Her product, three years in the making, debuted at a downtown boutique in February now it’s regularly available on her own website. “I’m a sucker for cute skin care packaging, but at the end of the day I’m not going to put it on my face if it doesn’t work.” Thus, she went into autodidact mode once again, taking to her kitchen to develop an antioxidant-boosted foundation oil that finally helped her complexion. 1,284 likes 2 talking about this 123 were here.

The 75-page digital tome methodically unpacks the mys teries of the epidermis-she cites early twentieth-century studies about the acidity of the skin and organic chemistry as justification to use “a baller oil cleanser.”Īs Fleming became acquainted with the beauty industry’s buzziest products, she noticed something was missing: a facial oil that could combat her dry skin. She maintains her day job in tech, but, last year, she self-published an e-book, The Skincare Diary Volume 1.

And she found her skin a better algorithm.Ī Seattle resident from birth, Fleming is a part of the tradition of tech folks who spin off into entrepreneurialism. Fleming, 24, is a self-taught coder and data architect. “I wanted this information to be available to other people.” She’s no dermatologist nor a professional trained in matters of the face. It’s an under-10 drugstore salicylic acid moisturizer that improves the overall look of skin. “I felt so defeated my process at so many points,” she says. She took to her laptop for answers, “digging in the depths of the corners of the internet.” After four years of research and a trial-and-error journey to healthy skin, she launched a blog in 2018 she dubbed The Skincare Diary, which has since amassed 60,400 followers.

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