Happy Wednesday! We’re half way through the week! I’m excited for this coming weekend; my husband and I are celebrating Valentines Day early. We both hate crowds so we try to actually avoid eating out on the 14th. It’s much nicer just to stay home and spend time snuggling watching a movie.
Today, I wanted to share with y’all how I got my skin so clear. Let me go ahead and throw this out there I am neither a doctor nor a skin care professional. This is just stuff that works for me!
Growing up I had a few bad flare-ups but for the most part I got a couple yucky looking pimples on my skin during that time of the month. And it was always on my chin. I tried a bunch of different face wash from the drugstore, as well as pimple creams and masks. While they did help some, my pimples still continued to happen.
So I kind of just learned to deal with it. I would just have to wash my face at least twice a day, make sure to use oil free moisturizer, and have my pimple cream on hand for when I got one.
One of the first things I bought that actually really started helping my skin is my Mia Clarisonic Cleansing Brush. Using this just once a day I noticed my skin was getting clearer and feeling cleaner. I highly recommend this. I don’t have any of the new fancy ones; I think mine is about $130 bucks. But I have had mine for close to 5 years now and it still works great! So worth the investment! You do have to buy new heads for it every three months. I have bought some at Ulta and you can even find some cheap on amazon!
Now the big thing that completely cleared my skin up, started about a year ago. I BECAME GLUTEN FREE AND MOSTLY DAIRY FREE. Gluten started to really irritate my stomach so I decided to stop eating it. I also came off dairy. I had heard before that coming off dairy can help with acne, and with my skin it really does! Now I still eat ice cream or chips and cheese from Qdoba every now and then, but not on a regular basis.
So to make it all clear I do not have any wheat at all unless it says gluten free, no dairy milk, cheese, and I even gave up caffeine… including coffee! I know crazy, right?
What do I eat instead? Gluten free grains like brown rice, quinoa, and gluten free noodles. I drink almond milk instead of dairy. And I get a decaf white chocolate mocha with coconut milk and no whip about once a week. Can’t fully give up Starbucks 😉
Since I have come off gluten and dairy, I have noticed that sometimes its okay if I don’t have time to wash my face in the morning. AND I DON’T GET A BREAK OUT!?! Now I don’t recommend doing that all the time, because my face does feel a little more oily when I do that, but its so nice now not really worrying about pimples.
Not only did my skin clear up, my husband did this as well. Before he had some pretty serious back acne and nothing helped. Once he did this, his back is almost completely clear!!! Now he has the occasional flare up, but guess what? He flares up when he has gluten or too much dairy…what a shocker! 😉
For regular skin care all I use is the First Aid Beauty face cleanser and my Belif aqua bomb moisturizer.
So that’s all my tips on skin care:
- Find a good cleanser (I recommend Clarisonic)
- Try being gluten and dairy free
Try it for a month, see what happens. 😉