{"id":261,"date":"2025-12-29T13:18:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T11:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helenasas.shop\/?p=261"},"modified":"2025-12-29T13:20:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T11:20:58","slug":"what-do-you-want-to-be-when-you-grow-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenasas.shop\/en\/what-do-you-want-to-be-when-you-grow-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Helena, what do you want to be when you grow up?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_pb_section_0 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_block_section\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row et_block_row\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column_0 et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_0 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p>It was bullying that led me to become obsessed with skin, and to want to help so many people whose self-esteem is diminished for the same reason.<\/p>\n<p>It&#039;s amazing how much impact words (from others) have and how they affect us, especially during adolescence.<\/p>\n<p>I still find the urge to offend and belittle others repulsive. But 20 years ago, I found it even less amusing to have to think every night about whether I should apply lemon juice or toothpaste to my forehead to solve my acne problems and stop my classmates&#039; teasing.<\/p>\n<p>Things were getting worse every day, and my shy face, covered by a huge fringe, was the perfect target at recess.<\/p>\n<h2>Does the brand Clerasil ring a bell?<\/h2>\n<p><strong>It was also my nickname when I was 13.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The despair of seeing yourself alone leads you to think about things that could not have been changed.<\/p>\n<p>Then I started looking for solutions.<\/p>\n<p>997 creams, 1 medicine, a healer, and a facial hygiene.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014But hold on, Helena! What&#039;s your real problem? Bullying? Acne?\u2014<\/p>\n<p>A crucial moment when I understood that a problem doesn&#039;t have the same name if it has a solution, and if it doesn&#039;t, there&#039;s no remedy.<\/p>\n<p>But I knew I would find him, that I would eventually know how and where. Because if I thought about when, I would start to cry.<\/p>\n<h2>My first beauty salon<\/h2>\n<p>I loved walking into that first beauty salon. You can&#039;t imagine how much faith I had in those professionals.<\/p>\n<p>After that, my pimples started to look more like the red dots you see on Google Maps. \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n<p>But as I said, I had a lot of faith. If they didn&#039;t fix it there, I&#039;d be a pimp forever. But it was more of the same. Hope was fading.<\/p>\n<p>Cystic and inflammatory acne at an early age, and the scars it can leave on the face, can affect a person&#039;s confidence for life.<\/p>\n<p>So now, I&#039;m going to see a psychologist. Not too bad!<\/p>\n<h2>From nickname to vocation<\/h2>\n<p>That nickname, which caused so much suffering, was transformed into a goal that came true 17 years later.<\/p>\n<p>The psychologist sessions became less frequent thanks to a lot of hard work on my part, and each time I felt my goal getting closer.<\/p>\n<p>You know when you buy a car, and the next day you see it everywhere?<\/p>\n<p>That used to happen to me, it&#039;s called <strong>FOCUS<\/strong>. And that&#039;s what made me want to dedicate myself to personal skin care.<\/p>\n<p>From a distance, I think, I&#039;ve had the &quot;pleasure&quot; of living this story, my own, because otherwise I wouldn&#039;t be here today, doing what I do. Between training professionals and my medical-aesthetic clinic. Helping people improve the appearance of their skin so they feel better.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today my mirror doesn&#039;t reflect a face, but a person. Just like yours.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When you change the way you see your world, your world changes.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#039;s it, a part of me that knew how to turn a weakness into a strength to decide what I wanted to be when I grew up. \u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>And I&#039;m going for it all.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-helena-sas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenasas.shop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenasas.shop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenasas.shop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenasas.shop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenasas.shop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/helenasas.shop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"https:\/\/helenasas.shop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenasas.shop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenasas.shop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenasas.shop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenasas.shop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}