Our Clear Skin Journals are designed to help you understand your skin by tracking acne symptoms alongside the natural rhythm of your menstrual cycle. Observing your skin in relation to each cycle can provide valuable insight.

By aligning your tracking with the rhythm of your menstrual cycle, it becomes easier to observe patterns, recognise potential triggers, and gain a deeper understanding of what may be influencing your skin. Each journal is thoughtfully created to help you track these interconnected aspects in a structured and intuitive way.

Our Cycle Covers

Each Cycle Cover marks the beginning of a new menstrual cycle within your journal. Think of it as the home page for that cycle in your skin journey. It provides a clear starting point that connects the essential templates used throughout the cycle, helping you organise the many interconnected aspects of your skin. From this page, you can move seamlessly between each template. Each journal allows you to track up to twelve menstrual cycles, which is why every journal includes 12 Cycle Covers — one for each cycle.

Every Cycle Cover links to 16 intuitive templates, each designed to help you build a deeper awareness of your skin. Together, these templates create a structured system that allows you to track, reflect, and gradually develop a clearer understanding of how your skin responds throughout each menstrual cycle.

Understanding Your Cycle Cover Layout

Each Cycle Cover can be thought of as having “sections”, with templates organised according to how and when they are used throughout your skin journey.

Cycle Overview

Located at the top right corner, you will find a link to your Cycle Overview page. This is one of my favourite templates in our journals, as it’s the only section where you can visually see and compare each menstrual cycle side by side.

Every cycle has its own trend graph, which was intentionally designed to track whether you had a “good skin” or “bad skin” day — i.e. whether you experienced any acne symptoms that day.

The Cycle Overview brings these graphs together in one valuable section, giving you a clear visual representation of your skin patterns within each cycle, as well as a comparison over time.

Being able to compare consecutive cycles in one place is especially valuable when trying to understand hormonal acne. By spotting recurring patterns and shifts across cycles, you can gain insight into how your skin responds during different phases of your menstrual cycle and begin to identify potential triggers.

Cycle Essentials

This group of templates is designed to guide you throughout each individual menstrual cycle. These can be thought of as your core tracking pages, helping you record the key aspects of your skin and the factors that may influence it throughout the cycle.

These essential templates include:

· Intentions

· Cycle Planner

· Photo Progress

· Lifestyle Factors

· Skin Symptoms

· Cycle Symptoms

· Cycle Review

Together, these templates provide a consistent framework for observing how your skin changes throughout each menstrual cycle.

Daily Journal & Dietary Tracker

Next is your Daily Journal, which acts as your everyday tracking space. It includes 42 days of tracking, accommodating both shorter and longer menstrual cycles beyond the typical “28-day” cycle.

This template provides space to visually draw and document your skin symptoms each day, helping you observe how they change throughout your cycle.

Within the Daily Journal, the Dietary Tracker allows you to record the food and drinks you consume throughout the day. You can note the type of meal (breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, water or drink), the time, the contents, and any reactions you notice afterwards – which is especially helpful when identifying potential dietary triggers. There is also space to record any known triggers you may have consumed.

For example, as part of my skin healing journey, a Naturopath recommended a food intolerance test, which showed a moderate intolerance to gluten. Occasionally, I still choose to enjoy foods with gluten when with family and friends, so I make a note of this in my journal to observe whether it has any impact on my skin in the following days.

Over time, these daily entries build a valuable record, helping you connect small day-to-day changes with the larger patterns that appear across each menstrual cycle.

Skin Journey Essentials

The last group of templates are designed to support your broader skin journey. Unlike the cycle essential pages, these templates can be used whenever they are relevant to your experience.

They are especially helpful when you want to look more closely at the products you use, experiment with changes to your routine or habits, observe triggers and wins, track your skin’s response to treatments, and keep a record of the money you spend on your skin journey.

These templates include:

· Pore-Clogging Ingredients

· Skin Trials

· Skin Wins

· Skin Triggers

· Post-Treatment Observation

· Expense Tracker

· Additional Notes

These pages allow you to document the wider context of your skin journey, helping you capture insights that extend beyond a single menstrual cycle.

By grouping these templates within each Cycle Cover, everything related to that timeframe remains organised and easy to revisit. This structure allows you to view each menstrual cycle as its own chapter in your skin journey, while still keeping the bigger picture in sight.

Skin patterns often develop over weeks rather than days, making them difficult to recognise without a clear structure. Organising your tracking by cycle makes it easier to review specific time periods, compare patterns between cycles, and reflect on what may be influencing changes in your skin.

Having a central hub for each cycle keeps everything in one place, allowing you to move seamlessly between templates without losing track of where your observations belong.

Over time, this structure transforms daily observations into something more meaningful. As each cycle is completed, your journal becomes a visual timeline of your skin journey — helping you recognise patterns, understand potential triggers, and develop a clearer awareness of how your skin responds throughout each menstrual cycle.

My best wishes to you as you navigate your skin journey. Remember, you are beautiful, and you are worthy, always.

- Dana

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