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I spent the last month or so spiraling over my skincare routine because my pores doubled in size seemingly overnight. I’d pull out my vanity mirror to assess the status of my skin, and all I’d see were enlarged dots around my nose. I immediately thought of everything I could attach blame to. My skincare routine was the obvious choice for this sudden skin shift. It had to be a new product I was using that was clogging my pores, but nothing had changed in my rotation for months. I was using the same products that I was when I could recall my pores looking unnoticeable just a couple of months prior. Did my skin rapidly age overnight? Did my skin react poorly to increased sun exposure over the summer?
After mulling it over for a few days (and buying a new cleanser that promised to shrink pores), I decided to let it go. A couple of days later, I was doing my makeup and reached for an old favorite, the ONE/SIZE by Patrick Star Ultimate Blurring Setting Powder. I enjoyed this powder when it first launched, and the only reason I stopped using it was to try something new (oh, the life of a beauty editor!). A couple of hours later, as I sat at a light in LA traffic, I pulled down my mirror to inspect my makeup—my skin looked velvety smooth, and my pores were undetectable. Almost as if they had shrunk? Right there was my “Aha moment.” It was the setting powder—not my skincare routine—that was messing with the appearance of my pores. Then came the harsh realization that my pores had always been that large, and this setting powder was just so good that I forgot.
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