Steps:

      1. Clean your skin in the usual way

      2. Tone and moisture as you do every day

      3. After an hour, settle down with a good mirror in very strong light - preferably sunlight and take a close look at the skin all over your face. Note the skin around your eyes, the size of the pores, the amount of oil-shine, the skin on your forehead, the skin on your nose. Then check to see which category you fit into.

      4. Once skin type is determined, find the correct products to use

Categories of skin:

1. Normal skin
2. Dry skin
3. Very dry skin
4. Oily skin
5. Problem skin
6. Mature skin
7. Sensitive skin
8. Combination skin
   

1. Smooth and firm to touch
2. Pores are barely noticeable, except on the central panel, where they may be slightly larger
3. Not particularly oily or dry
4. A few expression lines around mouth, eyes, and perhaps on throat
5. Skin has a slight glow, translucence, looks healthy
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1. Fine texture
2. Lines around eyes, mouth, chin
3. Skin may have a taut feeling
4. Skin hardly ever breaks out
5. Skin is quite fair, flaky, thin, not shiny
6. Skin always burns (if not protected)
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1. Dry flaky appearance
2. Lines around eyes, mouth, chin
3. Pores are almost invincible
4. Skin feels loose, saggy
5. Skin "drinks-up" moisture and cream
6. Skin always burns (if not protected)
7. Never has blemishes
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1. Shine starts to appear after cleansing
2. Large pores, especially around the nose, chin, forehead
3. Few facial lines
4. Occasional blemishes, may have black heads or white heads
5. Skin is supple, firm
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1. Skin is continually breaking out
2. Blemishes and scars
3. Pores are enlarged (chin, nose, forehead)
4. Skin may have a muddy, gray appearance
5. Spots seem to be slow to heal
6. Skin may be very oily or very dry (surface)
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1. Neck may look "creepy"
2. Muscle around eye, mouth, and beneath jaw tend to sag
3. Burns easily (if not protected)
4. Texture is rough, flaky (if not moisturized constantly)
5. Deep lines around mouth, crows-feet around eyes, puffiness above/below eyes
6. Lines across forehead
7. Skin has lost elasticity
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1. Skin dry
2. Tiny veins show through cheeks, nose
3. Skin has lines, flaky
4. Sensitive to cold, heat, and wind
5. Sensitive to perfume products
6. Unable to use astringent
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1. Pores large around the nose, chin, forehead (T-zone) and pores are barely noticeable
   on the cheeks
2. Smooth and firm to touch
3. Occasional blemishes, may have blackheads on the central panel (T-zone)
4. A few expression lines around mouth, eyes, throat
5. Shine starts to appear on "T-zone" after cleansing