![]() ![]() Sure, I still had moments of sadness and aggravation (hello, Atlanta traffic) but my mood, in general, was much better. Despite the massive amount of stress the month had brought me, I felt more capable of handling it and less like emotionally spiraling. My skin was in worse shape than when I had started but in most ways, I felt better overall. Moisture is the essence of wetness and also imperative for scar prevention! After my skin started flaring up like the surface of Mars though, I added way more moisturizing products to the ol’ routine. When I started this experiment, I had planned to keep my skincare routine the same as it had been before I quit drinking. My breakouts had been pretty severe but now they were quarantined mostly to my jawline. There’s still some activity on my jaw and cheeks, but it was healing.īy the end of week three, my skin had started to clear up a little again. Just wearing eyebrow, lash, and lip product here. It’s just more proof I needed this break. Alcohol has a pretty severe effect on your gut flora so that could explain my woes!īut then I got to thinking, if I had been drinking heavily enough that my gut was accustomed to a certain level of alcohol, that’s not great. He did tell me that a sudden change in my gut bacteria (ew) could directly affect my skin. There’s no proof that your skin has to rid itself of leftover alcohol by breaking out. Zeichner about this “skin purge” theory though, he pretty much nixed it. “Your skin is PURGING! It’s normal,” they told me. I knew it was the stress and my diet, but of course, I started whining as if abstaining from alcohol had caused my acne.Ī few people I talked to even backed up my unsubstantiated theory that a lack of alcohol was ruining my face. I started breaking out in a way I haven’t broken out in years. ![]() Thanks to stress, a lack of sleep, and, um, eating popcorn for dinner three nights in a row, week two threw my face into a bit of a tailspin.
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