I didn’t really get acne until I hit about 20. Granted I did start wearing more makeup, but I also cleansed my face fairly well. I have always had sensitive, oily skin. I would get very nasty cystic acne on my chin and some pimples/cc on my forehead, and a little bit on my cheeks.

I have some scarring and hyperpigmentation in some areas, but I am working on lightening them up. I was very fucking stupid once and burned myself with glycolic acid, so I have a little bit of scarring from that (and a lot of the time I get extremely pissed at myself for it, but that’s a whole other thing). I don’t think it’s too noticeable to others, but I obviously know it’s there.

I just turned 27 and the biggest differences that I noticed is my eyelids. The skin is getting less elastic, but not horribly so. I feel like my fine lines are about the same, maybe a little bit more pronounced. My forehead has always had some wrinkles because I tend to do expressions while talking, but they really aren’t bad, and they have maybe gotten a little worse.

I feel like my pores have definitely gotten bigger, which is something I’m working on right now. I also have noticed some sun spots coming up from not wearing enough sunscreen as a teen (although I never went to tanning beds, it’s mainly from just being outside in general), and I haven’t tanned or gone without sunscreen since I was about 19/20.

I have noticed a tiny bit of fine lines trying to appear around my lips, but I am doing what I can for those.

Here’s my skin at 27: https://imgur.com/gallery/eKSSxAk

And my skin at 18: https://imgur.com/gallery/CaKD3Wp