One of the best ways to reduce acne is to follow a daily routine that provides you with the necessary steps to prevent a break out. These steps if done daily will eliminate the majority of your acne symptoms in most cases.

First, use a mild soap like Dove or Ivory. This should be done twice a day, if it makes it easier to remember wash first thing in the morning and last thing before bed at night. You can also wash using a soap that contains Benzoyl Peroxide if you want to add a medicated solution to your washing routine. It is important to remember not to scrub but to wash gently. This is to prevent irritation to the skin.

If you have, long hair remember to keep it out of the face and off your shoulders if you are prone to acne breakouts. The oil from your hair brushing your face can cause breakouts to occur. If possible, wash your hair daily.

When shaving be sure to heat the area, then apply shaving gel or cream and shave with the growth grain of the hair. Be sure to use only a single bladed razor. If feasible, use a fresh razor every time you shave. This helps to prevent infections.

For those who wear makeup be sure to use hypoallergenic or sensitive skin cosmetics. If possible, avoid wearing any at all in the areas you are most likely to break out.

Scaring and infections are possible if you pick or attempt to deal with your blemishes in any other way than a normal acne treatment, so it is best to avoid doing this.

Use an acne medication, these are easy to find and a number of different products are available. The two most common components to look for are Benzoyl Peroxide or salicylic acid. Start at the lowest concentration and work up to avoid side effects. If the product contains more than 5%, speak with a doctor before using this product. You should wait at least 30 minutes after you wash your face before applying these medicated products. This will help to reduce the dryness that can sometimes occur.

Eat healthy while foods have no direct link to acne providing your body with the necessary things it needs can help keep your skin healthy and that can help to prevent breakouts. You may also want to consider taking a daily vitamin supplement to help provide your body with the vitamins it needs.

Hello guys! In today's video, i'm going to be showing you how to create this look... from a very very bare face.... in not very long. I'd say this kind of look is something that I would go to the pub, a bar or just something a little bit extra, not like just going shopping. I'm not gonna lie to you all, I don't rock around the house like this, I definitely do rock the bare face but this is just how I would look if i'm actually making somewhat of an effort. If you're new here my name is Mel, nice to meet you all. I hope you had a lovely lovely lovely day. Don't forget to like comment and subscribe :) In this video, you'll also see a little trick on how I do my eyebrows like this... they basically look like i've had a perm but i've not, so if that's something you're interested in just stay tuned. Okay, so the first thing that I do when i'm getting rady and doing my make up is I just put my hair up and the reason is just because look it's just a mess. Normally my hair is naturally wavy but after I brush it this is what I get, I mean, watch... What is that?? Um yeah, so I like to put my hair back, like this I just put it quickly, it doesn't need to look good... After that, I like to prep my skin because you're putting like stuff on your skin all the time, I mean, i've got acne as you can tell... I have tried so many things on my skin, it's just not having it. I've had it since last year and I don't know what to do to be honest. I'm trying a new skin routine right now and i'll let you guys know how it's going. So to start my makeup routine what I like to do is, I just start off with this product, it's the Ordinary. It's the Niacinamide and Zinc 10% Niacinamide and 1% Zinc. I just put a few drops on my skin, like this and just a tiny little one up there and then u rub but being really gentle. Like super gentle um... I don't really put it underneath my eyes much, I try to avoid it like that.... I don't know it yo can tell... and then... I like to just let that sit for a little while. A story time with my acne: Last year when I started university, I was getting a few spots around here and then it just went everywhere. I mean, it's cleared up on the top of my forehead a little bit but it's just not going from my cheeks. I went to the doctors twice and I got some cream, which did not do a thing, and then they give me some like liquid in a bottle and it's like a thing that you just dab on your skin but that did nothing either. It had zinc in it so which is why I thought that this would work. I think it is working, but it's just taking its time. Yeah, once i've let this sit and then just put some moisturizer on. This is absolutely amazing. The CeraVe moisturizing lotion it's for dry to very dry skin and I do have dry skin so what I do is I just rub it and then I just pat it. Pat some in my neck, and then I just let that dry as well. Remember to be very gentle with your skin guys because it'll thank you later when you're older and hopefully you won't have as much wrinkles when you're older if you just take care of it now. AH! I literally look awful. Oh... okay, once i've prepped my face for what's gonna go on to it, I then go in with my foundation. I have just got a new Beauty Blender it's by the Real Technique, it's this one. So i'm just gonna open that now... oh she's so new! What I do is I then go and wet it because if you don't wet these things then it's just gonna soak all up, so yeah, i'll just do one second. Okay so it's so big, lovely. So now it's time for my foundation, I use the NYX Can't Stop Won't Stop, this one. It's a full coverage foundation in shade Medium Olive. I like it because it gives me a bit of a tan and if i'm wearing fake tan then yeah it goes on very nicely . So what I do is I just pump it on my skin, I try to just use one so that it's not heavy on my face. Put a few dots on my head and you've got to work very quickly with this one, because otherwise it um blotches and it sets when you're skiing really fast. So that's it, move on, put a little extra because my acne is really bad today. I am not a professional, I don't really know too much about what I do... I just know that this works for me and my skin. So yeah, just keep pat pat pat pat pat pat pat and just keep doing this. So as you can see it's not fully covered everything up, but it has give me a nice cover. I know that some people go in again with the second layer but I don't really like that personally, I just like to use concealer. Another thing that if i'm doing just like every simple day and I don't have much time, time then I do just use this concealer. It's really really good. It's just a lifesaver to be honest it's the Revolution Conceal and Define Infinite Long Wear Concealer in shade C2 yeah. So I put some here and here, and I do go all in with my concealer, cover up the acne... Its mainly just on my cheeks and a few dots up here... like that... and then we'll just go back in with the Beauty Bleander. I'm not sure whether i'm too close or too far away from the camera.. I'll just leave it here.Oh, i've got something to tell you guys actually. Um a day or two ago I changed my Invisalign tray to a new one and wow is it hurting. mM teeth at the back i'm moving and it's absolutely killing me. They're super super hurting. Look at that, look what that does. I just don't look tired when I use this and I always look tired. I haven't been able to sleep very well but, yeah this just saves my life. I'm gonna go in again with this one, just two, two, line line, line line. Oh and there. This one's just building this one. Yeah, i've started doing a new morning routine and it's making me feel so energetic and I just feel so organized in the morning. It's really good. I think that it's so important that when you start your day you start with a routine and something that's going to empower you for the whole day and if you start really well then your day's going to go really well, sooo.. and that's about it, so as you can see most of it's cleared up by now and that's enough for me. What I do now, is I go with my bronzer. I've used this for a long time, as you can see, it was the Rimmel Natural Bronzer in shade 022 Sun Bronze and I just go in with a Studio brush. I also don't know anything about the brushes, I don't do my research on makeup, I just use what works for me. I do have to admit that I go in pretty hard with my bronzer because I don't contour. Let me get my big forehead out haha and then I go down... Oh my God, how much better does that look, I just look so warm. And I do my chin and then do this bone , what's it called... My jawline, let me just warm it up. There we go. I also like to do a little bit on my nose and there and I brush it off and then just pat pat pat. I don't know why but I have so many baby hairs, like... What are these for? Why? Like this one just swoops, I don't know if you can see but it's literally just like... Okay whatever, with the bronzer I also like to just use this little brush and do my eyelids. I don't really like to go in with any color other than like a natural one. And I go in quite into messy, I just pat it all off, quick wipe. I don't use this brush for any other color, if i'm using any of the color, then i'll actually use this brush. This one's by Studio, I don't know what this one is. Oh, this is Avon. I'll just do it quick, like this, it seems to work well. Yeah, so I literally look like an egghead. Whattttt Move on to my eyebrows, so I use... I'm just gonna brush them up, look I have so many. Yeah. So I use this little thing, I have actually run out of the eyebrow pencil. It was really good, so I do recommend this, but I ran out and I bought some other products at that time. I bought this the thing has come off. I's just from Superdrug and it's really quite cheap and I just work it into my hand and then use it as a cream but with a brush. I have a little trick for you guys right now. With my eyebrows, I like them to look big because as you can see they are actually quite big, but they don't stay there. Look, I can like brush them downwards, look at the difference, it's crazy. What I like to do is, I use some gel, I use the Eco-Styling Gel, I just put it into a little pot. It's this one. It's really really good. This one's the one with Argan Oil in. I like it because when i'm putting it on my hair, then it's just amazing and it makes my hair feel super hydrated. I always put this on while i'm doing my makeup, just to moisturize my lips a little bit. So what I like to do, is.. I use a clean mascara brush, I have cleaned it. What I like to do, is I just tap a little bit in there. I've had so many people asking me have I had the... what's it called.. Brow lamination People ask me if I have had brow lamination, but no I don't, I just do this. So yeah, just get a bit and... oh, it shouldn't look wet, there you go and I just stick my eyebrows up. and then you gotta... oooo and then you just shape them. This way, your eyebrows stay like this all day, it's so good because the gel is so good they're just so they. So they should look like that, and then you just let them dry. Add a little bit more, and then i'm going to do this eyebrow. I just can't believe how many eyebrows I actually have. Oooo I look crazy. I don't know if anybody else has done this, but if you have then, what gel do you use because I think this gel is so good. Sometimes I like to just leave them like this because they just look super full and once they've dried, then they just stay there like all day. Yeah, I like to let them dry... there's kind of an embarrassing story about my eyebrows because when I was younger I actually shaved them off... I don't know why, but I just saw a razor at the side and, as a kid, I was just like 'oh okay let's just... see what it looks like' and then I had to put a banner on my eyebrows and I just was so embarrassed when I was a kid. If there's some of my friends from school watching, then you guys know what I mean. What we do now is.. Just put on the lips and it's just going to take away any product that you've got on there. So now it's time for my eyebrows because they've dried, so what I do is, I get this what i've shown you before. I work it into my hand, not too much, not too little. like this, oh.. yeah, and then I get this brush it's by Studio, I don't know what to describe this brush as... Go in with this... and, I just define any sparse areas of my eyebrow. I'm going to try to do it looking here. Put some under here, and the under brow, and a bit more. I'm always going back and forth Look at that. Look how full they look. Oh, I don't like that Why does it look so long... So you can see that i've done my eyebrows in just a little bit of products, I don't even need it all just brush them out, yeah. There we go they, they don't look natural but they don't look... they look super big right now because I don't have anything on. To conceal them, I use a Studio brush and the concealer again. I put a blob on my hand It literally looks it looks like I took hours on my eyebrows but i'm just not about that. I was supposed to be doing, just say like a natural, everyday makeup routine, but this is just turning into a bit more. I would do this where I want to make an effort, but i'm not really making an effort. And then, my eyeliner Yep, do the outside to the next one. It's really difficult doing it, i'm being conscious of the camera because I don't want to put my whole head in your face haha I don't completely go the whole way, I usually do the end, and then I do a little bit on the inside. The eyeliner that i'm using is a Liquid Eyeliner it's just W7. It's hard and I find that it's just super easy to work with rather than working with a brush. I also like the pens. and with my NYX, this is my absolute favorite, I don't have any other favorite lip liner that I go to, it's absolutely amazing. Like it's so natural but you can put something on the top that makes it look better. This one is in shade Sandstorm, I also have a Liquid Suede Lip in Sandstorm as well and that's my absolute go-to. If they ever discontinue this product then i'm really not sure what i'm gonna do... Yeah, go in with my eyelashes now. So the most important thing for me is curlers. My mom has really good eyelashes as well. This one is just the Super Curler 24 Hour Volume Curl Mascara by Rimmel London. It is good, but it's just not my favorite. You can see already.. look at that... what is that... that's crazy I don't know what you guys do but I like to put mascara on my bottom eyelashes and that's basically it. I'm just gonna show you guys what this looks like on. I like it just like this because we've got to wear masks and when you wear a mask, you know what I mean. Oh my God, It's just so beautiful. I'm missing highlighter. Use this end of this one, i'm just going to get some product, on my nose, I love highlight, look at that, I love highlight on the nose. A little bit here under my eyebrow... I do like to use this one, I just do this to kind of get any product off, with this side, IRub where it is, sooooo that is... oooooo. I don't use it anywhere else, I know they say where you light points hit but I have a really shiny forehead and I don't think that I should put any highlighter there. This is how it looks now... So what i'm going to do now, is i'm going to sort this out and then yeah. I always use this, sometimes I need a Tresemme one but I use this. It's an Argan Oil, you can see I've had it for a while, it's an Argan Oil Heat Defense Leave-in Spray with Moroccan Argan Oil Extract. I got this from the Poundshop and I just think it's super good. You can get it from the Poundshop or you can get it from Bodycare. I swear by Bodycare, there's absolutely anything there that you need to get, it's in there. Yeah, I just make sure I spray spray, sorry guys... There's my first layer done and then I'm just gonna do... do the rest. Okay, so that's my hair done, I always like to finish off my hair with some serum, i'm nearly finished. oh, a hair... It's this one , Got To Be Twisted Lightweight Styling For Crazy Curls. So just get some on the wand and put it in my hand, and a little bit more, yeah. and the rub it in, and then I go down all the way to the ends It smells amazing. I'm going to make sure that my parting is in the right place. And then it's all good to go Except, I forgot one thing, it's my highlighter on the inner corner of my eyes. I like this just because it like makes my eyes look so much more awake. Like that, I just love it so much. So this is what I look like when I don't have any of the lights on my face and.... and this is what I look like when I do. I don't use any super expensive brands as you can see, it's all affordable. Usually you can find them all in the Drugstores. I usually find them all in Superdrug and yeah, I could change some of my products but overall I love it and look at the eyebrows like.... The eyebrow trick is so good you guys! Okay guys, so that's just about it for this video. If you like this, don't forget to give it a big thumbs up. Don't forget to like, comment and subscribe and i'll see you in my next.... and i'll see you in my next video ciao guys!