I never thought I would ever have to deal with acne again in my life. But I did, and it started back up again in 2021.
In my video, if you haven’t seen it, I took a video of my face in July 2021, and compared it to June 2022. The struggle was so real. My self esteem plummeted. I felt so ugly. I just felt like hiding. I hid behind filters.
It was pretty devastating but at the same time, it was like okay this is what I have to go through to heal right now. I knew it was temporary even though it was painful, and detrimental to my confidence.
Here’s the thing about acne or skin disruptions, they usually come out of your body due to inflammation, stress, hormonal imbalances, or it’s your bodies way of releasing the toxins and crap from your body.
I previously dealt with acne years ago bc of a poor diet, stress, grief, and lack of sleep. I was able to heal it after making lifestyle changes, and never had any problems for years.
Most people, and I’ve been there, is that we use medicated creams and steroids to get rid of the acne. But it’s only “pushing” the acne back into our body. It get’s rid of the acne, or skin problems temporarily, until your body gets used to it, and you need to use stronger and stronger creams. I’ve used everything, and they’re all a bandage and not solving the root of the problem. Even though it sucks, it’s better to let it come out, or deal with it by fixing your lifestyle habits and what you eat.
Unfortunately, I was already doing really well with nutrition, but my body was needing to rebalance and cleanse itself. My acne was coming out along with the classic moon face due to my medication predinosolone (which is for lupus). And my hormones were rebalancing itself out too. Talk about a roller coaster combination.
After my blood work had been improving, my meds were reduced and my acne started to get better. But I was pretty unsatisfied with that, so I did some research and put it to the test. Here are a list of things I did to help with acne, and moon face (please note moon face can improve but might not go away completely if you’re still take medications.):
- I iced my face everyday, it helped reduce the puffiness of my moon face, and helped the inflammation and pain of my acne. When it was bad, I would sometimes do it twice a day. I now just do it when I feel like it. If you haven’t already icing your face is a game changer! Check out my blog post about the benefits of icing.
- I tried not to wear any makeup because I didn’t want to clog my pores more. But sometimes I had to, and I just used as little makeup as I could.
- Nutrition is a big thing with acne in general, but like I mentioned I was eating pretty well, anti-inflammatory, because I was in the process of healing my overall body. It didn’t matter what I ate because it was my medications, combined with my body cleaning itself and releasing the toxins from all the meds and trauma that happened. (But for normal people nutrition is a HUGE part.)
- I did moisturizing face masks every day. The key to healing acne is to moisturize not to dry it out which is the eastern way of skincare.
- I started using a moringa oil bc my skin was really dry. It’s anti-microbial, anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, anti-aging and has a lot of antioxidants. It doesn’t clog your pores. So many amazing benefits, apparently also really good for eczema, and psoriasis too.
- As my skin started getting better, I started to add retinol a few times a week at night only. As it makes your skin more sensitive to sunlight if you use it during the day. I would also use a spot treatment.
- I used a foam face wash, and would double wash at night, and only wash my face with water when I woke up. This was a game changer that I learned about and tried to see if it worked, and it did.
These are some of the things that helped me heal my acne. If you want me to share more of the specific products I used, I can make another video on this. I’m really grateful that my skin is healing, glowing and looking even better than before!!
