Does acne affect your game?

DikembeNONONO · 2014-05-24T19:29:10+00:00

Accept it. Love yourself. When you have inner fulfillment then the external validation doesn't matter. In this case, external validation would be you worry about what people think about your skin. Don't care about what they think, at the end of the day if a girl judges you on something like that they simply weren't worth your time. Why waste time trying to change her opinion. Through it all, be yourself and you'll attract a kind girl who will be able to look past this. But in order for her to look past it you have to be able to be yourself and be genuine. In order to be yourself, you have to love yourself and not look for the external validation.

I suffer from it and my case is (i'm willing to bet) worse than yours. If you don't let it affect you, it won't affect them. Believe in yourself. I might have acne but my confidence and game and overall awesomeness fucking overlaps some bullshit problem. Just don't go into interactions thinking "Oh my god, they're totally judging me". Fuck that. Just give people the benefit of the doubt and allow yourself to be you. We only live once. To have something like this stop you from being you is silly. Gluck. And know that I empathize w people like you. I didn't have inner fulfillment for the longest time and now that I finally achieved it, it's incredibly liberating. When you know you're consciously trying to improve your skin condition it'll help your mental psyche. (Change your diet, cleanse, etc). The biggest thing is to be you through it all and though you'll naturally turn off bitch ass women, you'll attract the ones that matter.

ThrowawayPUA · 2014-05-24T20:38:29+00:00

Your attitude is more important than your appearance. This is true for all men, no matter how attractive they are.

See a dermatologist, and then do whatever you can to directly improve the situation. And then you should have no shame because you're doing the best you can.

killingstreak69 · 2014-05-24T21:46:09+00:00

Hello! I dont get why this simple question is getting downvoted.

I have acne and I feel like it affects me. However that doesnt stop my self improvement attempts. Just think of it as a part of you. I have still picked up chicks who I thought were way out of my league.

Have a read of http://www.reddit.com/r/seduction/comments/yhna6/why_looks_dont_matter/

Visit /r/SkincareAddiction for tips on how to deal with acne.

I wish you the very best of luck man. For me personally pimples were gone in about 4 years. The red marks and scars faded in two. Dont let it stop you. Always look to improve.

Tombstone31 · 2014-05-24T19:29:51+00:00

Yes, but you can do a couple of things about it. Try to reduce/eliminate it. See a dermatologist and experiment with different treatments. For example, I break out really bad using any kind of acne wash or medication. I used to get outbreaks and use like Neutrogena, and it got worse, so I'd wash my face more - vicious cycle. I stopped washing my face with anything but bland bar soap and it got better. So, try different things for like 2 weeks. Try changing your diet, too - caffeine and dairy make some people break out. I'm sure there's lots of info on other subreddits, if you take the time to poke around. Finally, consider getting some cover up. It sounds girly, but no one will know and if it makes a difference, it's really worth it.

Other than that, work on being your best self in other areas and play the numbers game.

funnyfarm299 · 2014-05-24T23:15:34+00:00

I don't have acne anymore (went on Accutane as a teen), but now I get really bad razor burn, ingrown hairs, and redness from irritation on my neck. It's really the only thing holding my confidence back, since I have now lost 40 pounds in the past two months, and I'm feeling good about everything else.

About the only thing I can reccomend is see a dermatologist. I have an appointment with one myself soon.

2014-05-24T23:28:37+00:00

It affects your game only if you let it. I mean, assuming you don't have some sort of serious medical deformity.

Allen_Yuan · 2014-05-25T00:39:07+00:00

Well looks always affect who you are slightly. Idk. Go to /r/skincareaddiction.

Jake_STi-RA · 2014-05-25T00:57:25+00:00

It matters as much as clothing. Good clothing can make a jack shit of a difference or make you feel like a badass. Same thing with clean skin.

I still struggle with acne but it hasn't bugged me.

DHGXSUPRA · 2014-05-25T18:24:00+00:00

When I saw a dermatologist they prescribed me Accutane.. Which I guess has since been removed for some crazy side effects that people were experiencing. I had really bad acne in Jr high.. My face was just straight pimples.. I was embarrassed. I know the feeling.. The Accutane I had was the single most effective acne control I've ever had.. I've tried everything from creams to cleansers. Accutane made my face really dry and my lips were dry and cracking. I looked like shit for a year but after that year it was amazing, definitely a confidence boost.. Although that was about 5 years ago now. Definitely see a dermatologist man. Good luck!

ScoDucks503 · 2014-05-27T08:13:30+00:00

I'd like to apologize in advance for this rant, but I don't post much and although it sounds conceited I think this is really good advice.

When I was a freshman and sophomore in college (who btw had never drank a beer in high school and was a ultra-competitive nerdy WoW PvPer) I would stress about one stupid little zit. My most alpha friend in the dorms told me "you don't have any acne bro!"

Acne is a vicious cycle. If you fret about it, all you're doing is creating stress and in turn more acne. I don't think it's been scientifically proven but almost everyone I've talked to agrees that acne is stress induced, among other things such as diet. Don't trip homie it's natural!

Wanna know something else he told me? "Vaginas really are the nastiest fucking thing in the world when you look at it without seeing the rest of the woman's body." Do you think this girl with the bearded clam gives a shit about some red spots? Stay cool and just think "at least I don't have a vagina!" in your inner dialogue and in a comedic fashion. I guarantee some of these girls you are attracted to have bad acne as well, they're just able to cover it up with makeup! I was living with some football players at my university and I've seen their girlfriends without makeup, girls who all my friends said "bro your homies girl is so damn fine!"

I had absolutely no game in college until I finally got a girlfriend (first relationship of my life). I hardly hooked up with any girls despite having football players as wingmen. The only reason I got a girlfriend was because my best friend, who for lack of a better term was a "pizza face." He scored a fine ass girlfriend and I was shocked! But now I'm not, he literally gives zero fucks and always had, he just learned how to be suave about it and properly escalate.

I graduated a year ago and it's crazy how far I've come solely due to inner game. Just like everything else in life, IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD! Acne is all in your head. Approach anxiety is in your head. Something something XYZ is all IN YO HEAD BRUH!

Delete all your social media bullshit for a couple weeks and see if that helps. It will put you in grind mode. You'll be focused on things that are important to YOU like your grades or your job or even video games if you're a nerd raging Dota player like I am, as stupid as that sounds. Your acne will get better from this as well because you'll stop giving any fucks about petty shit like a profile picture and worrying about penis flexing via a lithium battery powered screen.

Reinstall your Instagram app or whatever if you're going on vacation and wanna snap some photos, but don't use that shit every day. I went as far as deleting snapchat until I knew I could trust myself to only use it as a tool to message close friends. Having lived with those football players and seeing all but one of them flood Instagram and Twitter all day, guess which one is gonna get drafted in the first round after next season? The one who uses twitter once a month and never goes on Facebook. It's truly liberating detaching yourself from your smartphone and it will put you above a plethora of other men who stare at it all day instead of focusing on what they're doing in that moment. When you hop back on the social media craze, girls will start messaging you through it far more because, even via the internet, they'll pick up on your lack of try hard vibes. You wanna hear about try hard? Go tell a girl you live with football players and see how that turns out. You'll be disappointed, someone else has to brag about that for you. And guess what all that superficial try hard penis flexing leads to? More acne!

Tl;dr "GO TO YOUR HAPPY PLACE" -Chubs

nedshepherd · 2014-05-24T20:21:15+00:00

Yeah it does. Some days my acne is really good and I have pretty much none, other days I'm full on broken out and I can definitely seel reactions differ when I'm out and talking to women.

Title	Does acne affect your game?
Author	EASmarine
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Date	May 24, 2014 6:50 PM UTC (12 years ago)
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