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fandomsecrets2012-01-28 03:06 pm
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If your profile reads correctly the biggest reason is that I'm nine years older than you are: I didn't have clear skin when I was your age, either. I had a ton of acne as a teenager, and when I was an undergrad I had what I thought were permanent dark circles under my eyes, too.
For the acne I took Accutane (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotretinoin) and birth control. The former is a very heavy-duty drug, but without it mine (according to my doctor) would have been permanent, so I'd recommend it only if you're in the same boat. It's about three to six months of pure hell, depending on how bad your case is. Your skin sloughs off in huge flakes, you might shed your eyebrows and eyelashes (they grow back right away though), and you're constantly dehydrated, but unlike your run of the mill skin creams and whatnot it gets rid of it completely and permanently. Otherwise, birth control - something someone in college might want to consider anyway, if you're not already on it - might clear it up completely.
For the dark circles, those went away when I could finally control my own sleeping schedule completely. No parents/dormmates to keep me up, and I work schedule that suits the way I like to sleep, on top of the fact that I've completely finished growing and you haven't, so I need far less sleep anyway. Many people aren't aware of the fact that they don't completely finish adolescence until about 25. Also a few years of iron supplements, combined with the pill meant that I wasn't shedding iron so fast every month - it's something I still do on occasion, and that will improve those dark circles too.
I'm not born with it, far from it. Hence, absolutely nothing against people who want to wear makeup, that's totally cool. I took expensive (my insurance covered it, so yours might, too) skin altering medication to get rid of my acne, how could I judge someone who wears concealer? o_O
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(Anonymous) 2012-01-30 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)