There's usually one week a month where you feel more like yourself. More energy, easier workouts, quicker with words, quicker to say yes to plans, and you feel your prettiest. For a lot of women, that week is ovulation, and your skin is caught up in the same shift. This is part three of our skin cycle series. If you missed part one on the luteal phase and part two of the follicular phase, start there so the full picture makes sense. Your skin doesn't behave the same way every

There is a stretch in your cycle, usually right after your period ends, where your skin just cooperates. The texture is smoother. The dullness from last week is gone. You look a little more awake without doing anything differently. If you have ever chalked that up to good luck or drinking more water, it is time to give credit where it is due. Your hormones are doing that. Specifically, you are in your follicular phase, and your skin is thriving because of it. This is part two

The week before your period, your skin starts acting like it has its own agenda You know the feeling. Your skin was behaving, maybe even glowing, and then out of nowhere you've got a breakout on your chin, your face feels oilier by 2pm, and products that worked fine last week are suddenly irritating you. If this happens like clockwork before your period, you're not imagining it and it's not bad luck. It's your luteal phase, and most people have been told to fight it with stro