Alix vs. Acne

Hot Mess with Alix Earle

Alix Earle

Relationships, Fashion & Beauty, Arts, Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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(VIDEO PODCAST AVAILABLE ON SPOTIFY AND YOUTUBE) Today Alix addresses one of her most highly-requested topics…acne and skincare. She admits to having struggled with acne since middle school and her skin taking a toll on her mental health. Alix’s first experience with acne started in 5th - 6th grade. She went to a Catholic school where you were not allowed to wear makeup. She tells a story of secretly wearing concealer to cover up her pimples and then being forced to wash her face by a rude teacher. After being humiliated in front of the entire class, Alix knew she was willing to try anything to fix her acne. In high school, Alix was thankfully allowed to wear makeup. She remembers wearing makeup to sleepovers and feeling mentally drained by the effort required. Before she went off to college, Alix began Accutane. She reveals the scary side effects as well as the processes and tests necessary to first began Accutane, as well as the struggle of flaky lips and dry skin that she faced as a result of taking the medication. While her acne was cured temporarily by the drug, it was a grueling mental game that had her off and on the medicine a total of three separate times. The turning point in Alix’s confidence came when she posted a picture of her acne saying that social media is fake and that people don’t always look like their photos. After seeing the positive reaction online, she began creating more content with the same message - inspiring girls to feel confident in their skin and showing realistic tricks to cover pimples. She wanted to help people and eventually grew a following on TikTok sharing her authentic acne journey. Follow and connect with all things @HotMess across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, girlies. Welcome back to another episode of hot mess with Alex Earl. I'm doing something that I really really don't want to do today
0:08.2	It still makes me uncomfortable as much as I preach it online, but I'm filming this episode
0:14.6	We have no makeup on bear skin and I am someone who struggles with acne
0:20.3	I have struggled with acne since I was in middle school. I'll probably always struggle with acne and
0:26.2	We're going to be going over all of it. So I just figured it was only right that I
0:32.4	Don't wear makeup today. I want podcasting so you guys can see my skin because acne is normal and
0:39.2	Mostly everyone deals with it at some point in their life
0:42.1	So I just feel like that felt a little hypocritical to
0:45.8	Be talking about acne in my skin and be covering up with tons of foundation and concealer
0:52.0	As much as I'm gonna see these clips back and be like, oh
0:55.6	But that's something we need to go over today because acne is very very normal and it should not be something that we're so insecure about but
1:04.9	It takes a huge toll on your mental health and I don't think it's talked about enough
1:11.1	We are back in Miami for today's episode
1:14.8	Back home in my lovely mess of a dungeon before we get into today's episode
1:20.4	Don't forget to follow and subscribe to this podcast if you're watching it on YouTube subscribe
1:26.2	Spotify follow like any platform you're watching it on hit that little button
1:31.6	It means the world to me love you all so much and I've been going back and forth between I know we're kind of going the route of calling
1:38.9	Everyone the girl is but what about like girl girls?
1:41.7	I straight away from that at first I did like that the most
1:44.9	But I thought that it wouldn't like roll off the tongue because like I can't speak sometimes like roll
1:49.7	Girls, but I think that that could be a fun name or all girls if I can say it
2:06.4	This episode is brought to you by ITVX
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