No, you don?t need to give up beauty for nine months? you just need a few baby tweaks.

Pregnancy is many things: a wondrous feat of nature, an incredible ode to the female body, an almost comically magical time of skin-stretching and out of control cleavage and thinking you couldn?t possibly get any bigger?but next minute, you have no ankles. Magical. 
But one thing it?s not is a fun beauty time. Same goes for breastfeeding. Aside from the melasma, Sahara-esque dryness, hormonal acne and postpartum bum fluff, there?s a whole lot of confusion around what you can and can?t use. Hell, I am pregnant and I?m still confused (that could be pregnancy brain though). So I brought in the big guns: Dr. Michele Squire, pHD scientist, science educator and founder of QR8, and Tegan Natoli, co-founder of Bump Day Spa to help clear up all those pregnancy and breastfeeding skin questions.
The Good, The Bad And The Hormones
The hormones. Oh man, the hormones! It?s like a highly emotional demon has taken over your soul, forcing you to cry because you had to wait too long for coffee/ it was too hot/ you realised that you actually wanted tea. And those same crazytown hormones are also responsible for some epic changes in your skin, hair, nails, gums and even sweat glands? because as it happens, it takes quite a lot to grow (and feed) a human. 
Cute Pregnancy And Postpartum Skin Conditions

(That Are Actually Total Jerks)
Melasma:
Pigmentation, particularly melasma, occurs in up to 75 per cen...