If you didn't want your physical insecurities to be pointed out, you shouldn't have got a portrait from someone who specialises in doing so. I bet your friends had their noses, ears or teeth exaggerated as well.

When someone's insecure about their features, like all teens, yes, it is the same.

if the artist wants his/her customers to be happy, he/she should know not to do something like that! So yes, the op has every right to be unhappy

The point of charicatures is NOT to emphasize your "flaws", but any part of your face and body that's especially distinguishing. I've done jobs before where I drew caricatures of people and trust me, unless you don't value your job you're not going to draw anything people will be particularly sensitive about. Big ears/nose/lips are one thing, but say giving someone a ton of pimples or making them look grotesquely obese is another thing. Basically most caricature artists will never do public drawings that poke at weight/acne/anything sexual/etc. unless they're drawing celebrities who will never talk to them anyway. So unless the OP has a pretty disfigured face due to acne or is exaggerating how the artist drew her face, I'm surprised the artist did so.

acne can be a bitch. I guess caricature artists can be too! ha

hah, sweet, I'm a caricature artist from Oklahoma, where about did you get this done? I didn't know there were guys doing it in the city anywhere.

If you wanted the artist not to exaggerate your acne, you should have told him. Even bad charicature artists understand it when people are very sensitive about one particular thing, either because they're human too or just because they know they won't get paid otherwise.

Hahahahahaha, but seriously the artist was a little bit of a jerk, it is only funny because it wasn't me.

This is obviously all OPs fault. She doesn't know how to properly use her proactive. Duh DUMB SHIT

YDI that's what they do- everyone knows they're horrible.