What is your skin type? - Dr. Divya Sharma

I would rather say that there are two ways to decide what kind of skin one has. One, assess how do you feel when you get up in the morning, does your skin feel dry or flaky that indicates it is dry. Do you feel a slick layer of oil around your nose or what you call as the T-zone forehead, nose and around the chin, with your cheeks normal to dry, that would be a combination skin. Or do you feel that the skin is very oily. The first thing that I want you to do when you get up in the morning is to wash it, probably it comes in the oily skin type. Last but not the least there is a sensitive skin type where the patient feels like the skin is red and itchy right away in the morning. Second way to assess your skin is wash your face, wait for half an hour. Do not apply any cream or moisturiser. If your skin still feels dry after half an hour of washing phase it is the dry skin type. If you feel no doctor, another half an hour after washing face my face starts secreting oil then probably it is the oily skin type or doctor I only see oil in the T-zone of my face, probably it is the combination skin type. If you feel that after half an hour of washing your face, your face is inflamed, red or blotchy the probably it is the sensitive skin type.