Personal Narrative

Skinfluencers

During the pandemic of covid-19 I was going through a lot of physical changes. One of these changes was many hormonal changes. Due to this hormonal changes I began to develop acne. It started off as just one pimple, and it progressively kept getting worse. I began getting insecure about my appearance due to how bad my acne was. 

TikTok was extremely used during these times, and so was YouTube since we were all stuck at home since there was a very high risk of getting covid and there wasn’t anywhere we could go. TikTok and YouTube was some of the best sources of entertainment at the moment. Many people were going through changes at these times and were making lots of content. One of these types of contents are people making skincare videos also known as SkinTok. This part of TikTok and YouTube was extremely interesting to me and I kept watching it up to this day. I had gotten really tired of my acne and I started looking for stuff to control and or get rid of it.

TikTok has all sorts of content skincare routines and skincare product reviews being some of them. This part of TikTok also known as the skinfluencer and skinTok part of TikTok really helped me become interested in these habits of having a well balanced skincare routine in order to better my skin. Watching these influencers really helped me see how well my skin could become if I were to have a proper skincare routine fit for my skin.

These influencers sparked my interest in skincare. Due to these influencers I began having healthy habits for taking care of my skin. Skinfluencers helped me realize what products are good for what specific type of skin. They also helped me learn that with time, patience, and the right products my acne will go away and my skin will return back to how it was before. Now, I still break out every now and then, but I have learned what products to use in order to control it. With the help of these skincare influencers I have learned about all variety of skincare and the order each product should be applied in. Skinfluencers have also helped me learn what my skin might need in times of need, for example, if my face becomes dry I should use a moisturizer. These skincare influencers have also informed me about products that can be extremely harmful to the face and what products to avoid at all costs.

I give skinfluencers/skincare influencers a five star rating.