DAY THIRTEEN

My skin has been consistently pink and dry all day. I thought the redness would subside about an hour after I applied my moisturizer, but it did not. Thankfully I had nowhere to be so makeup wasn't necessary, otherwise it would have BURNED. My face is breaking out again. What else is new. I feel like it would be redundant to complain about that again. Instead, I will just attach the photos and call it a night. Until next time.

 
 

DAY TWELVE

For some reason, the top portion of my eyes are flaking really badly. I didn't apply any gel on there, obviously so I'm not quite sure how it got there. I contemplated skipping a day of epiduo, but opted against it. I figure I will go into it with my guns blazing. Tonight, I applied my gel and opted to apply Vaseline all over my face and eyes. Even the Vaseline burned to put on. My skin is tight, burning, and overall uncomfortable.

I was wearing a dark blue cowl neck shirt today, and looked down to find a massive amount of my flaked off skin trapped in the cowl. That's hot. I keep seeing new breakouts, in relatively the same areas as I always have. I suppose that it's  so much for seeing positive results. I may be feeling emotional, but I am wondering why I am even making myself suffer. I guess everything for the sake of beauty.

I still have not popped anything, but will probably have a squeeze-fest tomorrow if the huge ugly whiteheads keep appearing on the right side of my chin. I am feeling really down at the moment about my skin and overall appearance. My skin looks ugly, and feels horrible with no sign of improvement. Until next time.

 

DAY ELEVEN

I left the epiduo on my skin for 15 minutes before applying moisturizer. And BOY did it burn. More than usual today. I have three quite painful flare ups on my face. One with a nice attractive white head. I had to use extraordinary amounts of self control while washing off my makeup. I will say, that overall the appearance of my skin is slightly better. There aren't little tiny bumps all over, just a few very deep pimples. I prefer that, actually. I am hoping that at some point in my journey, that my skin will be at least 80% clear. I also got a good shot of my nose flakes, so hopefully you're not eating while reading. I'm going to be avoiding mirrors until the big juicy whitehead by my skin shows itself off my face. Until next time, y'all.

WITH MAKEUP:

 
 

WITHOUT MAKEUP:
 
 

DAY TEN

I have a painful cyst forming below the "clearing up" patch on the right side of my chin area. It hurts like hell, but I'm not going to touch it. The flakes around my lips aren't really imoroving so I skipped applying the epiduo on that area tonight. Hopefully that will help somewhat. I ordered a Boscia konjac sponge from Sephora tonight as was suggested on Reddit skincare addiction. Hopefully that will help slough off my scales. I am giving up foundation for a while, since it makes my skin burn like crazy and makes me look more flaky than I am. The pimples that are on the right side of my face seem to be just peeling off. Also, the small white pimples around my chin are slowly disappearing, and they are the ones that never quite disappeared. I think these pimples that are showing up are the little bastards going away. As promised, I am including a 10 day side-by-side for comparison. Until next time.

RIGHT SIDE DAY ONE

RIGHT SIDE DAY TENLEFT SIDE DAY ONELEFT SIDE DAY TEN

DAY NINE

The right side of my face seems to be really calming down. There is still some bumps there but they are not painful like they were previously. My complaints remain the same; burning skin, flaky skin, and new bumps. I also have my period now so this definitely isn't helping my hormones and could explain the size of this breakout (if it isn't purging). It sucks applying makeup since my skin is so dry.  The makeup doesn't apply smoothly and it makes the flakes far more visible. My husband was also complimenting my skin and the amount of improvement he is seeing in such a short period of time. Tomorrow, I will post a side-by-side image of the 10 day transformation of my skin. Until next time.

DAY EIGHT

I have noticed the pimples are becoming smaller and less noticeable on the right side of my face. They do hurt though, but I would assume that this is the purging stage that I have read about all over the Internet. Around my nose is red (which you can't really tell from these photos) and a large flake develops on the sides of my nose nightly. I am having a ridiculously hard time not squeezing away at my face. It has been very tempting but I have surprisingly refrained from picking at the right side. My face still tingles when I apply moisturizer, and I have noticed a flaky patch by the bottom and top of the left side of my lip. All in all, I prefer the look of my face here to day 4 or 5.

DAY SEVEN

I feel as though some of the redness from the acne on the ritght side of my cheeks have calmed down (slightly). The cyst that I squeezed beside my ear has scarred slightly, but nothing that makeup can't hide. All in all, there is no significant improvement or change since DAY SIX. Also, I wanted to mention that my posts have not been daily, but I do take these photos nightly and document some key concerns or improvements I am noticing in my iPad. For whatever reason, the photos I take aren't automatically available on the blogger website.