/lgbt/ - LGBT

Are you drinking enough water? That's a skincare and depression management thing.

>>7708
Im pretty sure i get enough water. Ice makes up 50 percent of what i eat.

>>7709
Maybe it's the cold? Try getting some warm water in there too.

>My face will always be ugly gross and masculine.
Hot
>Ill never be able to be a pretty femboy.
They don't exist
>have to go to dermatologist to get recommended a skincare routine
Get isotretinoin/accutane as fast as possible, anything else is mostly useless, at least it was for me. It didn't go away until accutane, and it hasn't come back
>>7708
Water, sleep and healthy food only work to prevent acne, not fix it. Most of the times it is a hormonal issue
>>7711
>I went to the dermatologist to get a recommended a skincare routine
<have you tried drinking some warm water? :)))

>>7711
Thank you, but i doubt it will be enough to fix me considering ive had acne for years now.

>>7716
>Hot
It may be hot on masculine men, but I dont want to be masculine. It just makes me look creepy and uncanny having a feminine body with a masculine face.
>Get isotretinoin/accutane as fast as possible, anything else is mostly useless
My dermatologist told me to take clindamycin lotion, acne wash, and tretinoin. Is it all useless? Do i only need acutane and nothing else?

>>7728
>having a feminine body
Do you have wide hips?
>Do i only need acutane
How bad is your acne? (you can post a picture of someone with similar acne) Maybe if it's not really bad it's enough with tretinoin, specially if you hadn't used any chemical before
My derm at first also gave me tretinoin at first plus hyaluronic and some other thing but after 2-3 months of overall ineffectiveness she gave me accutane, you still need to apply a moisturizer tho
>and nothing else?
To be fair, tretinoin did something, it stopped the hurtful/stingy pimples from appearing, but it did not stop the smaller ones and didn't reduce the redness and texture of my face
I think you should trust your derm but if she gives you the option later on of keeping this or switching to accutane you should switch

>oooooooo i want to do thing but im too lazy for it
lol ok and?

<Ill never be able to be a pretty femboy.
oh youre one of those retards. yeah wait till youre 30 rofl

>>7735
im not sure how bad my acne would qualify as, but here.
I also heard my clindamycin lotion acts as a moisturizer so i hope it will be enough

>>7736
read:
>https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6642074/

>>7742
Most of acne is skin clean-ness, so try using a bit of rubbing alcohol on a cloth after each shower. I have a disposition to acne too but I've managed to keep it pretty minimal to gone that way.

>>7742
Oh, it'sn't very bad

>>7707
The biggest thing that fixed my acne was changing my pillowcase every night, try that (you can just use t-shirts if you don't have enough pillowcases)

>>7745
It looks a lot worse in person. My shitty camera quality makes it seem less bad. My face looks like a tomato because of the red rashes all over every part of my skin.

>>7744
>>7746
Ill try those, thank you for the tips

>>7707
>>7742
You know Estrogen is the best way to fix acne right?

>>7774
It's accutane

>>7742
>i cant and wont do literally anything (except complain online) bc uhhh *posts some random paper*
genuine pseud retard over here holy shit LMAO

>>7774
it doesnt really fix acne (it might make it worse in some cases) but it would clearly be the best fix for op wanting to be more feminine lol

>>7774
I highly doubt estrogen has any effects on acne, but I would probably be on estrogen by now if it wasnt for the numerous things preventing me from getting it. So still its a dead end

>>7776
read:
>https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6642074/

>>7707
My routine is:
at night wash face + apply tretinoin to affected areas
in the morning remove tretinoin from face with water, apply facial cleanser (I use cerave) to whole face and then wash face, shave, apply moisturizer to face
have a fresh pillow case every single night (very important)
cutting down on dairy products would also likely help (hard for me because I love cheese and take my protein shake with milk)
it takes a while to work but I've been seeing progress, I have a lot of acne scarring
obviously depression makes it a challenge but if you can at a bare minimum go to sleep at night and wake up in the morning I think you can do it
I ordered a korean moisturizing sunscreen and I'll try that instead of regular moisturizer and see how it goes

>>7774
why do I get the feeling you're the same guy telling people to take estrogen for every ailment in every thread?

>>7778
>in the morning remove tretinoin from face
Your supposed to remove it?? I just assumed the face absorbed it like it does with moisturizer.
>I ordered a korean moisturizing sunscreen and I'll try that instead of regular moisturizer and see how it goes
lmk if it works well since i still need to buy some sunscreen for myself but i dont know which sunscreen products are good

>>7780
yeah it stays on the face so you need to wash your face in the morning (which should happen anyways)
oh and your face should be dry before applying it
and you should be using sunscreen when going out because tretinoin increases light sensitivity (which I've been really bad about) - that's why you put it on at night and not in the morning
>i dont know which sunscreen products are good
american sunscreens are pretty dogshit
reddit likes to recommend beauty of joseon relief sun aqua fresh, unfortunately it's no longer being directly sold in the us so I had to buy it from an importer, paying almost 24 dollars for a single bottle including shipping, which -might- be worth it if it actually works and depending on how long a bottle lasts