I have a friend who works for proactiv and she has given me many tips that i'm going to share.
I've been using proactiv for a while and I love it. At first it dried out my skin, but instead of using it twice a day I used it once. Which made it more bearable. This meant I wasn't 100% acne free at first but I worked up to twice a day and my skin is awesome.
Here are some tips about proactiv
-the mask you get with the 3 piece kit (the free mask you get with it) you can use as a spot treatment..Just put some a dab on a upcoming pimple or one that is already there and leave it over night in the morning wash your face how you regularly would with the proactiv. Sometimes after a night at the bar I don't wash my face when I get home and end up breaking out so I do this the next night and by morning i'm back to where I started before the breakout. It works awesome trust me!
-you can use proactiv on you back, chest and neck it works well but only use it once a day and at night the lotion you use last in the kit bleaches clothing! So do it before bed and wear a top that you don't mind if it gets bleached. The body wash that proactiv has now at the stands does not work very well at all so don't bother buying it.