Acne Is Normal Pt 2: Becoming @theacneaesthetic

Written by @theacneaesthetic

"A COUPLE OF MONTHS LATER, A VIRAL PICTURE OF ME WENT AROUND ON SOCIAL MEDIA OF MY ACNE AT ITS WORST. PEOPLE CAPTIONED IT, 'REPOST OR YOU'LL LOOK LIKE THIS!'"

Once I felt that I had gotten to a place of comfortability with my skin, I decided to make a YouTube video on How to Be Confident With Acne. The video reached over 150,000 views and started giving me an audience of people who could relate, find comfort, and feel confident through hearing my experiences. A couple of months later, a viral picture of me went around on social media of my acne at its worse. People captioned it, “repost or you’ll look like this!” and, as you could imagine, everyone had an opinion in the comment section.

Situations like this could really break a person and make them insecure. But that was far from how it made me feel. I was actually ECSTATIC! That was when i knew I could turn my struggle into success. I got straight to work, I knew that I created a fan base of people who supported me and my mission to help others. After that post, I had enough leverage to start an Instagram page dedicated to my Acne Journey. I used my 15 minutes of fame to gain some momentum. It's a small community right now, but I hope to turn that part of me into business venture and expand further out to collaborate with bigger brands on the image of acne and its participation in the movement of body acceptance and imperfections.