Over the previous few years, celebrities have begun opening up concerning the skin struggles they face. From Adwoa Aboah sharing about her pimples and the best way she used to obsessively scrutinise her skin to Pete Davidson getting real about Accutane, it’s a refreshing and much-needed reminder that breakouts and bad-skin days occur to everyone.

Now Rihanna has joined the conversation, discussing her own skincare journey during a virtual press conference yesterday for the launch of her skincare brand Fenty Skin. “Whether it’s starting with pimples after I was a youngster, after which the pimples treatments that led me to essentially blotchy skin and stripped my skin of all the good things that I already had in it, it was a tricky journey to get it back here,” she said.

Rihanna also shared the numerous misconceptions around skincare she had growing up in Barbados including that Black people didn’t must wear sun protection. “You mostly thought that SPF was a tourist thing,” she said. “I learned the hard way, because over time the sun wasn’t that sort to my skin. I began to have hyperpigmentation in certain areas.”

This myth is one which Rihanna is hoping to debunk along with her latest skincare range which incorporates an SPF moisturiser as one in every of the three launch products and which she has emphasised within the marketing across the product as being for everybody, every skin tone and each race. “As a girl of color, I’m here to say, that is a lie. We’d like it,” she said. The Fenty Skin SPF will not be only coral reef-friendly but it surely also doesn’t leave a white solid on the skin making it suitable for all skin tones.

Fenty Skin launching with just three products was a deliberate alternative, Rihanna said, to assist people who find themselves confused and overwhelmed by the crowded skincare market. “I hate after I get to the counter, and I’m similar to, ‘What does the platinum one mean? Does that mean it’s higher?’ It’s so confusing. There’s a lot on the market. My goal is to maintain this really easy and effective,” she said. And in sharing her own skin journey, she’s hoping to let people know that they aren’t alone of their struggles.

“It just means you are human. I’ve had different issues with skincare at different points in my life,” she says. “You’ve gotten to figure it out, and it’s difficult to navigate and get a grasp on what’s best for you.”

Fenty Skin has officially launched today, although be quick in case you are hoping to get your hands on the products because the cleanser and the skincare bundle have already sold out and won’t be restocked until mid-August. Products are being resold for as much as $500.