THE ROSY CLOUD: October 2015

My Acne Story PART #2 | The Rosy Cloud

By Sharleen Lee - 2:14 AM

Hey guys, so today I will continue my acne story from the last post.

So here's the thing. The area would just be around my chin, nose, and mouth. My forehead and my cheeks area were just fine.

I did some research about acne, and what I find about acne was that the place where you breakout have some meanings behind it.

So basically, my acne was caused most by hormones / stress. It was cystic acne which was very painful. It have a bump in your skin and really hard to heal. It was never ending acne in my chin. I already tried so many different products that just did not work.

Here were few photos about my acne. You might not see it very clearly, but it lot worse in real life. After I came back from China, I did go to another dermatologist. But, his prescription was not working on me. He gave me antibiotics, and the whole skincare package, but my acne was still there.

Until one day, my mom went to one drugstore, and she recommended "Roacutane 10ml".
At first, I don't know what that is, until last month. It was basically a drug that helps you with your acne if the other acne prescription is not working. It's quite harsh. In US, you need to take pregnancy test before you use this pills because it would harm your child. So pregnant women cannot take this drug (from what I research).

Roaccutane 10 mg

Basically it was what it looks like, I drank for around 1 month. After that I saw good result on my skin. I drank it together with multivitamin which consist of vitamin A, C, E, Selenium, and Zinc.

Ultraway ACES

You would probably be find if you take another vitamin ACES, you don't need to use the same brand as this.

After using roaccutane 10 mg for 1 month

This was my skin looks like after roaccutane. It last for I would say 8 - 10 months, and then my acne came back. I went to another dermatologist, Dr. dr. Sukmawati Tansil Tan, Sp. KK in Mayapada Hospital. I heard that she was specialized in dermatology and beauty.

Now I'm still trying her prescription, and I will update it to you guys whether it works or not. My current acne was not as bad as before, but it was still in the chin area.

After my consultation with the doctor, she said that acne in my chin area was very irritated that it even caused inflammation in a gland under my chin. She also told me that roaccutane could cause a dependence in using, and the acne could comeback after stop using it.

Skincare kit from Dr. dr. Sukmawati Tansil Tan, Sp. KK

I will put the link to dr. Sukma if you are interested, but so far, so good for me.

http://id.dokdokter.com/id/doctors/sukmawati

I'm sharing this information because I would like to share my experience with acne, and could help some people out there who also suffers from acne. Having acne is sucks, and sometimes it could leads to anxiety, and even depression. You don't feel good about yourself and it just awful.

Just for your information, before I've tried so many things natural by went on 'Dairy diets', 'Eggs diet', being 'vegetarian' for several time, and my acne just didn't stop. I also cleansed my face twice a day, and never wear my make up to sleep. Yes, I would do anything just for getting my clear skin back.

If you also suffers from acne, do not stressed out. Your stress will leads into those satanic cystic hormonal acne! I hope that this post could help and wish you guys have a clear skin :)

PS. I'm quite new on blogging, so sorry if my flow of the story isn't very nice. Thanks for reading my blog.

Much love,

Sharleen Lee

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My acne story PART #1 | The Rosy Cloud

By Sharleen Lee - 7:30 AM

Hey guys, I'm thinking what kind of things should I put on my first blogpost. I've always wanted to do a make up / skincare review to begin with. However, suddenly I thought why don't you post something that are currently happening?

So, here I am writing my acne story. So, a little bit of background about my skin. My skin have always been in the oily side. I had breakout back in my middle school when I reached puberty. I break out in forehead most of the time, and then somewhere in my nose area. It was still okay I would say, but, it was not as easy to get a clear skin either.

Back in the days, I use 'Sebamed clear face' set. The care gel was in a jar before. I used this quite a long time before I finally decided to go to a dermatologist because my skin was not clearing up.

I went to dr. Freddy Suseno Hardjoko, Sp.KK. in PIK hospital, and I'm quite impressed. My acne was gone and my skin is pretty clear, and the acne scars in my forehead also dissapeared. I'll put up the link of dr. Freddy down below if you are interested to check it out.

http://www.pikhospital.co.id/doctor/52/-dr-freddy-suseno-hardjoko-spkk

After my skin was cleared up, I don't want to completely relying on doctor's regimen. Because sometimes, their skincare could be pretty strong, and I'm scared that it would make my skin irritated. So, I used 'Menard Tsukika Line' products and some of their other line.

From left to Right (Menard Romanes Acne Cleansing Foam, Menard Tsukika Lotion (Fresh / Moist), Menard Tsukika milk lotion, Menard Beauness Spa Mineral)

So I basically stick to this regimen for almost 4 / 5 years until 2 years ago when my acne came back. I changed into another products because I thought I need something that could cure my acne, but things were getting worse after I change into another products. I will do a separate review for "Menard" products if you are interested. But now, I will stick to my acne story. So this time, the acne that came into my face was not normal acne. It was basically hormanal acne. So I have breakouts only on my chin area and several on my nose area. My cheeks and forehead was clear.

It was big big zits that was very painful, and it just didn't stop from growing. When one pimple calmed, another one was coming. So it just like an endless acne that grew in my chin.

It was depressing! I started my research, and from then I became interested more and more into skincare and makeup. Before, I didn't really wear make up that much. When I went out, I would probably just grab some powder, eyeliner and a lil bit of lipgloss, and that's that!

After I suffer from acne 2 years ago, I started using make up because I really want to cover my pimples. I felt embarrassed whenever I went out just because of my acne. If you suffer from acne, you will understand. I changed so many skincare products just hoping that my acne will went away, but it didn't.

I've used MURAD, ACNE BARRIER, CIRACLE, and none of those works for me.

I used the travel size of this kit

I used no 1 (Cleansing Foam) and 4 (Toner)

I've used all of this products from ciracle. The complete set from cleansing gel, toner, moisturizer, pink powder, spot treatment, and red spot cream, and none of it works for my hormonal acne. Back in those days, I was so depressed and my acne seemed never ending. I also tried this ACNE BARRIER. It's japanese products, and I thought why not try these things? But, again, it's not working. Until I came back to Indonesia.

So, I will continue my story into part #2 because this will be very very long. I hope you bare with me, and I will be putting my photo progress, and yeah, continue to part 2.

Much love,

Sharleen