Dry Skin Brushing Wrinkles
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free skin care · Mon May 12, 2014 9:03 am

I dry skin brushed with a brush I bought that is meant for the face, it is made of natural boar hairs. I brushed with it for about a week everyday, sometimes twice a day and at night, I was a little more vigorous with it. I'm noticing that where my smile lines are, I developed more fine line wrinkles on one side of my mouth and on the other I developed a much more pronounced small wrinkle that is really bothering me, it's coming off of the fine line wrinkle I already had around my mouth but goes off to the side, making my fine line wrinkle around my mouth look like a strange shape. These were not there before, otherwise I did not have this happen anywhere else on my face which is odd, I don't understand why this happened and it has been almost 2 weeks now since I stopped the dry brushing after I noticed this and my skin still looks the same in those areas and I don't see it disappearing. I have been moisturizing etc. How could this happen so quickly? Did I permanently damage the skin there and create wrinkles?

free skin care · Wed May 14, 2014 6:15 am

I don't think you damaged the skin permanently, but you can really stress it out with over doing exfoliation.

I just did something similar with drybrushing every other day, one time a day (which was a good schedule for the most part), but then I added in slopping on a super strong DIY Vit C every night, I dried out my skin, enlarged pores, created lines, etc. So I stopped all of that (going on 3-4 days of a break now) and will continue to stop until my skin barrier looks good. I am not exfoliating at all or using actives right now-- just putting a skin barrier repair cream on at night (something with Vit E in it) and in general taking it easy on my face. I read it can take up to a month for the barrier to repair. Also, be sure to drink at least 60 oz of water a day (and it takes 3-4 days to rehydrate) to help your skin recover during this time.

Dry brushing is very good for the skin, but I would not start out doing it every day, twice a day. Maybe 2-3 times a week, once a day, and stop when it starts to really hurt/sting. Slowly your skin will strengthen and thicken a bit with response to the brushing, and then you can go longer. Tonya Zavasta (spelling?) dry brushes now daily for minutes at a time, but it took a while to work up to that. I think you should use your skin's sensitivity as a guide.

After my skin heals, I will go back to dry brushing, but probably not at the same time I use vit c (since it is such a drying acid for me). I'll probably use that on opposite days or find a gentle C product for daily use.

free skin care · Wed May 14, 2014 4:16 pm

Hi Pokerlady,

I would say that you have stripped the outer layer of your skn with over exfoliating. You need to be very careful now what y ou use on it to heal it. I did something similar using a laser. I had some minor lines in one area that got worse using the laser, where the lines appeared to be deeper wrinkles. I would check out healing products like the Garden of Wisdom line. They are all natural and they can heal your skin and restore moisture lost. I was amazed! You don't mention your age, but anyone can get "temporary wrinkles" from dehydrated skin. I am over 55 and my skin is now healed. GOW has many products that are water based and they will help immensely. That's my recommendation. Email them if you are unsure about what to use. Best, Aprile

Wed May 14, 2014 6:52 pm

If your looking for a solution to getting rid of these fine lines/wrinkles you should try Rodan + Fields.

Rodan and Fields Redefine Regimen & the AMP MD roller.

I personally use it myself and it has had awesome effects on my skin, and many other people who have used it are now addicted. Smile

free skin care · Wed May 21, 2014 10:54 am

Thank you everyone for the responses. I used the same cream I have always used that gave me good results but this time it is not helping much, but also I haven't been using a cream at all the past month since dry brushing because I thought my skin was too irritated and so I just used cleanser and makeup. Unfortunately that extra line that formed around my mouth is STILL there. It seems to be permanently there now which I am horrified that a week of dry skin brushing did this, but guess I should be happier it didn't create even more tiny wrinkles. This new extra wrinkle is super tiny but it bothers me cause it wasn't there before and also the whole left mouth wrinkle line that I have was mild and now it is deeper looking which is very upsetting and I know it is from the dry brushing. I'm 26 and ever since I dry skin brushed a month ago, I'm completely serious when I say that the folds around my mouth and the wrinkles have become DEEPER and I look like have aged maybe 3 years older around my mouth in only ONE week of dry brushing.

Mon Aug 04, 2014 11:49 am

Hey pokerlady- I'm just wondering if your skin has improved at all since your last post? I noticed that another member recommended Garden of Wisdom, and wanted to know if you tried their products? I just ordered my first set and I'm outrageously excited to start using them!

I'm 39, and I went from having extremely oily skin (and always looking less than half my age) to EXTREMELY DRY, dehydrated skin, two years ago. There was a period of time when nothing helped the dryness. Not oils, not emolients, not heavy cream moisturizers.
Fast forward to now - my skin is back to balanced/oily, and only my under eye area is still dehydrated (I have awful crepiness and crows feet - it's so bad I try to never smile). But what helped my SKIN was basically time, reduced washing my face from 2x a day to once a day (night only), and lastly (get ready for this) - The Mary Kay Timewise anti-aging product line. Yes. That's what restored all the moisture back in my skin and made it oily once again. I needed time to have it balance out, but after a few months of the cleanser, day and night serums and moisturizer, my skin has zero dryness (again the under eyes are a different animal all together and I'm still working on that).

Also, I just started using a Vit C/E serum ("nourish" from Trader Joe's) and so far i ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT. It's only been a few days, but I swear the lines under my eyes have improved ever so slightly. Also, I'm washing with oil (oil cleansing method) to remove my makeup every night, and in the mornings i exfoliate with that luxusious Suki exfoliating cleanser. I also recently purchased Emu oil and will be starting a separate thread on under eye wrinkle remedies/cures sometime in the near future.

I don't know - something about the ingredients in that Mary Kay line did the trick for me. Something to check out perhaps? Because it seems that your issue is definitely dehydration.

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