About Oily Skin

Notice that your skin is shiny throughout the day? Is it slick to the touch? After touching your face, can you feel the oil between your fingertips? Does your face feel heavy? Does it make you look heavy?

“Yes?”

Then, you likely have extra oily skin.

Oily skin can look and feel unattractive. It may cause you to feel insecure and ultimately less confident going about your daily life.

While you can’t necessarily get rid of oily skin, you can take steps to make it look less oily-looking. The key is to identify what’s the root cause(s) of your oily skin. Then you’ll be able to treat it appropriately.

Here we present you with a focus group study¹ that reveals you’re not alone with your oily skin struggles – and how the effects of having oily skin go beyond skin deep…

As mentioned throughout this website, oily skin is a common occurrence. And because most people deem oily looking skin as unattractive, many are self-conscious about having such a shiny face.

It goes for both men and women:

For ages, we have been seeking solutions to eliminate oily skin. But, why? What makes oily-looking skin so unattractive? Here we’ll shed some light on the shiny faces.

Surprisingly, there are benefits of having oily skin. Sebum, the oil that your face produces, keeps you from looking 60 when you’re 26. It not only hydrates and lubricates but also protects your outermost skin (the epidermis) from the universe’s elements.

So, why is having oily looking skin considered unattractive by most people?

Wouldn’t having a gleaming face symbolize being a healthy, young stud or a fresh, fertile woman? Well, as you know, it’s the complete opposite.

There are physical and subsequent psychological reasons why oily skin is unattractive.

You’ve got the perfect outfit. Your hair is on its best day between haircuts, styled perfectly, and looking great from every angle. Your swag is smooth. Your posture is right – head up, chest out, shoulders back.

You’ve been watching every Aaron Marino alpha.m YouTube video, and are putting his tips to practice to look confident as can be for your hot evening date.

You do everything right. Yet, there’s one thing your face does that reveals your true nervousness. It kills your look of confidence. And it’s unfortunate because you can’t stop it from occurring.

A racing heartbeat, pumping blood vessels, tightened muscles, and dripping sweat is all well and good when needing to escape a hungry grizzly bear. But, when it comes to perceived fears, i.e., a first date, a job interview, a sales pitch, etc. your body reacts the same way.

Under stress or anxiety your body releases a flood of hormones, including the stress hormone cortisol. This prompts the sebaceous glands on your face to pump out oil (sebum), leaving your face looking greasy as a deep-fried turkey.

You can have the proper swag, smell good, use the perfect vocal tonality, and so on, but an oily, shiny face will make you look nervous and unconfident. It’s a clear tell that any human can notice.

Even if you’re sincerely confident, excessively oily skin will ruin it. It’s just not a good look.

There are several reasons why your face looks oily. One of them, obviously, is because it is oily. Other causes include sweat, the surrounding climate, humidity, touching your skin after eating a ham croissant sandwich, the generic lotion that you’re using, etc. But, for this article, we’re going to cover why your skin is, in fact, oily.

The oily skin condition is not out of the ordinary for men. The oil is called sebum, a substance produced by the sebaceous glands which primary function is to lubricate your skin and hair. But sometimes, there is an overproduction of sebum, which results in your excessively oily skin.