by JL
(Canada)
SORRY it's long but it was my huge battle with this and trust me it's worthed so just bear with me. IF YOU DONT WANT TO READ MY STORY I WILL SUM IT UP IN THE END. P.S BEFORE I START, TRUST ME WHEN I SAY I WAS A DESPERATE MOFO, I HAVE TRIED EVERYTHING, I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE SAY THAT HAHA BUT IVE PROBABLY SPENT OVER 1K AND I DONT HAVE MONEY ), I'VE TRIED CHEMICAL PEEL, ALPHA PEEL, PEELING CREAMS,TONERS, CLEANSERS, EXFOLIANTS, GELS) AND I HAVE EXTREMELY OILY SKIN (MY FOREHEAD IS OILY LIKE AN HOUR AFTER MY SHOWER AND STAYS OILY TILL I WIPE IT OR SHOWER AGAIN) started getting acne around 16 years old (which is when i started hitting the gym). at the first i didn't really care but then it got bad to the point that i was embarrased to show myself. my acne was pretty bad. i had about 50 pimples but they were really small you couldn't see them from far but from close ups and close up pictures it looked like a trainwreck. so i started by getting those over the counter creams like clearasil and all those crappy exfoliants and stupid Sh't. I thought that worked b/c i moved and in the lighting of the bathroom in the new house my skin looked like i was wearing makeup. but than you go to a restaurant and you see... my problem areas were my forehead, nose. to add insult to injury i'm black and i never wore sunscreen so my forehead was way darker than my whole face so i really started hating myself. i still acted like i was tough and didn't care but holy sht did i care... so after about a year i started looking on the internet to things that could help me and found this thing called Obagi Nu Derm. it was 350$ but i said looking sexy has no price... So i went to the place BY BUS like 4 times and eventually got it. one of the side effects is peeling and i was going to school so i had to tell everyone it was allergies, but i looked like a monster... Michael Jackson was my name for a while... PLUS i must have used the Obagi wrong b/c i looked like 2 faced part of my face was light and the other dark. i'll admit it got rid of the big pimples not not the small ones. so i got off it and since it was the summer and sunny outside i eventually got back to my original skin tone. Eventually i called my great uncle who is a doctor and he