A nurse plagued by acne breakouts for seven years which badly affected her self-confidence has finally cured her skin problem by using an £18 fake tan. Emma Young, 23, a paediatric nurse, was sceptical when she read reviews saying a self tanner cleared spotty skin, because she had already tried treating her sore red acne spots with antibiotics and steroid creams and fake tan normally caused breakouts across her cheeks .
Emma, who lives in Glasgow with her boyfriend, Bradley, 24, a joiner, said: “I didn’t expect it to work for me because I had tried all the skincare products under the sun and nothing would help my sore red skin.”
Affected by acne since her early teens, Emma had tried everything to clear her complexion. She said: “My skin got so bad I ended up going to the doctors aged 14 and was put on antibiotics and a steroid cream over the next five years, but they made my skin dry and didn’t do much to get rid of the acne. And I never used to tan my face with self-tanner, as it would always cause breakouts, which put me off self-tanning.”
