I am a 20 year old university student (female) and I have had acne since secondary school, ~year 11.
I was one of those girls who had pretty clear skin in year 7, 8 and 9 and did not really care much about my skin. After year 9, I started to notice that I had oily skin and that during the day my nose would get really shiny -.-" This bothered me so I started using baby powder on my nose, which seemed to do the trick (LOL). However, soon without realising, my pores got clogged and I started getting blackheads and redness around my nose. To cover up the redness I bought my first ever concealer- Rimmel london cover concealer (I think this was the one).
It was a whole new world~ my small flaws were quickly covered and nobody could tell~ Soon I started to rely on it everyday and started to conceal more and more of my face. However, sadly I did not know the importance of washing makeup off properly and hygiene. As I did not wash my face properly and did not keep my my makeup clean, my face started to get break outs. This was all very new to me so all I knew was I had to conceal everything. This only lead to even more break outs and eventually at the end of year 10 and start of year 11 my face was full of spots. And the scary thing was, I didn't know why and what I could do about it.(I'll show you guys some scary photos in a few weeks, as they're at home and I am still in uni atm.)
So after that, obviously, I got scared and started researching about acne online. I also went to the GP (doctor's) who then provided me with some antibiotics (which I cant remember the names of anymore). I took antibiotics but also found out about acne.org online. So I ordered the whole regimen for acne.org (I was ready to risk anything as I had too many ugly ass spots on my face) and started using it as well. Ill talk about the regimen in more detail on another post, but basically it contained of a face wash, cream and moisturizer. They were all made specially to dry out your spots and killing the bacteria causing the spots- preventing new spots. The regimen made me into a flake monster -.- It was hard to put makeup on top of my flaky skin and to be honest everybody could tell I was going through really bad skin. It was a horrible time for me, where I lost a lot of my self confidence and even let it effect my mood, learning and social life.
Even after taking antibiotics and using the acne.org regimen my acne kept disappearing, leaving scars and then suddenly coming back all over again. It has been a loooooooong road for me with acne and finally I am on accutane (the strongest meds for acne) which I am hoping will help me get rid of my acne forever/at least a long time (pls gaaaaaad!!!).
So with this blog I wanted to share things I have gone through while having acne and things I have tried and tested. I think writing about the tough times I have had will also help me let go of my negative memories and turn them into positive ones. I hope I can help at lease one person with acne :)
Good luck!! and I'll write another post soon.
omg lol I could just be talking to myself if nobody reads my blog XD sad times. But its cool! I have my own BLOG yaaaaaaaay~~~~~ oh yeh~ oh yeh~
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