Skin update and Garnier Dark Spot Corrector

Hi everyone, I hope your all well,

I just wanted to let you know where I am at with the Proactive kit, my thoughts so far plus come new additions I the fight against my pizza face!

I am almost half way though my kit with regards to how much product I have left in the bottle and so far I like it. Unfortunately as pleasant as this is to use It hasn't delivered me into the garden of angel like skin.

Eveyday for the last 6 months I feel like I have looked in the mirror and been so disheartened by what I saw. All the beautiful new foundations looked god awful on my skin, concealer as good as it is wasn't giving me the finish I was looking for. Blusher was sticking to my dried up healing blemish (read scabs) basically a walking mess I was!

I considered ploughing on in the hope that one day all my hard work would pay off, and somehow beautiful skin was sitting at the bottom of a bottle somewhere on the shelves of boots. Then I realised I have already wasted 6 months of my life feeling miserable about my skin. What am I going to do? Give it another year or 10 and see if my skin looks any better? Then what? I may have to deal with wrinkles and spots! So I took myself off to the Doctors.

I know my problems are hugely hormonal based. I suffer with PCOS and although my case is mild and my cysts fairly small, I still get unwated hair in places I won't mention and the crap skin! I explained my plight with my Doctor, she listened and prescribed me an antibiotic in the shape of Oxytetracycline. I am currently taking 500 mg a day and have done so for the last 6 dasy, And ooh La La what a difference.

Firstly I have no red hard lumps that look like they are full of bacteria. In fact I have nothing resembling a spot at all. I saw results in as little as 3 days although my doctor told me to be patient and wait six weeks until I saw any result. I cannot tell you how happy I am. I honestly feel like my skin has turned a corner. The Proactiv kit is helping by unclogging any smaller black heads I have as well as giving my skin a good daily exfoliate and although it hasn't cleared up and spots it has helped refine the texture of my skin massively. I actually have soft skin!

So now the next part is going to make me sound like a whiney brat. My skin is still left with marks. Not so much acne scars, more like purpley red marks where spots have been. Although with foundation my skin looks smooth and clear, without any make up I still look rank. This isn't good enough. In the world of beauty speak I believe I have pigmentation. I once used the Clinique Even Better Serum which helped out with this issue. But at £39 a pop I was hoping to find the high street equivalent. Enter Garnier Dark Spot Corrector. Now I am in no way equipped enough to give a review on this product and I believe this to be new. It has all the claims you would hope from a mark reducing formula and I will be slapping this one day and night in the hope for more perfected skin.

So with all the above said I wanted to leave you on one final word. As much as we rely on these wonderful lotions and potions and they really are great. Sometimes we need something more. I didn't want to blog in a months time with clear happy skin under the guise of a miracle based on skincare. I wanted you to know it wasn't enough and that in the end my help came from a professional.

So here's to starting a new skin chapter. Let me know if you have tried any dark spot correctors and what you have thought of them.

Big love xxx