Is it just me?

For me, when I'm not doing anything to improve my appearance, I look decent.
But whenever I take steps to try and improve a minor flaw, it all blows up and looks disgusting.

Like my skin for instance- I had nearly perfect clear skin up until this year, when I decided I needed to take care of one tiny pimple. So, I started washing my face with an assortment of fancy creams, and now my face looks like a minefield. Lovely.

Then, my cuticles. I didn't even know what cuticles were until I joined MUA (curse that day.. I've been draining my bank account ever since), but ever since then I've been really nitpicky about them. They were fine for awhile, but now they've developed into a battlefield of hangnails, dryness, and overall ickness that no amount of cuticle butter can seem to fix.

What to do, what to do?