Do you remember 16? Wide eyes and bushy tails, slim waists, boy crushes and….. pimples! Uggh! Do you remember how they always used to pop up in the most obvious places at the most inopportune times like a belligerent, drunk uncle at Christmas dinner? Yes, those pimples. Somewhere in our teen years we were told that they were signs of puberty and either I imagined this or it was a lie, but weren’t we always told that they would end by the time we reach our twenties?! Maybe that’s just what I wanted to hear.
They tricked us all, lady.
For the most part I do not suffer from acne on a regular basis and my pimples only appear to let me know that my period is around the corner. However I do have friends who are constantly fighting with jack-in-the-box, or as Traci Steele (LHHATL) would say, ‘popcorn pimples’. Continue reading →