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When girls try desperately to cover any tiny blemish on their faces, this brave teenager shows her face full of acne, without makeup!
'It doesn't mean you can't be successful, it doesn't mean you can't be glamorous. Beauty is so much more than your face.'
A US teenage girl said when she talked about cystic acne on her face. Hailey Wait, 17, has been plagued by skin problems since 11.
Hailey used to apply a thick layer of makeup to hide the red blemishes unless she would feel unconfident and insecure.
'I had a lot of people at school... give me dirty looks. They'd call me "pizza face" - you know, those generic acne terms.' She said.
Hailey also described the painful experience with her acne: 'Every time you bump into it or barely touch it or something it feels like your face is on fire.It was too painful. I remember one night crying in my bed because I was just in so much pain.'
The acne also hurt her mentally, she said: 'When my acne was at its worst I just felt like I was gross. It was red and splotchy and I just felt like a garbage can. I felt disgusting.'
But in recent months, Hailey decided to let her face breathe and stopped wearing makeup.
'I stopped wearing it because I just noticed it wasn't doing anything for me. It was only hiding me and I felt like every time I walked out of the door I wasn't being myself.
'I feel like I have embraced my acne by not hiding it anymore, and [now I] just kind of be real with myself and real with other people.'
Hailey even shared her bare-face selfies and her stories on social media, causing negative comments at first.
'I would get a lot of comments telling me to clean my face - as if I wasn't already doing that - and I would get loads and loads of acne advice, even though I never asked.
But as time goes by, Hailey's act prompted positive effects: 'I feel like I have influenced a lot of people that have insecurities in general by setting an example and showing that it's not the end of the world if you don't have the perfect skin.'
The acne blogger says she plans to keep daily bare face without cover up, and will only apply one on special occasions.
'I hope my story regarding acne really helps people to realise that just because you have these imperfections doesn't mean you are not amazing.'