Tips to Control and Prevent Acne

Now that I will be turning 25 [soon!], I have been focusing more on my skin care rather than on the amount of makeup I can load onto my face. I'm exaggerating of course. Your skin is delicate and should be shown T.L.C. daily. Acne breakouts are something I still deal with every now and then, but I am aiming to clear my face of breakouts for good. Here are a few of my tips that have helped me control and prevent serious breakouts.




1. Drink Water
  Drinking water is something that you will be told over and over again on the broken beauty record. Drinking water is extremely essential not just for your skin, but for your overall health. Your body is composed of 50-60% water. If you don't drink enough during the day, this will cause your body to extract water from the foods you eat and hold onto it a.k.a water weight. Water helps to flush out your body of toxins and excess substances in your body. By getting rid of these impurities internally, you will see an improvement on the exterior as well.

2. Chill Out
   Stress does more than just stress your mind out. Stress releases hormones into the body that will contribute to weight gain, unwanted weight loss, hair fallout, headaches, and acne. I understand that stress seems to be a social norm nowadays. If you aren't stressing about something, you must not be doing anything right? Wrong. All it takes is a change in perspective. Look at your situation from a different angle. If you absolutely can not do it, if you absolutely have exuded all methods of not being stressed about it then just remember

"All you can do is all you can do, but all you can do is enough" Art Williams

Favorite ways to chill out: eat your favorite ice-cream, read a book, listen to music, relax then come back to it stress-free

3. Control the Urge

   Do Not Pick Your Face. Control it all costs. This is something I highly regret not doing as a teenager. Now I have acne scarring to figure out how to get rid of. Popping zits will only cause them to spread or come back more ferocious than ever. I have seen girls pop a small zit on day and the next day it came back as a third eye. Seriously, do not pop them. Also don't touch your face with dirty hands. You are exposing you skin to more dirt and germs on top of the already existing acne there. Rubbing an acne gel on zits will cause it to dry up faster and help prevent it from coming back.

4. Nutrition

   Take a look at your daily diet and start a food journal. See what foods you have been eating on the days you break out. This is a trial and error process that will take at least a month, if not more. Get to know your body and understand what is causing it to react this way. Something internally could be causing irritation and inflammation on the skin (zits). By tracking what you eat, eliminating certain foods, and drinking more water you may be able to minimize the amount of breakouts you have.

At this point in time "less is more" needs to become your philosophy. Less makeup and less crap on your face, more attention to your skin and taking care of it.