By the way, don`t use ProActiv, especially if you`re allergic to benzoyl peroxide. Many of the ingredients irritate skin, but it`s different from person to person. Also, once you stop using it, all your acne will come back.

Acne can be caused by more than just poor hygiene. It can also be caused by a change in diet or be a result of malnutrition, overactive sebaceous glands, hormonal problems, stress, changes in their environment..........any number of underlying problems that cannot be solved by simply "taking care of your skin". So how does a person "deserve" what they cannot control? Kindly STFU.

She can ask her dermatologist to recommend one of the thousands of acne products to her, which she is probably not doing. You don't even know if it's caused by poor hygiene or not so she can solve it by "taking her of her skin." Also, she can't control malnutrition, stress, change in diet, hygiene? Yes, she can - so once again SHE DESERVES IT.

And you don't know that it IS caused by poor hygiene. Also, one can only control malnutrition or stress to a certain extent. Many outside factors can make a person stressful, and using psychological coping techniques only get you so far. As for malnutrition, what if she can't afford to eat the right foods? Another fact: dermatologists cost MONEY. We are in a RECESSION. And there are a lot of people out there WITHOUT INSURANCE. Not everyone has enough money to run to a professional and shit out money for an expensive medical fix. We know nothing other than what the short FML post allows us to know: she has acne. So stop making assumptions that she has to have poor facial hygiene simply because she has acne. It makes you sound really REALLY ignorant.

Who says she doesn't take care of it? Maybe her acne is just really bad no matter what she does, or perhaps she can't afford to get a powerful prescription medicine to help. I had to do that for mine and it still isn't 100% better. OP, fyl. She might've been trying to be nice, but there are better ways of doing so.

1. The recession ended. 2. If she cannot afford to eat the right foods, the last thing on her boyfriend's mom's mind would have been her acne. I doubt that is the problem. 3. You're making the assumption that her acne is caused by anything other than hygiene. 4. I didn't say she had poor facial hygiene. I'm telling her to put the effort into finding better products.

Better products cost more money, which the OP might not have. It's also possible that the OP isn't so concerned about her skin because it isn't that bad; maybe the boyfriend's mom is a perfectionist bitch that wants everything and everyone to look unnaturally flawless. Or maybe this isn't the case at all. The point is, we don't know what's going on, so it's not really fair to say, "YDI for not doing this!" You don't know the situation well enough to make an accurate judgment.

So should there be zero votes on "I agree, your life sucks" and zero votes on "you totally deserved it?"

It's an "I agree your life sucks" because the boyfriend's mother was being unnecessarily rude. Telling the girl "here, you need this acne wash because I want you to look good enough for my family pictures" implies that the mother thinks the girl isn't pretty enough to be in a photograph. That is VERY rude and hurtful. It's saying "I don't want you to be in any of my pictures because I don't like the way you look, even though my son (supposedly) cares about you a great deal". It's an FYL because the woman is a callous bitch.

You look like a pig

Exactly. Other things like stress, hormones and diet can add to acne. OP, as long as you take care of your skin, that's all that really matters. Some people get unlucky and others get really lucky. Just don't touch your face, wash your face everyday (but not more than twice a day) and even if it doesn't clear up now, it eventually will and you won't be left with acne scars.