That being said, the way you feel about your skin is significant.
After all, isn’t skipping makeup supposed to stop breakouts?
So you stopped wearing makeup, but you’re still breaking out right now.
So if you find yourself with more breakouts right now you might be wondering what’s happening.
Here’s what might be happening instead:
Stress triggers breakouts.
Well, your mental health and your skin are intricately connected via theskin-brain axis.
Stress is a significanttrigger for breakouts.
When you are stressed, your body releases thehormone cortisol.
What it’s not beneficial for?
It triggers an inflammatory response that can cause breakouts in an individual’s predisposition to acne already.
Changes in diet.
What you eat has an effect on your complexion, through thegut-skin axis1.
And your gut microflora is a delicate thingso changes in your day-to-day eating habits will absolutely affect its balance.
“Gut inflammation eventually can become systemic inflammation.
You are just noticing it more.
It used to be out of sight, out of mind.
The take-away.
If you’re breaking out more than normal right now, there are plenty of perfectly normal explanations.
