Vips, I’d recommend you start with Paula’s Choice Skin Balancing Super Antioxidant Concentrate Serum With Retinol a couple of nights a week. Don’t exfoliate on nights you use it.

Ally, it’s not too early. But if your skin is sensitive, use only a very small %.

Thanks so much for your blogs. They are such a great help, I must admit I got hooked to skincare only after bumping into one of your posts on FB. I have started using a vitamin c serum (art naturals) and follow it up with accure vitamin c cream in the daytime when I am indoors or their sunscreen when I have to step out. In the night time, I use the same art naturals c serum and follow it up with acure whipped night cream which is a peptide cream. I also use Pacifica’s glycolic acid with vitamin c serum along with a moisturiser once a week usually in the night. Doing just this for the past 2-2.5 months has helped my skin. I feel its a lot smoother now. I am 37. I want to incorporate retinol into my schedule now – do you have any recommendations?
PS: even though I have an oily skin with large pores and sunspots coz of years of neglect paula’s choice 2% salicylic acid did not work for me (made my skin rough and gave me a bunch of black spots) instead the glycolic acid makes my skin feel smoother.