Having lived most of my life as a male I've pretty much neglected my skin, and never really learned how to take care of it. Same for my lips, I have a nervous habit of peeling dead skin off of my chapped lips. (I always avoided using petroleum products on my lips because someone told me they were bad for you - the more you used them, the more you needed to keep using them, like an addiction).
As a result, my facial texture is not terrible, but it's kind of rough, with big pores, oil spots, the occasional acne scar and so on. Again, none of this mattered to me when I was presenting myself as male - males are supposed to look 'craggy' (how else would someone like Robert Mitchum be considered a sex symbol?)
Now that I'm trying to present as female, I find that my ignorance of these matters is daunting - I hardly know where to start. Yes, there is a lot of information online, but 99% of that is people trying to sell you something that you possibly don't need. Go to any high-end hair salon and one of the things you'll quickly notice is that they get a commission for pushing "product".
So I would be interested in advice on starting a regimen of care for both my face and my lips. I figure the folks here aren't going to be biased or have an agenda. I only request that the daily routine not be too onerous, I'm not sure I want to add a lot of extra overhead.
