stop picking my skin

I freaking love to pick at my face.

that I’m still not done with this goal

here’s my face sans makeup today (left) vs a year ago (right)

this is so encouraging to me, because I still struggle with picking sometimes, but usually I don’t struggle, usually I just give in without a fight. I haven’t quit, but I didn’t realize that I’m doing better :D It’s not useless. Keep it up

I got a new camera for christmas.
Updating my face pics on here often was really motivating, and now I can do it again.

my face looks bad! I’ve been hanging out with the magnifying mirror way too much lately :( I’m still missing half my right eyebrow, because it had a nest of ingrown hairs in it and I got stressed and pulled all of them out, along with all the others around it. Its been like 3 weeks and I want it to grow back, but when the hairs come back in they’re all pokey and rough feeling, which makes me feel the need to pull them out! I didn’t see my bf for 3 weeks and I used that as an excuse to be meaner to my face because he wasn’t gonna see it.
Well I wasn’t supposed to see him for two more days but he decided to be really sweet and surprise me by showing up at my apt this morning before I woke up and making me breakfast because I had a final today.
I had trouble enjoying it because he totally busted me and saw my real, mangled face! :( I want back on the wagon, NOW.

I got some krill oil capsules, which are more potent than fish oil. They’re supposed to help with my ADD, my compulsions, and my acne and my pms/cramps :D I really hope they work

looks pretty good right now, except under my chin and my right eyebrow (which i pulled half the hairs out of last week stressing over my research paper)

I popped (not picked) one major zit on my cheek. It had a hard thing in it! Gross. It was ready, i did it and left it alone. My face looks so much better. I a lot less makeup today and I feel rather pretty :D

my mini-goal for this weekend is to keep it up and NOT PICK at my boyfriend’s hairs or pimples this weekend. I know he hates it.

is very severe. unchecked, I spend several hours a day with my hands on my face. It is almost constant.
In relation to how much I usually pick, I’m doing so much better this week. My face is healing really well.
My bf came and woke me up last weekend as a surprise and I was horrified because I didn’t have makeup on and he could see my nasty face. Worse, he told me how cute I was and tried to start making out with me..
I was really freaking out.
I want to be comfortable in my own skin, not terrified if I can’t hide everything

I resolved to quit once and for all this weekend, which backfired. My face is in horrible shape now.

Skin loves the sauna!!!
my face feels much smoother