Concerns

Recently published concerns

• Deep Wrinkles

  Deep Wrinkles describes more established folds or lines where skincare may improve surface quality but cannot fully replace procedures.

• Dark Spots

  Dark Spots describes flat areas of darker-looking pigmentation that often need daily sunscreen plus patience with brightening ingredients.

• Neck Discoloration

  Neck Discoloration describes uneven-looking darker or blotchy tone on the neck that needs gentle care and sun protection, not harsh scrubbing.

• Temporary Tightening Residue

  Temporary Tightening Residue describes white cast, flaking, tight film, or makeup disruption from instant-tightening products.

• Rough Texture

  Rough Texture describes skin that feels uneven, bumpy, or less smooth because of dryness, buildup, clogged pores, irritation, or visible photoaging.

• Under-Eye Wrinkles

  Under-Eye Wrinkles describes fine or deeper lines under the eyes where thin skin, dryness, sun exposure, expression movement, and age-related change overlap.

• Under-Eye Dryness

  Under-Eye Dryness describes tight, crepey, or flaky-looking dryness around the eyes that can make lines and makeup texture look more obvious.

• Retinoid Dermatitis

  Retinoid Dermatitis describes irritated, red-looking, peeling, or burning skin from retinoid overuse or poor tolerance.

All concerns

Browse every published concerns alphabetically.

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  Acne

  Acne describes a visible pattern involving acne.

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  Acne Marks

  Acne Marks describes flat red, pink, brown, or gray marks left after breakouts, separate from indented or raised scars.

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  Acne Scars

  Acne Scars describes texture changes or lasting marks after acne, especially when pitted scars, raised scars, red marks, and brown spots get grouped together in everyday language.

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  Adult Acne

  Adult Acne describes a visible or comfort-related skincare concern.

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  Age Spots on Hands

  Age spots on hands are flat brown marks on the backs of the hands often linked with cumulative UV exposure.

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  Back Acne Scars

  Back Acne Scars describes dark marks, red marks, raised areas, or true textural scars left after back acne or follicle bumps.

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  Benzoyl Peroxide Dryness

  Benzoyl peroxide dryness is the tightness, flaking, peeling, or stinging that can happen when benzoyl peroxide is used too often, too widely, or without enough moisturizer.

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  Blackheads

  Blackheads describes a visible or comfort-related skincare concern.

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  Body Acne

  Body Acne describes breakouts on the back, chest, buttocks, or other body areas where sweat, friction, occlusion, and follicle congestion overlap.

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  Body Hyperpigmentation

  Body Hyperpigmentation describes uneven darkening on body areas after friction, shaving, bites, ingrowns, dryness, or inflammation.

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  Body Wrinkles

  Body Wrinkles describes wrinkles or crepey lines on body areas such as the chest, arms, or thighs where dryness and sun exposure can exaggerate texture.

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  Bug Bite Dark Marks

  Bug Bite Dark Marks describes dark marks left after bites, scratching, and inflammation, especially on legs where pigment can linger after the bite heals.

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  Butt Acne

  Butt Acne describes pimple-like buttock bumps that may actually be folliculitis, friction bumps, keratosis pilaris, or true acne-like congestion.

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  Chapped Lips

  Chapped lips are dry, tight, flaky, or cracked-feeling lips that keep returning when the lip surface is repeatedly exposed to saliva, weather, sun, low humidity, irritating products, or missing occlusive support.

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  Cheek Breakouts

  Cheek Breakouts describes acne, clogged pores, or irritation bumps on the cheeks, where product residue, friction, and barrier stress can overlap.

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  Chest Acne

  Chest acne describes acne-like bumps, clogged-looking pores, or breakouts on the chest area.

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  Chest Sun Damage

  Chest Sun Damage describes mottled color, spots, roughness, or lines on the décolleté linked to cumulative UV exposure and thinner, often neglected chest skin.

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  Chest Wrinkles

  Chest Wrinkles describes sleep creases, sun-related lines, and crepey texture on the décolleté where thinner body skin is often under-protected.

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  Chin Acne

  Chin Acne describes breakouts and clogged pores around the chin, sometimes recurring with cycles, occlusion, touching, or shaving.

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  Chlorine Dry Skin

  Chlorine Dry Skin describes dry, tight, or flaky skin after pool exposure when chlorine, repeated wetting, and towel friction disturb the barrier.

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  Cleanser-Stripped Skin

  Cleanser-Stripped Skin describes a tight, squeaky, dry feeling after washing that often means the cleanser or washing routine removed too much surface lipid.

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  Clogged Pores

  Clogged Pores describes a visible or comfort-related skincare concern.

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  Closed Comedones

  Closed Comedones describes small, skin-colored clogged bumps that form when follicle contents stay covered by a thin layer of skin instead of opening to the surface.

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  Comedonal Acne

  Comedonal Acne describes clogged-pore acne such as whiteheads and closed comedones, usually without large painful cysts.

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  Cracked Heels

  Cracked heels are rough, split-looking heel edges that often start with dry thickened skin or callus around the heel rim.

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  Crepey Eyelids

  Crepey Eyelids describes thin, papery-looking, finely lined, or loose-looking texture on the upper eyelid or surrounding eye area.

• Crepey Neck

  Crepey Neck describes thin, crinkled-looking neck skin where dryness, sun exposure, age-related collagen change, and laxity can overlap.

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  Crepey Neck Skin

  Crepey Neck Skin looks thin, dry, finely crinkled, or paper-like across the neck.

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  Crepey Skin

  Crepey Skin is the consumer term for thin-looking, finely wrinkled body-skin texture.

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  Crepey Skin On Arms

  Crepey Skin On Arms describes thin, finely wrinkled, paper-like arm skin where dryness, sun exposure, age, and laxity can overlap.

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  Crow's Feet

  Crow’s Feet are fan-shaped fine lines and wrinkles at the outer corners of the eyes.

• Crow’s Feet

  Crow’s Feet describes expression lines at the outer corners of the eyes that topical skincare can soften in appearance but not stop from forming with movement.

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  Dark Circles

  Dark circles are the visible look of darkness under the eyes.

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  Dark Elbows and Knees

  Dark elbows and knees are common because these areas get friction, pressure, dryness, and thicker-looking texture.

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  Dark Inner Thighs

  Dark Inner Thighs describes inner-thigh discoloration often shaped by friction, shaving, irritation, ingrowns, and sensitive skin-fold conditions.

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  Dark Knees

  Dark Knees describes knee darkening related to friction, pressure, dryness, thickened skin, or uneven pigment.

• Dark Spots

  Dark Spots describes flat areas of darker-looking pigmentation that often need daily sunscreen plus patience with brightening ingredients.

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  Dark Spots From Acne

  Dark Spots From Acne describes a visible or comfort-related skincare concern.

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  Dark Spots From Shaving

  Dark Spots From Shaving describes dark marks left after shaving irritation, razor bumps, ingrown hairs, or repeated friction.

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  Dark Underarms

  Dark Underarms describes underarm discoloration related to friction, shaving, irritation, post-inflammatory marks, and sometimes thicker velvety darkening that deserves medical attention.

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  Deep Forehead Lines

  Deep Forehead Lines describes set horizontal forehead creases that may be partly expression-driven and partly surface-aging related.

• Deep Wrinkles

  Deep Wrinkles describes more established folds or lines where skincare may improve surface quality but cannot fully replace procedures.

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  Dehydrated Oily Skin

  Dehydrated oily skin is a practical cosmetic label for skin that looks shiny or greasy but also feels tight, rough, or flaky.

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  Dehydrated Skin

  Dehydrated Skin describes skin that looks tight, dull, or lined because the surface is short on water, even when oiliness or deeper dryness may also be present.

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  Dry Body Skin

  Dry Body Skin describes body skin that feels tight, flaky, rough, or itchy because it lacks enough water and protective surface lipids.

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  Dry Hands

  Dry hands are rough-feeling, tight, flaky-looking, or cracked-feeling hands that keep returning when washing, sanitizer, detergent, weather, or friction repeatedly removes moisture support.

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  Dry Patches

  Dry Patches describes localized flaky or tight patches that may be simple dryness or a sign of eczema, dermatitis, fungus, or psoriasis.

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  Dry Skin

  Dry Skin describes a visible or comfort-related skincare concern.

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  Dullness

  Dullness describes a visible or comfort-related skincare concern.

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  Early Wrinkle Prevention

  Early wrinkle prevention is a cosmetic-appearance concern about helping skin look smoother for longer, especially before deep lines are the main issue.

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  Easy Bruising With Aging

  Easy Bruising With Aging describes more visible or frequent bruises on mature skin, especially arms and hands, where aging, sun damage, medicines, and medical factors can overlap.

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  Eczema-Prone Dryness

  Eczema-prone dryness describes skin that gets dry, itchy, tight, or reactive in an eczema-like pattern.

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  Eleven Lines

  Eleven Lines describes the paired vertical frown lines that appear between the eyebrows from expression, skin aging, dryness, and repeated movement.

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  Expression Lines

  Expression Lines are wrinkles that appear or deepen when the face moves, such as smiling, squinting, raising the brows, or frowning.

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  Face Touching And Acne

  Face Touching And Acne describes breakouts encouraged by repeated contact, friction, oil transfer, and mechanical irritation around acne-prone follicles.

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  Facial Hyperpigmentation

  Facial Hyperpigmentation describes a visible or comfort-related skincare concern.

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  Facial Redness

  Facial Redness describes a visible or comfort-related skincare concern.

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  Fine Lines

  Fine Lines describes a visible or comfort-related skincare concern.

• Fine Lines Around Eyes

  Fine Lines Around Eyes describes small lines around the eye area, often made more visible by dryness, expression movement, irritation, and sun exposure.

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  Flaky Skin

  Flaky Skin describes the dusty, lifting, or visibly dry layer on the face that can show up around retinoid routines, in dry weather, or after over-exfoliation.

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  Flaky Skin Around Nose

  Flaky skin around the nose is often dryness or irritation, but it can also be a rash-like pattern such as seborrhoeic dermatitis or contact dermatitis.

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  Flaky Skin Around The Mouth

  Flaky Skin Around The Mouth describes peeling or roughness around the mouth where saliva, toothpaste, lip products, actives, and dermatitis can overlap.

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  Folliculitis

  Folliculitis describes a visible pattern involving folliculitis.

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  Forehead Bumps

  Forehead Bumps describes small, texture-like bumps across the forehead or hairline.

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  Forehead Wrinkles

  Forehead Wrinkles are horizontal lines or creases across the forehead.

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  Friction Darkening

  Friction Darkening describes darkened skin in high-rub areas where repeated rubbing, sweat, shaving, and irritation can leave lasting uneven tone.

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  Fungal Acne

  Fungal acne is not technically acne.

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  Hairline Acne

  Hairline acne is clogged-looking or pimple-prone skin along the forehead, temples, or scalp edge.

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  Hard Water Skin Dryness

  Hard Water Skin Dryness describes dryness and roughness that can be worsened when mineral-heavy water leaves residue and makes cleansing less comfortable.

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  Inflamed Pimples

  Inflamed pimples are acne bumps that look red, tender, swollen, or angry rather than just clogged.

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  Ingrown Hairs

  Ingrown Hairs describes a visible pattern involving ingrown hairs.

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  Ingrown Hairs on Legs

  Ingrown hairs on legs happen when hairs curl back or get trapped under the surface after shaving, waxing, or friction.

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  Itchy Sensitive Skin

  Itchy sensitive skin is a comfort pattern, not a single diagnosis.

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  Jawline Laxity

  Jawline Laxity describes a softer-looking lower face or early jowl area where skin quality, sun damage, facial structure, and volume changes overlap.

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  Keratosis Pilaris

  Keratosis pilaris is a common rough-bump pattern often described as chicken skin.

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  Large Pores

  Large Pores describes a visible pattern involving large pores.

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  Leg Dark Spots

  Leg Dark Spots describes uneven dark marks on the legs after bites, shaving, ingrowns, acne-like bumps, scratches, or sun exposure.

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  Lines Between The Eyebrows

  Lines Between The Eyebrows describes vertical or slightly angled creases between the brows, often called frown lines or eleven lines.

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  Lip Lines

  Lip Lines describes fine vertical lines on or around the lip border, plus dryness lines that can make lipstick bleed or settle.

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  Loss of Firmness

  Loss of firmness is a cosmetic appearance concern where skin can look less bouncy, less resilient, or less supported than it used to.

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  Loss Of Plumpness

  Loss Of Plumpness describes skin looking flatter, less cushiony, or less bouncy because of surface dehydration, barrier weakness, and age-related structural changes.

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  Makeup Clinging To Dry Patches

  Makeup Clinging To Dry Patches describes uneven cosmetic texture where foundation or tint catches on raised flakes, rough barrier areas, or dehydrated surface skin.

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  Makeup Settling Into Lines

  Makeup Settling Into Lines describes foundation or concealer collecting in wrinkles, folds, dry texture, or mobile expression areas as the day goes on.

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  Marionette Lines

  Marionette Lines describes lower-face lines that run from the mouth corners toward the chin, shaped by expression, skin quality, and facial structure.

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  Mask Acne

  Mask Acne describes acne-like bumps in mask contact zones where occlusion, humidity, friction, and oil buildup make follicles more reactive.

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  Melasma

  Melasma describes a visible or comfort-related skincare concern.

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  Milia

  Milia are tiny keratin-filled cysts that sit just beneath the skin surface.

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  Mouth-Area Breakouts

  Mouth-area breakouts can be ordinary acne, irritation from products, shaving-related bumps, or a rash-like condition that only looks like acne.

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  Nasolabial Folds

  Nasolabial Folds describes folds running from the sides of the nose toward the corners of the mouth, where surface skincare and deeper facial structure overlap.

• Neck Discoloration

  Neck Discoloration describes uneven-looking darker or blotchy tone on the neck that needs gentle care and sun protection, not harsh scrubbing.

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  Neck Wrinkles

  Neck Wrinkles describes visible horizontal or vertical lines on the neck and upper chest.

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  Oily Skin

  Oily skin is a shine-prone or slick-feeling skin pattern, not proof that the skin has enough water or barrier comfort.

• Over-Exfoliation Irritation

  Over-exfoliation irritation is the burning, tight, shiny, flaky, or inflamed-looking skin that can show up when acids, scrubs, retinoids, benzoyl peroxide, or harsh cleansing outpace the skin's tolerance.

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  Perioral Irritation

  Perioral Irritation describes redness, stinging, bumps, or flaking around the mouth that needs a gentler routine and sometimes clinician review.

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  Periorbital Puffiness

  Periorbital puffiness means a puffy or swollen-looking appearance around the eyes.

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  Pomade Acne

  Pomade acne is a hair-product-related breakout pattern.

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  Pore Strip Irritation

  Pore strip irritation is the uncomfortable redness, stinging, peeling, or raw-feeling skin some people notice after adhesive strips.

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  Post-Inflammatory Erythema

  Post-inflammatory erythema, often shortened to PIE, is the red or pink-looking mark that can linger after acne calms down.

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  Post Inflammatory Hyperpigmentation

  Post Inflammatory Hyperpigmentation describes a visible or comfort-related skincare concern.

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  Post-Waxing Bumps

  Post-Waxing Bumps describes small red or flesh-colored follicle bumps that appear after hair removal because the follicle opening is irritated, inflamed, or vulnerable to ingrown hairs.

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  Razor Bumps

  Razor bumps are acne-like or ingrown-hair-like bumps that can appear after shaving, especially in beard and neck areas.

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  Red Spots After Pimples

  Red Spots After Pimples describes red or pink marks that remain after a pimple settles, especially in lighter to medium skin tones.

• Retinoid Dermatitis

  Retinoid Dermatitis describes irritated, red-looking, peeling, or burning skin from retinoid overuse or poor tolerance.

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  Retinoid Irritation

  Retinoid irritation is the dryness, peeling, burning, tightness, or redness that can happen when a retinoid routine outruns skin tolerance.

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  Rosacea-Prone Redness

  Rosacea-prone redness means skin that flushes easily, looks persistently red, or reacts strongly to heat, alcohol, spicy food, sun, or irritating products.

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  Rough Body Skin

  Rough Body Skin describes dry, bumpy, or uneven-feeling body skin, often linked with keratosis pilaris, friction, shaving, or low-moisture skin.

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  Rough Skin

  Rough Skin describes skin that feels uneven or looks textured because of dryness, dead-skin buildup, clogged pores, irritation, or scars.

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  Rough Skin On Thighs

  Rough Skin On Thighs describes thigh texture that feels bumpy, dry, or sandpapery from keratosis pilaris, friction, dryness, or ingrowns.

• Rough Texture

  Rough Texture describes skin that feels uneven, bumpy, or less smooth because of dryness, buildup, clogged pores, irritation, or visible photoaging.

• Sagging Neck

  Sagging Neck describes loose or lax-looking neck skin where topical products can support appearance but cannot recreate procedure-level tightening.

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  Sagging Neck Skin

  Sagging Neck Skin describes loose-looking skin under the chin or along the neck that can soften the jawline and make the neck look less firm.

• Sagging Skin

  Sagging Skin describes looser-looking skin or reduced visible firmness that topical products can only modestly support through hydration, texture, and surface appearance.

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  Scalp Acne

  Scalp Acne is consumer language for pimple-like scalp bumps.

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  Scar Texture

  Scar Texture describes uneven surface texture left after a breakout, scratch, bite, or injury where topicals can support smoother-looking skin but cannot remodel deeper scar tissue.

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  Sebaceous Filaments

  Sebaceous filaments are normal pore structures, not dirt.

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  Single Pimple

  Single Pimple describes one inflamed blemish that someone wants to look smaller quickly without squeezing or damaging the skin.

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  Skin Purging

  Skin Purging describes a temporary flare pattern that can happen when exfoliating acids or retinoid-like products speed movement of existing microcomedones toward the surface.

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  Skin Sagging

  Skin Sagging describes looser-looking skin where elasticity, support structure, sun exposure, age, and weight changes overlap.

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  Skin Sensitivity

  Skin Sensitivity describes a visible or comfort-related skincare concern.

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  Skin Texture

  Skin Texture describes a visible or comfort-related skincare concern.

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  Slugging Breakouts

  Slugging Breakouts describes the clogged-looking bumps and small whiteheads some acne-prone users notice after layering a heavy occlusive over a routine that was already too rich or fragranced for the skin.

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  Smile Lines

  Smile Lines describes creases around the mouth that become more visible with expression, volume change, dryness, and sun-related skin aging.

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  Strawberry Legs

  Strawberry legs is a consumer term for dark-looking or dotted-looking follicles on the legs.

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  Sun Damage

  Sun Damage describes a visible or comfort-related skincare concern.

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  Sunscreen Pilling

  Sunscreen Pilling describes small rolled bits of sunscreen or skincare film that form when layers do not set, absorb, or sit together cleanly.

• Sun Sensitivity

  Sun Sensitivity describes skin that is more vulnerable to UV-triggered redness, darkening, stinging, or visible damage during certain routines or after exfoliation.

• Temporary Tightening Residue

  Temporary Tightening Residue describes white cast, flaking, tight film, or makeup disruption from instant-tightening products.

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  Thin Eye-Area Skin

  Thin Eye-Area Skin describes the naturally delicate, thin, mobile skin around the eyelids and under-eyes.

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  Thin, Fragile Mature Skin

  Thin, Fragile Mature Skin describes skin that looks thinner, tears more easily, or feels less resilient with age, cumulative UV exposure, medicines, dryness, and health factors.

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  Tired-Looking Eyes

  Tired-Looking Eyes is a cosmetic appearance pattern where the eye area looks worn out, shadowed, puffy, dry, or textured even when someone feels rested.

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  Turkey Neck

  Turkey Neck is a consumer term for loose under-chin or front-neck skin that creates soft vertical folds or a wattle-like look.

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  Under-Eye Bags

  Under-eye bags are the visible fullness or pouch-like look beneath the lower eyelids.

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  Under-Eye Concealer Creasing

  Under-Eye Concealer Creasing describes concealer collecting in fine lines or looking cakey under the eyes because thin skin, movement, dryness, puffiness, hollows, product load, and powder interact.

• Under-Eye Dryness

  Under-Eye Dryness describes tight, crepey, or flaky-looking dryness around the eyes that can make lines and makeup texture look more obvious.

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  Under-Eye Hollows

  Under-Eye Hollows are sunken-looking, shadowed, or grooved contours beneath the eyes, often around the tear-trough area.

• Under-Eye Wrinkles

  Under-Eye Wrinkles describes fine or deeper lines under the eyes where thin skin, dryness, sun exposure, expression movement, and age-related change overlap.

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  Uneven Skin Tone

  Uneven skin tone is a patchy or inconsistent facial tone appearance that can overlap with dullness, dark spots, facial hyperpigmentation, and post-acne marks.

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  Upper-Arm Laxity

  Upper-Arm Laxity describes loose or crepey-looking upper-arm skin where dryness, sun damage, weight change, and structural laxity can overlap.

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  Vertical Lip Lines

  Vertical Lip Lines describes fine or etched lines around the lip border, sometimes called smoker lines, that are shaped by expression, sun exposure, dryness, and skin aging.

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  Vitamin C Irritation

  Vitamin C irritation is the stinging, burning, redness, or tight feeling some people get from vitamin C products.

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  Weak Skin Barrier

  Weak Skin Barrier describes skin that feels unusually reactive, tight, flaky, stingy, or slow to recover after cleansing or active products.

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  Whiteheads

  Whiteheads describes closed clogged pores that appear as small white or flesh-colored bumps under the skin surface.

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  Workout Breakouts

  Workout breakouts are acne-like bumps that appear or feel worse around exercise, sweating, tight gear, helmets, straps, makeup, sunscreen, hair products, or delayed cleansing.

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  Wrinkles

  Wrinkles describes a visible or comfort-related skincare concern.

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  Wrinkles Around The Mouth

  Wrinkles Around The Mouth describes fine lines, vertical lip lines, smile lines, and lower-face folds that show up around a highly mobile area.