Our Top 5 K-Beauty Tips For Dealing With a Stubborn Breakout

1. Why You Need to Double Cleanse.

Throughout the day, your skin can get congested with sweat, bacteria, makeup residue and pollutants (especially if you live in a busy city) so it's super important to refresh and cleanse the skin in your PM routine to keep yourself free from pesky breakouts.

Is it Effective?

1. Cleansing your skin with a light, oil-based cleanser can help to melt blackheads and impurities, unclogging your pores and keeping your skin smooth and super soft.
   
   
2. Oil cleansing is gentle enough to use in a regular pore-care routine to reduce the buildup of impurities and refine texture without the irritation of physical or chemical exfoliants.
   
   
3. Keeping your skin unclogged helps the rest of your skincare to absorb effectively so you can really maximise their results.

Remember to emulsify and rinse the oil cleanser away thoroughly to make sure all those nasty impurities are washed away, not left on your skin!

2. Transition to Soothing K-Beauty Products

Breakouts can look and feel painful, irritated and inflamed, sometimes even causing redness in the areas surrounding the blemishes. Try incorporating soothing and cooling products to calm and reduce breakouts. 

Skin Soothing Ingredients?

1. Centella: If you're a K-Beauty lover, you've definitely heard of cica. This well-loved ingredient does everything from soothing redness and irritation to providing long-lasting moisture and nourishment to leave your skin smooth and plump.
   
   
2. Heartleaf: This miracle plant extract soothes the skin while balancing excess oil production to keep your complexion clear of buildup and impurities for a glowy finish.
   
   
3. Tea Tree: Perfect for use on oily and blemish-prone skin, this cooling extract immediately calms the skin to reduce the look of redness that can come with a breakout.

3. Keep Your Skin Hydrated

You might feel tempted to avoid moisture at all costs to stop a breakout but it could actually be causing your skin to produce excess oil, causing even more blemishes!

It's super important to keep your moisture levels balanced, so if you're weary about heavy creams, try layering thin, lightweight formulas that don't overload the skin and keep it plump and perfectly balanced.

What Should I Look For?

1. Light, watery serums and ampoules that absorb seamlessly to leave your skin moist and plump, not sticky.
   
   
2. Ingredients like hyaluronic acid and panthenol lock moisture into the deeper layers of the skin and keep it nourished and hydrated all day.
   
   
3. Gel-type moisturisers provide fast-absorbing hydration to keep the skin supple and silky smooth without feeling heavy.

4. Protect Your Skin's Healthy Barrier 

Sometimes, consistent breakouts can mean that your skin's barrier isn't as healthy as it should be. 

Overusing exfoliants or skin-resurfacing ingredients like retinoids can leave your skin struggling to balance it's moisture levels and overproducing oils. Using ceramides in your skincare routine is really important in nourishing and rejuvinating a damaged barrier.

What Do Ceramides Do?

1. Form a moisturising film over the skin to protect and balance moisture levels.
   
   
2. Soothe dry, itchy and sensitised skin to reduce flaking and redness for a more radiant and supple finish.
   
   
3. Provide deep hydration to leave your skin moist, soft and comfortably smooth.

5. Hands Off!

It can be so tempting to immediately reduce a breakout by popping a blemish - trust me we know. But you'll only end up irritating your skin and causing more redness, spreading the bacteria and, in the worst case, leaving dark marks and scars that can take ages to brighten up.

Out of Sight, Out of Mind.

We recommend you try out pimple patches! 

1. They're amazing for keeping you from picking at your blemishes.
   
   
2. By drawing out all the gunk in a pimple, they speed up your skin's recovery from a breakout!
   
   
3. If you're worried about how a pimple looks on your face, these patches are amazing at blurring into your skin and leaving you looking smooth.
   
   
4. Some patches like the glow - diamond drop blemish patch come in funky designs and colours for a fashionable boost of confidence.