rosacea

[nevesnana]

Hi there does anyone suffer from rosacea? What make up do use to cover it?
Any hints or tips for me?
I have one bright red cheek that gets redder if I get too hot/cold, drink alcohol, eat spicy food.
Got a wedding coming up and want to feel confident in the pictures etc.
Please help ! TIA

I'm sure there is make-up which has a green colour in its base that neutralises the redness. Shisedo rings a bell but it's so long ago since I read about it, I can't remember more. Here's one I just found by googling, which might be worth a try. www.splendicity.com/makeupminute/boots-no7-colour-calming-makeup-base/

Have fun at the wedding.

I did use Clarins but it's a bit expensive. Recently discovered Maybelline dream mousse foundation which covers up the redness brilliantly but still looks fairly natural. Rosacea is a total pain isn't it? I've tried various potions to try to get rid of it but it doesn't seem to be going anywhere!

Thanks for those suggestions, certainly worth a try

You might have tried this already but DH got a cream from the GP which helped with the redness. It comes in many different brandnames. Can't remember what the main ingredient is but Google or GP should know. His has now kind of gone away but only while he washes his face with a facial scrub. If he doesn't for a few days it comes back. Don't know if that's typical.

My MIL had terrible rosacea for years and her GP had tried every cream on the market.

She ended up going to a nutritionist and got her blood tested for intolerancies.

Turns out that milk and break were causing it to flare up - she cut both out of her diet and it disappeared. Years of problems gone just like that.

She now eats a little bread now and then and has been known to eat things that weren't made with soy milk but so long as its kept to a minimum she seems to be fine.

Give it a shot and it might save you a pricey trip to the nutritionist!

I have cream from GP (not gel - that just makes skin flaky) and use Clinique redness solutions range which includes a greenish primer to put under foundation. In summer I use a facial fake tan that is more 'yellowish' than 'orangish', with concealer on worst bits/broken veins. None of it is perfect of course. A similarly afflicted friend of mine was told by a doctor never to have tea/coffee/alcohol/curry etc. I mentioned this to a dermatologist who responded 'Well why not just stop living, or at least give up British nationality?".

Instead I try and follow his advice - always allow coffee/tea/soup etc to cool a bit before you drink it - its generally the heat not the caffeine that makes you flush. Don't eat a lot in one go, especially when out - that tends to make you flush. Drink the cold white wine rather than the warm red, and intersperse with iced water. Take off a layer. Remember that ice cream and sorbets are your friends. and above all relax - you never look as bad as you think you do.

hi,
just been diagnosed with rosacea would love any hints tips ideas to deal with it please

Three years ago I had what I thought was rosacea.My dh[who is a gp] thought it was rosacea,my own gp also diagnosed rosacea,she gave me gels etc.This went on for months big pustules itchy red etc.Then I was given some anti biotics for something completely unrelated.The rosacea thing weirdly went away never to return.I think it was a bacterial infection in the facial area.Earlier that year I had been using the Liz Earle cleanse and polish,and think that the muslin cloth had harboured some bugs as perhaps I had not cleaned it well enough.What I am saying is please also rule out anything like this,perhaps have a short course of antibiotics to see if it helps, as it may not even be rosacea you have.I had used metronizadol cream which controlled it,it always returned the anti biotics blitzed it though.