Murad Rapid Age Spot and Pigment Lightening Serum

Hey everyone!!

Can you guys believe that it's already almost the new year?

What's everyone doing this year?

I'll be staying home because I live in a total tourist trap city.

When I first moved here a few years ago and New Years eve came I was fucking stoked to go out but it all quickly changed into the worst New Years eve ever.

They block off freeway exits and main streets starting around 5pm which makes getting anywhere super difficult (including work and home) but at this time you're still pumped so walking 10 blocks (the closest the taxi can get you) doesn't seem that bad, but once it's 3-4am and you're shitfaced and tired, SURPRISE you're gonna need some good luck getting home, after walking another what feels like 100 miles to an unclosed off area for a taxi or uber (ha forget it), tashousands of others have also migrated to these areas in a drunken panic too. Hotels book months in advance for NYE here and obviously go way up in price so that's not an option and if you do happen to find one it'll cost you an arm, a leg, and your future first born son (lol).

We queued for a taxi and it was a 5 hour minimum wait, after maybe 3-4 hours of mindlessly loitering around a hotel luckily a friend whom had just gotten off work came and picked us up around 7am.

Obviously the in between time was fun but in my opinion not worth the huge hassle that the night turned into.

Needless to say I will never go out on New Year's eve here again.

Today is a skincare post because my skin hates me.

When it gets cold the lower half of my face gets very dry and I get dry patches which causes discoloration marks on my face because my skin is sensitive to marking.

This happens every year and I knew it was coming *cries *.

In a previous post (Night time Skincare Routine) I spoke about a spot lightening serum I was using and since I was preparing for my skin to turn on me, I had the brilliant idea to switch my lightening serum.

My logic was that if I switched to something stronger before my dry patches that I could prevent the dark spots from ever happening *eye roll*.

So today we're talking about the Murad Rapid Age Spot and Pigment Lightening Serum ($60).

I have heard a lot praise regarding this serum and actually this whole brand to be honest.

When I read that this serum shows significant improvements in only one week, that's pretty much what convinced me that I needed this serum.

I used the Murad Rapid Age Spot and Pigment Lightening Serum for 6 weeks.

(left side of my face & breakouts from this product)
FYI: I know you can't see the smaller white bumps but you can see the larger red breakouts on my skin and this is also a week after I stopped using it, it was much worse.

I went into this very optimistic, maybe too optimistic I was literally expecting rainbow rays to shoot out of my freaking face based around the crazy good reviews pretty much everywhere.

After about a week maybe a week and a half of daily use, I noticed small bumps everywhere that I applied this (lower half of face).

I do not have sensitive skin, my skin is only sensitive in the sense that it marks and scars easily and the only time I get a break out is around my period.

At first I blamed it on P.M.S. but as the days and weeks passed the bumps never went away and actually got progressively worse.

I told myself maybe my skin just had to get used to this super strong serum and that I should just stick with it a little longer and see.

By the sixth week when I had enough and called it quits I had far surpassed the small bumps and now looked as though I had a bad acne breakout, the worst part is that it didn't even lighten any of the spots on my face and now I have new marks from the reaction to this product as well. My skin is also drier than ever before.
(right side of my face & breakouts from this product)
FYI: I know you can't see the smaller white bumps but you can see the larger red breakouts on my skin and this is also a week after I stopped using it, it was much worse.

I could looked past the breakouts if it really was just my skin “getting used to it” and would have went away after a week or so.

I even could have looked past the intense drying effects had the serum actually done what it was supposed to do.

(chin & breakouts from this product)
In this picture you can see my pigmentation marks on my chin that aren't very dark yet this product still didn't work on them.
FYI: I know you can't see the smaller white bumps but you can see the larger red breakouts on my skin and this is also a week after I stopped using it, it was much worse.

I know that we all have different skin types and reactions to products and normally I would say, “Hey, although this made ME break out, it really does work and you might like it".

Fuck all that with this Murad Rapid Age Spot and Pigment Lightening Serum, because not only did this make me break out, this did not lighten any of the spots on my face at all not even a little bit and they weren't even as bad as they used to be because my previous serum lightened them significantly.

I'm now in the process of nurturing my skin back to normal, I went back to my regular lightening serum about a week ago and my skin breakouts are about 50% healed.
The pictures above are current taken today at 50% healed.

Would I recommend this? No.

The Murad Rapid Age Spot and Pigment Lightening Serum broke me out really bad but more importantly it also didn't lighten any of the pigmentation spots and marks on my face and they're not even very dark, plus I gave it a whopping 6 weeks which is more than enough time to see some kind of improvement.

I would instead recommend you try the

Olay Regenerist Luminous Tone Perfecting Treatment ($12.99)

Have you used the Murad Rapid Age Spot and Pigment Lightening Serum?
Let me know your results in the comments below or on my social media.

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Murad Rapid Age Spot and Pigment Lightening Serum

Olay Regenerist Luminous Tone Perfecting Treatment