WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.182 --> 00:00:01.182 - Oh my God! 00:00:03.351 --> 00:00:05.634 Look at your face! 00:00:05.634 --> 00:00:07.426 - [Voiceover] I love playing on the arcade. 00:00:07.426 --> 00:00:08.926 (energetic music) 00:00:09.967 --> 00:00:12.917 - So I'm gonna be putting prosthetic acne on my face. 00:00:12.917 --> 00:00:14.488 - We're gonna wear it for a day. 00:00:14.488 --> 00:00:15.505 A day, right? 00:00:15.505 --> 00:00:17.643 - Both my parents have really clear skin, 00:00:17.643 --> 00:00:19.003 and that was just passed on to me. 00:00:19.003 --> 00:00:20.325 I can't take credit for any of that. 00:00:20.325 --> 00:00:23.286 - I definitely had acne for most of my teen years. 00:00:23.286 --> 00:00:25.109 I'm really nervous about this honestly (laughs). 00:00:25.109 --> 00:00:26.850 - I'm ready to be educated. 00:00:26.850 --> 00:00:28.767 - My name is Doctor Alex Martin. 00:00:28.767 --> 00:00:30.321 For the past 30 years, 00:00:30.321 --> 00:00:33.863 I have seen various degrees of hormonally-related acne. 00:00:33.863 --> 00:00:34.697 - Does this make you puberty 00:00:34.697 --> 00:00:36.267 if you're giving me the acne? 00:00:36.267 --> 00:00:37.483 - Does it stash? 00:00:37.483 --> 00:00:38.317 - Mm hm. 00:00:38.317 --> 00:00:40.063 - It's every 13-year-old boy's mortal enemy. 00:00:40.063 --> 00:00:41.792 - [Alex] Ranging from very minor outbreaks 00:00:41.792 --> 00:00:44.126 to the most severe cystic acne. 00:00:44.126 --> 00:00:45.287 - [Voiceover] So you're about to see yourself. 00:00:45.287 --> 00:00:46.120 - Yeah, okay. 00:00:46.120 --> 00:00:47.470 So I'm gonna take a look. 00:00:47.470 --> 00:00:48.770 Oh, whoa! 00:00:48.770 --> 00:00:51.781 - Oh shit, dude, I have plans today. 00:00:51.781 --> 00:00:53.333 - I'm just like looking at myself 00:00:53.333 --> 00:00:55.017 and wondering what people are gonna say. 00:00:55.017 --> 00:00:56.699 - Well, I posted a selfie on Instagram. 00:00:56.699 --> 00:00:58.499 All the comments were just people 00:00:58.499 --> 00:01:01.160 like trying to console me. 00:01:01.160 --> 00:01:03.376 - Well, my friends are mostly assholes, so 00:01:03.376 --> 00:01:05.398 (laughs) when I posted the picture, 00:01:05.398 --> 00:01:07.032 there was a lot of guys who I think have found me 00:01:07.032 --> 00:01:09.365 attractive at some point in my life were, 00:01:09.365 --> 00:01:11.670 felt the need that it was the right time 00:01:11.670 --> 00:01:13.447 to tell me how terrible I look. 00:01:13.447 --> 00:01:18.265 - Social anxiety seems to be a result of dealing with acne. 00:01:18.265 --> 00:01:20.935 - Finding it very hard to look people right in the face, 00:01:20.935 --> 00:01:23.617 - I'm kind of amazed at how many people 00:01:23.617 --> 00:01:26.218 took no issue with just staring at me. 00:01:26.218 --> 00:01:28.842 When people stared it felt like, 00:01:28.842 --> 00:01:29.944 indeed, you have zits. 00:01:29.944 --> 00:01:31.569 - The first interaction we have with people 00:01:31.569 --> 00:01:32.823 is by looking at them. 00:01:32.823 --> 00:01:34.565 So people fall guilty of staring. 00:01:34.565 --> 00:01:37.340 I think what we learned here is to have more empathy. 00:01:37.340 --> 00:01:40.997 - You cannot really replicate exactly the experience 00:01:40.997 --> 00:01:42.344 of the acne patient. 00:01:42.344 --> 00:01:43.656 - I'm really bummed out right now. 00:01:43.656 --> 00:01:45.676 I can only imagine how it feels to wake up 00:01:45.676 --> 00:01:49.682 to an acne breakout and have to get through the day. 00:01:49.682 --> 00:01:51.679 - But psychologically, I think you're gaining 00:01:51.679 --> 00:01:52.955 a lot of information. 00:01:52.955 --> 00:01:54.781 - I'm kind of frustrated with myself 00:01:54.781 --> 00:01:57.031 because of how I very badly 00:01:58.297 --> 00:02:00.677 want to tell them that it's fake. 00:02:00.677 --> 00:02:02.917 - So my day has kind of turned around. 00:02:02.917 --> 00:02:05.100 I just didn't really give a shit at the end of the day. 00:02:05.100 --> 00:02:07.282 But that was not brought on by just myself. 00:02:07.282 --> 00:02:08.502 It was brought on by my friends. 00:02:08.502 --> 00:02:10.496 We're in Whole Foods, I didn't want to come. 00:02:10.496 --> 00:02:11.856 - I made her come out because 00:02:11.856 --> 00:02:13.504 she has nothing to be ashamed of. 00:02:13.504 --> 00:02:15.584 - In the beginning, I was kind of emotional and sad, 00:02:15.584 --> 00:02:17.336 and then I realized, I'm hungry, 00:02:17.336 --> 00:02:18.718 I want to hang out with my friends, 00:02:18.718 --> 00:02:19.681 I want to laugh. 00:02:19.681 --> 00:02:21.581 - I have never been so excited 00:02:21.581 --> 00:02:23.583 to finish with shooting a video. 00:02:23.583 --> 00:02:26.184 I felt super duper self-conscious of the way I look. 00:02:26.184 --> 00:02:28.564 To anybody who is dealing with acne, 00:02:28.564 --> 00:02:29.979 you are so much stronger than me. 00:02:29.979 --> 00:02:32.476 I had acne for a day, and I wanted to hide under a rock. 00:02:32.476 --> 00:02:33.764 - I'm sure it's very genetic. 00:02:33.764 --> 00:02:35.238 I'm sure you can go to a dermatologist, 00:02:35.238 --> 00:02:36.644 and it takes time. 00:02:36.644 --> 00:02:38.164 I think it's just important to just 00:02:38.164 --> 00:02:40.359 practice self-love in other ways. 00:02:40.359 --> 00:02:44.040 - It's really character and the talent that counts, 00:02:44.040 --> 00:02:45.363 not superficial beauty. 00:02:45.363 --> 00:02:48.624 - This experiment not only made me appreciate 00:02:48.624 --> 00:02:50.877 and understand the insecurities of acne, 00:02:50.877 --> 00:02:54.616 but made me just like love myself a little bit more. 00:02:54.616 --> 00:02:57.542 This whole thing has been very helpful with that. 00:02:57.542 --> 00:02:59.736 - If I was a stranger and I asked for your number, 00:02:59.736 --> 00:03:01.825 would you, what would you say? 00:03:01.825 --> 00:03:04.102 - I would give you half of my number. 00:03:04.102 --> 00:03:06.365 Let me see what your personality is like, 00:03:06.365 --> 00:03:09.419 and then I give you the other half. 00:03:09.419 --> 00:03:11.161 - I get three-and-a-half digits 00:03:11.161 --> 00:03:13.328 is what he just said. (laughs) 00:03:13.328 --> 00:03:14.161 - Basically.