5 months and 8 days later

in May, I'd written about how I'd started another skin maintenance regimen using Proactiv Solution...  A desperate time called for a desperate measure when my body didn't respond as well as I'd liked from re-acclimatizing to the US after having spent an extended Christmas break in the Philippines.

 -- I wrote about that here and clearly failed to write much else about it --

5 months have passed since then, if I counted right. My skin has been relatively "clearer" for the past month or so thanks to a much-needed visit to Kate Somerville, as per my sister's request, and my almost-religious use of the Proactiv Solution system thinger majigger.

I'm really quite pleased with myself.

My immune system crashed when I returned to LA in February and I got sick to the point that my whole body was disoriented and my hormones must have gone all sorts of ways causing a massive breakout and relapse of acne that regular cheaper dermatologist visits in Manila helped to clear up


I meant to keep this on my tumblr page and it may seem a bit of an overstep considering I've kept the content of my tumblr as far away from my personal life as possible but more and more often the people I seem to be following and/or the people following me tend to make use of their own tumblr as an outlet for their personal rants and raves.

There's a part of me that wants get more personal there and to hopefully shed some light on people as a reminder that behind all the posts, likes, reblogs, creative tumblr handles/URLs, we're all normal people and perhaps some days, I also want to share my triumphs and maybe even failures just as some people have done.

My copying and pasting this here should be enough indication that I ultimately decided against it, maybe in time I'll grow more acquainted with certain people but yessss I hope I don't end up jinxing the progress of my skincare.