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my foreheads gone brown!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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iliketosleep · 12/05/2008 11:25

I have a patch of brown skin on my forehead

It looks like ive been headbutting the garden!

Any ideas on how to get rid please? I look like i havent washed for a month

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KashaSarrasin · 12/05/2008 11:37

I have the same problem despite using sunscreen plus mineral makeup to try and hide it. I just look grubby . I've been using bio-oil on my face as well as my bump but it's not making any difference (facial skin now lovely and soft though!)

Anyone got any ideas?

ChocolateRockingHorse · 12/05/2008 11:39

It's normal.. although no fun I grant you.. it's called "the mask of pregnancy"..

I shall google and pop back.. excuse moi un momento!

ChocolateRockingHorse · 12/05/2008 11:40

There you go More prevention than anything else I'm afraid.. will look further..

WinkyWinkola · 12/05/2008 11:40

It's damage done by the sun. Pigmentation. I've got it too only where a moustache would be if I were a man. Except now in the summer I look like I have a moustache.

There's not much you can do about it except be super vigilant about more sun damage by using sunscreen and hats.

If I had my time again, (can't believe I just wrote that), I'd never ever have let the sun on my face ever.

ChocolateRockingHorse · 12/05/2008 11:41

Wiki's offering It'll go away after you've had the baby if that's any help?

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iliketosleep · 12/05/2008 11:49

My mum said she had a big patch of it on her cheek but was darker than mine and it went after she had my brother but i have another 14 weeks left and am going on holiday in 5 weeks

I thought exfoliating may work so scrubbed my face, still there but my skin it lovely and soft now

p.s I tried bio oil for stretchmarks and foud it to be very expensive and didnt work so i used the palmers coco butter. Makes you smell like chocolate

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iliketosleep · 12/05/2008 11:50

"These patches often develop gradually over time" does this mean it will get worse????

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moosemama · 12/05/2008 12:26

I have had melasma with each of my previous pregnancies. I get it across my top lip, across my cheekbones and around my eyes. Despite factor 50 sublock and spf tinted moisturiser its back again - and I'm only 6 weeks .

I think the tendency could be genetic, as my Mum and Sister both suffered the same way and my Mum has had it all over again with HRT!

I took me a long time to find something that got rid of it. Dermalogica Daily Resurfacer, its expensive but works - it comes with little pads that have a prescribed dose of treatment in them. You rub the pad over your face and neck at night and immediately apply good quality moisturiser without washing in between. Its takes a few weeks of dedicated use but it works. I haven't used it while pregnant though as it contains salicylic acid which I have read you shouldn't use during pregnancy.

Dermalogica do Day Bright and Night Bright systems to deal with exactly this sort of problem, but I couldn't afford them so don't know if they work.

I am consoling myself with being able to get rid of my lovely pregnancy mask afterwards this time and am just resigned to looking like a panda for the rest of the summer!

KashaSarrasin · 12/05/2008 15:04

Alas I seem to have a tendency to it even if I'm not pg - and it didn't totally go away after DS was born 3 years ago . Plus I'm allergic to most chemical sunblock and the retinol suggested in ChocolateRockingHorse's link - both bring me out in a eczema-like rash!
So I'm stuck with my mineral sunblock and going around looking ghostly white. I guess I just have weird hormones

monkeysmama · 12/05/2008 16:01

I have it too - in fact I look like someone has put brown paint on a brush and flicked it at me lots of times. My mum had it too when she was pregnant and though it goes in the winter hers comes back everytime she goes in the sun. Guess it is one of those things we have to learn to love?

Deux · 12/05/2008 16:14

I had this too when expecting DS.

Only thing I can suggest is to self-tan or bronze the rest of your face - I did this with DS and it helped even it out a bit. Took about a year to get rid of it after he was born.

DaDaDa · 12/05/2008 16:23

My DW loved hers - called it the 'Mask Of Zorro'. I liked it too.

Erm, grow a fringe, very quickly? Sorry that's not very helpful is it!

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iliketosleep · 12/05/2008 18:51

lol

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Kezza7779 · 12/05/2008 21:47

i too suffer with this 'hyperpigmentation' or 'pregnancy mask' even when im not pregnant. ive had it for about 6 years and it rears its ugly head at the glimpse of the sun, ive sat painstakingly applying sunblock with a cotton bud on the patches on holiday and in the garden - it helps alot as it does just get darker and darker with more exposure. ive dried lots of lotions and potions some fade it but it always comes back. You who have this only in pregancy are the lucky ones imagine having it when ya not too? hope that makes u feel better?!!!LOL!!!!!!!

Meladerm worked really well by the way - not sure if its safe in preganacy tho.....?

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Kezza7779 · 12/05/2008 21:48

tried not dried - doh!

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