I stuggled. I had low self-esteem. I was embarrassed.  I thought I was ugly. These were my thoughts...abo...

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I stuggled. I had low self-esteem. I was embarrassed.  I thought I was ugly.

These were my thoughts...about 15 years ago. I stuggled with acne. Bad. The kind called, Cystic Acne. Not small zits, big ones! That NEVER came to the surface of my skin, they just fester and are huge! Oh, and they hurt. :( 

I actually used to have FLAWLESS skin, up until I was a clueless teenager and decided to NOT wear sunscreen one day. Well, wrong MISTAKE! That "one day" happened to be my Volleyball Car Wash Raise money day and it was blistering hot. So I was in the sun for 7 hours straight....NO sunscreen! 

Did I get SUNBURNED?
Let's just say, I looked like a LOBSTER. Red, burnt and oh so crispy. 

That's the day my skin CHANGED forever. Lesson Learned.
Wear SUNSCREEN people!!

So I got 2nd Degree burn on my face, my skin started to get HUGE pores and this was the start of my horrible ACNE. My skin NEVER has looked the same since that "one day". 

So fast forward about 5 years....I graduated High School...I earned a Volleyball Scholarship to a 2 year College in Tri-Cities, WA and I served a Mission to Detroit, MI for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
 
 
Yet, I still struggled with Cystic Acne and had low self-esteem because of it. I remember my sweet mom taking me to a Dermatologist and he injected a steroid into my acne to make the inflammation go down! Oh my goodness, it HURT so badly. I'll NEVER forget those days. 

They would go AWAY for a time, but would reappear again. It was this cycle that was never ending. I thought there was NO hope. Envying girls that had FLAWLESS skin became an obsession of mine. I wanted perfect skin and I needed to find something or someone to HELP me. 
 
 
I had heard of Esthetician's, but never knew what they all did. I would ask my Dermatologist if the makeup I was using was alright, but it was like he didn't even know! So I made an appointment with an Esthetician and she forever CHANGED the course of my LIFE. She was beautiful inside and out. I felt her PASSION in wanting me to feel better about myself. She wanted to help me ACHIEVE that. She looked at me like she understood how I was FEELING.  I could tell she LOVED being an Esthetician.  
 
 
She did HELP me. In MORE ways than one. Not only did she HELP most of my acne clear up, she helped my Self Confidence GROW within me. She gave me the GIFT of loving myself no matter if I had acne or not. 

I wanted to be like her. I wanted to HELP people with their struggles in life. I wanted to help others with their Acne.
  
 
 So I did.

In 2005 I attended school at Bon Lossee Academy in Provo, UT. It was a school for hair and skin,  but of course I was only INTERESTED in Skin Care. :) 

I LOVED every minute of being there. I felt like I belonged. I knew I was on my way to make a DIFFERENCE in someone else's life. Out of the 8 students in my class, me and this other girl were the "Guinea Pigs" for Chemical Peels and Extractions. 

We were the ones with the most horrible acne, so we were picked on for all the treatments pertaining to acne. At the time, I was embarrassed and bitter. But my skin started to clear because I was constantly getting treatments done. My attitude changed, my self confidence grew, I was happier. 

When I graduated Esthetics School,  my skin had never looked so good. I wanted BEAUTIFUL skin on my Wedding Day and guess what?

It was! 

So this is the story of WHY I became an Esthetician and WHY I love helping people that have acne or need any skin care help, for that matter. 
I have helped numerous people with their Acne Struggles and to me....that is PRICELESS! 
  
 
 
 
Photos taken by the Wonderful Steven Hatch & some by Lisa Huber :)




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