Cortisol has a reputation of being a bad hormone released by stress. The thing is, it's actually good to have a certain amount of it in your blood stream because it's anti-inflammatory. Cortisol, secreted by the adrenal glands, prevents the release of substances in the body that cause inflammation. Histamine (an inflammatory) is the cause
Hana Mayeda is a high fashion model who is also a role model. She's transforming the modeling industry and how women are portrayed in fashion by choosing to work for companies that do not Photoshop their models. Instead, her birthmarks and scars are visible for the world to see, because this is part of who
Melissa and I met on Instagram, and have had some nice email exchanges about skin. Turns out Melissa, like many others with dermatographia, thinks her condition is related to medication she was taking for another condition. In her case, it was hypothyroidism. This is pretty interesting because many people have told me they believe their
Recently there’s been a few awesome things in the news about dermatographia and Skin Tome. There’s been so much love coming from that exposure! Thank you everyone who has commented, emailed, and re-blogged. Our community is growing, and all of this exposure is helping shed light on dermatographia, so people know it exists and how
Brent from the Netherlands asked me to help him out with a school project, and ended up sharing his own skin condition story too. My name is Brent Decremer and I’m 17 years old. I’m in my last year of high school (fine arts). During the year we have an assignment called GIP. My subject
Through the hashtag #dermatographia, Vanessa and I met on Instagram. She makes really cool drawings on her skin, so I asked to feature her on Skin Tome. Vanessa is a young artist using her skin as inspiration. Her current project is combining and comparing the textures of dermatographia with clouds. This is interesting considering how
