Stress-Induced Acne

[TimeChaser]

.... I hate midterms, they've been murder on my health. They've also given me a bad breakout like I haven't seen since middle school. Since I've gotten a cold at the same time, my lips are chapped. One pimple is right under the corner of my lip, where it's still chapped. So I'm stuck between using washes on the acne that drys the skin and using greasy chapstick that gets on the acne....

Any advice?

[GirlinContempt]

1. Chapstick probably won't affect your acne

Try using spot-cleaner on the acne, or spot-treatments (like Clean and Clear Gel) and putting on chapstick with a lipstick brush or tip of your little finger if you're really worried about it. Though, like I said, doubt it's going to make it worse.

[bettyellen]

2. use this "as seen on TV" stuff, "blemish away"

or the mario badescue version. it looks like 1/2 calamine 1/2 alcohol in a little bottle that you're not upposed to shake- it works great.
drying out your face ain't going to help