Having had acne from the age of 13 to 17 it made me extremely self-conscious and really took a toll on my confidence to the point where I would not want to go out in public.

After numerous visits to doctors and dermatologists to try and help me and being given many different types of pills and skin creams, nothing was working. At that point I thought to myself nothing was ever going to help and I was going to have it forever. Every time I looked in the mirror I would burst into tears thinking I looked ugly. Every morning I would wake up and cover it up with countless layers of foundation which would notably suffocate it and make it worse but I didn’t have the confidence to be seen without it being covered up.

Having lived with Acne I want to bring something positive from it. It is such an emotional issue and one that I would like to turn around and make the sufferer feel beautiful in their skin and I hope to do this through my FMP.

During this week I looked back at images of myself when my acne was at its worst. I printed these images out and made a collage with them I then got some wire and made it into shapes of my spots and overlaid it on to the collage. I then with the shape of the spots that I had cut around put them on to the figure and created abstract shapes.

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