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		<title>Acne at (Almost) 30</title>
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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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		<category><![CDATA[Acne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[My Skin Won't Stop Me]]></category>
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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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wirlproject.com/?p=5301</guid>
		<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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wirlproject.com/?p=5347</guid>
		<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>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>
				<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[beauty mark]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mole]]></category>
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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-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2015 11:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eben Adrian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; My Psoriasis is only skin deep. My skin won&#8217;t stop me because&#8230; It&#8217;s just skin and it&#8217;s only surface deep. I am beautiful, even with my pink/white spots. My daughter looks up to me and I need to be a strong role model for her and teach her that it&#8217;s inner beauty that counts. &#160; Here&#8217;s my story: Just prior to my first Psoriasis outbreak, I was at a peak in my life. I was a happy, healthy mom who was eating clean, fit, confident, and in love with the skin I was in. In fact, I even participated in my first bodybuilding competition and was getting a lot of attention for my success and accomplishments! Then, Psoriasis hit me hard and took away my confidence and drive to keep going. Unfortunately, bodybuilding is all based on how you look and Psoriasis didn&#8217;t seem to care. I  gave up; I let my skin stop me. I used the internet and social media to reach out to others, hoping that someone would be able to offer me some help or advice, because I felt so alone. To read the rest of my story, click here! Also, don&#8217;t forget to visit the link below to purchase the &#8220;Eben&#8221; bracelet using the promo code: EBEN for 10% off and free shipping!]]></description>
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		<title>My Skin Won&#8217;t Stop Me Movement at WIRL Project</title>
		<link>http://www.wirlproject.com/my-skin-wont-stop-me-movement-at-wirl-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2015 09:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sara Brennan]]></dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wirlproject.com/?p=5190</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; I am so thrilled to announce our My Skin Won&#8217;t Stop Me Movement at WIRL Project!! We&#8217;ve collaborated with Caysia, an all natural jewelry company, and WIRL Project member, Eben, to come up with this awesome story-sharing initiative to support Psoriasis research! To be involved, click to visit our My Skin Won&#8217;t Stop Me page to learn all the details, but here is a rundown: The Challenge: It may not be Psoriasis, it may be Acne, wrinkles, Eczema, a scar, or even the color of your skin; the point is, we all have something.  We are challenging you to share your skin insecurities and tell us why your skin won&#8217;t stop you! 1. Agree to the challenge and &#8220;Contribute a WIRL&#8221; with the tag &#8220;My Skin Won&#8217;t Stop Me&#8221;. WIRL Project will donate $1 for every WIRL contributed towards this My Skin Won&#8217;t Stop Me movement! 2. Once published, share your WIRL on social media and encourage others to become a member of WIRL Project and get involved. 3. Support our cause by purchasing a bracelet, called &#8220;Eben&#8221;, to raise awareness and by doing so, Caysia will donate some of the proceeds to Psoriasis research! It&#8217;s so easy to do, so please take the time to join WIRL Project and share your story. Nobody&#8217;s story is too big or too small, too elaborate or too boring; as long as you&#8217;re being real, we want to hear what it&#8217;s really like for you. Thank you for supporting our cause and I can&#8217;t wait to read your WIRLs and empower, educate, and inspire through story sharing! &#160; *Oh, and don&#8217;t forget to use the promo code: EBEN when purchasing your &#8220;Eben&#8221; Psoriasis bracelet from Caysia; the link is listed below! &#160; I&#8217;ve also included a video (below) to explain and guide you through the My Skin Won&#8217;t Stop Me movement.]]></description>
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		<title>First Psoriasis Post</title>
		<link>http://www.wirlproject.com/first-psoriasis-post/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2015 00:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eben Adrian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Day 10 of Guttate Psoriasis. this type of psoriasis surfaces when you have a Bacteria infection, strep throat is the most common, or an upper respiratory infection.]]></description>
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