The best way to get rid of post-acne scars!!

Hello everyone!

Today I will be giving you my own little tips and tricks to get rid of acne scars and post-acne marks! If you want a post entirely on getting rid of acne itself please comment below! :)

I had my own little bout with acne near the end of my highschool career and that was definitely not how I wanted to be remembered. By the time I got it all under control I was left with these dark purple marks and red spots in the worst places! I had a nice little acne mark mustache there for a little while. So, I did a ton of research of how to get rid of them.

What I found out is that when acne leaves behind a scar it’s deep down unto the layers of your skin and because our skin repairs itself it would slowly get rid of all the damaged skin cells over time. I don’t know about you but I’m not gonna wait years for these scars to go away.

 

The first thing you should do is exfoliate! (as if I don’t say this enough) I have really sensitive skin so I exfoliate gently with a baking soda and water mix every other day. Then, every single night I take regular old lemon juice and I will soak it into a Q-tip. When its soaked all the way I will hold it over the spot and sort of massage it in with the Q-tip. After I’ve done that to each spot, I let it dry. Now, this part may be a little itchy but resist and let it dry into your skin. You can rinse it off afterwards but I just left it on since I wasn’t going to be putting on makeup or sweating or anything. I then used the Ambi fade cream which I LOVE because it has

hydroquinone (which is said to fade dark spots) and vitamin e! (Which repairs skin) I leave that on overnight as well. With anything that has hydroquinone you have to be careful and not use it when you’ll be subject to the sun because it increases sun damage. I was so careful but I used it once when I was sleeping somewhere else and the sunlight came in through the window and I had a red patch on my skin for a few days :( not good. But, if you do it right you should have much better results within a few months!

This is me at the beginning of October 2012 when I first started this regimen, no makeup.

 

I unfortunately lost the pictures of three months later :(

But this is me now with no makeup and a few newer scars later but you can see the old ones are pretty much completely gone!! :)

I hope this helps someone, somehow and I do promise that these tricks work and you don’t need to buy any expensive creams like Proactiv or anything. I’ve tried other things like the Garnier Dark Spot corrector and I’ve tried face masks weekly with citric acid but nothing works as well as this!

Also, you can check out Kandee Johnson’s video using lemon as a scrub! (even better!!) Enjoy!

I hope this works for you too! Or maybe someone you know! Thank you for reading and if you have any questions or comments please comment below or find me on twitter! :)

 

Hugs and clear skin,

KMB