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I had been looking into tools that could help remove dead skin cells and trigger new cell growth. One such beauty gadget is PMD Beauty’s Personal Microderm Classic, which I bought in 2019 for $159. I wouldn’t call myself an expert, but chances are if there’s something new in beauty, I’ve either read about or tried it. I’ve become the person in my friend group who knows the most about things like actives, occlusives, sheet masks, overnight masks, sunscreens and how different formulas and suspensions affect the absorption of a product. These days, thanks to two rounds of Accutane in my early twenties and having sunk many hours into researching skincare, I feel a lot better. My sensitive skin, combined with a family history of keloids, made managing my complexion feel like an insurmountable challenge. That led to deep scarring and the development of raised scar tissue called keloids all over my shoulders, chest and upper back. But my hormones brought on years of angry acne that covered my whole face and parts of my body, and I picked at those zits with self-loathing. My mom did her best to help, as did various family members, by taking me to facial treatments and giving me product recommendations and diet advice. Since then, I’ve felt like I was battling to salvage my face. I don’t remember exactly how I felt or responded in the moment, but that memory clearly stayed with me. My friend, thinking of homonyms, had renamed it “One pimple, one facial, one single pore.” Our teacher walked in after we finished writing the lyrics on the whiteboard, took one look at the title, and asked the class, “Did you all write that song about Cherlynn?” When I was 12, a classmate and I were rewriting the lyrics to a well-known song in Singapore called One people, one nation, one Singapore.
