Above is the video version of my before & after pictures article.

It’s a quick and general summary of the following article.

Nothing worked for me. I tried all of it, Benzoyl Peroxide, topical creams, acne-antibiotics, laser treatments, dermatologists, toners, acid peels, I’ve even traveled to

foreign countries to visit “famous” cosmetic physicians to seek help. Nothing.

Then finally I found the solution. Well… more like “solutions.” But it was worth it, now I can confidently tell you to believe in what I’m saying because I’m living proof that it works. The following pictures are my Before and After Acne Pictures in the last 2-3 years of my life.

2004. High School. 16-17 Years Old.

2004 This is was taken somewhere by the beach so there’s pretty good lighting for you to see my face. I don’t know if you could tell but there’s a lot of small infections, bumps, inflammation and irritation causing a lot of redness. Look at the areas slightly underneath my eyes, that’s my real skin color. Everything else isn’t.

I was getting pimples here and there almost every day. There would be a new one and I would pop it one day, another one and I would get it. I was just trying my hardest to try and keep my face as smooth as I could get it. I think I was a senior in high school or freshmen in college. I tried aloe vera, bee propilis, raw eggs whites, etc… I still didn’t really know what I was doing at this point. I guess I was just kind of hoping that it would be like people said, that this was just a phase and that eventually it would go away since I was growing out of my teen hormonal years.

2005. College Freshmen. 18 Years Old.

2005 A year later, a college freshmen now. This was several months after I started seeing a dermatologist. My skin improved for a couple months, then things worseneddramatically. Even in this horrible lighting you can tell that I have really bad acne. My original acne came back and so did the feelings of desperation towards the end of the medication. I started getting new cystic acne between my face and neck.

2006 Late December, I just found Aunty Angel. The pain of having each of your pores cleaned out by her was excruciating, and trust me, I’ve been through a lot of

2006. December. After Aunty Angel Acne Treatment

procedures, creams, operations, heavy acid peels, but there’s nothing like having the life squeezed out of your face for 45 minutes straight till the point of your eyes literally tearing even though you’re not actually crying (I’m completely serious). People would literally cry from the pain it would so bad. But she was the closest thing I could find to achieving clear skin and I would do whatever it took. So finally, a solution right? Wrong.

The catch, from Aunty Angel’s facial cleaning and treatment, was that it took a week for these really heavy and dark scabs to fall off. The scabs were even more awkward and apparent than the acne. It took another week or two for the scars and dark sports below the scabs to fade away. So I had about 1 week out of every 4 to look normal. This was no way to live. If anything, going to Aunty Angel’s place was only a temporary way to clear my keep my skin clear for 1 out of every 4 weeks. This was not a complete solution, unless I planned on staying in 3 out of every 4 weeks of my life due to really bad scars (as shown in the year 2006 picture). I had to find the real answer to why I was having acne. What was so different from me and those others who barely even had to wash their faces and could be acne free?

I stopped seeing Aunty Angel about 8 months after I started her program. It was one month later that I found the final “health” program that cleared my face. If this is confusing, basically Aunty Angel’s program was just to manually clear my clogged pores on a frequent basis. As long as you don’t have clogged pores then you can’t get an infection. This is true, but this was only treating the symptom. We weren’t really addressing the issue of stopping my pores from being clogged. I might’ve been fine with Aunty Angel’s solution but it came at the price of horrible scabs for 3 out of every 4 weeks. Then I would have to go back month. And the pain of her manually cleaning out my pores was incredibly bad, on top of that she was having me apply topical creams which would make the scabs fall off faster. This dried my skin real bad and I knew that if this probably wouldn’t be a very realistic long term solution.

Summer 2007 Just finished Step 4 of the HowIClearedMyAcne regime. No touchups, no special facial wash, no topical creams. Oh, and no adobe photoshop touchups
either =)

Summer 2009 It’s the summer, this was maybe a few months ago at my sister’s graduation. As you can see I’m holding a graduation cap.

I started working out about a year ago. I weigh, on average, about 145-148 lbs. My skin has stabilized now.

I still get one or two blemishes if I take things to the extreme and get very little sleep, slack on my diet, stress out. But that’s only if I completely abuse my body. I still often do, being that I work extreme hours, play hard, study hard, and feel like sleeping early is “wasting” my day.

I don’t take as many vitamins anymore and do all the things I used to. It would be great if I still did, but I find that most of the key principles are the important things that people need to remember and sustain.

Even if I do manage to go completely bad and get a pimple or

two, I usually know how to calibrate and get my body back to

normal. I usually don’t just treat the pimple directly, I also am

aware that when a pimple happens, it’s because my body is

exhibiting a symptom as a result of my care towards it.

But that’s the other thing, I’m ENFP personality type from the Myer Brigg’s Personality Indicator and I don’t like to follow strict schedules so I usually will maintain erratic sleep patterns, sometimes working until 5 AM in the morning and sometimes playing until 6 AM. So far, that’s just who I am.

However, I find that if my diet is well managed, even if my sleep pattern is out of sync with the rest of the world, my body still is pretty sufficient at managing it’s resources. It may be the same

for you as well but optimally, one should sleep around 11 pm.

I hope my before and after pictures have inspired you to read more about what I’ve done and how you can clear your acne too. Recently, working on my website has reminded me of how things used to be when I had, what seemed like, a never ending cycle of acne. I thought it would cease, but it has, and I figured it out through hard work and diligence. You can too.

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