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Facial skin is red, ive had redness for years, but now is getting severely worse?

I am fair skin, I have always had a slight red tint to my facial skin compared to my neck.  Which I think is somewhat normal, but over the past few years it has become so bad that even makeup cannot hide the redness.  (I had 2 different certified makeup artists tell me something else is going on, that they cannot cover it appropriately)  It is embarrassing to have a face that doesn't match the rest of my skin, especially when my kids can point it out, or if someone asks if I am ok. (I hear public comments from strangers about how my makeup doesn't match my skin, etc).  I have tried gentle products, organics, different makeups, vitamins, red reducing chemical peels, and red reducing product lines.  I do not have Rosacea, rashes, bumps, or dry skin.  It just looks like normal skin but just red, like windburn or a sunburn.  I eat a healthy diet as well.  I just don't know what else to do.  My husband even went to the extremes of buying a spray tan machine to help try to spray my neck to match my face a bit more. But after a year of that, it can't keep up and just looks bad.  I don't have the means to keep financially dumping money into something that has no answers.  Any ideas or help would be much appreciated.  
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The first thing that comes to mind is Rosacea which you say you don't have.  My advice is to visit with a dermatologist, if you have not done so already.  
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