Skin Journey

After a set of hormone therapy  (reduce estrogen to treat my adenomyosis) my skin got dry and dull, make up didn’t  stick well to my face . Be carefull if a doctor told you to have an estrogen control /reduction therapy. Less estrogen will bring negative impact to skin and we gain  weight more easily (I put on about 3kg).

My dryness was specially around cheek , forehead, eyes area. A light smile will already expose those fine lines and creepy under eyes, and crowfeet.  I was so panicked and decided to overhaul my existing skincare (Korean brand). After some review and comparing, I was tempted to try this often praised brand SKII. Started with FTE and CL (am pm).

I experienced on and off light purging in the first 3 month, a skinrash like in my cheeks. But hell..I spent so much money, so I continued using it. While the purging was off, I add new range. First lifting emulsion (am pm) and then repair C (pm). I also experienced darker and more dull skin due to using too much CL. I used to exfoliate with AHA based product twice/month, so my skin basically is familiar with AHA.  Therefore I didn’t drop CL , but only stop using it for AM .

After counter consultation , I bought home wscl and wsdb for AM, to help improve my darkening skin.  Still do not use repair c for morning coz I was afraid over moisturized will bring shiny look, my T zone was still oilier and tend to overshine.  Therefore AM: wscl+wsdb+sunblock.

After about a month, I’m sure this wsdb is not moist enough (may be whitening series is less suitable for dry skin). Considering it’s price , what a waste if I stop using this :D ..so I brought repair c in the am regime , just before wsdb. About 2 months later, my friend did say my skin is whiter , fresher.

Since I ‘ve decided to discontinue using whitening series , I sometime switch to cellum series ( sample size 15gr+2 bottle cellum ess 7ml ) in the morning, to see if my skin can accept this series. Yes, my skin like cellum series better.

I also converted to stempower cream (SC) and ss eye cream for pm regime. (PM : CL+rep C+SC+ss eye). Smiling fine lines , creepy eyes, crow feet does significantly reduced. What intrigued me was those finelines on top of my forehead (already rubbing rep c + SC in that area).

After stempo essence (SE) is launched, I bought some sample sachet and use it at night to replace repair c. Waking up with this SE , my skin looks plumper and more glowing. Yes, I must have this product! After 1  wk , I also found that my top forehead finelines less visible..so happy…saying goddbye to repair c :D. So my skin now is far much better than last year,plumper, less fine lines and brighter.

My best friend compliment my skin condition , she said though I’ve heavy family problem , my skin doesn’t show it. “Usually if we’re stressed, our skin will feel it and show it”, she said. Well ..thanks to skii, I don’t add more wrinkles though this family issues still going on :D

PS: I’m almost 40

since using SKII, I no longer get facial treatment. Comedo is easily comes out with light squeeze.