I know this isn’t diet related but who cares, I’m going to post whatever I like. I’m going to tell you a little story about my makeup and how its affected my skin. All through highschool I never had any pimples. I swear I had three pimples throughout all of highschool. My skin isn’t the type to get them. Strangely..before my 21st birthday (worst possible time!) my skin started breaking out in heaps of pimples! I was quite stressed because this isn’t something I’ve had to deal with before and it was just before my party.

Anyway, ever since my 21st birthday there has been a battle between me and pimples. They are not incredibly noticeable, especially with makeup but they are there and very annoying. So for five months I’ve been trying to get rid of them but they haven’t been going away!

Then I decided to think about what might be causing them. Could it be my diet?
Not really..if anything my diet is healthier now than 5 months ago.

I realised something. When the pimples first started I went out and bought blue clearasil gel facewash. Before this I never used facewash. Could it be that my facewash was causing them?

I decided to go back to using water and see what would happen. I was pleased that they seemed to get a bit better. So now I have gone back to using water.

They still weren’t 100% better. I decided to change my makeup. I used to use Kryolan TV Paint Stick, which is a professional makeup so its quite heavy. I switched to a zinc based makeup and my skin improved again.

My skin had cleared up completely after switching makeup and using water to wash my face at night. I forgot about it and moved on with life. Then something happened the other day to confirm my suspicions about the makeup.

I had a dark spray tan so needed to use a darker foundation. I used my old makeup, the Kryolan. When I removed my makeup that night I noticed lots of pimples again! So I can confirm that it was my makeup causing the pimples.

I decided to share this story with you in case you too are having the same problem. We all want flawless skin now don’t we?

If you have any pimple stories then please share!

Love Mel
xx

Ps: How nice is Natalie Portmans skin!