Xaritt

It’s almost 2025, and I’m back home and fully recovered from a brief but intense battle with Miss Falciparum, aka malaria. I came out of it donning rose-tinted glasses, feeling happier and immensely grateful for my life and my body. I’m writing this because the tint is fading, and the greyness once again is encroaching on my view of the world. I know now not to let it. I monitor it intensely now instead of blindly stepping into months and years of despair, unaware of why I fe

I developed mild to moderate acne in my mid teens, that, along with the hyperpigmentation that tends to accompany acne, was the catalyst for my skincare journey. It turned me into a skincare fiend. It’s the thing I could probably talk the most about, which is a damning indictment of my intellect, but the answer could have easily been Game of Thrones lore, so we take our wins wherever we can. I have been obsessed with learning about skincare since my mid-teens, and like many