Someone asked me what I’ve been using on my skin. And while I wouldn’t recommend my regimen to anyone (mostly because it might not work for anyone else) I have no problem talking about it. I have generally, what I consider, terrible skin – or I used to I had pretty bad acne and scaring from acne thats long gone now. My skin is oily and my pores are ugh but my skin is a LOT better than it used to be and I’m so happy about that. I always laugh when I hear on commercials about how people don’t have confidence and stuff when they have bad skin, I’m always like “omg shut up“. I agree that it makes your confidence kinda blah because you don’t really want people to see that you have bad skin but I don’t think its anywhere near as severe as proactive commercials make it. Anyways, my acne sucked lol as all acne does and while I still get some here and there its not nearly as much as it was before. Its like some cystic acne going on – gross! ANYWAYS so here’s what I use.

1. St. Ives Apricot Scrub for Blackheads and whatever, I think its $5 or less at Walmart (thats where I get it), I use it every night after days where I wear makeup because I don’t wear makeup everyday or whenever I feel like my face needs a little extra lovin’ but generally only at night. Its pretty gritty and feels like you’re scrubbing your face completely off – and thats ok with me. The downside is when I use it in the shower and have to scrub the stuff off the bathtub “floor” so I try to do t
2. Clinique 3-Step Acne Solutions: (I get the whole set from Macy’s for about $48 which includes all three steps but you can get it at any department store or Sephora) One pump of the cleansing foam in the morning and one pump at night = 2 pumps a day.
3. Clinique 3-Step Acne Solutions: The clarifying lotion isn’t even a lotion! Its like a toner and if you have bumps on your face or anything it will STING like crazy but I kind of like that lol This runs out faster than any of the other products =/ but its worth the money to me
4. Clinique 3-Step Acne Solutions: Moisturizer. I don’t know what I can say other than its the only step that has the benzoyl peroxide stuff, the other two steps are sacylic acid. It dries REALLY fast which I like.
5. Clinique Acne Solutions Spot Healing Gel. I use this like right after I pop a pimple or something which isn’t as often as it was so it lasts me a while. This stuff BURNS MY FACE but its like a Hey, I’m making you beautiful burn not a I’m trying to burn you alive burn or maybe my mind makes that distinction because it makes me tear up a little when I use it. I think it was $14.50 but I’ve had it for at least 6 months and I’m no where near done with it. Its not even halfway done.
6. Zapzyt. I don’t know what to say about zapzyt other than it works for me. I noticed an immediate difference when I use it. If you use too much it feels gritty though, you barely need a pea size amount for your ENTIRE face. You can’t feel it which sucks but eh =/ whatever. I think its $4 at walmart? Idk but look at all that Benzoyl Peroxide! WHOA 10%, the moisturizer only has IDK 1.5%? lol I use zapzyt even when I don’t have any active breakouts but only when I’m not being lazy. This goes on before the moisturizer.
7. Mac Cleanse Off Oil. Probably THE best makeup remover that I’ve used (I haven’t tried the Boscia or the Shu Uemura cleansing oils because of the price) I use it in the shower at the end of the day because its MESSY. When you put it on your face (just one pump of it) and you rub it in – it turns white and then when you rinse it off you see all the makeup rinsing off and going down the drain. It looks gross and cool at the same time. I think the bottle is $22? Its a fairly big bottle too. This literally gets EVERYTHING off, mascara, eyeliner, everything and all of it and leaves your face soft because you’re not scrubbing your face with a stupid scruffy makeup remover wipe
8. Clinique Dramatically Different Moisturizing Gel. I won’t say it does anything “dramatically different” but whatever, when my skin is dry (not often but I do get dry spots sometimes because the acne solutions system is pretty drying) I throw this on. Not often at all. I think the tube is $12 but I’ve had this tube for a long time – maybe 3 or 4 months? and its not done yet. (If I’m not using this, I use Cetaphil lotion which is $8 from drugstores and is great stuff)
9. Jojoba Oil from Trader Joes. I use this on my face when I steam it (I either put my face over some really hot water or put a really hot towel on my face) and it makes my face really soft, sometimes I do this instead of the apricot scrub. This bottle was $5 or so, pretty cheap. I use it on my hair too, and on my elbows lol
10. Honorable mention: My Neutrogena Wave I’ve been using it every morning in the shower and it makes my face feel really soft – why wasn’t it included with the rest of the pictures? Because I don’t know how much longer i’ll be using it because I want to buy a DermaNew ($70) or a Clarisonic ($130-200) because the cost of the little pad things that you buy for the neutrogena wave is kind of expensive (if you add it up) around $6-7 for 10 little pads, if there’s 30 days in a month thats $18-21 a month = $216-252 a year. but on amazon they sell 3 month supplies for $25 each so idk. we’ll see.

It sounds like a lot but the stuff I do everyday really only takes 4-5 minutes at the most and its worth it for me for someone to touch my face and comment how soft it is. I don’t really like people touching my face because they have yucky germs but whatever, I don’t freak out about it or anything lol.