Ruth_Baldock Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 When I was pregnant with Baby Baldock, my skin and hair were MAGINIFICENT. I was radiant and lovely, truely. It was brilliant. This time round, with Mystery Foetus , my hair is an absolute joke- greasy, lank, crap. DON'T get me started on my skin- it's never been this blotchy and gross, not even when I was a teenager. The usual 'sort yourself out, you greasy mare' products aren't working and the thought of another 5 odd months of looking like a frightmask is too much to bear.Are there any products that all you lovely Mums recommend? ANYTHING? Price no object, Husband feels guilty about it all and offering to buy shedloads of maternity related items("It's my fault you're in The Family Way, afterall..." think someone needs to give him a lesson on The Facts Of Life, two way street and alll...)Ta all! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14849-pregnancy-pizza-face/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mellors Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 No advice, mine is foul too. The advice I had last time re face was actually to stop using product at all, and go back to basic water and wiping.They reckon its like that for girls though (was true with my 2nd - was fine with my 1st (boy)......I feel your (spotty) pain xxx Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14849-pregnancy-pizza-face/#findComment-392624 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helen GV Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 As it's no doubt hormonal I'm not sure there's going to be a miracle product (hopefully someone will prove me wrong!!) but make sure you are eating well and drinking lots of water! I have heard that a baby girl steals your beauty...Sorry for the unhelpfulness (and yet, I'm still posting..hmm..) but I'm sure you still look lovely and stylish... :) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14849-pregnancy-pizza-face/#findComment-392627 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polly D Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 Someone at work told me Sudocream is good for spots. So now we have nappy rash on our faces if you look at it this way. Don't worry, sure it's just hormones and they'll calm down v soon. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14849-pregnancy-pizza-face/#findComment-392631 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dulwich Born And Bred Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 I was the same during pregnancy ( mine was a boy) and I just ensured I ate lots of healthy food, drank lots of fluids and took pregnancy vitamins to ensure my body was as fighting fit as it could be with a baby taking all the goodness out of me. Creams and shampoos won't really help but maybe you could book a course of face treatment? they will make you feel better about yourself if anything else.Give it a few months and the hormones will settle down. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14849-pregnancy-pizza-face/#findComment-392635 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruth_Baldock Posted December 16, 2010 Author Share Posted December 16, 2010 Maybe Mystery Foetus is a girl? I wouldn't know what to do with a Baby Girl, am so used to Seb and his cheeky boy antics. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14849-pregnancy-pizza-face/#findComment-392636 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helen GV Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 HAd exactly the same thoughts when I found out I was having a girl, but I'm pretty sure she's going to be just as cheeky as my boy! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14849-pregnancy-pizza-face/#findComment-392638 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saffron Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 It's caused by hormone changes in early pregnancy. Get lots of rest. It will pass. I had this too!xx Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14849-pregnancy-pizza-face/#findComment-392639 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruth_Baldock Posted December 16, 2010 Author Share Posted December 16, 2010 Rest? REST?! Are you taunting me? Although, saying that, Baby Baldock has got a lot better with sleeping 12-14hours at night (long time coming, he used to only sleep 6hrs/24). Yesterday we had a 3 hour co-sleeping nap in my bed, lovely! Have started to nap at work, too. At least I am keeping up with my fluids/pre natal vitamins. I suspect going through boxes of Quality Street is NOT helping... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14849-pregnancy-pizza-face/#findComment-392642 Share on other sites More sharing options...
candj Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 Maybe start having monthly facials? That's what I did although I never had issues with my skin whilst pregnant (two girls and currently boy - so not sure if it was the gender of the baby in my case). My skin never looked better. It was after I stopped breastfeeding that I noticed changes to my skin (and my boobs for that matter!). Hopefully it's limited to the first trimester and will pass. Good luck! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14849-pregnancy-pizza-face/#findComment-392643 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sillywoman Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 I thought you looked lovely @ B&B on Monday - maybe I met a different Ruth_Baldock? Have you got a twin? :))P.S. I'm sure there are vitamins of some kind in Quality Street. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14849-pregnancy-pizza-face/#findComment-392645 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladyruskin Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 I am suffering too with acne. It's all along my jawline and chin which suggests it's hormonal. As a long-term sufferer of acne outside of pregnancy, I thought I'd had solved the problem over the last 18 months... Not so! I have been assured it will pass after the first trimester though.(Sorry, this is my first post in this group, have been lurking for a while though...) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14849-pregnancy-pizza-face/#findComment-392647 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruth_Baldock Posted December 16, 2010 Author Share Posted December 16, 2010 Ah shucks,SW :-$Last night, my husband tried to console me from howling 'My faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace, my beaaaaaaautiful faaaaaaaace...' by telling me the strawberry chocs counted as one of my 5 a day...I think facials/treatments may be the way forward. If only for the 'me time'. I keep telling Husband that he should be extra lovely to me as I am a 'holy and sacred vessel'. He's definitely getting sick of this now, at this rate Mystery Foetus will be the last one! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14849-pregnancy-pizza-face/#findComment-392650 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruth_Baldock Posted December 16, 2010 Author Share Posted December 16, 2010 Ladyruskin- mine is on my chin too. Ick. And forehead. Have a crap fringe at the moment but can't pin it back because of terrible dot-matrix style forehead. Roll on payday (nice expensive haircut time!) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14849-pregnancy-pizza-face/#findComment-392651 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yak Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 LadyR and Ruth_B - I've been getting it on my jawline and neck too - and I thought I was the only one with freakily-located spots! If I take nothing else from this thread it will be not being alone in oddly located pregnancy induced spottyness. I am half way through second trimester and I've had no sign of it getting better (yet...). This weather can't help can it, with the mixture of arctic blasts and indoor heating that we are exposed to. Bring on this "blooming" malarkey that I hear so much about...And welcome, LadyR from another semi-lurker! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14849-pregnancy-pizza-face/#findComment-392714 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saffron Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 Look for skin washes with salicylic acid. Neutrogena does some good ones. Also hot compresses are good. And put a tiny dot of toothpaste on any really bad spots before you go to bed. xx Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14849-pregnancy-pizza-face/#findComment-392796 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Countjc Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 Ruthagree with SW that you look fab but great place for facials is leslie leale green in Dulwich Village. X Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14849-pregnancy-pizza-face/#findComment-392814 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GinaG3 Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 Water, water and more water. It was my savior throughout pregnancy. Although I was radiant first time too, not sure about the next... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14849-pregnancy-pizza-face/#findComment-392873 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladyruskin Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 I drink over 2 litres of water a day. Hasn't done much for my complexion, all it means is I get woken up at 4am with a very full bladder! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14849-pregnancy-pizza-face/#findComment-392882 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwod Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 Pizza face? - isnt that a song by Lady Gaga? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14849-pregnancy-pizza-face/#findComment-392884 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vickster Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 I too had lovely hair and skin for number one (boy) and generally have looed a bit crap throughout my pregnancy so far with number 2 (a girl, if the scan is right), so maybe there is some truth in the girls steal your beauty thing. Looks like BabY B no 2 might be a girl! I too have no idea what I am going to do with a girl, just getting used to the little boy antics! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14849-pregnancy-pizza-face/#findComment-392888 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruth_Baldock Posted December 17, 2010 Author Share Posted December 17, 2010 Poker face ;) but when I look at myself in the morning, I sing "pizza face" to th tune of poker face. I might as well be entertained by all this... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14849-pregnancy-pizza-face/#findComment-392889 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratty Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 Better start thinking of girls names! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14849-pregnancy-pizza-face/#findComment-392912 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwod Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 Maybe Lady Gaga's got the right idea all round re skin problems - a jolly song and thishttp://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://gagafashionland.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/lady-gaga-hotel-gluttony.jpg&imgrefurl=http://gagafashionland.com/category/mask/page/3/&usg=__92pFaaLFrSbANzR8hbBDC6fGtYc=&h=601&w=414&sz=64&hl=en&start=48&zoom=1&tbnid=5kflS70ihGs7RM:&tbnh=149&tbnw=100&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dlady%2Bgaga%2Bmask%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1R2GPEA_en%26biw%3D1579%26bih%3D671%26tbs%3Disch:10%2C1060&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=231&vpy=289&dur=5000&hovh=271&hovw=186&tx=111&ty=176&ei=VWALTaubLOGH4gbguL38DA&oei=HGALTb6ZBpSxhQe2pJG2Cw&esq=4&page=3&ndsp=28&ved=1t:429,r:11,s:48&biw=1579&bih=671 most effective concealer.;-) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14849-pregnancy-pizza-face/#findComment-392965 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angie9 Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 I was the same with my 2nd litle one. I looked like i was falling apart at the seems. Pregnancy bloom? I wasn#t even close. Tried a few things to keep myself looking half decent but gave up after a couple of months. Men have it so easy! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14849-pregnancy-pizza-face/#findComment-393105 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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