White and smooth

After two years of not visiting a dermatologist, I finally visited one few weeks ago.  It’s not that I don’t have pimple breakouts but those are minimal and only appears once every month whenever I have my period.  The last couple of months have been stressful at work along with some personal problems plus having only 4-5 hrs of sleep a day caused the big acne to show up again on my ever pimple scarred face.  It’s not that I have a thing with dermas but so far, I have learned to know what causes my pimple and what products to use.  For example, I have big acne breakouts whenever I use soap on my face.  Even derma soap or germicidal or herbal soap on my face, that’s why I stick to cetaphil.  So I mentioned this to the dermatologist, but then he said that maybe the other dermatologist products are not that good, so I have to use the product combination he would give me so it would take away the oiliness in my face and dried out my pimples.  I have to buy the soap, the glytoner, revitalizing solution and the sunblock.  The soap was tea tree soap, know tea tree products makes skin dry.  And so I bought the product combinations for more than 1000 pesos.  He told me to stop the products I am currently using, all those commercial products, and also stop putting on makeup so it wouldn’t clog my pores.  The next day I used the soap, the toner and the revitalizing solution and last the sunblock.  I didn’t put any makeup even powder.  After I put on all the products with 5 minutes interval, I immediately noticed the oiliness in my face.  But I dismissed the fact and then I went off to work.  And boy when I arrive at the office and see my face in the mirror, whoa! You can fry an egg with my face! Good thing I had my oil control film paper in my things.  And I had to use at least 3-4 pieces of the paper to get the oiliness in my face.  Before I went home from work, I noticed that I used the oil control film 5-6 times that day. That night I noticed two new pimples forming in my face.  One is more like an acne since there is hard area which has red color.  The next morning, it was the same thing.  For four days, I had 5 new pimples, 4 of each developed into acne with pus inside! The doctor was wrong, my face became more oily and I even developed new pimples.  I stop using the soap at first, and then I noticed that the oiliness became less.  But then I still developed pimple and acne.  Even my friends and family noticed that my face is at my worsed!  Now, I stopped using all the products all together and went back to my “commercial” products and applying powder to my still “oily” face.  And now my face lightened up, I still have the acne but it dries up.  And now I noticed that all the scars of the pimples I had that the dermatologist treated and the pimples I had during the time I used the products sold by the dermatologist is still very prominent.  So the lesson is that if I go to derma centers to have my facial, I would not buy the products!