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Adult Acne Blog - thebroadroom.net: February 2006
Disclaimer: I am not a doctor, nurse, nutritionist, herbalist, or otherwise medically trained person.
I am an ordinary person who has suffered from adult acne since 1995 and have found no solution to my acne through conventional medicine.
This and that
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
Saturday, February 18, 2006
at 2:49 PM (Pacific)
I got over my bad skin day pretty quickly. I started making a point of drinking my Celestial Seasonings White Tea at night. (Okay it's a bit tricky coordinating it so that I don't have to get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom.)
Then--perhaps unwisely--I got curious and starting surfing around looking for info on white tea and acne.
Well...what can I say. The Internet anyway is becoming more and more commercialized, only most of the sites that profiteer don't bother telling you that that's what they're doing. It's creepy. Cutting to the chase, that means that there is little incentive for said commercialized sites to advocate the kinds of things that I do. Simply: it's not profitable for them to do so.
I won't name any names but I came across a site that stated in so many words that white tea does not work for acne.
Now, what does that really mean? I checked briefly on the site and saw numerous affiliate links on it, to both prescription and OTC acne medications. I have nothing against affiliate links per se--TheBroadroom.Net has used them at times--but we've always said right out that they were affiliate links--that any sales made through them, would generate a commission for the site.
I realized afresh...not because of this particular site (which I'm sure has valid information on it) but because of the overall commercialization of the Net...I realized that it might be well to state my own "credentials" for writing this blog, and for writing on the Net in general.
I started posting on a site called The Lipstick Page in 1998. The Net was pretty new back then and I didn't want to write under my real name, so I chose the name Josephine Green. (That is why this site is still called Josephine's Fans of the Beauty Boards Page.)
Josephine lasted for about six years. At one point I realized that, if I expected to get a job programming-wise, I could not continue to use a pen name. That is when I changed everything over from Josephine Green to my real name, Colleen Shirazi.
I still have a user account on The Lipstick Page--the original site, www.thelipstickpage.com, closed down in early 2004. My own site, TheBroadroom.Net (which hosts this site btw) took over hosting and running the Lipstick Page forum, and added on some other features:
The Lipstick Page Forums
Hence my user account on LP dates back to 2001 which is when the founders of LP, Madeleine and Bjorn, switched forum scripts. i.e. we all had to re-register our user accounts.
About the same time I started posting on LP, I also posted on MakeupAlley.com. I'm not sure unlogged-in readers can view user profiles over there (I don't think so) but my user account on MUA is josephine9999.
This was not my first user account on MUA and dates back only to March 2002. I actually forgot my username on MUA and had to create a new account (I'm almost sure it was josie9999 or something like that).
In short--because within the next year or so, this notion of Internet blogging, or even posting on forums, will become entirely suspect--it is possible to "trace" my "Internet presence" or credibility simply by those two user accounts, this site itself, the blogs on TheBroadroom.Net...the earliest work I have up here I believe dates to 2000, possibly 1999.
Thanks for reading!
The ever elusive "bad skin day"
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
Thursday, February 16, 2006
at 6:31 PM (Pacific)
What causes it? At least I'll admit I don't know. I'm so sick of "genetics," "hormones," all those meaningless "answers."
I've gotten my skin to the point that a bad skin day, isn't all that bad any more. It's still annoying though. I'm wondering if it's cheap meat. I've largely cut down on this (which used to be a staple of my working-class-girl's diet), but how much free-range beef can you afford these days? I just found out my birth control pill went up 30% in price. Bang, just like that.
Any time anyone asks why celebrities look so good, the first thing that comes to my mind is simply that they can afford to eat better than the rest of us. I'm not sure I've heard of someone who eats, say, 100% organic food, who has adult acne.
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