I was about 18 when I started breaking out, the years where you want to go out and do stuff and, that was the worst time, through school.
I figured out it was because of hormones - it must have been because of hormones, because I tried everything; eating healthy and going on crazy vegetable diets.
I was really sad, because of the things I wanted to do I couldn't do, and it was just holding me back from everything. It made me feel dirty, it did, and ugly. Like an outcast almost, because none of my friends had this bad skin and it was just me, and it felt like it was my fault somehow, but I couldn’t get rid of it.
It took a big part of my life. I wish I found Proactiv earlier.
I tried to hide my acne with tons of make-up. I'd pack on the make-up, the make-up would make it look worse, and I wore a beanie trying to hide at least half of my face, which obviously would make it worse also, because it can't breathe through the make-up and the beanie. I just couldn't look at anybody, because I thought if I looked at them, then they'd look at me. If they were looking you in the eye, I still felt that's all they could see, was just this horrible skin and not actually me.
Acne ruined a lot of times that were supposed to be fun, birthdays and weddings, and I was supposed to be having a great time and being happy for other people, but I couldn't think past the acne. It really just put a stop to a lot of things.
The first time I saw the commercial for Proactiv, I was very emotional watching testimonials from people with acne, I just couldn't believe that something could actually work that well, and they looked so beautiful. And seeing their before pictures of them with acne, you couldn't believe that they would look like that. I thought, finally, there's other people like me that and it can be fixed with Proactiv.
I watched the Proactiv adverts several times before, I actually got to ask my mother if I could use her credit card. I'd watch it every night. Cried a lot, wishing that it would just be in my hands now so I could use it, use Proactiv.
It was my birthday and I had friends everywhere so we were all sitting around and Proactiv came and I went into the bathroom and I disappeared from everyone for about an hour or so and just looked at myself in the bathroom and just put this Proactiv on my face, rubbing it over the acne hoping it would work in minutes. And it did, the redness went down, the swelling, it felt like it was helping already. It really did.
When I started using Proactiv, I felt it straight away working, and I woke up the next day and you could see the acne disappearing already, and within a week or two, it was starting to clear up. And then in a month, before I knew it, it was like clear skin.
When I look in the mirror in the morning, I think, thank god for Proactiv. Thank god for Proactiv. What would I do without it? Proactiv did change my life, it played a big part and it still does, because I never thought that the acne would be helped in any way after everything I tried. I never thought it was going to go. I thought I was going to have to live with this acne. And so Proactiv really cleared it up, and it just cleared my whole life up.
It feels great when people compliment me. I'm still in disbelief someone could be complimenting me on my skin, because I definitely wouldn't show them the before pictures when they compliment me.
Nothing else worked for me, and Proactiv did. Proactiv helped my acne. You should try it, because there's a 60 day money back guarantee.
Proactiv, you're my hero and my best friend.