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Someone asked me how I manage my hormonal acne. This is the honest answer, and it starts further back than a product lis...
28/08/2026

Someone asked me how I manage my hormonal acne. This is the honest answer, and it starts further back than a product list.

Nobody tells you how expensive it is to be told to wash your face.

I have thrown out half-used bottles I could not afford in the first place. Cleansers, serums, spot treatments, the whole viral shelf. Every one of them bought with the same quiet hope, and every one of them abandoned about six weeks later when my skin did exactly what it always did and came back on schedule.
At some point I decided products just do not work on me. That conclusion felt reasonable. It was also completely wrong.

The products were fine. I had the order backwards. I was asking a cream to solve something that was happening in my bloodstream, and creams have never once been able to do that.

Hormonal acne with PCOS is not a hygiene problem or a discipline problem.

What changed was sitting in front of a doctor. Once the inside was handled, the same category of products I had written off started to work.

Please do not take my routine as a prescription. What was given to me was chosen for my body, my bloodwork, my history. I genuinely cannot remember the name of the tablets, and I would not put it here if I could. That conversation belongs to you and your doctor.

Swipe to slide five for what actually lives on my shelf now, and which one comes out on which day. The last one never leaves.
Save it. Then send it to the woman in your life who has been told, one more time, to just drink more water.

All black +Jordans + +234 across the chest.Some Sundays you show up without words. You just wear where you’re from and l...
24/08/2026

All black +Jordans + +234 across the chest.

Some Sundays you show up without words. You just wear where you’re from and let that do the talking.

👕: Uncle Ró (The Brand)

21/08/2026

Thick skin keeps you standing, a sharp mouth ends the conversation. You will need both.

I want to write this one to the people who love a woman with PMOS rather than to her, because she already knows all of this. You might not.

When a stranger says “look at your fat face, you even look pregnant,” she is not describing a body. She is scoring a hormonal condition as a moral failing. Weight distribution, hair growth, years without a pregnancy, all of it gets converted into laziness or greed or not being woman enough. That conversion is the injury, and it does not arrive once. It arrives at reception desks, at weddings, in comment sections, from aunties, from strangers, for years.

The 2023 international guideline for this condition puts psychological wellbeing and body image inside core care rather than treating them as soft extras, because the distress is measurable and it is consistent.

So when she answers sharply, understand what you are watching. That is not rudeness. That is a woman who has heard it before and built the muscle.

Your job is not to tell her to calm down. Your job is to be one of the people she never has to use it on.

17/08/2026

Here is the sentence that should have been said to you at diagnosis.

There is more than one version of this condition, and we need to find out which one you have.

Almost nobody hears that. You get handed one instruction, lose weight, and it is delivered as though it works the same for everybody. So when it does not work for you, there is only one available explanation left, and that explanation is that you did not try hard enough.

Years of that. Women arriving at every appointment already apologising.

General education, not medical advice: Your labs, your symptoms and your goals decide what you actually need, and someone qualified should be reading all three with you.

So the most useful money in this whole video is the money spent finding out what is actually driving yours. Not because tests are exciting. Because until somebody answers that question, everything you buy afterwards is a guess, including the good options.

And if you have been carrying the failure of generic advice as a personal failure, put that down. It was never a fair test.

13/08/2026

If you already own one, nothing is wasted. It is shapewear. That is a real thing to own.

The only thing to change is what you are waiting for it to do. Nothing is coming. So put the waiting somewhere it will actually pay you back (the gym 🌚)

And if you bought it hoping it would fix something a diagnosis caused, that money belongs in a consultation, not a belt.

11/08/2026

Nobody warns you that the real cost of managing facial hairs isn’t the wax or the razor, it’s everything your skin needs afterward that never makes it into the budget.

Two years ago I didn’t know the ceramide and hyaluronic acid would become non negotiable, I found out the expensive way, through trial and error and a face that wouldn’t calm down.

The oatmeal cleanser and exosome serum came later, once double cleansing and barrier repair stopped being optional extras in my head. Hormonal acne already puts you at higher risk of hyperpigmentation.

Add a stripped barrier from waxing on top and you’ve doubled the odds against yourself.

If your hair removal budget doesn’t include aftercare, it isn’t actually a complete budget.

Tell me what’s in your post wax or sugaring routine, I want the full list.

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