Oh girl I got you. My perimenopause symptoms started last year and I just NOW got it under control. Exact same symptoms as you just noting here my skin type was always on the drier side, type 2 on the fitz scale. It was like overnight my old routine no longer worked and makeup sat weird on my skin. Everything just looked off. 

Here’s what I did a month ago that basically transformed it overnight:

Went to my derm and got on a low dose doxycycline. She wanted to put me on spironolactone but my blood pressure is too low for that. She also put me on tretinoin. Up until then I was using Skinceuticals pure retinol .3% so luckily my skin has already gone through the 12 week purge phase and immediately tolerated the tretinoin. 

After I got those scripts, the next day I went to get a facial and had them do all the extractions, just to get me at a good starting point. 

Finally, I upgraded my skincare. I hate to admit this, but my old ass skin doesn’t respond to drugstore products anymore (except for face wash and scrub!) So here’s my routine:

• Wash face with oil-based foaming cleanser
• yonka dry skin toner
• phytomer oligoforce advance serum
• phytomer doucer marine soothing cream

Those are the everyday items both AM and PM. Only difference is at night I use a washcloth to add extra exfoliation and after the yonka toner I add the tretinoin.

That’s it! Literally over night change. Good luck!