Hey, iamskinbeauty community, in this video I share my journey using tretinoin for a year and a half and why I decided to take a break from it. I’ve gotten great results on my tretinoin journey, so I encourage you to keep using it for you are in the beginning stage and break from it if your skin is irritated.
Hey guys what’s good it’s your girl marsha founder and owner of iron skin beauty first and foremost guys if you are new to this channel welcome if you are all love and appreciate you thank you for coming back watching another video guys um so i’m the founder and owner of iron skin beauty if you are into self-care and looking for steamer robes headbands and really
Fun 90s retro sunglasses head over to our website we are a self-care brand of course like i always say we’re working on so many great things but make sure you head over to ironskinbeauty.com grab your pair of sunglasses robe a spa headband and a steamer so your beauty products can penetrate a lot better but let’s get to this video so here’s an update on part
Two on my tretinoid journey guys so this video again of course like i said it’s going to be short so um i took a break from using tretinoi i have a video out so make sure you watch that make sure you watch all my tretinoin videos because it’s all going to make sense once you watch all my tretinoin video um i talked about um how i had a love and hate relationship
And i just recently had a hate relationship it was not always my first year went really well i think i probably break from tretinoin maybe about three to four days or a week max but this time around because i felt like my skin was getting irritated and i went with the higher percent because i was using the the zero point zero point zero five percent and then i
Went up to the one percent and i just started to feel like my skin was getting irritated it was getting dry over time so i decided to break from tretinoin and just kind of let my skin get back to this normal state get back to my normal skin complexion you know because i felt like with tretinoin the zero one percent over time you know left my skin really dark and
Irritated again guys i don’t mean like me being dark skinned i’m just saying like it left my skin dark like think about like when the sky is gray you know it’s it’s a dark feeling that’s how i feel like it left my skin like really dark and irritated so i break from it and i break from it for about a month and then i share my journey what i use to get my skin
Complexion back that i felt that helped me to bring back the hydration and the glowiness which i use um honey manuka mass and cinnamon and i added this time around to rack so i have a video on that and i also have a dedicated video on manuka honey and cinnamon so you make sure you can go onto my channel and and find those videos i don’t have that much videos
I mean i do i don’t but just watch all my videos from beginning to end but yeah that being said so this is my two and i decided to decided to go back to using tretinoin like i said you tretinoi has done your gross justice for us my skin has definitely transformed using this so the fact that i wasn’t using it for a month it did not like my skin did really well
Um but i was still wanted that nice glowy chocolate you know look that treadnoy gave me my first year around and so i was like i gotta go back i gotta go back but this time around um so i was using let’s say this on this video i said it i mentioned it on my um clinton medicine video my last video make sure you check the expiration date um so i have this it’s
Coming up on a year and this one expired june 20 june 2022 so in a couple days it expired so i was using this temporary until i got a brand new one so i had to go visit my dermatologist oh which is really cool guys because i started to go to esthetician i have a video coming up on that um so be on the lookout for that i’m behind my content but be on the lookout
For that but yeah so um i got i went back to my dermatologist and then she prescribed me i told her that i was taking a break that i no longer wanted to use a 0.1 percent anymore to put me back down to 0.5 percent so i got a brand new one but this time around is small compared to this but you know what i was like why did she put the 20 ounce and not the 45 but i
Actually think i like the 20 ounce because this will i’ll probably finish this a lot faster obviously because it’s small so that mean that i i will know exactly like i won’t forget when it expires if that makes sense and i can travel with this so it actually worked out so i’m glad that she gave me the 20 um the 20 ounce instead of the 45. so i have noticed like
The dark marks definitely came back like the pimples are male but because i am acne prone i’m also post acne mark prong if that makes sense i don’t know if i’m saying it correctly but meaning like whatever pimple i have usually leaves a dark mark even if i don’t have to do nothing to it it will leave a dark mark it will leave you know postpone mark afterwards so
I did notice like you know in my two like minor minor acne would come back and i would have to deal with the dark marks because i wasn’t using you know the tretinoin and um all dollars and all my other products like the jojoba oil i wasn’t using the tretinoin i feel like tretinoin works with all my other products that’s why i always say guys it takes a team of
Things to work for my acne prone skin but i am currently wearing no makeup right now um so this is what i’m talking about like you can see like dark marks here and dark marks here but although i have dark marks i’m not even tripping y’all because back then oh like y’all have seen my before and after i’ll make sure i drop a video a picture so you guys can see
Back then like my skin was just oh it was just really bad so a few dark marks i’m not even tripping because like i said i’m back using this i really feel like it’s going to help and also too i did take a break from using um and anybody who saw my am video or saw my rose hip oil video um i did take a break from using rosehip rose hip oil as well too because when
I break from this i wanted a break from rosehip oil because rosehip oil is a natural um vitamin retinoid you know and it has vitamin a and you know we all know tretinoin has vitamin a so i wanted to break from every type of tretinoin retinoid anything that was like vitamin a just to give my skin a break so i did break from that and guys for the people who asked
About you know rosehip oil it does really help like i felt like if i was still using rose hip oil i wouldn’t have to really worry about um too much of my dark mars because rose hip oil takes care of that in my a.m so i only use rose hip oil in the am i know i heard people say you can only you should use them at night but it worked for me me using an am and it worked
With my other products if you watch my am skincare routine the most recent one you will see that i use it and it works with all my other products so yeah so that being said i just have to deal with a few dark marks but i prefer to deal with the dark marks than to deal with the irritation with the darkness and dryness irritation like i will take the dark little dark
Marks because i know if i go back to this or if i use rosehip oil that and i keep using my manuka honey mass and turmeric and cinnamon those help with dark marks as well too dark spots as well too so i’m not even tripping about that um i think my skin is still doing really really well um i did change the way i use tretinoin i no longer use it seven days a week
Um so i went down to three because i’m trying to avoid the irritation although me using the 0.5 percent my first year it didn’t really irritate me as much the only time it did irritate me if i went over a pea sized amount if i was being in if i was rushing the process it would irritate me if i went over a pea-sized amount but otherwise it did not irritate me so i
Decided to go back to the five 0.5 i was going to go down to the 0.25 which is the lowest strength but i decided to stick with this because i feel like i’m only going to use it three days out of the week it’s too soon to tell y’all like if it’s working because the goal is to get my skin back to where it used to be make sure you watch the video to the end because
I’m going to drop a picture of how my skin was like first year around how glass clear it was that’s the gold i feel like my skin is not far too off like i said i’m still dealing with a few dark marks and it’s all good like i prefer dark marks these little few dark marks and dry irritation like i said so yeah i went back to using it and so now i’m only using it
Three times out the week i think my skin prefer that better because i don’t feel like my skin is um acne prone at this moment like i’m not having severe acne like when i first started using this so i don’t think there’s no need for me to use it every single day so now i’m just pushing it back and i’ll let you guys know next month when i do another update um
You know three months how’s it going did i get my skin back to what i originally wanted my skin back to which is that crystal glass you know smooth skin that i feel like i’m not too far from i know y’all like why she had a hat on listen i just came from somewhere i was like if i don’t get this video done now it ain’t gonna get done so if it’s in my mind i have
To get it done so excuse the hat but anyways um i do want to mention this guys summer time is here if you’re going to be using tretinoin clindamycin and you’re going to be out in the sun make sure you wear a hat make sure you wear sunglasses if you’re going to be outdoor just make sure you’re covering your face because i got how could i forget the most important
Thing the hat the sunglasses and sunscreen like do not dare leave your house without wearing sunscreen how could i forget that like wear sunscreen guys if you’re going to use this summertime is here where suns is in the sun don’t mix especially on this complexion you talk about irritation it will irritate you your skin will get darker you’re not going to like it
You’re going to be blaming this but it’s just you’re not protecting your skin so make sure you always wear a hat so i’m glad i’m actually wearing this hat so i can remember to tell you guys to wear a hat because i’ve been out all day and i made sure i threw a hat on um this was supposed to be a part of our merch collection but i decided not to add it because the
Hat is way too tight for my girls for my ladies because like i said i do it for the culture i do it for community i do for girls who can relate to me i do it for one who anyone who could relate to me so these hats wouldn’t were too it’s like too tight like for my girls who wear wigs you know you know wear lace it’s way too tight and it didn’t work out with this
Particular vendor so i’m still on the lookout like y’all i’m working okay your girl’s working behind the scenes ah shout out to everyone who has a business this stuff is a lot because you got to make sure i don’t i’m not that business owner that’s just gonna throw on my website just to sell it i really have to wear it i wear every last one of my products on our
Website i wear it i wear it every day especially the spa headband so yeah so now we’re looking into hats because it’s not a lot of pretty hats you know out there that’s going to protect you from your son because uh like i said it’s a self-care brand and i want to make sure i provide things that just accessories and beauty tubes to help you keep your skin nice and
Chocolate and glowy like your girl all right so that’s about it guys um again i’ll keep you posted on my next month and how i’m doing how my skin is doing was i able to get rid of my dark marks but like i said i’m not tripping because my skin is still doing quite well i have no makeup on so you guys know what’s real just all grease and oil just like i like it
All right guys so make sure you are true to yourself be good to yourself you are your skin beauty like subscribe and comment and check out our website ice cream beauty peace all right before i start to use the tretinoin and this is the first year of me using tretinoin
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WHY DID I STOP USING TRETINOIN: PART 2 By iamskinbeauty
