Poppy Challinor said her psoriasis had grown worse during the coronavirus lockdown. They only knew me as the girl who has a strange skin condition.”The pretty young woman with the flowing blond tresses was 13 when the skin condition which condition which is said to affect 1.8 million people in the UK started to surface. Cold and stress makes it worse so external issues have an impact and young sufferers like Poppy frequently suffer with mental health problems because of the condition. After leaving school to do an art foundation course followed by a photography degree at the University of Gloucestershire, she started documenting her skin condition for a college project and thinking differently about it. "The more people show what skin conditions look like rather than hiding them away, the easier that will be.

Source: Daily Mirror November 14, 2020 18:30 UTC