Couperose causes those small red blood vessels on the facial skin.
Couperose is a harmless, but sometimes disfiguring, skin condition that mainly occurs in women over the age of 30. The blood vessels in the epidermis become weaker and wider. They can give your face a red glow. Causes are heredity, excessive UV radiation, fair skin, temperature fluctuations and/or alcohol consumption. Excessive use of corticosteroid creams can also be the cause. Couperose is often associated with rosacea. Although the two skin problems can occur together, they are two different conditions.
You can reduce rosacea, but unfortunately there is (yet) no medicine that cures it definitively. Read here what you can do to keep rosacea under control.
