Learn Your Skin Type

 

Determine Your Skin Type – With certified known efficiency 

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Guide to navigate your own custom regimen –

#1 Determine the type of skin you have? 

Look closely at your forehead, nose, inner cheeks and outer cheeks, and chin.  There are visible pores and invisible pores.  Three sizes of pores.  Small, Medium and Large.  This is where you must be honest with yourself because everybody thinks they have large pores, and this is not the case.  The easiest way to determine your skin type is by the percentage of visible pores you have without using a magnify mirror!

TIP: No Magnified Mirrors and step back 2-3 feet from the mirror.  Here’s an easy and great way to determine your true skin type.

While looking in the mirror can you see visible pores easily?  Which of the pictures below do you resemble the most? 

 

         Dry                         Combination                         Oily

·         Dry Skin usually has very little noticeably pores or a tiny bit on the sides of the nose and chin or no chin visibility. 

·         Combination Skin usually has visible pores in the center/T-Zone of the face.

·         Oily Skin usually has visible pores that extend outward on the forehead and the cheeks.  

EXAMPLES:
Dry Skin – >5-15% visible pores, mostly small pores, very little visible pores, some med size, or older skin can have visible pores but is not producing oil as much anymore, usually in late 40/50+ yrs old.

Combo Skin – 15-40% visible pores, usually in the T-Zone area (mixed small, med and large pores)

Oily Skin – 40% + visible pores all over (a lot of visible pores in forehead, nose, cheeks and chin

COMMON MISCONCEPTION! If you are oily quickly but do not have a lot of visible pores, most likely your skin is out of balance and is being forced to produce oil to compensate for dehydration that is most common caused by product ingredients, overuse, or a reaction to a product.  You do not have oily skin but it could be triggering the skin to become oily. 

TIP: There are always exceptions to this rule, so using my second way of determining your skin type can help too.

#2 My second-best trick to determine your skin type.  After deciding on your visible pores, now let’s determine how long it takes for you to feel oily in the morning after washing your face?

·         Oily within 1-3 hours your most commonly you are an Oily Type

·         Oily by lunch or early afternoon you are most likely to be Combination Skin Type.

·         Oily towards the end of the day – most commonly you have dry skin.

·         Don’t feel oily at all – you are without a doubt you have DRY Skin!

Now that you have a good idea of your skin type let’s figure out a key component to your skin that may help in your decisions for product choices.

Is your skin REACTIVE OR SENSITIVE?

To determine if you have reactive skin or sensitive skin

Reactive skin	Sensitive skin
occasional and tied to specific exposures	skin is constantly sensitive regardless of triggers
temporary and occurs only when you are exposed to specific triggers	Usually is linked to a compromised barrier and coexists with conditions like eczema or rosacea
symptoms are usually sudden redness, burning, stinging but subsides once the trigger is removed	Compound Triggers - skin care products allergies and environmental factors
Triggers - ingredients and environmental changes
Cleansers Recommendations BYS Gentle Cleanser, Gentle Peptide Cleanser, Quiet Wash and sometimes Infused Green Tea Cleanser, or Green Tea Antioxidant Cleanser	Cleansers Recommendations BYS Gentle Cleanser, Gentle Peptide Cleanser, Quiet Wash

 

The takeaway here is whether you have sensitive or reactive skin.  You need to pay close attention to your regimen and go very slowly.  In this case less is more…Take your time to do things and build on a good regimen of products one at a time.  If you have a reaction to a product, determine whether this is normal or common for yourself?  If the reaction comes out of nowhere, you must be a detective in determining the trigger? 

TIP: Choose a cleanser that your skin can tolerate well.  If you must use 2 different cleansers because your skin is too dry, sensitive, or reactive then do it! 

KEEP IN MIND: *AN ALLERGIC REACTION IS USUALLY SEVERE REDNESS, SWELLING, RASH TYPE BUMPS (SMALL FILLED WITH PUS OR CLEAR LIQUID), AND GETS ITCHY FAST.

TIP: Just because you have acne does not mean you have oily skin. Most Acne cleansers are designed for Oily to Combo skin types.

Hint: if you don’t have this type of skin, you can develop that type of skin by using the wrong cleanser and now you have multiple issues to contend with. Catch my drift?

Bonus Tip: Unless you are very oily, oily or Combo using a foaming type of cleanser could strip the skin, leading to surface dehydration, thus causing more irritation and dryness ultimately leading to more oiliness.