 96% - after basically anything, I've found it pairs pretty well with anything in my routine for my skin.

  • Moisturizer - La Roche-Posay Cicaplast Balm B5 - absolutely love this stuff. It's thick, heavy, strongly moisturizing, but also expensive. I don't wear makeup because my skin breaks out even from the noncomedogenic because where there's a will there's a way and this is the only moisturizer I've found to reduce my redness and even out my texture and redness enough to fake it a little thanks to the white cast which perfectly matches my paper white face LOL.

  • Moisturizer2 - I also use a homemade moisturizer that has castor oil, sweet almond oil, vitamin E, something else, and some essential oils. I like it, but my skin doesn't absorb it very well, but it still makes it look plump and moisturized. I switch between these two moisturizers.

  • Face Exerciser

  • Fallum gum

  • Face Yoga

  • chew toy

  • NuFace

  • Gua Sha

  • Red Light Therapy

  • Face Masks

  • peels

  • eye masks

  • eye caffeine + cold

  • volufiline

  • eye niacinimide

  • face niacinimide