Seborrheic dermatitis. Cortisone cream to treat. I've had some luck with pyrithione zinc (active ingredient in most dandruff shampoos) soap to keep it from coming back.
I have this and it is exactly how mine looks too. It also clears up generally within a couple of days after I shave. I also get it on my scalp and on my sternum, which I think is common with it.
Hate to break it to the OP, but keeping myself cleanly shaved has helped a lot with keeping it off the face. I still get it occasionally on my sternum like you.
Definitely some form of fungal skin infection. If the ketoconazol shampoo doesn't work talk to a skin doctor for some anitfungal pills. It'll clear up in a few weeks.
I'll tell ya the secret sauce. It's so we can easily filter out people like you in public without having to start a conversation. I like what I like, and don't give a shit what others find presentable.
Sincerely,
Some dude with non-standard head hair and facial hair.
Nah. You're not photoshopping a six pack on yourself. You're just removing a temporary mark that isn't part of your regular look. It's making the photo more representative of your true every day appearance.
Lean all in, wear an old civil war uniform (ideally Union but if you want some of that southern strange you could go Confederate) and work on your thousand mile stare. It's like peacocking!
It'll attract someone. (But I won't be held responsible for the type of someone).
I seem to recall there was a kids' game with faces split in three, and you could spin to make different ones with different parts? Don't they have those on plastic barrels at some playgrounds?
You should find one of those playgrounds, print this picture out, and stick it on one of the plastic barrels.
If you use to have lot of flake it might be seborrheic dermatitis it's mostly give a lot of weird yellow flake but if i shave the skin under the flake look like that
I get that after having a beard and using my CPAP, I think it's pressure sores. I use some dandruff shampoo on my skin and it clears up in about a week.
I have a long beard. I would not be able to have a beard without using dandruff shampoo on it at least 3 times a week. I make sure to use beard oil right after to maintain moisture though.
That depends on your skin type and the cause of the blemish. Test it on your arm first before slathering it straight on to your face.
Once I started keeping pure isopropyl alcohol (99.9%) around the house to use in several hobbies, I quickly gained some deep respect for it's magical properties and it's ability to dry anything it touches. Diluted or not, I don't look at the stuff the same way anymore.
(Also of note, rubbing alcohol is isopropyl and aftershave is typically ethanol.)
Hopefully it's just really bad razor burn, but it could be anything. I'm in poor health right now for non-skin related reasons, but it could definitely have an effect there. We'll have to see.
Either way, it annoyed me that I went from "I'll make myself look presentable" to "well, so much for that idea" just because I did the thing you're supposed to do in order to look more presentable.
Staph and strep infections are more common than you think, they live on healthy human skin after all, and usually no sign to be alarmed. Whenever you get a pustule or redness, it's probably staph.
Warning signs to watch out for are intense itchiness, affected skin feeling very different to the touch (usually rough or leathery), browning or rapidly growing red patches and a stinging, pulsating pain.
I had a really bad strep infection in my leg in 2023, caused by an infectious a wound that I repeatedly scratched due to itching, and it hurt so much that even just moving the leg into an upright position would cause pain that made me see stars. I have before/after pics from my leg at that time if you want.
Source: had cellulitis from jumping into rocks in the James river. Was admitted to the hospital twice and was released on 9/11 because they thought the hospital would be inundated with victims of the pentagon attack
I used to get something similar under my beard/mustache. I'll use a tiny bit of this shampoo periodically and it controls it quite well (assuming it's fungal). Head and Shoulders might work too.
https://a.co/d/2nMo1nH
I get beardruff sometimes too but it's usually bc my skin's dry and dandruff shampoo just dries it out further. Try moisturizing your face more regularly with cream or aloe or the like. If I let my beard get long it's more difficult to moisturize properly and I'll sometimes have patches like that when I shave. Usually clears up in a day though after some aloe.
I wish my beard grew that long, but it never wants to, I'm a little envious. You might benefit from one of those heated beard brushes that smooth out the hair. I got one but my beard refuses to grow in long enough for it to matter.