After Being Bullied For Vitiligo All Her Life, This Girl Now Turns Her Body Into Amazing Art
Rūta Grašytė BoredPanda staff
Ash Soto was diagnosed with vitiligo when she was 12. As her vitiligo started spreading, she began to feel ashamed of her skin, especially after a little girl asked her if she had showered in bleach. Now the 21-year-old not only isn’t ashamed, but she embraces her skin.
In her late teens, Soto decided she wouldn’t let her skin hold her back anymore, so she started setting herself daily challenges like walking in public without a long sleeve shirt. Eventually, the challenges led to Soto turning her body into beautiful art. “I never realized how beautiful my vitiligo was until I traced it with a black marker, it really helps to bring out the different colors of my skin,” Soto said to Daily Mail. Now, she has made her body look like so many different art pieces, including Van Gogh’s Starry Night, and she’s not stopping! “Now what others would perceive as an imperfection I have made into something more beautiful and made it more accepted than before.”
Ash Soto was diagnosed with vitiligo when she was 12 years old
It’s a rare skin disease which causes pigment loss, leaving large white patches all over body
During Ash’s teen years vitiligo spreaded the most and the bullying began
After a little girl asked Ash if she had showered in bleach, Ash felt too ashamed of her skin and decided to never show any of it in public
“I was so shocked that someone said that to me that I cried and cried, I didn’t want to have the condition any more,” Soto said
However, in her late teens, Ash made herself do these little challenges, such as walking outside with a short-sleeved shirt
But it wasn’t until she started doing body art that she learned to love her skin condition
She started by drawing around the white patches and saw that it looked like a world map
“I never realised how beautiful my vitiligo was until I traced it with a black marker, it really helps to bring out the different colours of my skin”
“I will continue creating different pieces of art with my skin and hope it inspires others in the process”
“Now what others would perceive as an imperfection I have made into something more beautiful and made it more accepted than before”
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She kind of looks like Aubrey Plaza. I'm glad she was able to finally feel comfortable in her skin! She's gorgeous either way!
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"Ugly" is "gorgeous" in the politically correct newspeak...
And so what if it is? Lol. Do you get a rush out of calling someone ugly or something? Grow up.
In this instance gorgeous is gorgeous. If you think otherwise I would suggest you see an eye doctor stat
My vitiligo started this time last year. I'm 51, and have always had a healthy body image. I'm kinda enjoying the changes:)
there is a huge difference between having this at 51 and as a kid at 12. I can understand how this was more difficult for her
For sure Arty. I didn't realize til you pointed it out how my comment sounded. Thanks.
mine started at 50, i'm 57 now... still traumatic... people still look at you funny, but yeah, i cant imagine having have gone thru it in school. kids can be the meanest.so glad she found a way to live with it.
Would be nice to see her real face though. You know, without half an inch thick of make up... Pretty sure she looks lovely.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BQwAVf_gtqT/?taken-by=radiantbambi&hl=ro
Yeah, I noticed that too
I generally hate makeup, but I totally comprehend the psychology here. The self-identity struggle and social abuse she must have struggled with since the vitiligo became hard to hide must be personality/behavior-shaping. Not only do many cultures tell women they're not attractive without makeup (which is shit), this woman has had a skin abnormality that caused her to be victim of abuse. Some compensatory (even heavy) makeup usage is to be expected.
yeah but the make up on her face makes it worse for the vitiligo. i have it to i use face cremes for moisture before i did i asked whats bad and whats not at the dokter. all she is doing is still hiding and making it worse sadly
right ... their face have a lot of makeup look too plastic
She kind of looks like Aubrey Plaza. I'm glad she was able to finally feel comfortable in her skin! She's gorgeous either way!
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"Ugly" is "gorgeous" in the politically correct newspeak...
And so what if it is? Lol. Do you get a rush out of calling someone ugly or something? Grow up.
In this instance gorgeous is gorgeous. If you think otherwise I would suggest you see an eye doctor stat
My vitiligo started this time last year. I'm 51, and have always had a healthy body image. I'm kinda enjoying the changes:)
there is a huge difference between having this at 51 and as a kid at 12. I can understand how this was more difficult for her
For sure Arty. I didn't realize til you pointed it out how my comment sounded. Thanks.
mine started at 50, i'm 57 now... still traumatic... people still look at you funny, but yeah, i cant imagine having have gone thru it in school. kids can be the meanest.so glad she found a way to live with it.
Would be nice to see her real face though. You know, without half an inch thick of make up... Pretty sure she looks lovely.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BQwAVf_gtqT/?taken-by=radiantbambi&hl=ro
Yeah, I noticed that too
I generally hate makeup, but I totally comprehend the psychology here. The self-identity struggle and social abuse she must have struggled with since the vitiligo became hard to hide must be personality/behavior-shaping. Not only do many cultures tell women they're not attractive without makeup (which is shit), this woman has had a skin abnormality that caused her to be victim of abuse. Some compensatory (even heavy) makeup usage is to be expected.
yeah but the make up on her face makes it worse for the vitiligo. i have it to i use face cremes for moisture before i did i asked whats bad and whats not at the dokter. all she is doing is still hiding and making it worse sadly
right ... their face have a lot of makeup look too plastic