Alizeh Shah's done feeling bad about her acne and so are we

"Embrace the glorious mess that you are," she posted on social media.

Updated 12 Apr, 2021

If you look in the mirror and feel bad about yourself for your acne, or conversely, if you're done feeling bad about yourself because of your acne, Alizeh Shah has a thought for you.

Taking to Instagram, the Ehd-e-Wafa star spoke out about her insecurity inducing struggle with acne.

"Here I am putting my biggest insecurity on display," Shah began, confessing, "Yes I've been struggling with acne for quite a long time."

"A lot of us have this idea that 'clear skin' should be the goal," she noted, though then confessing one does not need perfect skin to be happy.

'The current state of your skin does not measure your worth or your beauty!" she said.

She followed this up with a video zooming into her face, flaunting her acne marks, just the way she should.

Acne is a common ailment, a skin condition, that affects 9.4% of the global population, making it the eighth most prevalent condition in the world. Acne usually begins affecting people as they approach puberty, though it affects several adolescents and young adults as well. Approximately 85% of the people between ages 12 and 24 experience at least some acne.

However, studies say that acne might continue affecting people into their 30s and their 40s, with the trend of acne among adults increasing. A study found that 10 to 12% of adult women suffer from acne. The same study also notes that the impacts of acne in the lives of adult women is often greater than that on the lives of younger ones.

A study published in the Journal of Ayub Medical College, Abbottabad, studied the relation between acne and depression. Their results showed that 38% (19 out of 50) of the people with acne they studied suffer from depression, with a female predominance. Between patients of acne and seborrhea, the same study found that people suffering acne problems reported greater social anxiety, 34% as compared to 10%.

As acne becomes more prominent, so should the support people suffering from it get. We're glad Shah decided to speak on this matter, as several young people put themselves down everyday when they see inflammations and sores on their faces. Even more struggle with the marks it leaves behind. We, at Images, view them more as battle scars, for the fight your skin must embark on everyday against the sun, dirt, hormones and what not.

Echoing Shah's words, we'd like to conclude the way she did, by saying, "Embrace the glorious mess that you are!"

Comments

Rubina Apr 12, 2021 02:19pm

I am really amazed to see such comments from actors; the way they impersonate themselves as simpletons. After having done all sorts of alterations to their natural selves, they have the nerve to say -"Embrace the glorious mess that you are,"

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Browngirl Apr 12, 2021 02:42pm

Acne can cause severe psychological problems for women.

Sab Se Pehle Pakistan Apr 12, 2021 02:52pm

We are in middle of a Pandemic. People are losing their lives. Who cares about someone's skin.

Noor Us Sabah Apr 12, 2021 03:03pm

So.... where's the acne again?

M. Saeed Apr 12, 2021 06:13pm

See our village girls, you will hardly find acne marks on their faces. Reason is obvious but often not considered. Active show-biz girls/city girls invariably lack the supply of open air. The are exposed to smoke, traffic pollution, harms of junk food, excessive oils in fries, insufficient sleep and indulgence in excessive exposure to various harmful elements in busy life like UV rays, radio and mobile phone waves, microwaves of various daily use items, prevalent mobile phone antennae waves etc. All these are known to effect the body systems aggressively misused and left to react by fighting all these foreign elements encroaching upon the body and making its defence system to over-work, leaving the dead cells accumulated on body, mostly on face, in the form of acne.

Chrís Dăn Apr 12, 2021 06:48pm

Hey Girl,don't care. Just drink 8 glasses of water and in a few weeks ur skin would be clear.

M. Saeed Apr 12, 2021 10:41pm

@Chrís Dăn, you forget to say, out of 8 glasses of water, drink first 6 glasses at a single go, just after rising from bed in the morning and remaining 2 glasses during the day.

RationalBabu Apr 13, 2021 01:27am

@M. Saeed drinking 6 glasses of water in one go is impossible if not downright dangerous! Ask a doctor!

Naeem Apr 13, 2021 05:09am

Even then she is adorable

Shez Apr 13, 2021 05:59am

As usual mostly taunting comments. people just live and love to judge. Isnt there already loads of negativity in the world?