AZZIAD NASENYA SPEAKS ABOUT HER STRUGGLE WITH ACNE

TikTok sensation Azziad Nasenya has opened up on her seven-year battle with acne. Speaking on her YouTube channel, Azziad said, “I have been suffering from acne for the longest time since I was in like form two that was in 2015. Oh my God! That was 7 years ago. I didn’t realise that until I said it out loud“.

Her friends from school recommended remedies to help her situation but it didn’t work, “After form four I got into skin care routine and stuff like that so I bought products but it didn’t work. My acne got worse, if you would rate it out of 10 it would be like a 4 out of 10.” 

She saw a number of dermatologists but their recommendations still weren’t working, “In 2020 I decided to see a dermatologist, he gave me a prescription for like a month, 2 weeks I didn’t see any changes and he was also arrogant so I never went back. After that I visited another dermatologist who also gave me some pills to take. I did that for months but nothing was happening. She told me to keep going back, which I did, just wasting money. But nothing was happening.”

She had a breakthrough in 2020 but it was short lived, “My skin cleared out in 2020 towards the end of the year. It was really good and then I thought I finally overcame acne. Little did I know that it was to come back even worse. January 2021 it came back lightly on my forehead. I thought it was a joke but then it decided to come back with its ancestors, uncle’s and aunties. It was so bad.”

A beautician helped her realise what the problem was, “So I went to see this lady, but she’s not a dermatologist, she does monthly facials but it goes deeper into the skin and she was like you have an oily skin and what I needed to do was to go back and realise what my triggers were. So for that 1st month I went home and I realised my triggers were proteins.”