HOW I CLEARED MY ACNE | MY SKIN JOURNEY

hi this is christy welcome back to my channel i just woke up and i feel really motivated to film this video so i'm gonna film this video i don't really have any notes or anything which is so weird because i should but i just feel like doing it right now so i'm going to do it right now right now right now right now um meet chubby though charlie show me he's not feeling it yet but i'm just gonna find a comfy spot to sit and do this so i found a comfy spot in my bathroom i think it's the least noisy so it'll be better if i film in here so i wanted to mention i'm sure you know what the video is going to be about because you read the title but i wanted to mention if you haven't really gone through something similar or are not going through a similar situation you might not relate to this video so i understand if you want to click out of it but i really wanted this to be my first video i have been insecure about this whole thing for the longest time and i think it was really important for me to actually talk about it for myself and for the people are going through this i never really thought i could find a way out and find a way to actually truly heal my acne and i did so i'm also here to tell you that it's possible i did it you can do it's possible so if you're interested in watching keep on watching okay so i don't know if i should mention this but i have this really i have this weird thing of living in denial most of the times and i just have this weird pattern of not acknowledging problems i don't know i just think if i ignore it i will ignore it until it's way too late to fix it or it's magically fixed or it's just fixed and i didn't even realize i had a problem and i'm just living this happy life not bothered by anything i just have this weird thing of i will ignore it until i'm in a big pickle or it's just fixed and i don't even realize it and so so why i mentioned this is this is what happened so around the end of 2018ish i started noticing a few breakouts here and there and i was fine it was weird because i was 19 and you don't really expect for your skin to break out when you're 19. at least i wasn't expecting i don't know if you'll believe this but so i would wake up shower wash my face immediately put makeup on put concealer on and then come out look at myself in the mirror dress up and then do other things come back home um take my makeup off look at myself for like one minute in the mirror because i need the mirror to put my acne spot treatment on and i would do that and then look myself look at myself in the mirror i would just not i would just ignore it it's like yeah my face i would ignore it i don't know if you believe this but i could not look at my face i didn't want to look at my face so until until end of october i one fine day realized that i was sleeping with my acne and it was kind of hurting so i started developing cystic acne across my cheek across my jaw um and one day like i took all my makeup off and i was looking into the mirror and i realized i am in a pickle this is a problem you have to face it you are in this mess you know what your face look it's just your face looks like one of those faces when you when you look up acne you know when you look up like horrible acne like severe acne that's how your face looks like and i just couldn't take it just didn't know what to do with it i just didn't know that i actually had to be in a problem i was in a problem it didn't get magically fixed it was way too late for me to fix it because that's how my face looked so um yeah this is where i was and i just had no idea what to do because i was doing everything you basically do you go to a domain they give you creams they give you topical creams they probably do some kind of chemical peel on even i did all of that and nothing was working out for me just nothing was working out for me it only got worse and i ignored it for so long i just didn't know what to do um during this time i completely just felt so demotivated didn't feel like doing anything didn't feel like meeting anyone i'm really outgoing as a person i really love meeting new people doing things going out i just didn't feel like doing any of it just i just wanted to sit at home and hide my face just sit at home and not do the things i love all i did was i turned to youtube all i did was watched youtube videos of people like me who were facing a similar issue and they fixed it so that is one thing that really motivated me so it's kind of a big reason for me to do this so that really motivated me i would watch videos all day all day look at people say i fixed my eyes i felt so happy to see it in the beginning of this video i would just look i would just hear people say i fixed my acne and it was so bad and it was i'm like no you did it i wouldn't be able to do it it's you know it's you did it i never would happen with me it's me that's why i'm prone to problems i just know it's never gonna get fixed my life's like this so so okay so i don't want this video to be so sad i did fix it this is my skin now so why going to youtube julie really helped me is i learned so much about skin and different types of skins and what type of skin do i have and what exactly is going wrong so this time when i went to a doma i literally knew i can't see any more than the nomad but i literally knew everything she was asking me to say so it was kind of youtube validated everything that she was asking me to do it's like oh yeah yeah exactly like yeah i saw this one do the same thing yeah she cut off dairy you asked me to cut off that it's gonna work out it's gonna work out so because i was so informed and i had so much information about skin and how different types of people feel different types of acne i'm not saying you should do it but this is what i did it really really helped me so i went i found a domat i went to her and i said fix my skin i'm ready to do anything i'm ready to leave anything and everything just one thing please don't make me stop wearing makeup that's something i cannot not wear so please fix my skin but let me like allow me to wear makeup you're in there a little bit like so i can go hard for like little like the littlest amount of time but i cannot step out without makeup so the first thing i did after realizing all the things that i was doing wrong i got a blood test and i realized my hormones were so out of back um so i was put on accutane and it was kind of scary for a few people but i watched too many people fix their skin with accutane i was downgraded i think i suggested to be on academy i don't even know what exactly is accutane accutane is the form of vitamin a that kind of reduces the amount of oil released from the oil glands into your skin and helps your skin renew itself more quickly it does make your skin a bit dry but i actually didn't mind it it really helps with um inflammation and i suffer from inflammation i have skin rosacea so my skin used to become really red so it helped me with that like you should do enough research about accutane before getting on it but i genuinely didn't mind getting on acne so the second thing i did was i fixed my diet i know it's kind of annoying for someone who's going through this and they want like a quick fix i need to fix my acne in one week in two weeks this will take time but this will fix it for good i know i know i can't believe i'm saying this but fixing my diet has been the most profound thing that actually has made a difference to my skin i think it kind of balances the outer back hormones in your system so what i did was i completely cut down on dairy no cheese no milk just no dairy products in general i cut down on white flour and i completely switched to whole wheat flour and gluten free flour and the third thing i did was i had to cut down on fast food just no eating outside i didn't eat outside for probably six to seven months just did not eat outside um woke up with a green smoothie every morning just try to eat healthy by healthy i don't mean i was eating like salads or anything i was eating food at home anyone who's watching this and they actually personally know me they know i literally lived on fast food looking at the difference it kind of motivated me to keep doing it because i was literally seeing my skin was reacting to it i was kind of seeing a difference with everything i was putting in my system and eating and not eating my course of accutane was about for about six months but i stopped like breaking out after four months of taking it i still continue to take it for another two months just to finish my course and it kind of helped i haven't i it's so weird i don't remember i don't believe i don't remember the last time i broke out that's what that touch i do not remember the last time i broke out i hope you got to learn something from this video i'm not sure how exactly i did my storytelling but i hope it helped if you have any questions you can um comment down below and i will personally reply like i have i think i have reached the point where i can at least make this video i'm not super confident with my skin but i'm confident enough to make this video and share this with you guys um [Music] i guess that's it i hope you liked me sharing this with you guys and i'll see you next time

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Keywords: how to cure acne, how i cleared my skin, accutunejourney, shoulditakeaccutane, what is accutune, acnejourney, how to heal acne

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Length: 11min 23sec (683 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 29 2020