So Far, Not Breaking Out for My Big Day!
Well, the countdown is on to my wedding to my fiance of a few months, in Las Vegas, and it’s only another week until we leave! I’m really excited, but I am starting to get nervous about “being on stage” and also getting everything in order before the trip. Whenever there’s a lot to think about, you can almost count on me breaking out in some large zit that inevitably won’t go away for at least a week, so I’ve been preparing my skin to equalize and my hormones to stay calm for about a month now by taking the dermacleanse capsules and also by using a tea tree oil astringent every single night to make sure that every trace of makeup, bacteria and any other acne causing stuff is gone.
I’m also making sure I blot the oil off my face several times a day at work, as my skin seems too ooze oil there for some reason, and since oil collecting on the surface of the face causes acne, at least it makes me feel like I’m doing something else preventive to keep those nasty zits at bay. When I start to feel my breath get rapid and shallow, I know that I’m panicking and getting nervous, so I have been good about “talking myself down” and calming myself so that I can make sure all those hormones that cause acne don’t get stirred up, and my cortisol (stress) hormones aren’t stirred up, which cause problems for your other hormones getting stirred up.
SO far, knock on wood, I have not gotten any major breakouts or zits for my wedding, and I’m hoping that it stays that way. I’ve found that by internally and externally limiting my stress triggers and then managing them properly when they do happen, as well as doing the surface treatment to my skin it needs to stay clean and oil free, yet not dried out and irritated, I’ve averted a potential wedding photo disaster. Wish me luck! I’ll let you know how it goes once I’m back from Vegas. At least the air there is dry, and I won’t have too much excess oil production or sweat!
