To be really fed up with people commenting on my face?

Sorry OP! I know my friend swore by antibiotics to clear it, I have been lucky mine cleared fairly easily.
But no way anyone should comment, fucking rude!

Soolantra and erborian have changed my life. Erborian is also quite light not like a make up at all.

I would expect better from adults. I work in a school and children will sometimes comment but are usually quite good at accepting that is what my skin is like when I explain that some people just had redder skin than others.

I too have tried all the GP recommendations and have got a referral for the dermatologist. Can you push for that? I have been waiting a long time though as it's not seen as a priority.

I do cover up now just using one of those green creams. I used erborian, but I agree in this heat I feel like it drips off as the day goes on.

I 100% would match their energy. I would top their stupidity and overdose on their ignorance. Ask them something about themselves like why do you have that hair style? why is your nose that big/small?

dumb questions get dumb answers sorry!

@squashedalmondcroissantpeople can be so unkind, and unhelpful.
I have suffered with rosacea for many years the pustules type. The Dermatica treatment sorted mine out. Can you ask your Dr for finacea for redness or soolantra and metronidazole if you have pustules.
A woman on the beauty counter at a local department store once said to my face I would love to squeeze your spots. I sent a written complaint to the store and still avoid her now.

Teach them the 30 second rule.

"It's quite rude to point out something about a person's appearance that they cannot change or fix in under 30 seconds. An untied shoelace, or something stuck in the teeth is ok, but unchangeable things like hair, weight or skin is considered rude. Did you not learn that in nursery?".

Be very sweet and cheerful about it then you won't get in trouble with work 😉

I can easily believe that this happens. In a number of cases it's probably thoughtlessness, but it's still twattery and it still stings.

I don't have rosacea but I am overweight and have had people shouting their bullshit at me out of the windows of passing cars.

There are just so many arseholes around. I would love to say don't take it to heart but I know that is next to impossible so sending you solidarity.

At least they refunded and didn't fob you off.

Sorry to hear this, people can be rude and sometimes just blurt things out before thinking.

I have melasma and the amount of times I've been asked if I've bumped my head (it's quite noticeable on my forehead without make up) or if I've had a bad spray tan/ hair colour is ridiculous!

Hopefully they are mortified once you have answered them and will think twice about commenting on someone's appearance next time!

Yeah they're full of really helpful advice like "washing your face", or "i just use nivea and my skin is fine!" 🙄 or implying you've got poor hygiene (when I honestly have better hygiene than most people I know, because of my skin). People should just keep these thoughts to themselves.

Pregnancy made my skin clear up, so I'm going to have to have a lot of kids!

I'm lacking in the teeth department only got about 12, can't get an n.h.s dentist and can't afford private. Been refused dentures previously because 'a few of my teeth are okay ish'
Some people have commented 'Poor you' but I say it doesn't bother me it shouldn't concern you? I am the poster girl for the shit dentistry in this country.
That gets a nod and 'yeah, that's true.'
It conflicts with the fact that my skin is excellent for my age with next to no lines at 65. Good genetics, thanks mum😉

Dermatica really helped mine.

I had bad acne too, from my early teens to mid twenties. Roaccutane eventually sorted it out. People are full of “advice” and accuse you of being over sensitive because they are “only” trying to help. They feel they’re justified in pointing out the blindingly obvious.

I'm so sorry @squashedalmondcroissant It is hard to know what to suggest.

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Honestly some people are just arseholes, there's no way round it. I can only send sympathy having been there myself.

I completely believe it, OP.

I developed horrendous cystic acne during pregnancy. It was hormonal so skincare products and topical treatments didn't make any difference. The number of people, strangers and acquaintances, who felt the need to comment on it was a real eye opener. Like you, I had someone ask me outright "what's wrong with your face?" People are twats sometimes. Obviously I was fully aware how noticeable it was, it's not like I was kidding myself people couldn't see it. But you'd think people would have the decency to pretend they hadn't noticed. How hard is it to just say nothing??

I find Pai products really helpful for my rosacea. And, OP, I completely understand about how awful it is people commenting about it xxx

Wow, how rude are they?! All you can do if you don't want to say/can't say 'fuck off and mind yer own!' is ignore them like you haven't heard them maybe....

Could you wear any kind up make up - to cover it a bit? Sorry I know you shouldn't have to, but maybe just to slow down the nasty comments.

My daughter ended up in a wheelchair for 6 weeks following sepsis. I lost count how many people asked ‘what happened?’ At times it got my incensed. She already felt self conscious at 20 but then had to relive the experience!

Really?

I have people come up to tell me that I am fat, I eat too much, that I am faking needing a wheelchair and should get out and walk... I have had such comments since the age of perhaps 13.

Yes, people will come up and outright say/ask absolutely fucking appalling things to you if you look different in any way. Some will be intending to be offensive and hurtful, some will be thoughtless, some will be nosey - it honestly doesn't matter, it happens, and it shouldn't.

I have scarring that's visible on my body particularly in summer clothes, and I have had people recoil in disgust/horror and make comments about the scars along the lines of "oh god that's awful, how did you do that?" or similar. I genuinely don't know how people's frontal lobes don't intercept thoughts like that and edit them before they splurt out of their mouths (excepting those with additional needs).

If I'm being generous, the ones making pained noises might possibly think that you've got sunburnt and are ineptly trying to express sympathy for it. But even they don't need to comment on it, even if they do think it's sunburn.