A mum who felt “like a monster” and even hid her face from her daughter when an attack of cystic acne refused to respond to antibiotics is finally able to leave the house after her mother treated her to an £85 “miracle cure.” Suffering with cystic acne for 10 years, legal PA Jaime Graves, 42 – who believes the pus-filled pimples that form deep under the skin were first triggered by hormonal changes in her early 30s – had always been able to clear her complexion with antibiotics.
But when a break out covered her face in January 2022, after she had tested positive for Covid, single mum Jaime – who lives in Houghton Conquest, Bedfordshire, with her daughter, Freya, 13 – says her usual prescription had no effect. Even hiding her face under make up from Freya, it was not until her mum, Susan, 68, a retired secretary, bought her a skin care bundle after reading about its properties, that Jaime says her spots started to disappear, adding: “My mental health was so low earlier in the year.
“I hated my face to the point where I didn’t want anyone else to see it. I can’t believe I’m now freely leaving the house whenever I want to and I even joined a work video call the other day completely make up free, which is something I never would have done before.”
