What if the skin you’ve been trying to fix has been trying to take care of you all along?
Conventional skincare asks you to conform to a narrow beauty “ideal” that glorifies unattainable, unsustainable, and superficial flawless, glowing skin.
It does not recognize skin as a dynamic organ that’s essential to human health. Instead, skin is treated as a superficial, static, and passive surface which can be manipulated without consequence, merely something to exfoliate, hydrate, protect, and paint. Conventional skincare fails to address the underlying systemic issues that produce skin symptoms, such as
redness, rashes, pimples, and wrinkles.
This model intentionally creates consumer dependency and massive profits for skincare manufacturers by only temporarily alleviating symptoms. For example, hyaluronic acid is used to increase skin hydration, temporarily, and peptides are used to boost collagen synthesis, also only temporarily. For lasting results, you’re forced to continually use products with “high-performance active ingredients” and, even if you do, at some point the underlying mechanism of how they produce “results” will plateau and stop working, leaving you no closer to attaining the unattainable, the beauty “ideal” of flawless, glowing skin.
The beauty “ideal” of looking young and flawless harms. It asks us to spend our precious time, money, and energy disconnecting from ourselves and competing with each other. Bexi’s Bespoke Revitalisation invites you to buck the beauty “ideal”, defy convention, and embrace and celebrate your reality and the differences that make you you by using whole
foods to feed your skin from the outside in.
In doing so, you impart life and vigor, revitalise your skin and yourself, and glow.
Your skin is a dynamic interface between the environment and your biology. It senses and integrates signals from the environment, communicates with your cardiovascular, nervous, endocrine, and immune systems, influences your metabolism, and adapts over time. So, what you put on your skin affects way more than just the topical surface of your body that you see and feel. Your skin reflects what’s happening internally by producing visible symptoms, such
as rashes, pimples, wrinkles, and blemishes. These signs are not as benign and superficial as skincare manufacturers would like you to believe. In my case, they were just the most visible indication of a common, serious, systemic autoimmune disease called Sjogren’s disease.
Until I started Bexi’s, I’d unquestioningly allowed skincare manufacturers to tell me their story of who I was because of my skin. I believed that my dry, painfully sensitive, patchy, red, swollen skin needed correcting, lightening, darkening, and covering up. I didn’t have flawless, glowing skin, and society and industry had socialized me to think that I couldn’t possibly be beautiful until I’d achieved that. I didn’t realize that I would come alive, radiate energy, and naturally glow when I radically accepted, included, supported, and celebrated the parts of me that I’d been taught to reject in myself; the parts that made me different and, therefore, uniquely me.
Except, one day, tired of the constant pain and the loneliness of masking my true self, I chose comfort and joy in my skin over flawless and glowing skin. I stopped ignoring and hiding my skin symptoms and started addressing them using what I knew about whole foods, microbes, and epigenetics. The result was the start of the discovery of who I really am and my ability to live more comfortably, freely, expansively, and peacefully than I ever have before. And for the last ten years I’ve been sharing what I’ve learned through Bexi’s Bespoke Revitalisation.
My different approach to skin care honors diversity and the interconnectedness of everything: species, organisms, organ systems, organs, cells, and metabolic pathways. When you use whole foods to feed your skin from the outside in, you’re tending to more than just the superficial. You’re learning about and nourishing your body and the microbes that live on
it. It’s loosely analogous to regenerative farming for your skin.
Your body is self-healing and remains functional, healthy, and well when it has the components it needs to do so. If you’re ignoring your body’s needs, you cannot become or stay well.
Nourishing your skin on your own terms, with what the earth already provides, is an act of self-determination. You’re connecting with yourself and honoring your needs and desires.
Acceptance, inclusivity, support, and celebration of what makes you you belongs at the center of true wellness.
Be you, be well, glow.
