Skin Care Routine Gone Wrong

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There is this lady that is so afraid of the sun and when I got to know the reason why, I couldn't help but laugh. When I hear that someone is afraid of the sun, I think about heliophobia (fear of the sun or any light) or Xeroderma pigmentosum (extreme sensitivity to sunlight) but the lady had none of these.

Everyone would agree that times are getting tough and we all have to make a living in one way or the other. Making a living feels better when you do something you love and so this lady took to making YouTube videos about her skin care routine. So whenever she's not attending lectures or hanging out with friends, she's making YouTube videos.

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Now don't get me wrong, making YouTube videos is a great thing to do but at what cost? She started using a skin routine that she never used before. If you go on YouTube, you'd see skin routines that involve: toners, sunscreens, facial scrubs, vitamins C and whatnot. Don't just take note of the skin care routine, take note of the people using it and the region in which they stay. These things work but not for everyone. This lady was someone who normally walked under the sun freely and her skin still glowed.

She started this new skin care routine and her movement changed. Most lectures finish in the afternoon and afternoons are usually accompanied with a blazing sun around here and so she never goes home when others are going and if she does, she's definitely walking under an umbrella.

Things like using an umbrella under the sun, or using sunscreen isn't rampant here. Let me tell you why. Only one in every hundred thousand Africans have skin cancer compared to thirty in every hundred thousand of the Americans. This is because we have enough melanin to protect us from the blazing sun but no, this young lady wanted to tempt her creator.

Funny fact is that she's very dark and as such, has less chances of getting skin cancer but now that she has tampered with her skin, I can't really say what's going to happen.

Let me clearly state why she can't go out in the sun. It is because she started using sunscreen and she can't continue with this routine. Why start what you can't finish? Whenever her course mates ask her if she's a vampire (as it's only vampires that have heliophobia according to them) she would say, "this country is not for me. I want to go to Norway". Her crazy course mates would finish it up for her with the statement,"you want to go to Norway but with this your skin care routine, you're going no-way" and everyone laughs about it.

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It's funny but at the same time it isn't. Just imagine that she is prone to getting skin cancer because of : following a trend or ignorance. I really can't tell where she stands. I do hope that nothing happens to her beautiful skin because before all this skin routine stuff, her skin was truly an epitome of beauty.

It is true that all skin types are not the same. Even siblings have different skin types and I know this for a fact. My elder brother could eat peanut, groundnut, rub sand on his face and nothing, not even a single pimple or rash would pop out but me? ! If I try as much as passing a dusty room or letting sand touch me by mistake, I could literally have a pimple breakout.

It's pertinent to research on certain things before you do them. Ignorance is never an excuse. And please, when you want to do something, be ready to do it to the end. Tienks.

With love, wongi ✨