Discover Your Skin Type & Condition

Skin Types & Conditions

After reading the description, please comment if you already knew your skin type or if the descriptions helped you discover how you actually have a different skin type and/or condition than you thought you had.

💚 NORMAL SKIN

Normal skin is healthy-looking skin with a smooth texture. It contains a balance of oil and moisture and has infrequent blemishes or clogged pores. When properly cared for, lines and wrinkles are less likely to form on this type of skin until later in life.

💜 DRY SKIN

Dry skin is characterized by small pores and a matte (dull) finish with little or no superficial oil or shine. Expression lines are quick to form on dry skin, especially around the eyes and mouth. Dry skin is more common as you age, or if you live in low-humidity climates. Women who don’t take care of their skin can also develop dry skin.

❤️ OILY SKIN

When the sebaceous glands produce too much oil, it results in skin with a shiny appearance. Oily skin is also characterized by having larger pores than other skin types, and it is more prone to clogged pores and blemishes. Oily skin may tend to wrinkle less readily than drier skin types because oil on the skin’s surface helps the upper layers of the skin retain water. The oil also helps protect the skin from environmental causes of dryness.

💞 COMBINATION SKIN

Combination skin is healthy-looking skin with a smooth texture and some oiliness in the T-zone areas (the area forming a “T” across the forehead and down the nose and chin) with some signs of dryness on the cheeks and outer edges of the face. When properly cared for, lines and wrinkles are less likely to form on this skin type until later in life.

💕 BLEMISH-PRONE SKIN

Blemish-prone skin is a remarkably common skin condition. While many adolescents may experience acne, this condition also can appear for the first time in adults in their 20s, 30s or even later in life.

💗 SENSITIVE SKIN

Sensitive Skin is defined as skin easily irritated by topically applied products or environmental factors. Look for Mary Kay products that say, “suitable for sensitive skin”. The claim was substantiated by clinical tests which showed that these products are suitable for sensitive skin.

💙 ROSACEA

A chronic and often progressive skin disease characterized by redness and acne-like lesions over the cheekbones and nose. Over-the-counter acne medications are not suitable for treating rosacea. This medical condition should be treated by a physician.

💛 ACNE

Acne is a skin condition consisting of blemishes (blackheads, whiteheads, pimples, or cysts), which is a result of a build-up of bacteria, oils, and keratin proteins in hair follicles, and pores on the skin. 

🤎 MELASMA

A brown to grayish-brown skin discoloration. It usually appears on the forehead, cheeks, chin, and above the upper lip. Although it can affect anyone, melasma is particularly common in women, especially pregnant women and those who are taking oral/patch contraceptives or hormone replacement therapy (HRT) medications.

🧡 SUN DAMAGE

The effects of overexposure to the skin of the sun’s dangerous UVA and UVB rays. This includes sunspots (dark spots), uneven skin tone, and wrinkles.

🥰 MILIA

Benign, hard, white bumps on the skin. The cysts are composed of keratin and form beneath the surface of the skin.

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