Can we make normal skin... normal again? By normal skin, Iām talking pores, texture, pimples and dark spots. Like, literally nobody has perfect skin, and thatās the reality. But Instagram has warped reality so badly that in 2021, weāre still allowing ourselves to conform to unrealistic beauty standards.
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In my teenage years, when I didnāt know any better, youād catch me Googling āhow to get rid of poresā and endlessly scrolling through Yahoo Answers and reading WikiHow articles. I tried all the tricks in the book.
I scrubbed my face raw with the god-forsaken St. Ives Apricot Scrub and spent all my minimum wage Maccas money on pore strips and clay masks. Nothing made my pores shrink, but I was obsessed!
Why?
Because all the Youtube beauty influencers I watched had poreless skin, flawless skin. I look back now and think, āgirl, did you really think they had no pores?ā.
millennials are so obsessed with skincare because we need to undo the damage done in our teen years from st. ives apricot scrub, benzoyl peroxide, and the false belief that moisturizer made your skin greasy
ā Caroline Kee (@CarolineDKee) September 25, 2019
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