#skin conditions

[the-rest-is-silenc3]

i hate that it’s seen as ok for people to make fun of skin conditions

this includes skin conditions that are caused/exacerbated by poor hygiene btw

#acne #eczema #psoriasis #skin issues #skin condition #skin conditions #disabled #disability #fizzy disability

[nemfrog]

Eczema. Library of health. 1921.

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#medical illustration #eczema #skin conditions #dermatitis #nemfrog #1921 #1920s #medicine

[pinkiewitchcraft]

~ ✨🧚🏾‍♂️ Skin Positivity: 🧚🏾‍♀️✨~

As a person with acne, eczema, psoriasis, and thick calluses on my feet, and who is pretty much allergic to everything, excluding shea butter, cocoa butter, and only one brand of makeup, I would like to take the time to say that people with skin conditions are beautiful.

People do not have to have smooth, clear, “flawless” skin. I certainly don’t. And the older that I get, the more my eczema spreads, which will only stop once it’s all over my body. My skin is always very dry and very fragile even when I put on lotions and creams and whatnot.

And as for acne, I have that all over my upper body. My face, my head, my neck, my chest, my belly, my back, and my upper arms.

And no, I’m not ashamed of any of this, nor should I be made to feel that way. I am not this untouchable, disgusting thing that should be hidden from the world. I am a human being with my own life, and my own beauty, and I deserve to be respected and treated as such.

And NOT despite my skin conditions, but WITH them. Because people like me exist, and we deserve to be seen and represented.

The nature of one’s skin should not ever determine whether they are beautiful, or worthy of love and respect.

I already am. Because I exist.

My skin is beautiful in all of its little dry scales, flakes, bumps, calluses, acne, and dark spots. And I refuse to let some ignorant people tell me that I should feel ashamed of my own skin because it’s not like everyone else’s. This is MY skin, and I decide how I feel about it. And I love it. I refuse to let anyone make me feel bad for how I was born, and for how my skin turns out. I am not a mistake to be fixed. I am worthy, regardless of what anyone says.

I am beautiful. I am worthy of love and respect. I am.

#skin conditions #eczema #acne positivity #psoriasis #contact dermatitis #allergies #disability #disabilities #disabled

[teenytiny-ant]

Starting to actually hate my skin conditions like my arms are covered in eczema and scabs from itching it too much and if I even touch my face a big red line with appear.

#not to mention how clothes leave marks on my skin #getting a little tired of it #eczema #skin conditions

[weirdbrainweirdbody]

Why I hate how dandruff is presented

You've all seen the jokes- old man with dandruff, shaking his head and a cloud of snow falls down, dandruff just being there for a laugh... It's never treated as anything serious, ever. It's just a joke! And just a joke about old men at that.

I'm 17 years old. I've had dandruff since I was at least 11. I've been made fun of all that time for the white flakes that are a constant on my head.

I just saw dandruff as a joke, too.

At most, it was just my scalp being a bit dry, so it needed a moisturising shampoo.

Yeah.... Turns out I have scalp psoriasis. I'm in near constant pain, which gets worse whenever I'm ill or stressed, because psoriasis is an autoimmune disease. My immune system is attacking my own skin. It's gotten to the point where shampoo doesn't help. I'm just in pain, always. I'll have a doctor's appointment where we can discuss options soon hopefully.

It's painful enough that I end up with scabbing all over my scalp from scratching. I pull my hands away and my nails are bloody from repeatedly picking and itching the scabs.

So no, not just a funny joke.

When I mentioned how painful it was to my friend, (only referring to it as dandruff rather than psoriasis) he said "I didn't realise dandruff could be painful!". In fact, several conditions that can cause dandruff have the fact that they're itchy or sore in their their symptoms list- eczema, dermatitis, and of course psoriasis.

And yet people just see dandruff as a joke. Even now, I feel anxious writing this- I feel like someone's gonna read this and think 'why are they getting so serious about dandruff? Lighten up!'

Sure, for some people it's not painful. Just flaky. But even then, they can experience the same social issues I did- I still remember a pair of kids seeing my large white skin flakes on my dark hair and exclaiming that I had nits (lice for Americans), and running away shouting at me. I hate that it's treated as a joke, or stigmatised, and seen as just an old man thing.

It's an actually serious issue for so many people. Why isn't it treated as such?

#I could actually go on a whole rant about stigmatisation of skin conditions in general #but that's a rant for another day #chronic pain #pain #psoriasis #scalp psoriasis #skin condition #skin conditions #autoimmine disease #autoimmune disorder #dandruff

[beenovel]

Hey does anyone know of a site like CurlScan (a site that tells you if a product is Curly Girl approved) for Rosacea???? I'm just so overwhelmed looking through the ingredients on every single product I go to buy. I just want to wear sunscreen without my face feeling like it's on fire and be able to type in the name of the product to find out whether it's going to give me hives/acne/a rash/etc

Please reblog this even if you don't have an answer just in case someone else does

#just gonna add a bunch of tags so lots of people will see this #rosacea #curl scan #skin problems #skin products #skin protection #acne #cystic acne #rosacea acne #eczema #chronic illness #chronic pain #disability #skin condition #skin conditions #psoriasis #hives #sensitive skin #skin sensitivity #skin sensitivities #skincare #skin care

[witchofthesouls]

I just realized something.

Skin conditions, such as eczema, are the original Material Girl.

They're such pricey bitches to manage, especially if you need the products that are either expensive or getting expensive. And you have to get them. Otherwise, it will hold you down by the throat and set you on fire.

It's the most intense critic of your lifestyle and choices, but with the experience of a torture specialist.

This is my long way of saying that I'm severely regretting trying a new shampoo and conditioner because it was just there instead of driving out to get a brand that doesn't slowly kill me.

#soul speaking #skin conditions #ezcema #im slathered in Cetaphil and jojoba oil #fingers crossed it will calm down in a week

[cloudxxiii]

TO EVERYONE WITH SKIN CONDITIONS

Just remember, you're all beautiful the way you are. Whether it be acne, rosecoa, vitiligo, psoriasis, eczema, warts or even skin cancer, or maybe something else, you're still beautiful. :)

#skin conditions #skin conditions acceptance #love yourself

[peaceforpeople]

The Skin Conditions (made in Gacha Club):

A disease in which pigment disappears in areas of the body with age and leaves light spots

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Albinism is a congenital disease in which pigment is absent from birth.

And Melanism is the opposite of albinism, that is, from birth the pigment is not absent, but on the contrary, there is too much of it.

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Acanthokeratoderma or "Blue skin syndrome" is a disease in which a person's skin color changes to blue or purple

Hypercarotenemia – a disease in which the skin color becomes yellow-orange due to an overdose of carotene (it is found in carrots)

#vitiligo #albinism #melanism #Acanthokeratoderma #Hypercarotenemia #skin conditions #gacha #gacha life #gacha club #shitpost?

[pretty-pink-seaslug]

When you have eczema and bad dandruff and it’s cold and when it rains it gets muggy thus making you really uncomfortable and also you have depression so its hard to wash your hair often so you use hair lotion but you keep asking yourself if it’s working and your mom tells you to comb your hair but that would require undoing your box braids and RE-doing them and you don’t know how to braid hair and have never done so before

#this is about to be a WILD tag storm #a tag hurricane if you will #depression #4c hair #eczema #dandruff #skin conditions #lol ignore me

[thedigitaldinosaur]

#EczemaAwarenessWeek : “It’s hard to let anyone love you, look at you, kiss you etc. when you feel and look disgusting.”

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#ECZEMA #ECZEMA AWARENESS #ECZEMA SUPPORT #mental health support #SKIN CONDITIONS

[chubs-deuce]

I was nerfed at birth when I was given ADHD with a tendency to get easily overstimulated from itching and bad textures on my skin + a bad habit of picking at said skin...

... And then additionally inherited my mother's keratosis pilaris, psoriasis AND an out of left field fucking allergy to aloe vera, which presents itself in itchy rashes and just so happens to be one of the most popular ingredients in skin care products. :')

#not sure if my compulsive need to Get Rid Of Skin Textures by picking at it is intense enough to warrant calling it dermatillomania tho ngl #bc it's been a lot worse when I was younger but not all that bad anymore these days #but I do have a lot of small dot-like scars all over my arms legs and face now from back then #cw: medical #tw: medical #skin conditions #allergy #chubs rambles

[pinkiewitchcraft]

🩷🌸💕🐙🐷🎀

#witchcraft #beauty #self love #love #art #pink witch #hyper femininity #soft black girls #skin positivity #skin conditions #acne positivity #hairy body #facial hair #facial hair is beautiful #body hair positivity

[disabledunitypunk]

So I wanna talk about something:

I think, as a fat person myself, being fat can be a disability.

Now I don't mean this in a fatphobic way of "fatness prevents all fat people from ever being athletic or living whole, fulfilling lives in general". I mean that in terms of both physical ability and social lack of accessibility, I am disabled.

For physical ability, it's things like struggling to be able to tie my shoes, be on my feet, etc. For accessibility, not only is everything from bus seats to weight limits on parachuting not built to accommodate me, but there's also the way that fatphobic people mistreat me, exclude me, and discriminate against me. Under both the medical and social models of disability, fatness could be considered one.

As someone with skin issues like frequent cysts and easy scarring, I think that is also an example of this. While I'm not saying any kind of discrimination alone can make something a disability, I'm saying that coupled with either lack of accessibility or medical issues (pain/infection is an issue with my skin conditions, for example), someone could consider these things a disability.

To be clear, many skin conditions are already a disability, but I wanted to highlight how discrimination and exclusion compounds the ableism against people with them, especially when ableism also often causes the average person to not consider them a disability.

I don't know how coherent this is, but I personally have no issue considering my fatness and skin issues disabilities. I think fatphobia and ableism and even lookism all overlap massively, and I think not considering your own fatness or skin conditions disabling is totally valid, but I also think it's important to acknowledge they can be socially and medically disabling.

#fat #fatphobia #ableism #skin conditions #social model of disability #medical model

[nightfuryobsessed]

A bit of a family tree, slowly working on it but have the ref sheets for the children of Kolka and Draco. Kovu gets his blue eyes from his grandparents on Draco's side, Naught gets her mothers eyes (though darker due to Draco's dark eyes), and Vail gets his eyes from his father, though they're brighter due to his mother's eyes. Vail also has a bit of vitiligo from his mother and it was aggravated from a strong hit to the head.

Technically all of the children have vitiligo in their genetics but Vail is the only one who has his actually show.

#night fury #nightfury #ocs #nightfury oc #night fury oc #character design #skin conditions #skin condition #vitiligo

[sub-at-omicsteminist]

Humans have UV stripes, called Blaschko's lines. They're all unique to each human. There's been studies that show, while invisible to the human eye, are able to be seen by cats, dogs, rodents, hedgehogs, bats, ferrets and okapis.

I don’t know how true it is that’s animals such as cats can see it, someone with more knowledge that isn’t Reddit may be able to add some information, but

They’re also visible in those with a mosaic skin condition or in chimeras where different cell lines contain different genes. The lines may have different amounts of melanin, or become visible due to a “differing susceptibility to disease.” They can become apparent as whorls, patches, streaks or lines in a linear or segmental distribution over the skin.

#biology #skin conditions #humans #blaschko's lines