Hello! My skin has been super angry at me for the past three weeks and I’m not sure if it’s my skin barrier or rosacea or possibly fungal acne. First picture is taken today, second picture taken a week ago. Wondering if anyone has had experience with this and what I can do about it!
Some context: Skin was doing pretty well, stopped tret 0.025% after a year of using it cus it was making me oily, was getting some irritation occasionally (even while on tret) but always managed to fix it within a day or two. This flare up was triggered by using drunk elephant TLC for the first time two nights in a row.
Started with itchy hives on my face and it progressed to tiny itchy bumps, lots of texture and a lot of redness.
Consulted a GP and they prescribed skinoren which helped the big itchy hives, but I stopped using it after a week because the tingling was intense and my skin just felt really irritated.
Now my routine is
AM: No cleanser just cool water and cosrx snail mucin (have been using this for years and always calms my skin) + sunscreen if going out
PM: heimish all clean balm, aveeno oat cleanser, Avene cicalflate+ cream
For the past few nights I’ve also been putting a tiny amount of clomitrazole cream on a tiny area to see if it helps. Still afraid to try skinoren again.
Any and all help or experiences are appreciated!