Spots

Jade got laughed at in Big Brother for doing this. But it does work (not any better than dedicated spot cream though) on certain types of spot. It dries them out.

sidenote: when I do get spots pl;ural, why do they always form some kind of shape/constellation and thus draw attention to themselves even more?

sex? really? ah well :(

Knowledge I'm glad I didn't have in 1986. Gawky 15 year old self: "Hi, would you help me clear up my acne?"

I still get the occasional zit. I have grown resigned to their inevitability.

death, taxes, an' zits.

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I suppose it'd be wandering into too much information territory to say that my experience suggested otherwise. But it does, you know. All that NERVOUSNESS and SWEAT and RUBBING and GREASE-SWAPPING and um er has anyone seen my coat?

*skulks away*

alternatively just go get some pills off yr doktor. it's hormonal innit

that will be $80 thank you :-)

I expect you've tried that already!

There are all sorts of antibacterial fash washes available, and I'm sure a pharmacist could advise you.

i'm 18 now and i have had spots for about 5 years and i thought that they would never go away as most people do but then i read up on a lot of forums like this and tried some of their idea's and they have ALL worked, i now only have 2 small spots on my face (that's because of the smoking and cholcolate eating)

- use a steam room 4 times a week for about 20 min (it does depend on the tempreture of the room don't forget)
- drink around 5/6 pints of water a day (don't have too much otherwise you die!)
- cut down on dairy products
- go swimming 2/3 times a week (i think its the clorine)
- sudocreme or how ever you spell it, tee tree oil, toothpaste work ok (tee tree's the best i found)
- a lot of working out, sweating a lot takes away your toxins, obviously wash after it. get's your body looking fine too!!)
- oily fish e.g. salmon
- you may not think so but using moistureisers worked a treat, nivea for men oil control thing and one from the boots botanics range, the one i have also regenerates skin cells too incase your skin has paid for having bad skin.
- not fidling about with facial hair and just not touching your skin in general
- vitamin c tablets (natural anti toxins), the ones i take are about 1500mg, its also good to have zinc and vitamine e, you just need the right combo, its REALLY hard to find.
- possibly the most important one, don't use the same face wash all the time, try changing every 2 weeks (its ok to go back and forth if you are only using two), this is because your skin gets some what immune to them. i'm currently using some clearasil 3 in one thing (its got like a pump head nozzle on it) and clean and clear advanced or some thing). they are the tits... to be frank.
- and of course, eating well! very little amount of sweeties, alcohol, high fat stuff and none greasy foods!!
- ah yeah and don't smoke! saying that i do!
- go to your doctor and you should be able to get some roll on thing, i have not tried this but a friend of my'ne had baaad acne and he's now been using it for around 2 weeks and they have practically all gone, again it depends on your skin type.
- SEX, yes its true... sex does help i'd imagine its the sweating the sweating, it affects your hormone levels and destresses you too!! its probably the most enjoyable of them all!

well i'm quite sure a lot of these things will help, they will also get you in good shape too, best of both init, like hovis...any way, hope this things work for you... they should! oh yeah and don't expect them to start working in 2 weeks or what ever because they most probably won't, it can some times take a little while for it to start working!

all the best!

any hoo

ta ta

I've been passively cultivating for the past few months a gigantic lump at the front of my chest. It measured 15 millimetres across and bulged out about 5. My brother took to calling me 'Third Nipple Boy'. It was getting bad. With my mum ordering me to see a doctor (in case it was ,I dunno, a tumour or whatever) I decided to take the law into my own hands.

Now, I am not a spotty person. When I was 13 I was covered in the little bastards, but they all seemed to have gone. As it turns out, they'd all gone all right, and moreover they'd all gone to the same place. As I sat at this here computer not ten minutes ago, I reached out for the callipers, extended the arms, squeezed the two sides of the lump lightly, and plunged one of the arms inside. Upon withdrawal, a quite disturbing amount of pus shot out, some clinging to the callipers, some flying off into the middle-distance, and some locating my arm.

Instinctively, I squeezed the lump. Hard.

I can tell you now that the wall is about two metres away from my chest. When I squeezed that punctured lump, I could actually feel the jet of pus leaving my body, and that wall...that there wall, ladies and gentlemen, is now absolutely COVERED in little yellowy-red specks. Going up to a height of about 2 feet above the level of discharge. I am writing this post through a laptop screen similarly flecked with gunge. The sheer amount of ick produced and then purged is quite staggering, and in many ways I'm exceptionally proud of it.

Here's to spectacular vulgarity, ILX!

And this really isn't fiction. It's living fact, and it's all over my room!

this was my true poppage

and no pictures. what a tragedy.

I will retain my youthful 17-year-old look through my never-dying acne. Oh glory. It has lead to a few minor and one major keloid(s) on my shoulders (only the shoulders) over the years.

Asia is not being kind to my skin. Darn you, humidity!

See if you can guess what I am now...

http://stb.msn.com/i/79/0F3516D77F31E39FECDFCCE84E5.jpg

...enlightened?