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Friday, February 24, 2017

What Does Having Acne Teach Me

source : RD.com

When I enrolled to university I would never imagine to have growing acne on my face – because I never had such in my life. My face skin was a normal one, with common hormonal acne problem that only struck once period comes. Later on, after 2 or 3 months freshmen year passed, acne started popping out from my face like mushroom.

A real horrifying mushrooms.

At first it grew on certain areas alternately, such as the middle part of my cheeks then it went to chin, as well as forehead and nose. Quickly in a month my face changed into a field full of acnes. Since it was this reddish tomato type of acne – papules and pustule – later on I found it was not easy to be covered by typical drugstore foundation or BB Cream I had at home.

Irritating. At one day it appeared to be this small zit, but at the other days it could be disgustingly red pimples with this yellowish, liquid pus at the center of it.

Long short story, I have tried everything people shared out there to deal with this acne problems – fixing cleansing habit, changing pillow’s sheet, using only natural ingredients on my skincare regime – all hacks you can mention, I have done it all. Some worked, some not. Those which worked kept staying as my skincare routine up to date, and those which not should be left behind since it did nothing but irritating my skin.

During that long war, fighting back zit that still coming up to today, I have learned several precious experiences that left deep impression to me. Some of them are :