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Right hi everyone and welcome back to my channel my name is jenna and thanks for stopping by today we’re gonna be talking about my retin-a week 10 update alright i currently have my head back on the couch just because i want lighting to be on my face that you guys can actually see me but per the usual with my retina updates let’s go ahead and first get into the
Bullet pointed pieces of information i feel are important for everyone to know regarding my retina journey and my skin in general so i am age 33 i have never had any botox or filler put into my face i have had two halo lasers one after each of my pregnancies and the most recent one was about four and a half months ago i am using trenton owen or retin-a for hormonal
Acne that typically pops up on my jawline skin discoloration and also anti-aging um i am on trenton owen which is the generic form of retin-a and i am on d 0.025 percent strength i use the cream variation as opposed to the gel variation and right now the plan is again i’ve been on it every single night for ten weeks now ten weeks today exactly and my plan is at the
End of april to go up to the 0.05 percent strength now that i feel like my skin is acclimated and i’m not having any of the irritation like peeling or redness or sensitivity with my skin so last week week 9 i had mentioned i was in the purge phase or just kind of starting the purge phase and i still am in that phase i can still feel lots of little bumps kind of
In this area i know they’re hard to see i do have some pictures that i will insert here in a while so that you can kind of see the texture a little bit better but i will say the area that i’m really purging in is simply just down here around you know the border of my mouth and then along my jawline which is where i tend to get hormonal acne anyway and then i did
Have a random one on my forehead the other week and i just do have a couple of bumps kind of coming to the surface on my forehead which is an area that i basically never break out in but for those of you who know anything about the purge of retin-a you know your purging when you know you tend to have way more pimples on your face than normal and also when you tend
To be breaking out in places that you would not normally break out so again i am still in the purge this week but i’m gonna kind of zoom in so that you guys can see how smooth the texture is of my skin in areas where i am not breaking out so literally everything here here is totally smooth rader on my nose is smooth it’s just right around my mouth area my chin is
Actually pretty smooth maybe just underneath kind of on my jawline area but really it’s kind of like when you purge you purge in little sections of your face so some areas are gonna purge and clearer faster than others and the areas that are overwhelmingly clear on my face i don’t think my skin has ever felt smoother than it is right now so i’d have switched to a
Thicker kind of lotion for my face it still is the survey lotion but i’m now using the cream variation i don’t know where the remote is i’ll be right back and we’re back alright um so i have switched over to a thicker lotion on my face again i’m still using the survey lotion but i’m using the cream really creamy thick variation that comes in the tub as compared to
The bottle with a pump i do believe that they make a pump for the tub but the one that i have you just kind of twist the cap off dip your fingers and put it on sometimes i still use the survey regular pump lotion for normal to dry skin during the day just because it’s a little less thick but i’ve kind of gotten used to you know the thicker creamier variation of it
And find that my skin really likes it too so i’ve totally switched to that for my face neck and chest last night was my first night putting a little bit of the retin-a on my chest which i will plan on continuing to do here moving forward now i am still able to do the carry over residue method on my neck in terms of the retin-a a few times a week and if you have
Watched my other videos i kind of explain what the carryover residue method is i will go ahead and include links to all of my other weekly update videos below in the description box so you guys can feel free to click on those and then i also have a playlist of all of my retina updates as well oh but yeah so basically this week just again kind of coasting through
This purge phase the purge this week is not as bad as it was last week i had kind of some more swollen ones last week whereas this week it still is more a lot of little bumps that are kind of coming out around my mouth area again if you’ve watched in some previous videos i have talked about that as a congested problem area for me and some of those are coming out
But they’re not you know swollen or painful at all and yeah i think i probably will continue her jean for the next few weeks for sure so it’ll be really good and exciting i think for you guys to watch these updates especially if you are just starting your journey and having gone through the purge phase yet again not everyone goes through the purge phase but it’s
Kind of nice just you know to kind of compare it to someone else who goes through it you know some people purge for months some people purge for just a couple weeks again like i said some people don’t purge at all but for me personally i kind of have you know because i started on a lower strength i’ve been getting you know maybe one pimple per week and now it kind
Of seems like i’m getting to the deeper area of my skin where some of it is all starting to come out in my problem or congested areas during the retin-a purge it can bring out months and even sometimes years of acne that would have come out eventually anyway it’s just that because your skin cell turnover is so much faster with retin-a it’s causing all of those
Spots to kind of come to the surface at a faster rate but right along with that so obviously we are all dealing with the corona virus and so we are in quarantine so i will not be even leaving my house to drive in my car but i will be giving you guys video footage of two of the four lighting conditions that i normally do so stay tuned for that and then i will also
Give you guys some up-close photos of my skin so yeah if you guys have any questions or comments feel free to let me know in the description box or excuse me in the comments below and yeah i will continue to do these updates i think what i’m gonna plan on doing is doing a weekly update every day for the first year and then after the first year it’ll probably be
Like a quarterly update maybe with my retina journey so right now you know because i just recently had surgery i am more so only posting this one retina up to update each week but i do plan on kind of going back to more videos here in the very near future i just wanted to give my body a bit of a break and you know obviously because we’re in quarantine my husband
Is working from home and you know we’re all just kind of trying to make it work so i hope everyone is staying safe and julián well with all of this stuff that’s happening it just is a very interesting time to be living in i have to say so yeah alright guys hope you’re doing great and i will talk to you all next week oh and then stay tuned obviously for the video
Footage and up-close photos right now okay bye bye alright as always the first lighting condition is in my basement and i am under can lighting you in this second lighting condition i am still in my basement but i am in the bathroom which contains no window and the lighting in here is a slightly more blue tint you all right and then lastly we have some up-close
Photos of my skin featuring my front lower right and left sides along with my upper front of my face again hope everyone is doing well and staying safe until next week i will talk to you all soon
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RETIN A WEEK 10 UPDATE // TRETINOIN PURGE By Jenna Rubis
