Quote Originally Posted by ctufano View Post
What do you mean, like, go to a dematologist and get one? Not familiar with how proactiv works (i used to take accutane when i had real bad acne). Then wait for my skin to clear up pretty much all the way before using a straight? Or, treat it then shave, just want to make sure I fully understand.

As for you bein a diver, awesome! I am a PADI Divemaster, used to live down in Stuart, FL and helped with classes or just runnin drag during checkouts for instructors... Rest of time spent buggin or hunting and workin in dive shops
I think you can pick up Proactive at the drugstore now. It's just an easy system to work with. Again, at the risk of going all fem on you, it has all the steps you need to treat your skin right... and it's all in the same box. I used to be on Accutane too, so I can relate. Give it a week of using it and see if it starts to clear up. It may take a little longer. As with any product, it's going to get worse at first because it's going to be attacking and drawing out the impurities. IMHO, I'd lay off shaving for as long as you can while you start treating it. That way you aren't constantly irritating your skin in the same spot over and over. The men on here have great advice for skin care so listen to them too. It's just, unfortunately, all skin wasn't created equally so you're going to have to find what's going to work for your skin.

Oh, and yes, NAUI Dive Mistress here. Used to live in the Keys in my former life. I'm in Orlando now.