I gotta tell you ladies — I was on a roll with the whole makeup thing. However, I ran into a minor snag - my face and I don’t communicate. I love my face - we can express so much through our facial expressions!

Sadly, my face doesn’t really like my makeup, or my skincare regimen right now. I went into the bathroom this morning to get my face prepped and ready to go - only to find irritation and roughness waiting for me. It wasn’t a great start to the morning at all!

What works one day may not always work all the time — something that I wanted to share with all you luxuriously deluxe ladies out there! It sounds like a no-brainer, but makeup and skincare are so intertwined. I can’t expect to have a great makeup session if my skin is dry, rough, and scaly. The area around my chin and the sides of my mouth are a little dark and more than a little rough — the former is due to a medicinal reaction, the latter is due to lack of moisture.

The Solution: A Product Vacation

Sometimes we have to get away from all the different products we put on our face (including makeup) in order to give our skin time to heal. I’m slowly working back to my facial cleanser, then comes my astringent, and then my exfoliant. I’m still going to use lotion, but I’m going to search for a sensitive skin formula that I think will be a lot gentler on my face.

Product vacations don’t have to be long — just give yourself enough time to heal up before you jump to the next product. I’m going to be giving up my Apricot Scrub, and possibly switching to something else.

For the mean time, stay tuned in to what your face is really saying - and act on it!

This post is part of the Makeup Madness series.
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