Does the severity ebb and flow with your menstrual cycle op?
I get multiple yellow spots on my chin, always worse the week after I ovulate. Still bad the following few days and then starts to clear when my period starts. From my period starting to next ovulating I have a glorious 10 days of clear(er) skin.
I've found that I have to be more careful about recognising when my skin needs cleaning and moisturising, and when it doesn't. Not call skin needs to be moisturised, especially if you have high oil levels for period of time.
So I found that:
● When my skin is good (Day 1- Day 10 of my benstrual cycle) it wants a gentle face wash and lots of day cream and night cream moisturisation.
● When my skin is worse (Day 11- Day 18) I don't moisturise at all, my skin is excessively oily at this time. I use a gentle wash but use more often per day (3 or 4 times rather than just morning and night).
● Past the worse, as my skin is healing (Day 18 - my period) I go back to just washing twice a day and begin gradually increasing moisturisation. I'll start with just a small smear of day cream in the morning. Then as the days go on use more cream in the application then after a few more days redstart night cream.
That image looks like what my chin would look like if either:
○ I was over-washing skin and under moisturing my skin in the "healing" stage of my cycle (after Day 18). So not giving it any chance to heal.
Or
○ Over moisturising and under washing already oily skin (Days 10-18 in my cycle), causing a huge build up of oil and crap.
So two opposite suggestions there. Either wash more and moisturise less. Or wash less and moisturise more.
Bitter experience has taught me it's about understanding your own skin. I don't find blogs or online advice any help - because my skin is my skin and one size doesn't fit all.