Ever Heard of Acne Cosmetica?
What is Acne Cosmetica? It is a form of acne that was brought on my cosmetics – yes ladies, that means your makeup might be the cause of your acne. I have been thinking a lot about acne cosmetica lately. I have helped so many people clear up this skin condition. Sometimes it is as easy as changing their makeup, others take quite a bit more effort to undo the damage caused by their cakey makeup.
A lovely client (I will call her Mary) came into see my over a year ago. She had the cutest brown freckles that she worried about. I thought they were darling, but she hated them. I didn’t see Mary for over a year. She called a few weeks ago to say she desperately needed my help. There were some life changing, stressful things she had dealt with over the past few months, and on top of it all- she had developed ACNE. When she came in for her acne treatment with me, I discovered her LOVE of Sephora and the Cargo/Smashbox base foundation, primer, blushes and bronzers she had been piling on her face. She first started to use these products to cover up her cute freckles, but now she “really” needed the makeup to cover all the acne her cosmetics caused.
I decided to get her on the Dadashie Acne System. We spent a lot of time doing extractions and cleaning up her skin during that first treatment. She left with a couple of products to help clear up her skin.
Mary came back 2 weeks later, and despite the new skin care products she was on, her skin didn’t look any better. She was still using the pore clogging- acne causing foundation/primer/bronzers and blushes. I switched her makeup, even though I really am hesitant that she wear any liquid foundation makeup at all, at least she is on mineral makeup now. I know that this treatment will help, but if you are using liquid foundation while on the Dadashie Acne System, it will take twice as long to achieve the desired results. It’s a trade off, since she won’t even need foundation once her skin clears up! I will update this post when I see Mary again – and keep you posted on her progression.
