Ryan's Acne
This is not meant to be mean..but why in the heck do they not use makeup. He and Effie need ProActive ASAP!Just because your investigating ghosts does not mean you shouldn't have clear skin!!!
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MovieChat Forums > Paranormal State (2007) Discussion > Ryan's Acne
It makes me wonder why someone his age would still have acne, I have noticed he's gotten a tad "buffed", maybe it's steroids . Effie's face is severely bad, you'd think she could atleast afford some proactiv.
shareAcne is totally normal; there's nothing wrong with it. I know plenty of people in their 20's who have it. So they don't cover it up for the show. Big deal. They're comfortable with themselves.
shareHmm. I think it's a relief to see normal people doing what they do, being filmed, and not changing their apperance for society's astetic enjoyment. Kudos, guys.
shareProActive Solution doesn't work for everyone. Some people have to use something a little stronger than a bottle of infomercial soap. Each person is different; some people never recover from acne no matter what they do. Others never get acne at all. A likely explanation is that they either don't care, or they already tried ProActiv and other products - unsuccessfully.
Investigating paranormal activity doesn't have anything to do with one's skin, either . . . at least in my opinion. Being on television does signify the state of the skin, but not investigating ghosts as far as I'm concerned.
Regarding the two men choosing not to conceal their acne with makeup, I guess it's just a personal preference. If it were me, I would want to cover it, but again, everyone is different.
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"Try something new. Remember, a professional built the Titanic. An amateur built the Ark."
Exactly what you said. Proactiv doesn't work for everyone.
shareI am just surprised that you can see the acne on Ryan. But this is "reality TV". I was not trying to offend anyone, but sometimes Ryan's acne can be distracting, because in most TV shows and movies they use more make up to cover the flaws. I better leave Ryan and Effie alone, I am a fellow Penn State graduate:)
share<i>He and Effie need ProActive ASAP!</i>
Proactiv doesn't work for everyone. I've tried it several times before and I still have sever acne. It may be something he just can't help.
Amandidda,
If you can afford it, I urge you to go to a dermatologist and ask about Amnesteem. It's the strongest medication available for acne - almost a cure. The potential side effects are scary, but I'm on my 3rd month now and I'm doing great. People talk about this medication like it's some kind of hellish monster, but the fact is that it usually changes people's entire lives for the better. In my opinion, if you've tried one over the counter product, you've tried them all. The dermatologist may want you to try some creams, birth control pills and antibiotics first. But if I can fight for 12 years to get Amnesteem, you can fight for it for a few months. Sometimes, you just need to bust out the heavy artillery. P.S., I hope you're not offended by my suggestion!
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"Try something new. Remember, a professional built the Titanic. An amateur built the Ark."
Ryan and his crew should "go organic." When I switched to organic foods, I lost 28 pounds, I cured my insomnia, and my acne went away!
Remove the cause, and the disease is history.
Last year, I developed a food allergy to soy, which I was completely unaware of. I started to get bad skin again, and gain weight. But as soon as I figured out I had a new allergy, I avoided soy products. The symptoms disappeared! So organic foods, beverages, AND trying exclusion diets to test for food allergies are all natural acne cures.
This reinforces my theory that mankind overall has become more shallow and pointless than intelligent and productive.
In a nutshell, acne can occur throughout life, being triggered by both external and internal catalysts. Neither topical nor ingested medications are guaranteed to work on everybody or even be effective for one person in several instances. Many of the well known treatments can trigger side effects ranging from minor, such as skin irritation and chemical burns, to severe.
Judging by this, if William Shakespeare suddenly materialized in a theater, people would be more focused on his balding head than on asking him about his talent.
Sci-Fi is for those who understand the space outside the box is less crowded.
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That's life. People judge others from the time they can comprehend. They have done tests on this with very young children, and one thing they found out is that no matter how nice someone is, if they are fat and less attractive, the children find them to be mean. Replace the fat person with someone who is thin, and isn't even friendly, and children perceive the thin attractive person as friendlier. That's life, and to pretend that people have only become shallow in recent decades is a shallow conclusion. Yes, people ARE more than their looks, however, without speaking to someone to know them, the judgement is based on the shell, not the inside.
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Since standards of beauty are not universal, or even static within a sociological, cultural, or geographical grouping, your statements can not be applied to the whole of humanity, as saying "that's life" would imply you are doing.
Your "study", for which you provide no pertinent information such as ages of children, area of the world, economic background, media exposure, etc. is meaningless. In the United States, anorexia and body dysmorphic disorder are on the rise and affecting younger people. The pressure to achieve standards of beauty which are unnatural, and even dangerous to one's health, is permeating society and warping the self-image of people. If more people are falling prey to disorders of the mind which are based on physical appearance, this would indicate the value placed upon perceived aesthetic perfection is becoming higher. Of course beauty has been valued since the beginning of man, but shallowness is obviously increasing as indicated by image issues.
I hate to break it to you, but there are people who can, and do, see past a person's appearance. Implying everyone is superficial seems like a failed attempt to justify being fickle.
Sci-Fi is for those who understand the space outside the box is less crowded.
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First of all, it was NOT MY study. It was a documented test in the US. The study was based on WEIGHT, not ugliness and how children perceive people.
Your talk about anorexia is CRAP! Anorexia affects 4% of the US female population, and .5% of the US male population. Overweight and obesity are on the rise, not anorexia. Currently, 72% of the US population is OVER weight, with 30+% obese.
Please, look up your facts before stating things like this.
The people who see past other peoples appearance are people with very low standards and have a lower self esteem. Plus, the criteria for dismissing certain things is different from person to person. I don't think 99% of the population would want to date a burn victim, and I can't imagine the 1% that would unless they were already attached to the victim in some way. This has nothing to do with the person with the disability themselves, just outward appearances.
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That reply just proved either you do not read what is written or you read it, yet can not comprehend it. Maybe it is a bit of both.
1. I never said it was your study. Why would I? If you had been involved in a such you study, you would actually understand what is considered the ideal appearance changes, thus changing the outcome depending on which culture that study is performed in.
2. You quoted the percentage of overall population anorexia affects, and totally shied away from body dysmorphic disorder, when what I posted had nothing to do with total, but with the increase of those being diagnosed and younger sufferers. In a country of 100 million people, if 995,000 were diagnosed with a disease last year, but 1,050,000 are diagnosed this year, both totals are roughly one percent of the population, but definitely on the rise. Do your research and your math! Some estimates run as high as an eighty percent increase in young girls being treated for anorexia in just one decade. The number of adult women being treated has risen. The number of men treated for anorexia has risen as well. On. The. Rise.
3. Do you even know some of the factors behind the obesity issue in the US? Portion control, processing, and sedentary lifestyles are three contributors to obesity numbers rising. While some obesity is linked to mental and self-image issues, those are not the prevalent reasons, as they are with anorexia and BDD.
4. The following has to be one of the most ridiculous things I have ever read. "The people who see past other peoples appearance are people with very low standards and have a lower self esteem." Again, you are making baseless assumptions and turning those assumptions into blanket statements. I would beg to differ that those who actually learn to see past the aesthetic are more evolved, have set higher standards for themselves, and have more self-esteem, which they will need due to the teasing and needling people who think as you apparently do would give them.
5. I clearly stated not everyone is as shallow as you purport. By saying 99 percent are, which you have, again, no basis for, PROVES WHAT I SAID! 100 percent is everyone; anything less is not.
Sci-Fi is for those who understand the space outside the box is less crowded.
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Thank you for the levity.
I have to vote in the shallow pool, Effie's skin freaks me out. Esp. when combined with greasy hair.
Seriously, how have you not noticed the amount of makeup they have caked on to those poor kids? Leave them the hell alone.
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