Almost everyone deals with acne at some point in life. For most of us, it's worst during our teen years and early 20s.
Unfortunately, some people have to deal with acne for much longer.
Maeve Madden is a personal trainer who lives in Dublin. Maeve is also a bona fide Instagram star, with over 182,000 followers. She shares fitness videos, healthy food photos, and selfies of her journey with severe acne.
Maeve has such bad acne as a woman in her early thirties due to polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). PCOS has a variety of symptoms, including irregular menstruation, difficulty conceiving, weight gain, anxiety and depression, excess body hair, and oily skin and acne.
Maeve has tried everything to deal with her acne, and in early November, she decided to get a radical skin-resurfacing treatment known as Pixel.
Find out what the Instagram star had to say about the painful acne treatment below.
[H/T: Daily Mail]
Maeve uses her platform as an Instagram star to encourage people to feel comfortable in their own skin.
She constantly writes about her own struggles with self-confidence and helps people understand that perfection doesn't exist.
In October, Maeve wrote:
No matter how much I promote the awareness of acne, pcos or ibs I can still suffer with bad days, but I will keep listening to my own advice and share it with you, You are enough, You are flawsome, and You just need to be the best version of you.
Then, on November 3, Maeve shared an update with her followers:
I’m officially a [strawberry emoji].. So I have been a little MIA on socials with Fitness Tips as I have had a Pixel Facial to help remove acne scaring .. I can’t workout atm until it has healed, not that I’m complaining.
After a few months of trying to get rid of my hormonal acne break out I finally had a few weeks where the acne wasn’t active and so I have started a procedure to help@clear all those dead spots and dull marks on the skin..
You know when your spot is dead but it still leaves a mark, so frustrating, it’s like even though the acne is dead it leaves it’s past behind on your face…
I was advised to have a Pixel facial and if you follow snapchat – Maeve_Madden you will have seen how much agony I was in..
Pixel is a skin resurfacing treatment, that can improve skin texture and acne scarring ..
I read online it says there isn’t significant down time or discomfort, I can tell you it is agony, if felt as though my face has been completely burnt and this picture is day 3 still super red, Swollen and sore ..
I expect my skin to peel off, I’m sure it will be a week before it looks any better.. If anyone else has had this treatment or similar to remove acne scarring let us know and leave a comment ..
Still Smiling though, trying to be positive, smiles are contagious and if you force yourself to smile your brain automatically sends happy endorphins throughout your body… Try it …
On November 9, Maeve followed up by writing:
SKIN UPDATE: Firstly thank you everyone for all you kindness and support over the past few months. It has been quite the emotional journey but I am so happy I shared it with you all and we all now know we do not face these things alone.
It has been 1 week since my Pixel Facial and I just took the super smiley selfie.. The pain was agonising on day 1 but my day 3 the redness and swelling has started to go down.. The laser left my skin super dry and sensitive . Using factor 50 Oil free spf is a must. I cleansed my skin every day using @cellnutrition_Ireland hypertonic Derma spray, a natural sea salt spray to cleanse my skin and prevent bacteria .. The hypertonic spray helped to heal my skin so quickly
Today is day 7 and my skin feels fresh and new, it was definitely worth the pain.. My scars have faded, most are gone and the texture of the skin has greatly improved .
I will have to have another facial to completely clear the skin before or after Christmas .
The pixel facial also reduces fine lines and tightens the skin woohooo.. I know this has not completely cured my hormonal acne. As I still have PCOS I have no doubt I will go through another breakout but at least this will help heal the skin and control it .. For now I am just going to smile.
I felt knocked down but I took control, I feel like me and it’s time to be happy again. Remember it’s not selfish to love yourself, to look after, invest and take care of yourself. make your happiness the number one priority, it is self love and we need more of it, it’s a necessity.
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