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Sensitive

Those who’ve enjoyed a long life, fair skin, delicate skin. Or, more extreme redness, bumps, scaling, itching, and burning—the hallmarks of sensitive and reactive skin. It’s usually triggered by contact allergies or an underlying symptom of something else—rosacea. Does your skin turn red in response to environmental triggers, like stress, the sun, caffeine, hot beverages, spicy food, or alcohol?

Your skin may be sensitive.

If you happen to be the rare human who uses their cell phone to—gasp—talk, then examine the screen after you hang up. Do you see a greasy film? Then congratulations! You have oily skin. Another way to tell whether you have oily skin is if your skin gets progressively shinier or greasier as the day wears on. And your pores will look bigger too, oh joy....

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Oily

Tightness? Flaking? Hello and welcome to dry skin. It just feels uncomfortable…all of the time. The key to figuring out if you have dry skin has to do with how it feels in the morning. If you wake up with flaking or tautness, and you tend to feel like you need thicker creams to keep your skin feeling normal, you probably belong right here.

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Dry

Your T-zone is usually the oily area, and the circumference of your face and cheeks are usually drier. To make this even more complicated, when your cheeks naturally get drier in the winter and you reach for a thicker cream to help them out, your T-zone becomes extra oily and greasy. The reverse happens in the summer—when you dial down your moisturizers for a T-zone that’s less slick, the rest of your face gets dehydrated.

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Combination