Breaks my confidence
- I am 13 and a half and I have had bad acne since about age 10 or 11. Its on my chin, under my nose, all over my forehead, and on the inner area of my cheeks surrounding my nose. I also have it on my back. This doesn't help because I'm a dancer and we wear pore clogging make up and wear revealing costumes. my best friend has perfect clear skin and she like starts crying about one little skin colored bump when I have huge red ones all over my face. I have literally tried every single acne medcine brand there is and nothing works. I just hate being ugly and I wish I could just get surgery to take them all off.
- —Guest Guest Mari
it goes
- My sister got acne when she was in year 5, and shes in year 12 now, her acne went in year 11, and its like literally all gone. Now im getting it really badly on my back, chest, stomach, part of my legs, neck and face. I know it ruins your self esteem, but if you get picked on people will stop as you grow up - im not joking, as people grow up they get all sensitive toward politics and cancer and illnesses, people will stick up for you :-) you can get tablets or cream from the doctors too.
- —Guest sdfghjklo
All I want is to be pretty!!
- You guys are calling yourselves ugly? You should be me. I look pale and sickly in the morning due to lack of sleep, i dont sleep, ever! Ive tried everything! When my face is pale, my pimples are red and so noticible. Im not really focused on pimples, because ive seen worse, but i do want them to go away. Try loreal go 360 clean with that little scrublet. It helps and use a scrub twice a week, i use it on Wednesday and Sunday. Im totally focused on my pale ugly face and im focused on sleeping. Trust me, ive tried everything in the book. These boys in my school act like they like me, but i know im too ugly for somebody to think im pretty, and last month, a girl in my class pretended that a boy liked me, and she and the boy fooled me at the end, and I said to myself that it was too good to be true. My mom wont let me fake tan, and even with that im nervous that ill do it crooked or put too much. Its stressful with an ugly face, all I want is to be pretty for once.
- —Guest Ashlyn
Sucks to suck
- I used to have beautiful clear skin and I used to be so confident about my skin. Then recently I started breaking out. I've tried so many products from clearasil to clean and clear. Nothing seems to be working. I drink lots of water a day and eat fruits instead of chips and junk. Still nothing. I just wish it would clear. No one else in my family gets it as bad as me and the the mirrors in the house make it worse for me and I just don't wanna be seen by my own family bc of this. idk why it happened or what it is but I hope it goes away soon:/
- —Guest Zeinab
Don't give up!
- I'm 14 years old and had acne for a good 3 years. I used to get bullied really badly or my acne, it made me so depressed and angry all the time. I was like a different person! My mum took me to the doctor and they firstly gave me a set of tablets which worked at first but when I started to wear makeup they came back again. So my mum took me back and I got given a set of tablets called Roaccutane. That one really worked! It does give you a lot of harsh side effects thought but it's different on everyone. Like me I didn't really suffer that bad from it. But seriously if you are suffering really bad from Acne, go to your doctor and ask them about this medication. Good luck :-)
- —Guest Lucy Amber
...is the comments
- These experiences happened 2 me Friends and i @ school @ lunch we were playing telephone, stuff about each other. My friend passed a telephone on that "lucy is a red-faced pimply girl hahaha" not. My friend & i were making our avatars on her Kinect, we were messing w/ skin colors & freckles & such, she says "Hey lucy they should make an option with pimples, just for you!" She has perfect skin. Ive been called "tomato" Was eating @ my cousins house, little cousin points at my face& exclaims REALLY LOUD "WHATS THAT GROSS STUFF ON UR FACE!? ITS LIKE BIG GROSS RED BUMPYNESS! EW!" that was a fun dinner. Friends brother after we went to the pool all 2gether: "woah...your whole face is like, sooo bumpy!" This bugged me especially, because he is MY AGE and doesnt know what acne is. Friends bday party, shes turning 13. Goes to one of those rich, preppy schools where everyones FLAWLESS, rolling in $, dates everyone else, lives in the suburbs etc. They stare at me.
- —Guest lucy(acne, acne, go away....)
Its so unfair!
- I hate having acne, its so horrible, it looks bad no matter if u put makeup on or not, it makes me feel unclean. The worst thing is when pretty girls stare at u and laugh knowing that they will hurt ur feelings! I hate it how my friends get to wake up at anytime and there skin looks amazing without washing it, no pores no spots and even skin, it annoys me when they moan about one spot and i have like a million little and big spots on my forehead, the cream from my doctors made my skin really dry and it has made my forehead wrinkly :( i am fed up i look back at pictures and i see amazing skin then i look at me now and think how did i get here. I hate being ethnic as well cos acne on brown skin tones causes dark uneven patches of skin it just annoys me. I dont feel normal i feel like a outcast a freak a loser. My friends say im pretty when really i know they are thinking eww im glad i dont look like her. When they speak to me i look at their eyes and they are staring at my spots :( .
- —Guest S
I hate acne
- I have had acne since i was about 14, I am now 20 and still have break outs but alot less. It totally put my confidence down, I used to go into school and just put my head on the desk and hope home time would hurry. It seemed like everything I tried did not work and I did not understand why my friends who ate alot unhealthier than me did not get them. I found anti-biotics from the doctor helped alot , however after a few months I became immune to them. I wish I had normal skin like a normal person but i guess thats life and you just have to deal with it.
- —Guest Tom
You are all beautiful
- I have the same problem as all of you. Okay i never get zits on my cheeks and my forehead and nose but i do get them around my mouth. That's really frustrating because i think it is the ugliest place to get, thats what i think. All of you guys are beautiful, from the outside but especially the inside. We all have to deal with this problem called acne, and thats just the way it is. I know what it feels like to avoid peoples eyes, avoid daylight, to be jealous and to hide in your room but there is just one thing you all most know. I dont think youre unattractive or ugly, i dont think you should hide in your room. I know thats just one person but hey ;P. Lots of love from rainy holland, xxxxxx i love everyone of you
- —Guest Mona
I Hate My Acne!
- I really hate acne. Some times I just imagine acne dying a slow, painfully death... OK im getting caried away. But really, all my friends have perfect everything hair, skin etc. And then me, with my puffy hair and acne!! It feels so unfair. But the worst are adults they stare at my face and ask "What are those red things on your face?" I really hate them! I'm just glad I'm not alone with this.
- —Guest Has Acne
Acne destroyed my confidence
- People tell me I'm beautiful but it's simply hard to believe them with all these scars all over my face. Purple and red all over my cheeks, my parents are starting to get pissed off and tell me I'm too self-conscious... They never experienced what I have. I want to feel pretty again but no matter what I do, every time I look in the mirror all I want to do is to break it into pieces and stab myself. I'm so ugly, I feel so insecure with all these flawless girls calling themselves ugly. They're beautiful, why do I have to be the ugly duckling?
- —Guest Pamela
I Remember...
- I remember the days when my only & worst worries were things like wondering how long my next shower was going to be, whether my nails were growing as fast as my friend's, if a few hairs of one of my eyebrows stuck up. Now everyday i wake up, turn off my alarm, & practically sprint to the mirror, wondering how bad my face, chest, & back shoulders are. Living with acne is h*ll, & all of us here know that. Probably half of you, like me, have spent about $150 on crappy products promising perfection. All of my friends have flawless skin, and they try to sympathize, i hate it. Ive gone benzoyl peroxide, SA, AHAs, tried natural, increased my water intake by about 80%, my green tea intake by 200%, i make sure to eat at least 2 servings of fruit/veg per day, & exercise, & take vitamins. It is the end of the world when you look around you and you're the only one. When/if i have kids, I am going to do all this for them AND MORE, even if they DONT have acne, just as a preventory measure. Good luck.
- —Guest 12 year old tomato
You Are Beautiful No Matter What
- Listen, guys, someone is going to love us even if we have acne. People aren't going to stop being our friends over it. I know you all think you're ugly when you look at yourselves in the mirror, and trust me I think I can be as well. It depletes self esteem so so much but you know what? I think people who have acne have it for a much deeper reason. Maybe its to make us realize having bad skin isn't the worst thing in the world. There are so many bigger things going on in the world. And here we all are, feeling sorry for ourselves over our skin. It will get better for all of us but right now there is nothing we can do so we all may as well smile and be happy when we look at our reflections in the mirror. You know what I do? That makes me feel absolutely awesome? I go to barnes and noble and I leave random notes in the books with my friend. When I get to the skin section full of books I leave a few telling people they are beautiful even if they have acne. You're all beautiful too.
- —Guest justanothergirl
I Cry
- When I have breakouts, I cry. Makeup covers it. But I feel like I'm hiding. I don't want to hide anymore.
- —Guest Heyimsad
Need to get rid of acne now!
- Hi well as u can guess i have acne too. Its all over my face. I hear people talking about it behind my back, it is really annoying. A few days ago i went to see my so called friend. We were playing football when he just says dude whats up with ur face? It made me feel bad just that he had asked that. Now whenever i see him he tells people to tease me about it. I think he thinks that i dont care and he is just trying to be funny but it is really making me feel bad. I have tried everything and nothing has happened. I hope someone can help.
- —Guest Teen
