Last month, something highly unusual happened: I temporarily ditched my 11-step routine in favor of three Kate Somerville products—and .
In my longtime quest to achieve skin that emits a luminous, radiant , I'm aware that I can sometimes go a teeny bit overboard.
I'm talking about the weeks where I use one too many resurfacing masks at the same time or get heavy-handed with the . I always know that this is a bad idea—I've had a case of for years—but often do it anyway.Like clockwork, I recently overdid it on the exfoliants.
I had been spared a full flare-up, but dry patches were creeping up around my nose and cheeks, and my face felt tight in a bad way.