My skin has gone all kinds of mental.
First I am so greasy!! It's really embarrassing.
I literally look like I've just sprayed myself down with baby oil. It's grim. I am covered all over my shoulders, chest, back, neck, in my hair on my scalp, and even tummy with spots and worse than that but down there I seem to be getting a million ingrown hairs and they're turning into infected spots and they are so sore but nothing seems to help or cure it!! Thank god I'm single!!! Really hoping it starts clearing soon now I'm 11 weeks, I don't want to be hidden under polo necks all summer!! And everything is taking way longer than usual to heal, like my body is putting all its efforts into the baby and I'm just on the scrap heap for now!!
My excema has also flared right up. I get the same kind as has been posted - really itchy, then loads of teeny tiny blisters on my fingers and feet, then once they pop it crusts over. It's usually not too bad and only mild but it has flared up a lot the last month.
I seem to be sprouting hair way faster than usual and in very random places! I'm keeping Veet wax strips in business lately! If I wanted to stay baby smooth I'd have to shave twice a day! I hope my head hair is growing as fast, that would be nice!
It does seem longer and thicker and nicer, though greasier and needing washing every day.
My nails are amazing!!! I've never had strong nails and they snap before they get long enough to look nice but for the first time they are lovely!! I have girl hands instead of man hands for once!!
But I'm certainly not getting any glow or bloom. I didn't get one with DD either. Was really looking forward to floating around in little summer dresses and sunnies, soaking in some sun on the beach in my bikini with my big tummy glowing gloriously, but it seems I'll just be skulking in dark corners, leaving greasy oil spots wherever I go, making small children cry when they see the blotchy fat human pizza monster I've become!