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Dermatographia

How I *Almost* Cured My Dermatographia, The All Natural Way

April 4, 2017 • 121  
Many of you already know my skin writing story, but here’s some background for those of you that aren’t familiar with me yet. I was officially diagnosed with dermatographia back in 2004 (wow it’s been awhile!), but I had it for close to 10 years before then. Like many other people with dermatographia, I didn’t
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Art// Dermatographia

Be Your Own Canvas: Isabella’s Art

June 22, 2016 • 1  

  “My skin inspires me in a  way that I can’t really put into words. It gives me a whole range of opportunities, not only in learning how my body and my skin work, but my place as an artist and discovering the things that interest me to work with. The skin is the largest

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Art// Dermatographia// Featured

My TEDx Talk at UNC ‘How I Turned my Skin into Art’

April 20, 2016 • 1  
I was so honored to be a participant in the 2016 TEDxUNC event, Bodies: Being Human, earlier this year! There were some amazing speakers, and I had such a great time with the students too. I was super nervous about the whole thing (there were 1400 people in the audience at a huge auditorium on the
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Dermatographia

Learning To Embrace My Skin: Emily’s Story

July 20, 2015 • 9  

“My name is Emily, I’m 17 years old and I live in Missouri. I will be starting my senior year of high school this fall, and hope to be an English teacher when I grow up.  I started noticed the bumps on my skin about a month before my diagnosis. They were white, and looked

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Interviews

Design Inspired by Skin

February 18, 2015 • 4  

Vivian Lin is an industrial design student at Emily Carr University of Art and Design (Vancouver, Canada), and is always inspired by her experience in her own skin. While she doesn’t have dermatographia, she is still sensitive to the way people perceive others with a skin condition.  She grew up with severe

Dermatographia// Interviews

The Eloquence of Welts and Hives, Poetry by Jeannine Hall Gailey

November 15, 2014 • 0  

Can you read the message my heart has etched on my skin, this petal-thin map? -Jeannine Hall Gailey (excerpt from “Introduction to Dermatographia“) I came across Jeannine Hall Gailey’s lovely poem “Introduction to Dermatographia” in an online magazine called The Freeman. 

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About Ariana

Hi, I'm Ariana (pronounced Air-e-anna, like banana ;)!
I'm an artist and the founder of Skintome. I have dermatographia (aka skin writing), a condition that hyper-sensitizes the skin to touch, stress, diet, and chemicals. I've been making art inspired by my dermatographia for 20 years. And in doing so, have spread the word about the condition, how to treat it naturally, and how to see the beauty in it.

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