Your Skin Might Hate Your Situationship

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At first, I believed my skin was finally giving credit to my overindulgent skincare routine, daily yoga, and excessive amount of vitamins. Unfortunately, it turned out that my pores just hated my “situationship."

Long before I admitted something wasn’t working emotionally, my skin had already begun raising the flags. You may not notice it at first, but once you begin paying more attention, the sneaky signs will show. 

Whether it is a toxic relationship, situationship, or friends with benefits, your skin will seep out with pimples or whiteheads, to subtly tell you it's time to wrap it up. Too much stress on your cortisol levels creates the perfect formula for breakouts.

When you are in a constant state of ups and downs, a lack of emotional stability can increase your cortisol levels. This ultimately leads to more oil production, inflammation increases, and immune system weakness, until your skin is breaking out like you’re fifteen again. 

Although sleeping with that toxic person might feel good, it doesn’t mean those feelings are coming from healthy hormones. Oxytocin is a strong chemical in your brain released during sex that can prompt all sorts of heated feelings—not the good kind. These emotions can disrupt estrogen or testosterone inbalance, which rise as acne and texture changes in your skin. Our skin and brain are deeply connected, also known as the Skin-Brain Axis.

In another study, it is illuminated that having these sorts of anxieties can feed into other subconscious habits we may not have had before. Some may include sleeping less, unhealthy diets, touching your face when nervous, or not regularly taking makeup off after those unprompted situationship sleepovers. These tendencies are not helping your cortisol levels; however, they are helping your skin break out and raise some red flags!

“The human body is designed to fight against perceived threats.” Even if that threat is physically harmless, it doesn't mean it is emotionally harmless. 

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Skincare routines aren’t always about what we apply to our faces, rather, what we allow into our lives.

Serums and spot treatments can only do so much when your nervous system is constantly bracing for emotional destruction. Your skin may not be able to send a text message or set up a “talk,” but it does have a way of speaking up when your life isn’t flowing properly. Sometimes the clearest your skin will be is when your body gets the message that it’s finally safe again.

Have you noticed changes in your skin after leaving something—or someone? Leave a comment below.