Quick Tip for the Occasional Breakout

Almost every girl is guilty of the mini/massive freakout pre, during and post breakout. We've all been there; you can feel it coming. At the first signs your heart starts to race, you rack your brain for every tip and trick you learned years ago from scouring those beauty bible teen magazines. But, it's inevitable... Mount Kilimanjaro is about to sprout out of your face in the form of the least sexy zit ever. Great. 

We've all been there. Everyone gets a pimple, I mean everyone. If you've never had a zit you haven't lived. The occasional breakout, that everyone gets, doesn't mean that you have acne prone skin. 

My quick tip for you today is that if you get the occasional zit don't dry your entire face out. 

Do not go running to an entire acne system, do not start scrubbing your skin off and for heavens sake do not start skipping your moisturizer. This has an adverse affect and causes your skin to overcompensate and produce more oil, therefore leading to more acne and flakey skin. That's really not cute. Your best bet is to spot treat the pesky pimple at night, something like a sulfur spot treatment works wonders. You can also do a weekly exfoliating treatment that features salicylic acid or a weekly detoxifying mask. Finally, please be sure to use a moisturizer, this won't break you out but rather balance your skin and help to calm it down. 

I hope this tip helped a bit for anyone who gets the occasional breakout and tries to scrub their face off to get rid of it.

Xoxo,

Haley