Almost totally off topic

[SharLamb]

As I was using the healing brush to smooth out some of my DGD's skin, I thought I'd just throw it out to the O community. This poor little 12-year-old has the WORST acne I have ever seen. I guess her dad had it when he was young, and it has left him with a scarred face. Not so bad with a guy...cover it with beard, and just not judged as harshly by the world as a girl is. I know there are many products out there that claim to be The Solution, but they all sound like scams to me. Does anyone know of anything that really helps? I think my DD is hesitant to pursue anything because it all costs so much. But if there really is something that will work, I'll pay for it.


TIA
Sharron

 

[taxed4ever]

Hey Sharron, my DD had bad acne on her back when she was a teen and the only thing that worked on her was a prescription medicine that the dermatologist prescribed to her, it got worse before it got better but totally cleared up in a couple of months and never came back. I have txt her to find out the name, because I have a memory like a sieve and can't remember but will post the name of it here when I find out!

 

[taxed4ever]

Ok she has replied to me it was Tetracycline , I have no idea how expensive it would be for you there. It was fully covered for us.

 

[Nickel]

A friend of mine (and his brothers) had severe acne cured with Accutane. I saw it mentioned but I don't know the trustworthy sites in The US/ Can..

 

[SharLamb]

Thanks ladies. Now praying DD will be accepting of our financial help, and not mad because we're butting in (again).

 

[faerywings]

Shar- My poor kids go their terrible skin from me and Gary. Gary was on Accutane for a while way back when. I am going to be 50 in a month and I still get acne along with my grey hair and wrinkles.
I have no other advice for you aside from what was already suggested. Just that it breaks my heart to see my kids feel self-conscious because of their skin.
As a scrapbooker, I use the Nik Collection filters- One of them has a nice skin smoothing filter that it very easy to use and is customizable.


It is the Color Efex Pro 4 Dynamic Skin Softener.

https://www.google.com/nikcollection/

 

[SharLamb]

Thanks Chris. Wish there was a magic bullet. I’ll check out the brush. Actually, I used to have the NIK collection (Filters). I think I failed to load it when I moved from Windows to Mac. I recall that it was not as user-friendly as I'm comfortable with, so hope I can figure out how to load/use it. I do have another action by Linda Sattgast that works pretty well, but I do miss the NIK options, so I'll give it a shot. Thanks again.