Best moisturizers for oily skin while using tretinoin
My face could be greasy and peeling at the same time. These are the moisturizers I actually kept using with tretinoin — and the ones I would buy again.
Skincare & Self-care
What I actually put on my face at 44, and the small rituals that keep me feeling like a person.
I’m forty-four. My routine takes five minutes, my drawer of mistakes is enormous, and the most useful thing I do for myself has nothing to do with a bottle. Here’s all of it, honestly.
My honest five-minute skincare routine at 44
No ten-step ritual, no fridge full of serums. Five things, five minutes, most mornings — and the one I would keep if I could only keep one.
The sunscreen I wish I had started at 25
I am not going to pretend I was diligent. I was not. But I have worn it every single day for six years now, and that is the part I can still control.
A bath is not self-care, but it helps
The bath did not fix the week. What helped was the closed door, and finally being willing to say out loud that I needed forty minutes.
More of the house: the whole journal, or the story of why I started writing it.