Hormonal Acne: What Going to the Office Makeup-Free Taught Me About Self-Esteem

It has a lot to do with how we see ourselves

Diahala Doucouré

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Spotlight — Collage by the author

As you stand right underneath them, like every evening, you curse those bathroom neon lights for spotlighting your skin imperfections so harshly. You avoid looking into your own eyes. Instead, you frantically grab one product after the other: the cleansing…

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Diahala Doucouré

(She/ her) 30-something Afro-European woman. I share personal essays and opinion pieces about periods, sexual health and body positivity.