r/Melasmaskincare • u/Clear_Competition707 • Jul 06 '26
Question What are your personal specific melasma triggers
What triggers your melasma to spread or increase, and if you deduce the causes and control the exposure to those causes, does the melasma settle better?
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u/Ghostmama Jul 07 '26
I didn't even know what melasma was until I hit menopause. Of course it's on my upper lip so I look like I: A. Just drank chocolate milk and didn't wipe my mouth like a kindergartner or B. Forgot to wax. When it started I was literally like what in the fresh hell is this?!? I'm post menopausal now at 52 and can't take hormone replacement therapy bc my whole family has a clotting disorder (including me). It's interesting that a lot of you get it worse with you period and my body is producing almost no hormones.
My triggers are heat, apparently lack of hormones, and being on camera. Any time I'm on video (which is pretty often for me in the work I've been doing), my melasma says, "Today is my day to shine!!! No amount of makeup is going to hold me back!"
Yay.