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That brings us to today! As of this writing I am 16 weeks into my relationship with tretinoin. Really nice occlusive creams at night (I like COSRX Ultimate Nourishing Rice Overnight Spa Mask, Beauty of Joseon Dynasty Cream, Embryolisse Lait-Crème Concentré, and CeraVe Healing Ointment - not all of those are Asian beauty products, but they’re all pretty great).

My favorites are Klairs Rich Moist Soothing Tencel Sheet Mask, Etude House 0.2mm Air Therapy Mask Tea Tree, and Annie’s Way Hyaluronic Acid and Seaweed Hydrating Mask) andģ. Sheet masks (because they are the best for applying hydration and making it soak in.

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Having a basic routine full of products I knew I wasn’t sensitive to (a few highlights: Mamonde Chamomile Pure Toner, COSRX Advanced Snail 96 Mucin Power Essence, A’Pieu Pure Block Natural Daily Sun Cream) Ģ. The things that helped the most during my first 16 weeks were:ġ.

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My tone was more even, there was less inflammation, and my skin was just more plump. I didn’t mind it much, because (a) it didn’t hurt, unlike all the dryness, and (b) even though there were blemishes on the surface of my skin, I could tell the skin underneath was getting healthier. They were mostly tiny liquid-filled whiteheads that didn’t stay inflamed for long. (And yes, that’s where I normally get pimples: literally everywhere. Between 11 and 12 weeks, I started getting crops of little pimples all over my face. Another is that the pimples appear in places where you usually get pimples. One of the clues pointing to a purge is that it’s happening after introducing a strong active like tret.

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There’s a great article on this site about how to tell the difference between a breakout and a purge. The purge is what happens when deeper clogs that would have come out eventually anyway are pushed to the surface all at once. I’d take five more purges before I’d do retinization again. I got my first “Whoa, you look different!” compliment about a month after I started using tretinoin. Mixed in with the super-dry days were days where I was delighted with my new smoothness and clarity. Ten weeks! That’s two and a half months! If I hadn’t made myself an application schedule (every two or three days at first, on rosehip seed oil for a buffer), and if I hadn’t been packing my skin with all the hyaluronic acid and glycerin and soothing chamomile and snail it could hold, I would never have persisted.īut I did. My last record of peeling skin is from 10 weeks after I began. But the dryness and the peeling hung on … and on … and on. A quickness to flushing showed up after a week, then faded after another week along with the tingling. Dryness and peeling around my nose and chin began after four days. Tingling after application began right away.

I am a recent convert to K-beauty, I had a happy, hydrated, not-always-inflamed face for the first time in my adult life, and then along came tretinoin like a hot desert wind to scour it all away. For a while, I was a super-sensitive, super-dry, super-peeling mess. That’s the thing where my skin had to get used to this massively increased turnover of skin cells. The worst thing for me about starting tretinoin was the retinization process. But the experience wasn’t without its downsides. Well, I’m now four months in, and I want you to know: All that preparation was WORTH IT. Tretinoin is a strong, prescription-only vitamin A derivative with a reputation for being brutal to use.) Remember how I said I was going on tretinoin (0.05% tretinoin cream, to be precise)? I had written a whole thing about the gentle, non-irritating, super-nourishing K-beauty routine I was going to use while my skin adjusted. Spoiler alert: It was worth every last peeling, flaking, purging moment.

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