Me getting into and argument with my "friend" and she says: "Shut up, Pimple Face."

Another "friend" of mine and myself are at a gym and we're talking to some other girls we just met. She says: "Kendall, lift up your bangs." "Why?" I say. "Because you should show them all the acne you have under there. It's so gross." And then she laughs.

It's nice to know that some people get their pleasure from other people's pain.

Mind you my acne was never severe, but I always had mostly clear-skinned friends, family, coworkers, etc. ... So any type of acne at all "felt" severe from my perspective.

I was outside talking to my coworker in the parking lot, early morning, overcast, very harsh lighting, and he turns to look at me at his facial expression changes to immediate horror, then back to normal and continues to talk...

My brother was driving me somewhere when I was just starting to get acne and turns and looks at me and says "You look weird" and he's 8 years older than me

I once grew out my hair and came to a family party, then my cousin said "Nice hair! It takes away the focus from your acne." She was actually trying to make me feel good but it had the opposite effect.

One of my friends saw me in overcast lighting at school and said "You look sickly" and I only had maybe 2-3 pimples. Sometimes the price you pay when you hang with the popular kids, they always make sure to keep you in check.

Random people whose eyes you can actually see inspecting every inch of your face.

Random people who smile uncomfortably when talking to you, because they're obviously disturbed by your acne.

One of my aunts "I have some acne medicine, do you want it?" Out of nowhere and in front of everyone at a party.

"Eat lots of vegetables"

Thank God I'm pretty much clear now with little to no scarring. I can look back at all of these terrible moments and laugh them away, but they were pretty crushing back then.

"you look sick. are you alright?"

I think whats worse than someone actually saying something is them just staring at you with that "What the F*ck" look on their face.

I work at a garden center so I get alot of old people come in and talk to me, I find alot of older people so ignorant not in a mean way but they are just so ignorant to other peoples feelings. Once I had an Old lady just stareing at my face for ages with this discusted look on her face, then she went 'excuse me dear I dont mean to be rude but you know if you just looked after your skin better you wouldn't have all that...I know what you young boys are like..have you tried witch hazel' I didn't even respond I was so wild with rage. I dont know any guy or girl for that matter that looks after there skin as well as me lol

Another time at work I was having trouble with the cedit card machine and I could see this women proper stareing at me from the corner of my eye....like she was transfixed on my skin. I was having a rough day anyway and I just said 'Yes love I know I have acne but this -waves hand over face in circular motions- will go away....your sun damaged, prematue aged skin will only get worse' I was so proud of my self lol, needles to say she walked off horrified and shamed

Stay strong guys. Ignore those ignorant, insenstive c**ts your all BEAUTIFUL!!

I had one girl say once 'can you not look at me please ur making me feel sick'. I was in tears.

I use Proactiv and my sister said to me yesterday, "Well, isnt it supposed to cure you?".

Was talking to a friend today, and suddenly he stares at my giant pimple on my neck and hes like "oh by the way you have a giant infected pimple on your neck"

Way to ruin my self confidence....

This is horrible

Some of the replies brought tears to my eyes.

It reminds me of how cruel people were to me and how cruel they can be.

I can't exactly remember the meanest thing someone has said to me, but I remember all the stares I got... which was worse.

Me getting into and argument with my "friend" and she says: "Shut up, Pimple Face."

 

Another "friend" of mine and myself are at a gym and we're talking to some other girls we just met. She says: "Kendall, lift up your bangs." "Why?" I say. "Because you should show them all the acne you have under there. It's so gross." And then she laughs.

 

It's nice to know that some people get their pleasure from other people's pain.

What a bitch =/ People like that suck and I hope they realise one day how hurtful they have been and have to live with that guilt.

Me getting into and argument with my "friend" and she says: "Shut up, Pimple Face."

 

Another "friend" of mine and myself are at a gym and we're talking to some other girls we just met. She says: "Kendall, lift up your bangs." "Why?" I say. "Because you should show them all the acne you have under there. It's so gross." And then she laughs.

 

It's nice to know that some people get their pleasure from other people's pain.

 

What a bitch =/ People like that suck and I hope they realise one day how hurtful they have been and have to live with that guilt.

 

I'd be like "hey, why dont you smile?"

Why?

Show them all the teeth I knocked out for you being such a.....................

You got some pretty bad acne there...

Oh do I. Thanks for stating the obvious you fn genius

People that haven't seen me in about 4 years have actually said,

"what happened?"

seven people!! same phrase and they all looked at me with sad, remorseful eyes.

what do I say to that. Um, I have an irreversible curse? I was bit my a spider and it blew up in my face? ... why even ask something like that )': meanfaces.

I'm in a dance club in school so we have performances occasionally. This one time, we were all rushing to get our make up done so we were helping each other apply lipgloss, blusher etc. This one friend who has perfect skin was doing my blush and while she was doing it she told me 'Your skin is really bad you know?'

Another incident also happened with this same 'friend'. Same situation as well. She told me "Eh you have a pimple on the middle of your nose."

I don't think she means to hurt me but it made me cringe. I really felt like hiding. Especially since i was going to perform after her comments. How does that make me feel? I really REALLY hate insensitive people. They don't know how we feel.

A couple of years ago my acne was at its peak and i had red marks over my face because i was unknowing back then and always squeezed my pimples. My cousin (5 or 6 years old if i remember correctly), in the midst of an argument, called me "Pimple face!". I almost cried but as always, i built back that glass wall around me using smiles.

It's really not what people say that's the worst, it's how they look at it.

No one at my school is mean enough to go out and verbally attack someone with acne, but when they look at a big zit and cringe, that's bad.

Also the comments after youve cleared up are awful.

'So how's your herpes doing?' Didnt have herpes, it was just on the corner of my lip =/

'You were starting to look like you ex, haw haw.' Ex had HORRIBLE acne.

Then in a convo with the guy I like:

Me: 'Haha, no, I dont usually get acne, I was just super stressed.'

Him: ' Yeah, I could tell.'

Me : 'Oh, how?'

Him: 'You had zits all over your face and it was kind of gross'.

AUUUUUUGH.

When I went to the pharmacy at the university health center to pick up my birth control refills, the lady working there looked at me and said, "well obviously you're not using these for birth control" (meaning, you're obviously using them to clear your skin).

My ex boyfriend once said, "sure, you're pretty, you just need to clean your face up."

And once I got in an argument with this @$$hole who used to date my roommate and was really mean to her. As I walked away he called across the street "You should try Proactiv you know, it works!!" Right in front of all these people (outside a bar); it was so mortifying.

Whenever I get in an argument with my current boyfriend, he always makes comments about my skin. Most people close to me have understood that that's off limits--it's hitting below the belt. But not for him I guess...

I've never been hassled by a stranger or acquaintance, so reading back through this thread I guess I'm lucky in that respect... People I know well, especially my father's girlfriend, are way more likely to make insensitive comments.

One friend in particular is sort of clueless...

Her: Why is your face so red???

Me: ...acne.

Her:

Her: Your scars aren't THAT bad.

Oh okay. Not "THAT" bad. I feel better now! She doesn't mean anything by it, though.

My father's girlfriend makes a lot of comments about what my face happens to be doing that day, like I don't own a mirror or something.

"Wow your face is REALLY broken out." Noooo, seriously? I couldn't tell.

"Your face looks clear for a change! Are you wearing makeup?" Thanks for asking. Your chin looks smooth for a change, did you shave?

Then one day I was crying after a derm appointment because I was told that my skin couldn't be cured, just managed. Cue her telling me to "get over it" and stop "slathering crap all over my face" because nothing makes a difference anyway. Paired with a nice long analysis about how my angst makes me break out and I was being overdramatic because no one was around for the diagnosis anyway. I'm actually a cheerful person so I don't know where she got this angsty business. C'est la vie, et cetera. Maybe next time she kvetches to me about her weight I'll just tell her to get over it.

Besides that... My friend's ex-boyfriend told me that my face looked like shit and I'd never get a man because of it, but that was actually when I was 90% clear while taking tetracycline. Go figure, right?

People would tell me:

"you have a nast face!.!"

"STOP DRAWING ON YOUR FACE!'

"THATS WHY you will never be cool"

"your a ugly bitch and a nasty pimple face." i would go like "why am i a bitch?" and she would reply like this:"because you have SEVER acne!!"

"some people would point and laugh and say "ACNE FACE!"

my ex-friend made me a facebook she made middle name acne face!

i remember once when i was in the peace corps in africa, this little girl had a set of safari animals and she held up the giraffe, then pointed to my forehead. and said "spots!" obviously she didnt really realize what she was saying but i wanted to cry

Nobody comments on my face anymore, because I forget that I even have marks on it now. I've just let go.

Haha i remember one from Gr.6. My friend says "you're forehead looks like it's been stung by bee's"

little did she know that those teeny bumps were whiteheads. idiot...

but now she has lots of acne... karma.

also, this bitchy girl in my class asked me if i washed my face and told me to use neutrogena... she doesn't even wash her face.

and "that makeup isnt doing anything for your acne, it just makes it a different colour"

there's lots more but here's the worst in my opinion...

we were "studying" people in class sorta like studying an animal or something, and this asshole says "mhmm.. lots of acne" the whole class heard.

I think the worst part of bitches pointing out your acne, is that in some cases (mine) you really don't have that much acne, but since your skin isn't perfect and you've actually hit puberty, people with clear skin will pick on everything wrong with your face.

and even people with worse acne point out your acne.

Oh and one day i was really happy because i woke up with no pimples, red spots etc. just some whiteheads, blackheads, and 1 or 2 little scars. So of course i wasn't dreading school for once i was actually excited! But yet again the bitch i mentioned before brings up all my acne. And the funny things is, when i actually have lots of pimples on my face she doesn't mention it..

i was chilling with some friends. and i had a ripe one on my forehead.

we were messing around with hair threading, because one of my friends was like "dude, there's like this asian thing or something where you can use string like tweezers." i said, "dude, no way, man, you can't tweeze with string."

but then a girl said it was called threading, and showed us how it went.

i said, "hey, man, fix up my eyebrows and make me beautiful. i can not look awesome with this almost-unibrow."

i shoulda asked the girl to do it because the guy was very unprofessional. he did a bit, then he got a chunk of my eyebrow pulled. so i said, "hey man, that hurt, you are taking off my whole eyebrow, when i only want the hairy bridge connecting the two removed."

so i have all this loose eyebrow hair on my face, and he brushes it off a bit roughly. the ripe pimple pops on his hand. he's all, "dude, that's ******* gross.", so i said "that is what you get for my eyebrow, asshole, my face is fighting back"

he said, "yo, is this contagious or something" i said, "dude, i don't know" because i did not know, but i did not think he would get pimples on the palm of his hand. so he said, "i need to wash this off man, this is gross, like a little bloody maggot or something". i said " that hurts, man, next time, i will aim it at your face"

so he says "dude" and i'm all "dude" then we cleaned up and put a band aid on the wound.

i have to say, it does not seem like i know very many mean people, and my story is rather uneventful and full of west coast mannerisms and stereotypes.

i was chilling with some friends. and i had a ripe one on my forehead.

 

we were messing around with hair threading, because one of my friends was like "dude, there's like this asian thing or something where you can use string like tweezers." i said, "dude, no way, man, you can't tweeze with string."

 

but then a girl said it was called threading, and showed us how it went.

 

i said, "hey, man, fix up my eyebrows and make me beautiful. i can not look awesome with this almost-unibrow."

 

i shoulda asked the girl to do it because the guy was very unprofessional. he did a bit, then he got a chunk of my eyebrow pulled. so i said, "hey man, that hurt, you are taking off my whole eyebrow, when i only want the hairy bridge connecting the two removed."

 

so i have all this loose eyebrow hair on my face, and he brushes it off a bit roughly. the ripe pimple pops on his hand. he's all, "dude, that's ******* gross.", so i said "that is what you get for my eyebrow, asshole, my face is fighting back"

 

he said, "yo, is this contagious or something" i said, "dude, i don't know" because i did not know, but i did not think he would get pimples on the palm of his hand. so he said, "i need to wash this off man, this is gross, like a little bloody maggot or something". i said " that hurts, man, next time, i will aim it at your face"

 

so he says "dude" and i'm all "dude" then we cleaned up and put a band aid on the wound.

 

i have to say, it does not seem like i know very many mean people, and my story is rather uneventful and full of west coast mannerisms and stereotypes.

dude....that post made me actually laugh out loud

Haaah i got another comment today.

This guy in my class that i've known for 3 years and has known i've had acne for 2 years just randomly passes by me while saying "you have all those pimples because you dont wash your face"

First of all asshole, YOU don't wash your face, secondly i care for my face more than you ever will, thirdly if you knew what i do for my face everyday you would shut the hell up, fourthly imma girl we're hormonal, sorry that you haven't grown up yet, and lastly I HAD NO FRIGGIN PIMPLES ON MY FACE, it's redness and whiteheads idiot. Some people have NO clue.

hmm lets see...

so i have two pimples on my forhead and they're right next to eachother so my cousin says to me one day "are you trying to be harry potter?" and i just told her to shut the hell up and walked away.

Im sure its not the meanest thing ever but it was still pretty annoying to hear it, i mean its not like i can do anything about it!!