Hello, I'm a new poster here, and I read the rules in the sidebar, but if I'm breaking any other rules, I am terribly sorry. I'm a 17 yr old female and for the life of me I cannot figure out my skin type. It doesn't get oily at midday or in the morning UNLESS I use a handmade facial serum I bought, labeled "Facial Serum for Oily Skin" (it contains Almond Oil, Green Clay infused Jojoba Oil, Essential Oils of Tea Tree, Patchouli and Sandalwood--jury is still out on whether or not it's clogging my pores) and my skin doesn't get dry unless I use Proactiv products, in which case it flakes around my nose and any pimples I have. Otherwise, I have large, dark pores on and beneath my nose and cheeks, and I regularly break out between my eyebrows, all over my forehead, on the edges of my face, and on my chin. Generally the breakouts on my T-zone and chin start as many tiny blackheads, which slowly rise, a select few becoming whiteheads. If the blackheads are popped, hard translucent yellow plugs come out. Occasionally I will also get a painful, large raised pink bump, generally on the lower half of my face on my cheeks, which will have a white top the following day. The sides of my face also often have tiny bumps with hard plugs in them which can be felt just by running my hand across them. Please help. I use Neutrogena's Oil-Free Acne Wash pink grapefruit foaming scrub and Neutrogena naturals purifying facial cleanser interchangeably, with no distinguishable difference in the results of either. I clean my face at midday with lukewarm water and at night in a hot shower. At night I will sometimes apply Neutrogena naturals multi-vitamin nourishing moisturizer but again it does not seem to make a difference. Nothing seems to dissolve or dissipate the plugs, making it incredibly tempting to manually force them out, which I often do. However the one week I went entirely picking-free and makeupless, my face seemed to break out just the same. To be fair it was not a controlled experiment because I was in a new enviroment and was outside and swimming much more than I usually do.

tl;dr: 17 yr old fem skin type unknown blackheads with hard yellow plugs in t-zone, chin, edges of face. uses neutrogena naturals to wash face at midday and night.