With time, I have accepted my acne.
Today, I still experience some anxiety, but I am working very hard on getting out of my comfort zone, and I hope that sharing my experience online like this is a step in the right direction.
I thought covering myself with loads of makeup would cover everything up, but you could still see all of the texture, and eventually, it didn’t seem worth it.
I didn’t know what to do. I just started going to church because that’s what I had been taught. That’s what my loved ones were telling me to do. But one day, I inevitably had to realize - “this is who I am,” and eventually, I even learned to accept that.
Soumi is a community member and a female leader in STEM who lives in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
‘I was forced to meet myself. I was living in my body, but this breakdown led me to getting to know myself for the first time. I just wanted to find a way to express and confront limiting thoughts.”
Is it me? Am I being overdramatic? Am I not doing enough?
Karishma Leckraz is an easy-going and genial 27-year-old makeup artist from Kent County, U.K. She has had eczema since she was two and describes how she grew up battling the beauty expectations of two worlds.
Joy Blenman is a self-care and beauty content creator with alopecia universalis. She describes how the condition has evolved her into the resilient woman that she is today.