one last time before giving up
I came across a post from meoww today, about not wearing make-up anymore and thought it was so inspiring! I love it when women talk freely about this!
I'm struggling with my skin for as long as I can remember. In my teens I had teeny acne. And around my 30s I stopped using the pill and then it went really downhill. I had bad hormonal acne and later rosacea got mixed in. It was a real party!
My skin was always red, I almost always had at least one pimple on my chin, jaw or neck (but usually more). If it got really bad, I got inflamed nodules. And all of these unwanted visitors would leave purple scars that I still have years later. Hooray for very light skin ; )
If you have acne and rosacea you can accept it. But that's not in my genes I guess. As someone who studied art and finding beauty in literally everything around me, I couldn't accept that... So I tried several things. I tried clear skin supplements, I tried I don't know how many cleansers, cremes and serums. But nothing could really fight against the hormonal acne that always kept coming back.
I'm not a person that likes to wear make-up. I hate the feeling of foundation on my face. But it's the only way I feel presentable to the world. That's why I loved reading meoww's post so much. I am at the stage where I do feel ugly without make-up. And I don't even want to feel like that. I hate it. But I can also not stop. Not now.
So this will be my last attempt to try and change it. I will try one last supplement to see if this is something to improve my skin (I don't want to seem as if I am advertising something, so I will leave out the brand I'm going to use, but if you want to know, you can write me). I will try it for the recommended 3 months. And I'm switching from foundation to a light hydrating CC cream (with tint). This will cover less than my foundation would do. So that will hopefully also help me adjust more to my 'naked face'.
In an ideal world this last try will help me. And if not, I will start to work on accepting my skin as it is.