My Instagram used to be an advocacy one for mainly ME, which is one of a myriad of conditions I suffer from. But when I was diagnosed with severe endometriosis about 15 years after my symptoms started I found myself struggling to talk about it as freely. There was too much anger there and after so much medical neglect and trauma, I just found it too emotionally draining to focus on constantly.

However, that doesn't mean I have abandoned it completely, and as I've been embracing the fun and creativity of makeup lately, I thought I would combine the two and try and make my invisible illnesses visible by making up my face.

Here I've tried to emphasis the daily pain and exhaustion I feel that doesn't show on the surface.

There are a few things I'd tweak if I went again, my skin looks a bit too nice. I used concealer too lighten my skin slightly but it also made it look all lovely and luminous. I did put browns and Burgundy on my skin but it hasn't shown up very well, I'd probably try adding some green and blue in if I went again and just OTTing it on the contour to make me look more sallow.

There will be a video at some point but it might be a while till I get round to editing this one!

p.s. 2nd pic is me apparently perfecting my "editorial pose" for completely the wrong look and I thought it was a funny juxtaposition