My Personal Experience Dealing With Breakouts/Mis Experiencias Personales Con Brotes[ENG-ESP]
Since I started my skincare journey, I have had a pretty great time and I have experienced minimal to low breakouts but, for the past few months, my skin has been suffering and I initially didn't know what to do.
At first, I thought that I was having breakouts because my period was close but after my period passed, I still didn't see a difference, and it made me wonder what was wrong.
In my head, I was doing everything right; I had a pretty good routine, and I was eating right so I couldn't even fathom the idea.
I spoke to a dermatologist and she told me to give my skin some time and that it might get better but, as time went past, it got worse.
After a while, I decided that since I was still breaking out, that best thing to do was to stop using my skincare products because maybe I was reacting to one of the ingredients, but that didn't help me, and it even made my skin worse because of lack of moisture.
The next thing I did was the worse thing ever and that was using a steroid cream, this cream helped my skin when I used it but whenever I stopped it, the breakout came back worse with even itchiness and this makes me continue to use it because I didn’t want to experience breakout.
After a while of using it, I watched a video about the negative aspects of steroid creams and it made me stop using it but, the breakouts continued and it affected with my self esteem and mental health.
Well, after a few weeks, I decided to get new products and even though they didn’t affect my skin, they didn’t make it better, so I continue researching and did everything I saw including changing my sheets, changing my bonnet etc.
I did so much for my skin to be better but one thing I didn’t notice until a week ago was the real reason my skin was breaking out and the reasons were due to two things; stress and my natural hair.
Now you might be wondering how these caused breakouts and I will be speaking on them individually.
CAUSES OF MY BREAKOUTS
STRESS
For a long time now, I have been going through stress because I have been juggling a lot of things, and when l spoke to a friend about my breakouts, she pointed out that it might have been a reason why I was breaking out, but initially I shook it away.
After research, I realized that stress causes a particular hormone to produce more oil and that could cause breakouts.
When I figured this out, I tried my best to manage the stress and I saw a bit of a difference in the first week.
NATURAL HAIR
Due to my natural hair, I use a lot of products which sometimes it drips on my face and without me knowing that had been causing me breakouts.
There wasn’t really anything to do here because I still had to moisturize my hair but I made a conscious effort to protect my face anytime I was moisturizing my hair and that also helped a lot.
FINALLY
Right now my skin is a lot better and I am glad about that but, it has taught me how the simplest things that we don't notice could affect our skin and it's health.
•SPANISH•
Desde que empecé mi viaje de cuidado de la piel, lo he pasado bastante bien y he experimentado brotes mínimos o bajos pero, durante los últimos meses, mi piel ha estado sufriendo y al principio no sabía qué hacer.
Al principio, pensé que tenía brotes porque mi período estaba cerca, pero después de que mi período pasó, todavía no vi una diferencia, y me hizo preguntarme qué estaba mal.
En mi cabeza, lo estaba haciendo todo bien; tenía una rutina bastante buena y comía bien, así que no podía ni siquiera concebir la idea.
Hablé con una dermatóloga y me dijo que le diera un poco de tiempo a mi piel y que podría mejorar, pero, a medida que pasaba el tiempo, empeoraba.
Después de un tiempo, decidí que como seguía brotando, lo mejor era dejar de usar mis productos de cuidado de la piel porque tal vez estaba reaccionando a uno de los ingredientes, pero eso no me ayudó, e incluso empeoró mi piel por la falta de hidratación.
Lo siguiente que hice fue lo peor y fue usar una crema con esteroides, esta crema ayudaba a mi piel cuando la usaba pero cada vez que la dejaba, el brote volvía a empeorar con incluso picor y esto me hace seguir usándola porque no quería experimentar el brote.
Después de un tiempo de usarlo, vi un video sobre los aspectos negativos de las cremas con esteroides y me hizo dejar de usarlo pero, los brotes continuaron y afectó con mi autoestima y salud mental.
Bueno, después de unas semanas, decidí conseguir nuevos productos y aunque no afectaron mi piel, no la mejoraron, así que seguí investigando e hice todo lo que vi incluyendo cambiar mis sábanas, cambiar mi gorro, etc.
Hice muchas cosas para que mi piel estuviera mejor pero algo que no noté hasta hace una semana fue la verdadera razón por la que mi piel se estaba rompiendo y las razones se debían a dos cosas; el estrés y mi cabello natural.
Ahora te preguntarás cómo estos causaron los brotes y voy a hablar de ellos individualmente.
CAUSAS DE MIS BROTES
ESTRÉS
Desde hace mucho tiempo, he sufrido estrés porque he estado haciendo malabares con muchas cosas, y cuando hablé con una amiga sobre mis brotes, me señaló que podría ser una razón por la que me salían brotes, pero inicialmente lo descarté.
Después de investigar, me di cuenta de que el estrés hace que una hormona en particular produzca más aceite y eso podría causar brotes.
Cuando me di cuenta, me esforcé por controlar el estrés y vi una pequeña diferencia en la primera semana.
PELO NATURAL
Debido a mi cabello natural, uso muchos productos que a veces me gotean en la cara y sin que yo sepa que me han estado causando brotes.
Realmente no había nada que hacer aquí porque todavía tenía que humectar mi cabello, pero hice un esfuerzo consciente para proteger mi cara cada vez que humectaba mi cabello y eso también ayudó mucho.
FINALMENTE
En este momento mi piel está mucho mejor y me alegro de eso, pero me ha enseñado cómo las cosas más simples que no notamos pueden afectar nuestra piel y su salud.
Wow, that was a lot of time it took you to realize the cause of the break outs. I've always known that the treatments for natural hairs are not good for our faces but like you said it's hard for it not to touch it but it's possible.
Stress causes a lot of things so I'm not surprised it's the cause of break outs. Now I will have to be extra careful when using my natural hair products, thank you for sharing dear.
It's a good thing your face is getting better now.
The oils and conditioner are not great for our face but what would we do na, anyway, I am glad it's getting better, acne can be a self-esteem killer.
There's almost nothing we can do, although if we have a hair washer where we can raise our heads up, it will be really better sha.
As in ehn, it can reduce it from 10 to -2 😪.
Maybe sha, that would work
It's money sha
Try to tilt your head backwards when you apply hair products or wash your hair yourself
I have been trying that but when I deep condition my hair, it always drips because I have to keep me for a while
Yay! 🤗
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Triple actions creams are a NO-NO.
It's more like a blinded approach to taking care of your skin.
I would recommend these videos (from a dermatologist) for your perusal.
The points raised there were helpful, especially in explaining certain things to patients...
You could also get a few tips here for skin care routines
This is so helpful, thank you so much
You're welcome. Glad to help out.