Has anybody noticed that when we become flushed our face, (most notably) our cheeks become significantly rounder due to heat and inflammation. I find this bothers me the most, maybe even more then the redness itself, is how our faces seem to have that actual thickening of the skin right around our mouths/cheeks, in which our faces have that line, that actually makes us look fatter/ rounder then we really are. (it's like the look of a doll). I bring this topic up because I need to know does this bug any one else? I personally feel like an entirely different person when my skin is calm and cooled with only the light pinkish skin, because this is a far more natural complexion, when i get really stressed, or hot my face actually gets that tingling and is actually getting hotter, and feels like it's growing/rounding. This is the worst aspect of kprf to me. If anybody else feels the same way and you want to add on please feel free. or if you know what could even out this round complexion even under stress please let me know, thanks again.

yes i have this too. i know just what your talking about with the tingling of the cheeks. at that point you are just sitting and thinking, oh **** here we go again! I can't stand it. as for the roundness that seems to grow as the cheeks become more red, i suffer from the same thing. It is annoying but it doesn't nearly bother me as much as the redness. my cheeks turn to a slight maroon shade. anybody else?

Yep, maroon would be the shade alright. I hate it! But I'm finally learning to hate it not so much. It has kept me from experiencing many things in the past few years, and I'm always worried about my face turning really red in front of people, which it is almost all the time anyway.
My left cheek is worse that my right. I am suspecting that from driving and having sun exposure on that side. My left side is also the one that tingles the most when it becomes flushed.
I have had 3 IPL treatments but really didnt do anything for me at all! Have heard that others have been more sucessful and that's great to hear. I have resigned the fact that I will have red cheeks until I die. Could be worse I guess...right???

I have had anxiety attacks before from this and strangely one side of my face becomes super bright red and tingles on only one side, now the worst part of having a red face is when one side is redder then the other that just throws out a "hey look at me half my face is doscolored"(which is a symptom of normal anxeity attacks but because of KPRF it is like 20x more noticable) as far as what av8r is talking about one side being worse, same thing with me becuase i usually sleep on the left side of my face on the pillow it tingles more and is more likely to go red then the right side.

Yup, when I get stressed or whatever my face goes red and usually only on one side. Ive had KP for my whole life, im only 15 but its wrecking my social life and whatnot and my friends have boyfriends and im always just the friend who tags along and doesnt go to the parties cause its hot and embarissing, and i live in a small town and none of my friends have kp. i play soccer but then my face goes very red and its really embarassing and am always thinking oh god what does my face look like. But wearing my hair down makes everything look better.

My face is red all the time. But when my body temperature heats up due to anything my cheeks become SUPER RED. Also, when it is cold, my brother's KPRF almost seems to turn a light violet color; similar to that of a bruise.