If you’ve been following BriSkinDecoded for a while, you may remember that I previously made a post all about Skin Cycling. 🗓️🤎 Today we’re taking that concept and applying it specifically to HYPERPIGMENTATION. Because when you’re using retinoids, exfoliating acids and pigmentation treatments

✨ WHEN MY TRETINOIN ROUTINE WENT WRONG ✨ Yesterday evening, I completed my Monday PM tretinoin sandwich routine: 🫧 ANUA Cleansing Oil 🫧 Etude SoonJung pH 6.5 Cleanser 🔴 RED-H + NIR LED — 10 minutes 🥛 TIRTIR Milk Skin Toner Light — 2 layers 💧 The Ordinary Hyaluronic Acid 🩷 BYOMA Moisturiz

Hyperpigmentation Month • Week 3 • Day 3 🌙 PM Hyperpigmentation Routine Treatment, Recovery + Knowing When to Stop Your nighttime routine does NOT need to attack hyperpigmentation every single night. 🌙🤎 This is something I’ve really learned through my own skincare journey: sometimes add

🚨 NEW PRODUCT ALERT 🚨 La Roche-Posay recently released the Effaclar Supramolecular Oil & Pores Jelly Cleanser, a daily foaming cleanser designed for oily, shiny and combination skin. 🩵 Its refreshing jelly texture transforms into a rich foam to thoroughly cleanse the skin, remove visible

Hyperpigmentation Month • Week 3 • Day 2 ☀️ AM Hyperpigmentation Routine What Goes Where + Why Yesterday we talked about why MORE ACTIVES ≠ FASTER RESULTS. Today, we’re actually putting that lesson into practice. ☀️🤎 When you’re building an AM routine for hyperpigmentation, the goal isn

🧪 AHA vs. BHA vs. PHA vs. LHA: What’s the Difference? Chemical exfoliants all help remove built-up dead skin cells, but they don’t work in exactly the same way. Each acid family has different properties, ideal uses and potential benefits. ✨ AHA: Surface + Glow: AHAs are water-soluble and p

Hyperpigmentation Month • Week 3 • Day 1 🤎 Building a Hyperpigmentation Routine We spent Week 2 learning WHAT different brightening ingredients do. Now it’s time to figure out how to actually put them together. 👀🤎 Welcome to Week 3 of Hyperpigmentation Month! When you learn that Vitamin

🚨 NEW PRODUCT ALERT: Mario Badescu Blurring Balm with Salicylic Acid A product that instantly blurs pores while helping to clear them over time? This one definitely caught my attention. 👀 The Mario Badescu Blurring Balm with Salicylic Acid is a skincare-makeup hybrid designed to give the skin

Hyperpigmentation Month • Week 2 • Day 7 ☀️ Sunscreen + Hyperpigmentation The Step That Protects All Your Progress We’ve spent all week decoding ingredients that can help target hyperpigmentation… 🍊 Vitamin C 🌿 Azelaic Acid ✨ Tranexamic Acid 🤎 Alpha Arbutin 💛 Niacinamide But toda

🚫 MY SKINCARE INGREDIENT NO-NO LIST Taking my skincare journey seriously taught me that an ingredient can be considered soothing or beneficial and still not agree with my skin. I have sensitive, easily irritated skin along with specific allergies, so I have to read the complete ingredient lis

If you’ve been following BriSkinDecoded for a while, you may remember that I’ve already made a post breaking down Niacinamide. 💛 But today, we’re looking at it through a different lens. For Hyperpigmentation Month, I specifically want to decode Niacinamide + Hyperpigmentation because niacinam

🧪 WHAT NOT TO MIX WITH AZELAIC ACID ⚠️ Azelaic acid is actually a pretty easygoing skincare ingredient, but that doesn’t mean we should throw every active we own into the same routine. 😭 The real issue usually isn’t that two ingredients are forbidden together. ✨ It’s irritation stacking.

Hyperpigmentation Month • Week 2 • Day 5 If you’re trying to fade dark spots but don’t necessarily want to add another exfoliating acid to your routine, alpha arbutin is an ingredient worth knowing about. 🤎✨ Alpha arbutin primarily works by inhibiting tyrosinase, an enzyme involved in melanin

🧴 4 Skincare Products That Didn’t Work for My Skin ❌ | Part 1 One thing skincare has taught me: a good product can still be the wrong product for YOUR skin. 👏🏾 These aren’t products I’m calling “bad.” They simply didn’t work well for my skin, and each one taught me something different about w

If you’ve been seeing tranexamic acid (TXA) pop up in dark spot serums lately, there’s a reason. 👀✨ Unlike some of the brightening ingredients we’ve already covered, tranexamic acid works through a different pigmentation pathway. ☀️ UV exposure 💗 Hormones 🔥 Inflammation These can trigger

Okayyy… this is exactly why I like comparing the actual formulas instead of automatically assuming the name brand is better. 👀 I compared the CVS Health Hydrating Facial Cleanser with the CeraVe Hydrating Facial Cleanser, and these two have a LOT in common. 🧪 Both include ingredients like gly

If you’re dealing with acne AND the dark spots your breakouts leave behind, azelaic acid is one ingredient worth knowing about. 🌿🤎 What makes it such a good multitasker is that it doesn’t only target pigmentation. Azelaic acid can inhibit tyrosinase, an enzyme involved in melanin production,

💙 EFFACLAR MAT vs EFFACLAR SUPRAMOLECULAR 🩵 La Roche-Posay now has TWO mattifying Effaclar moisturizers, and if you’re looking at them thinking, “Okay… but what’s the difference?” 😂 I got you. They both target oil, shine and the appearance of pores, but their overall approach is different.

We hear it ALL the time: ✨ “Vitamin C brightens your skin.” Okay…but HOW? 👀 Vitamin C is an antioxidant that can help protect your skin from oxidative stress while also interfering with tyrosinase, an enzyme involved in producing melanin. Think of it like this: Tyrosinase → Melanin P