Beauty Tips For Body Care
This is something I wanted to share because there has to be some out there on SCA that is going through what I am. I've been suffering with acne since I was 13. I'm 27 now. I'm going on my third round of Accutane on April 27th and my life has quite literally been revolving around my breakouts. I would cancel plans with friends and my boyfriend if my skin was especially bad - I would even go as far as calling in sick to work or work from home. I'd even cancel or move meetings around if I wasn't feeling comfortable with my skin. I've quite honestly have had enough. On Tuesday evening and huge cyst started to form.. Right on my cheek. No way of hiding it. And it was extremely disheartening when I saw it starting to form. Besides a warm compress, I did pretty good about not picking it. But I said screw this, I'm not canceling any plans. I went to work Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Did not cancel or move any meetings. And I didn't touch it. Hung out with my boyfriend on Friday and unfortunately Saturday morning it came to a head and I HAD to pop it because it was so unbelievably painful. I woke up three or four times during the night because I would lay on my cheek and hurt so bad, I would wake myself up. I was sad it didn't come to a head the night before so the swelling would come overnight. But do you know what did? I cleaned and slapped a hydrocolloid bandaid on it and continued with my day. I hung out with friends - in PUBLIC - had lunch and went shopping. No one gave a fuck. That night (I probably shouldn't have, but I did) I put makeup over it and went out on the town with a big group of my friends. It was still swollen, less obvious with makeup, but I was done caring. Now it's Sunday and I'm really, really happy. I had a lot of fun, where normally I would've canceled plans and been super depressed alone at my home watching tv (or sometimes I will even sleep as much as I can because I don't want to see my skin and hope I'll wake up and it will be healed) or doing who knows what. I would have been miserable. And you know what? I still have a job with people that respect me, my friends are still my great, kick ass friends, my boyfriend still loves me and no one really even cared. And now it's healing pretty well. Still a big red mark and some swelling. But it's better. I made it a bigger deal than it was. It's still super hard, and there's going to be more pimples, there always is, but I'm really hoping that I'm starting to accept this. I'm hoping I can continue this attitude and not have my skin control my life anymore. I wish all my SCA friends the best - you've all really helped me.Keep your head high. We will get through this.
Girls Blog 2015
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