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		<title>And The Winner Is&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2015 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[WIRL Project]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, we challenged our WIRL Project members to share their skin insecurities for a good cause, to raise awareness and funding for Psoriasis. We had several entries and were thrilled to see our members confessing their stories. As promised, we are GIVING AWAY the Eben Stack of bracelets, from Cayisa, for contributing to our initiative. &#160; Want to know who the winner is? Well&#8230; &#160; We Entered All The Participants Into a Random Name Picker   &#160; And Clicked &#8220;Pick a Random Name&#8221; And The Winner Is&#8230;. &#160; &#160; Congratulations Kassidy (@kassidyeverard)!! You&#8217;ve won the Eben Stack from Caysia which is valued at over $100!!! &#160; Contact WIRL Project via Facebook to give us your information and claim your prize. You must contact us by May 8, 2015. Thank you to all who entered! Stay tuned for our next giveaway!!!]]></description>
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		<title>My skin won&#8217;t stop me!!!</title>
		<link>http://www.wirlproject.com/my-skin-wont-stop-me-8/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2015 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ashley]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; My skin won&#8217;t stop me!As a 30 year old wife and mother, dog lover, and part-time vet tech&#8230;one of my issues with my skin is that I bruise easily. I might be at home playing with my daughter and I run into the coffee table&#8230;yep, gonna leave a nice big bruise! My 75 pound &#8216;lap dog&#8217;, who does NOT know that he is too big to sit on me, causes me to have huge &#8216;love bruises&#8217; all the time (he does it with the best of intentions). I might be at work and a big dog who is not happy about me holding him to get his nails cut&#8230;lots of big bruises! Sometimes I leave work just thinking to myself&#8230; I know I am gonna wake up tomorrow totally black and blue on my legs. With warmer weather coming I get embarrassed to wear shorts or bathing suits or anything that shows off my bruises. People have jokingly asked me if my husband beats me up&#8230;obviously not a very funny joke. I have other skin issues that have put me into a shell at some point in my life. I have had my fair share of bouts of hormonal acne, super dry skin that&#8217;s flaky, super oily skin that&#8217;s shiny. It seems as if it&#8217;s never just &#8216;normal&#8217;. Obviously as a teenager or an early twenties young girl, this stuff feels like it&#8217;s the end of the world&#8230;especially when you have a huge date with someone you&#8217;ve been dying to get together with. If my today self, could go back and talk to my early twenties self, she would have A LOT to say, but mostly she would say, be comfortable in your skin, and in who you are! It has taken me a long time to be comfortable enough as a person to show my face when I have a little breakout. When a topic like this gets brought up, a Dr. Seuss quote comes to mind, “Be who you are and say what you feel because people who mind don&#8217;t matter and people who matter don&#8217;t mind.”This may seem a slight bit off topic, but I promise it will tie in. My daughter has really gotten my husband and I into the Tinkerbell movies&#8230;ALL OF THEM! Secret of the Wings, The Legend of the Neverbeast, The Pirate Fairy&#8230;and the list goes on and on! Well anyways, as we are watching these movies&#8230;I&#8217;m thinking to myself (and anyone who knows these movies will know what I&#8217;m talking about) that all of these fairies are VERY VERY different. All fairies, but all have very different talents. There is a water fairy, a garden fairy, a light fairy, an animal fairy, a fast flying fairy, and of course the most well known is Tinkerbell, the tinker fairy. All of these fairies work together to make everything in the world work. The same way that there are so many different kinds of people in the world, to make it more diverse. Everyone is different and has/goes through different life struggles. Someone who may have absolutely perfect skin, may not be as blessed as I am in certain aspects of my life. I am beyond blessed and happy with who I am, and where I am, that I don&#8217;t let a little bruise or blemish deter me or get me down. It only took me 30 years, but I won&#8217;t let my skin stop me!!]]></description>
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		<title>Acne at (Almost) 30</title>
		<link>http://www.wirlproject.com/acne-at-almost-30/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2015 09:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kaitlyn Slomski]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; My pimples are only skin deep. My skin won&#8217;t stop me because I&#8217;m a smart, beautiful, bride-to-be who is a partner in a company. &#8230;phew&#8230;that statement was harder to write than you would imagine. I think that I re-wrote it six times. Each time with the voice in my head saying, &#8220;people know you have bad skin, you&#8217;re pretty, but don&#8217;t be so bold as to call yourself beautiful.&#8221; Ouch. That&#8217;s a huge ding in the old armor. Confession: I&#8217;m on medicine that eats my estrogen and my hormones take some serious attention to keep in line, thus causing my face to sometimes reflect what I so lovingly refer to as &#8220;my pimple beard.&#8221; It doesn&#8217;t happen often, but when it does&#8230;it&#8217;s horrendous. I have porcelain white skin &#8211; thanks to my Polish, Irish, English, &#38; Swiss heritages &#8211; but that just means that it&#8217;s a blank canvas for breakouts. Going without makeup is reserved for Saturdays, after work, and on the rare occasion that my face is in great shape. Like Sara Brennan admitted in her post, I, too, am a picker, which doesn&#8217;t help. Stress only makes it worse and I truthfully don&#8217;t remember a time where I wasn&#8217;t stressed&#8230;grad school, starting a business, planning a wedding&#8230;oh my! I have a regiment that I follow, but any change in meds can throw it off and it&#8217;s mortifying. Skin is something that rocks my confidence and I really wish that I would finally &#8220;grow out&#8221; of this phase in life. &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>My Skin Won&#8217;t Stop Me</title>
		<link>http://www.wirlproject.com/my-skin-wont-stop-me-7/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2015 22:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[WIRL Project]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Skin color is only skin deep; it won&#8217;t stop me from being successful. At WIRL Project, we do our best to deliver the most genuine, real stories out there, letting everyone know what life is &#8220;really&#8221; like. Our members do an incredible job at contributing and sharing these life stories with us on a daily basis and we are so thankful for that! Every once in a while, we find something online that we think everyone should see; that&#8217;s what we did with this video clip (below). Ironically, this video is actually called My Skin Won&#8217;t Stop Me and Ayriel shares her story of how she was judged by her skin color, but is not going to let it stop her from perusing her dreams. It&#8217;s exactly in line with what we&#8217;re trying to do here at WIRL Project and we really hope you find it empowering and inspirational. Please take a few moments and view this story below. Thank you, Ayriel, for being so brave and letting us into your life. Your story will resonate with many people and inspire them to keep going as well. &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Red Is My Favorite Color&#8230; But Not On My Skin</title>
		<link>http://www.wirlproject.com/red-is-my-favorite-color-but-not-on-my-skin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2015 09:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kassidy Everard]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; My blemishes are only skin deep. My skin won&#8217;t stop me because&#8230;. I hate it, but It&#8217;s mine. It&#8217;s the only one I&#8217;ll ever have. I have extremely sensitive skin. My hair touches my neck, and I break out in blotchy red spots. Wearing a necklace?  Blotchy red spots. Give someone a hug? You guessed it! Blotchy red spots! Recently I went to Hawaii to see family. While there I got sun poisoning, but couldn&#8217;t really feel it&#8230; all I saw were little red bumps.  Then I got devastating news which led to stress, and I broke out in hives. My arms, my neck, and my chest were covered in big red circles for two days. I felt like less of myself. I felt that the marks on my skin defined who I was&#8230; but then I thought about people with worse skin problems than me. I realized that if I don&#8217;t look at myself any different,  why should I expect someone else to look at me different just because of huge red bumps? I have always has sensitive skin, and most of you will think that having sensitive skin doesn&#8217;t compare to skin diseases, but trust me, you&#8217;ll think I have a skin disorder after seeing how bad it gets. When my skin breaks out, some people decide to point it out to me as If I don&#8217;t already know. I get embarrassed and try everything to cover it up. I don&#8217;t wear turtle necks, but the second someone tells me I&#8217;m breaking out I all of a sudden feel the need to buy one and bury myself in it. Feeling comfortable in your own skin is one of the hardest things to do, especially when you have blemishes or huge red marks, maybe even birthmarks that you consider too big. The truth is that no one has perfect skin. Nope&#8230; no one.  Every single girl you see on the cover of a magazine is the result of Photoshop. The girl in the magazine doesn&#8217;t even look like the girl in the magazine.  So why strive to be her? The more chemicals you put on your face, the worse it will get&#8230; I&#8217;ve tried acne medicine and blemish removers and almost every product known to man, and with my sensitive skin, it makes me break out. I have used baby oil and baby lotion. I have tried natural substances from the ground, such as the very dirt we walk on. I have tried the strongest stuff you can think of, and whether the bottle says that it is for sensitive skin or not, I still end up with a huge pimple the next morning&#8230;.so, I stopped using these products. Recently I decided that my skin is my skin for a reason. If I were meant to be more tan, I would be. If I were meant to be blonde, I would be. If I were meant to have blue eyes, I would. If I were meant to have no freckles, I would. BUT that isn&#8217;t me and I am content with knowing that I have scars and blemishes. That I do break out on contact with anything.  That I don&#8217;t have a hickey on my neck&#8230; It&#8217;s actually another blemish.  (Thanks for your concern, Mom) Your skin is yours for a reason. To do such a thing as to wish you had a different set of skin is unreasonable. There is a difference between feeling uncomfortable in your own skin and someone making you feel that uncomfortable in your own skin. Your skin doesn&#8217;t define the kind of person you are. It just protects the heart you have on the inside and accepts the external damage. I know in the beginning I said that I hated my skin, but I don&#8217;t hate it. I hate the way I look at it. And unless you think your skin is beautiful, you should too. &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Does Only Clear Skin Warrant Success?</title>
		<link>http://www.wirlproject.com/does-only-clear-skin-warrant-success/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2015 18:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tanha Patel]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; My acne is only skin deep. My skin won&#8217;t stop me because&#8230; I am a smart strong person Those who will love me will always love me no matter how I look My confidence is not superficial but it comes from my knowledge, passion and drive to do better and bigger things in life, not only for myself but for my family, my girls and their future! My acne started when I was a teenager due to hormonal changes but it was only minor. My school mates made fun of me, certain people in my family too were not understanding. At that point, I started taking prescription medication for my acne. The real problem started when one day I woke up with a reaction to that medicine and it had flared my acne to an acute condition where even looking at my face would probably remind you of a horror movie. But stories and movies have made-up stuff, my overblown acne was very real! Through trips to various doctors and them wanting to use me as a &#8216;case-study&#8217; since they hadn&#8217;t seen anything like this before made me exhausted, ashamed, and my self-esteem took a major blow. Since then my acne has cleared out but has left a lot of scars on my face. I could feel people staring at me, thinking &#8216;ugly&#8217; when they looked at me and much more. I had even convinced myself that nobody would love me because of the way I looked. One day everything changed &#8211; the day I met my husband. He looked at me, and after getting to know me over the course of just one day he asked me to marry him. He looked past my skin and saw &#8216;me.&#8217; It was a long journey for me to &#8216;love&#8217; myself but surely I am there due to him and now, my girls. They love me unconditionally! It gives me strength to walk out into the world and do what I want to do and accomplish everything I have on my vision board! So, my question to everyone is does only clear skin guarantee success in life? If not, then why does media only showcase beauty? In the world of business, why does the media only talk about success stories like Facebook, LinkedIn etc.? There are tons of regular people, and entrepreneurs that need their story heard as they work towards their goals and accomplish wonders! Glamorizing everything only puts unrealistic expectations in the minds of people and they don&#8217;t reach their true potential due to this pressure. For those who want to accomplish anything in life, to them I say, do not let glamour undermine what you believe in!]]></description>
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		<title>My Skin Won&#8217;t Stop Me</title>
		<link>http://www.wirlproject.com/my-skin-wont-stop-me-6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2015 09:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emily Kay]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; My MOLE is only skin deep. My skin won&#8217;t stop me because it does not define me or who I am. As a child growing up, we all saw witches in the movies. They were old, ugly women with long hair and a GIANT MOLE, most of the time, on their nose or somewhere on their face. Or we all laughed seeing Austin Powers in Goldmemeber making fun of Fred Savage&#8216;s character &#8220;the mole&#8221;, because he had a large mole on his face. The MOLE was usually dark brown or black in color with hair on it. YUCK!! As a baby, I did not have a mole, but a tiny little dot on the right cheek of my face. Just the size of a pin prick. Nothing was ever said about it but as I grew, it grew. I remember the first time my MOLE was brought to my attention. I was in first grade and in line to go to lunch with my fellow classmate. A boy, who will remain nameless, but I will never forget, said to me in front of everyone&#8230;&#8221;Why don&#8217;t you pay a rat a quarter and have it chew that thing off your face!!!&#8221; At first I did not know what he was talking about. I went to the restroom, looked in the mirror and BAM&#8230;there it was! A MOLE! I didn&#8217;t know how it got there or why it was there, but this boy told what seemed like the whole world about it and I did not like that. Over the years, I used everything to try to get rid of it. Facial acids, hemorrhoid creams, buffing pads, make-up or just about anything to try and make it disappear. I went to several doctors and they told me &#8220;It is just a jelly-mole&#8221; or &#8220;There is nothing we can do for it&#8221; or &#8220;We can shave it down but that is going to leave a bad scar.&#8221; None of those &#8220;explanations&#8221; satisfied me. I remember one time going to my allergist because I was having major issues, and all he kept saying to me is how he would love to cut that MOLE off my face. How does allergies relate to my MOLE??? I never went back to see him again! A friend, her daughter, and I were heading to the mountains to snow-tube. It was an amazing day. Her daughter, I think was 7 or 8 at the time, turns to me and says: &#8220;Why is their a nipple on your face?&#8221; Her mother, mortified, and I was just laughing because how creative a young mind can be and how children have no filter. I told her that it was a MOLE. She asked if she had moles and her mother told her yes, and now eat your powdered donuts and drink your chocolate milk. The car was silent and I thought, if this little girl thinks I have a nipple on my face, what does the rest of the world think? A year later I decided to do something for myself. I decided to have some Boudoir photos taken. I went and got a spray tan, nails were polished, hair was big and curly, make-up was perfect, and felt like a million buck in my new black Victoria Secret black panties! I let it all out! It was amazing and freeing! That night I got the proofs and I loved them all but could only pick out three images to have them touched-up. After looking at them, I narrowed it down to final three pictures. I emailed the photographer telling him which ones and one week later I received an email from him with the final product. THERE THEY WERE!!!!!!!! JUST AMAZING!!!! DAMN, I LOOK HOT!!!! But wait&#8230;..where is my MOLE??? The photographer air brushed it off. The photographer thought that I didn&#8217;t want the MOLE in my photos and he thought I would look better without it. Well, WHO THE HELL WAS HE????? That was my MOLE&#8230;that is who I am! That MOLE is mine. Who was he to tell me how I would look better. I was beyond offended. Now when I look at those pictures I don&#8217;t see me. I see a person without her personality, without her beauty mark, without her MOLE. I know my MOLE does not define me as a person but it is apart of me. I guess it is my &#8220;calling-card&#8221;. I have grown to accept my mole because it is a part of me. It will be on my face till the day I breath my last breath&#8230; unless it is my life or the MOLE and then THE MOLE HAS GOTTA GO.]]></description>
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		<title>My Skin Won&#8217;t Stop Me</title>
		<link>http://www.wirlproject.com/my-skin-wont-stop-me-5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2015 11:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Diane Andriacchi]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My acne was only skin deep. My skin won&#8217;t stop me because beauty is both inside and out. I believe that no one can define us, unless we allow them to. While growing up as a teenager, I suffered from moderate acne and it made me feel very insecure and embarrassed. I think it made me so insecure that many of my classmates and peers thought that I was shy, not knowing the pain that went along with it. There were many jokes and whispers that occasionally you would catch from others when they thought you didn&#8217;t hear&#8230; I still remember one of my so-called male friends talking to another guy saying &#8220;She&#8217;s a 15 footer&#8230;&#8221;, not knowing what that meant. I finally asked what that meant and was told that up close, not so good looking!! I was hurt by those types of comments and they stay with you for a long time, even after the acne heals. I know Eben through my daughter Sara and I can tell you that she is a beautiful person both inside and out&#8230; and I feel her pain! That being said I can connect with her insecurities about self-image. Stay strong Eben and I wish you all good things and never let your skin stop you!]]></description>
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		<title>My Skin Won&#8217;t Stop Me: Adult Hormonal Acne</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2015 09:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kristin Cogan]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[hormonal ance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; My acne was only skin deep. My skin won&#8217;t stop me because I have found something that keeps it away! I know acne is not curable, but it is very treatable. I never had &#8220;bad&#8221; skin during my teenage years. Of course I had the occasional breakout, but I never really struggled with it. Fast forward to age of 28 when I started trying to get pregnant. My skin was horrible! I felt like a teenager. Then I actually got pregnant and it got worse!  And just when I thought it couldn&#8217;t get worse, I had my son and my crazy nursing hormones were just too much for my skin. For the first time in my life, I was embarrassed and ashamed of my skin. I had this beautiful baby and couldn&#8217;t be happier but I needed to fix the acne problem fast. A few months later, my friend started selling Rodan and Fields, the doctors of Proactiv Solution.  They had regimens that addressed anti-aging, sensitive skin, adult acne (ah hello? thats me!), and dark marks and sun damaged skin. My skin cleared up using the UNBLEMISH regimen and stayed clear through another pregnancy, and nursing another baby two years later. I loved the products so much I decided to become a consultant.  Now that my acne is cleared up, I am still aging so their REDEFINE regimen is going to help me keep looking young. UNBLEMISH saved my confidence and I am forever grateful. But I see so many woman in the same boat as me.  Adult hormonal acne is not fun.  I am sharing my skin concern to bring awareness to the skin condition psoriasis.  Everyone has some sort of insecurity and no one is perfect. &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>My Skin Won&#8217;t Stop Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2015 09:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sara Brennan]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; My acne is only skin deep. My skin won&#8217;t stop me because&#8230; I know that I am beautiful, with or without pimples on my face. I know that real, genuine people get to know me for me, they see past my exterior and love me for who I am as a person on the inside. Those little red bumps on my face give me strength. I&#8217;ve cried in the mirror more times than I can count, but I&#8217;ve always made it through; they didn&#8217;t kill me, they made me stronger. I know that people who judge based on appearance are missing something in their lives, and need to fill this void by bringing other people down. I found that I feel most confident when I am educated, prepared, and driven to make something of myself. At this stage of my life, I do not care what negative people to say about me and my skin. The good stuff is on the inside. Skin is just skin, we all have it, we&#8217;re all different, and that&#8217;s what gives us character. &#160; Here&#8217;s my story&#8230; Growing up, I had acne all the time. Luckily, I didn&#8217;t have the Cystic Acne, but there sure were a lot of pimples on my face. I found it very sad and frustrating when my very clear-complected friends didn&#8217;t wear makeup, and I did. Things like pool parties and going to the beach were embarrassing for me because I&#8217;d think&#8230;Should I wear makeup? What if I get soaked? I&#8217;ll look stupid&#8230; I didn&#8217;t put makeup on because it made me feel better (which, I believe is why women should use it in the first place), but I put it on to hide. Even in high school and college&#8230;even on my wedding day&#8230;I always had a breakout somewhere. To be honest, I still deal with it, but you will rarely see me without ANY makeup on because I don&#8217;t scar very well. This combined with the fact that I am a &#8220;picker&#8221;, does not go over very well for my face. I have a lot of little purple scars from my acne and feel very self conscious if I don&#8217;t have any makeup on. It&#8217;s funny, sometimes I&#8217;ll even give people a disclaimer if they&#8217;re going to stop by and I am not wearing makeup&#8230;somehow this makes me feel like I prepared them for the worst? I am working on this and, at this point in my life, my son is my inspiration. I want him to grow up knowing that women are beautiful because they are smart, real, funny, kind, and caring; not because makeup and clothes made them look &#8220;sexy&#8221;. Since WIRL Project is a place to be honest and genuine with life and what it&#8217;s really like, I wanted to let you into my own struggle. Many people may read this and say, Wow, I had no idea this was even an issue for you, because I always tried to cover it up (and still do sometimes). My mom and husband can attest to the number of times I&#8217;ve cried about it, but I am here to tell you that I am working on this. If anyone else is out there feeling sad, insecure, or self conscious about your skin, I want you to know that I can relate to you and that it will be alright. When people, love you, they love you for who you are, and they really don&#8217;t even look at your skin. When people judge you, they have much bigger problems than the acne they see on your face. The way that we sometimes wear makeup to coverup our flaws, these weak people lash out on others (and bully) because they&#8217;re trying to coverup something much deeper than they&#8217;d ever be willing to admit. They&#8217;re weak, you&#8217;re not&#8230;don&#8217;t ever let your acne, psoriasis, skin color, or anything for that matter, stop you from being you. &#160; &#160; Please support our cause, Psoriasis, by sharing your story and encouraging other&#8217;s to do the same. Also purchasing the &#8220;Eben&#8221; bracelet from our partner, Cayisa, will help raise awareness and fund research.]]></description>
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