[r/SkinCareAddiction] [Sun Care] I deformed his face and feel awful— what surgery/topical medication can fix it?

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I was scrolling thru instagram and saw a picture of a guy I went to uni with and was filled with remorse because of what I did to him.

This dude dated the guy I had a huge crush on at the start of freshman year and broke his heart really dramatically halfway through the year. Like the angsty idiotic 19 year old girl I was, I took it upon myself to get revenge, convinced this would make my crush fall in love with me.

I knew the guy had a serious sun seinsitivity. I’m talking, he could not go outside on a cloudy day without SPF 150 sun sensitivity. So what I did was sneak into his room (I knew his roommate from water club) and replaced his sunscreen with retinol, which I had heard made your skin extra sensitive to sunlight. The switch was astonishingly easy, since he kept his sunscreen in a ziploc bag.

You can probably guess the rest? His face was so badly burnt, he was hospitalized. I assumed over time it would heal, but the picture I just saw is 9 years later and his face is still severely fucked up.

I never did tell anyone about this, not even my crush who I did it for. I was planning on telling him if we dated, but that didn’t pan out as he later rejected me (he was gay, duh, again I blame 19 year old brain)

I’m incredibly upset at what I did. I’ve been looking through this guys socials, and it looks like he’s had a really good life despite all this, but he has looked like a monster in all of his photos for a almost a decade and will probably continue to for the rest of his life.

I recently came into a lot of money and want to spend whatever it takes to fix this guys face for him. I realize I acted out of malice and went way too far with my revenge, and I think more than anything I want to make it right. I’m probably going to reach out to him with my general offer, but I want to have specific surgeries and stuff I can suggest right off the bat. Anything come to mind?