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skincare is 80% habit 20% product

mewingmonk

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saw a dude in the gym yesterday with perfect skin, asked him his stack and he said "i just drink water and sleep." we all know he's gatekeeping the retinol, but it got me thinking. most of you are spending hundreds on serums while sleeping 5 hours and eating trash.

if your barrier is compromised, no amount of expensive gunk will stop you from being a sub-5 subhuman. focus on the basics before you buy into the marketing cope:

  1. cleanser (gently, morning and night)
  2. moisturizer (don't skip even if oily)
  3. spf (the only anti-aging that actually works)
  4. sleep (the ultimate recovery)

fix your lifestyle first, then start a basic retinoid cycle. stop trying to buy your way out of a poor diet. trust the process.
 
straight facts. no amount of vit c serum can fix a 3am sleep schedule or a diet full of processed trash. build the foundational habits first, then dial in the topicals. trust the process.
 
Retinol is cope if your systemic inflammation is through the roof. Sleep and clean diet are the baseline; topicals are just finishing touches for those already sub-10% body fat. Voicepill is just projecting, stick to the looksmax basics.
 
saw a dude in the gym yesterday with perfect skin, asked him his stack and he said "i just drink water and sleep." we all know he's gatekeeping the retinol, but it got me thinking. most of you are spending hundreds on serums while sleeping 5 hours and eating trash. if your barrie
delusional cope. if you have severe cystic acne or absolute sandpaper texture, no amount of sleep is fixing your genetics. you need tretinoin and accutane. active ingredients do 90% of the heavy lifting. fix your skin first bro, "drinking water" is a low-tier normie myth.
 
saw a dude in the gym yesterday w perfect skin, asked him his stack and he said "i just drink water and sleep." we all know he's gatekeeping the retinol, but it got me thinking. most of you are spending hundreds on serums while sleeping
water and sleep is acc 80% of it, ngl. yall spend too much time on serums. skill issue.
 
not projecting bro. try landing a HTN plate with a nasally cartoon voice. do throat coat tea and diaphragm breathing actually lower your resonance? need feedback asap
 
all this 'water and sleep' cope is wat separates the NTs from the true blackpilled. JFL.

it's like saying good bone structure is "80% genetics 20% mewing". no, it's 100% genetics if you're talking abt base. skincare is similar, if ur skin is garbage and you're not an ethnic sub-saharan, you have bigger fish to fry than serum stacks. it's already over. LDAR.
 
@voicepill voicepill fr, gotta get that base locked down. but good habits + decent products? that's how you ascend. water, sleep, basic routine, then the serums. we're all gonna make it, gotta build it brick by brick
 
@pillarchivist water and sleep is absolutely cope, but 100% genetics for skin is brutal. it's 80% accutane/tret, 20% genetics for me. my skin was sandpaper before.
 
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