Lesson from a Beauty Blogger : Skin Ravage/Acne Breakout Tragedy Post-Facial Experience

I was shocked with this news at Vivalife. Juli, a beautiful, 28th years old beauty blogger from Singapore had suffered a raged pimple outbreak filled with pus after undergo facial procedure at a facial salon. The pimples start shown at day 1 and get worsed in the night. At the second day she run panickly back to the salon to get pus extraction. " The therapist simply said I had a sensitive skin and extraction to the pus would solve everything.", she said. The night after pus extraction the face not getting better at all, so she contact the facial salon, and asked to do the second pus extraction. But the next day her face was outbreak with more inflammed, red, angry pimples filled with pus. " They looked like barnacles, just that mine are filled with pus", said her. Then she go to Dermatologist.

July's face condition, 3 days before and after the facial tragedy (27 Mei 2013)

The dermatologist told her it was an allergic reaction to one component used at facial salon. Some people are allergic to certain ingredients, and the most common cause is herbal or plant extracts, the products used on at the salon contained some plant extracts. Moreover, she wrote in her blog :

"Actually there’re many factors that could have caused my current skin condition:

• The facial itself, like the face massage
• The products and equipment used during the facial
• Subsequent extractions that made my skin angrier
• Products applied to my skin during subsequent extractions that hindered the healing process
• Products given by the beauty salon – cleanser + toner"

The lesson that we can learn from her worse situation is :

1. Choose the safest cosmetics you can find, preferably that used natural ingredient but without reverse or allergic effect in your skin (your skin can get allergic reaction even with "natural ingredient") 
2. Dermatology tested cosmetics are the best. Better if efficacy and claim is tested clinically.
3. Keep it simple, choose daily routine skin care than fast result facial procedure
4. It could be a bacterial infections too (staphilococcus could produce same cystic acne to skin), so watch out the hygene of hand/tools you used to touch the face.
5. If you had an acne breakout, do not try to extracted any pus, it worsen the situation and give you a bad huge scar. Use some proper acne treatment and be patient with the result.