FAIRLADY fashion stylist Annelee Joubert has suffered with rosacea – a chronic skin condition that leaves her face red and inflamed – for the past few years.
‘I was quite lucky as a teenager – I never had bad skin. But some years ago I started noticing more redness, specifically around my nose and on my cheeks. At first, I thought my skin was just flushed. But the smallest things would aggravate it. A cup of coffee or a warm shower was all it took to leave me looking like a tomato for the rest of the day. I also had small bumps on my cheeks and nose, and the tip of my nose got so dry that it was flaking. And trying to cover it up with makeup only emphasised the texture and the dry patches.’
‘I love treating rosacea – you get such great results,’ says Dr Ross Connor, Annelee’s consulting doctor at Skin Renewal Cape Quarter in Cape Town. ‘Rosacea means “rose-coloured” in Latin, which sounds really cute. Roses being red, you know? It’s ultimately just a lot of underlying inflammation that causes redness on
