Katie Buckleitner

There’s acne (blackheads! Whiteheads! The occasional bb zit!)...and then there’s acne: clusters of deep, red, painful cysts and bumps that take months to heal and almost always leave a scar on your skin/sanity. I’ve lived through acne—like, a constant rotation of 50 pimples on my face at all times—and if your skin is anything like mine was, you’ve probably spent a ton of time thinking about isotretinoin, i.e., the generic drug name for Accutane (which, FYI, isn’t actually on the market anymore, but everyone still refers to isotretinoin as Accutane anyway).