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Hi, Kitty Master, and welcome to SteadyHealth. Did you just want to chat with other teens about skincare and makeup, or do you have particular questions? If you do, I am sure one of the regulars here will be able to answer them for you.
I actually went and looked at your other posts on other topics, so I do see that you're quite informed already. I love to use honey for my face and generally choose natural products whenever I can. When you're just starting out experimenting with skincare, you can easily get the impression that you simply need to buy expensive commercial products to take good care of your face. I wanted to tell you that this is not true and that you can save a lot of money on skincare by using natural products, often ones you'll already have around the kitchen, in which case you may have more to spend on makeup :).
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Rosie
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I use a scrub once or twice a week. The scrub I use is for the body and has sugar. It feels really nice on the skin. I use body lotion which smells of pomegranate and feels really nice as well and I use a moisturizer. I'm using gentle Eucerin soap to wash my face or almond face milk, which removes makeup.
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Re: blackheads, I'm 36 now and those suckers are still bothering me :) so I don't have a magic answer, and neither does anyone else. Mind you, they are just sebum and dead skin cells sitting in your pores. That means that you're not going to get very far just scrubbing and rubbing at them because they don't come out that way. You can buy strips to which they stick, which you leave on a while and then rip off, or can use a cream with retinol (or even retin A, I think, if you have acne? not sure if that's for teens really). Salicylic acid is another good option for getting rid of blackheads which you will find in many products for teen skin.
And still... blackheads always, always, always come back.
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It is my honest belief that it is very important to clean your skin well and demakeup before you go to bed, but the most important thing you can do to care for your skin properly is to start hydrating early on in life. That will really be visible years down the line. You may not care about this now, but you will later, so just trust me on that. You don't need any anti-wrinkle products or anything, just a nice moisturizer, and make sure to drink lots of water and to eat foods rich in antioxidants for the quality of your skin.
The other very important and often overlooked thing you can do for your skin is two things really. And that is, one use a sunscreen, and two stay out of the sun. You might think a tan looks hot now but in 30 years time you will be coming to forums like this, if they are still around, asking how to laser the sun damage and premature wrinkles away. If you lucky, that is. Skin cancer is another concern.
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Oooh, new blood, LOL. Welcome to Steadyhealth Kitty Master, interesting username LOL. Looks like you're having fun here! I'd say the first thing you really gotta do is work out what your skin type is and then everything will follow from there. What's your skin like? On your face, yeah? Like is it oily and shiny, dry, combination, which is oily around the nose and forehead and drier/normal around the cheeks and chin? Or just "normal", which is low maintenance? Got much in the way of spots going on right at the min? Anyways definitely wash your face at least once a day for normal or dry skin and twice a day for oily skin but yeah, use something to suit your skin type. Moisturiser's good if you're gonna be using makeup. Remove that, by the way. Look into micellar water like Garnier does a cheap one perhaps. Oh and experiment with makeup all you want but take selfies of the more outrageous ones and don't go to school in them or out with friends, nooooo. Watch YouTube for learning to apply winged liners and stuff. Enjoy and ask questions here whenever.
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Oh and by the way let's talk about shaving. Like, when I shave I get red bumps. Any idea what they could be? What do you think is better shaving or using that cream, and why? You know that veet cream that removes hairs, does it actually work? `i thought it irrates the skin a little less than shaving maybe.
Thanks. :)
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