Rosacea Redness

I added this picture to my blog for a couple of reasons. I know that people are curious to see what Rosacea looks sometimes. It can show in many different ways, and this past week or so, mine has been just nuts! I just woke up and didn’t grab my shower yet, so please excuse the mess of myself this morning! You can see the redness spreading, and lately my forehead is getting a lot more flushed as well. Stress tends to aggravate it as does multiple things. As for now, besides showing you this, I want to notate that while my skin is red, it is smooth. Last week, I had multiple bumps with it, but since lowering my sugar intake, my skin has smoothed out. Yes, even food affects my skin! I didn’t aquire Rosacea until my thirties and it seemed to come out of nowhere. My sister also has it, but her’s is much less severe. She gets a “little red” at times. Mine is pretty much constant based on what I’m doing, what’s going on in my life and more. I have dry skin (lack of sebum…lack of water is dehydration) for those of you who are checking this out who are estheticians. Being a licensed skin care specialist myself, it can be quite frustrating dealing with this. If I go into work (which I do on a fill-in basis), I use mineral make-up which tones down the redness. You can see me here, ready for work, which is a picture from a previous post.

You still see the pink undertones, but compare the two pictures and you’ll see the miracle of mineral make-up!

I’m also posting these pictures for another reason. I missed Self-Portrait Sunday last week, and was away the week before, so I wanted to send a shout out to my friend Cass and let her know I’ll be participating this week. For now, this is what I’ve got until Sunday!