Photographed by Louis Anthony Duran.
Photographed by Louis Anthony Duran.
Resonating in their past experiences with sensitive skin, the four personalities share how they now balance self-care with their on-the-go lifestyles
When asked about their relationships with sensitive skin, actress Coleen Garcia-Crawford, host Vince Velasco, color analyst Enzo Villacorta, and board-certified dermatologist Dr. Coreen Copuyoc agreed that it was anything but easy. For an afternoon with Vogue Philippines, the four personalities share an intimate conversation on how they balance their lifestyles with sensitive skin, and how learning through their respective challenges allowed them to feel empowered to do more.
Coleen Garcia-Crawford
“I had a really bad acne problem when I was in college,” Garcia-Crawford says, “And it can be so frustrating because I still do break out, I still get acne, but it doesn’t get as bad because I know how to treat it now.”
Though she later adds that her eczema flare-ups have reduced over the years, the 32-year-old expressed how she still keeps an eye on her routines, sharing how time has instead become her challenge, given her busy schedule and her responsibilities as a soon-to-be mother of two.
“I used to experiment with the ten-step skincare routines, but since we’re always on the go, I can’t bring so much with me anymore because I have another person to consider,” she says, gesturing to her stomach. The actress shares, though, that she sees these moments as an opportunity to instead know what she needs most, recalling the first time she used Aveeno’s Calm + Restore line during her trip to France. “It was around Fall, and around that time, it gets dry, but I noticed that my skin stayed moisturized throughout the day.”
In navigating these sudden changes to her lifestyle, Garcia-Crawford now likes to describe her relationship with self-care as “fast and it’s slow.” “But I learned one thing, and it’s to just listen to your body. In everything that I do, if there’s a problem with my skin, I’ll start to see it slowly.”
Vince Velasco
“As time progresses, you have memories and things that have happened over time in correlation to your sensitive skin. So in my case, it was having it all over my arms, being teased about it, to slowly accepting that this is my life now,” shares Velasco.
Despite his history with sensitive skin being, as he describes, “complicated and frustrating,” the 34-year-old shared how acclimating to his condition allowed him to better adjust his skincare routines, allowing him to place his focus on pursuing the career he has today.
However, given that he maintains an active lifestyle on top of hosting local and international stages, this, in turn, has diverted Velasco’s attention away from consistent routines, opting for versatile skincare products that adjust to him instead. “I like being on the go, and I don’t really like anything getting in the way of that. If I’m outside and I put lotion on, the sweat can get in the way sometimes, but now, with Aveeno, it quick-dries in less than a minute.”
Enzo Villacorta
“When my sensitive skin started to act up, I couldn’t sleep for maybe a year. But then it came to a point where certain parts of my body were covered in rashes, I just wanted to be covered up, and that was a learning process for me,” Villacorta shares.
In doing beauty-centered content alongside his color analysis series, he later explained how his personal criteria for testing skincare products emphasizes his compatibility with the product over time. “I don’t just put this [skincare product] on just because someone said that [it] worked on them, I’ll still have to try it for myself ‘cause my skin is not like yours.”
“Another measure of how effective a product is is if I know this product will work for me in the Philippines, in Japan, or wherever I am,” the travel hobbyist later adds, recalling his experience in adapting to colder climates. “I can’t use the hotel soap because it’s too strong for me, [but] what I found with the Aveeno Skin Relief Body Wash is that I can use it all over my body and I don’t feel dry, I still feel moisturized.”
Coreen Copuyoc, MD, FPDS
Before developing her own career as a board-certified dermatologist, Dr. Copuyoc shared how she had to face her own challenges with rosacea, acne and sensitive skin, later finding her inspiration through the doctor who helped with her concerns.
She later explained, however, how maintaining her complexion could sometimes come as a form of pressure when on camera. “As a dermatologist, our lifestyles can be very erratic at times, so of course we have to maintain ourselves because the patients will look at you; you can’t guide them to having good, healthy skin if your own skin isn’t healthy.”
Regardless, the budding content creator expressed that through her career, she grew to understand the causes of her skin concerns along the way, adding how these lessons have encouraged her to balance her lifestyle and citing stress as one of the few areas she chooses to work on.
Looking ahead, these four personalities aligned that understanding their respective skin concerns brought them to discover the products that address these same needs with ease. Among these products, the group resonated in Aveeno’s Calm + Restore and Skin Relief lines, emphasizing oat-infused formulation as a gentle yet moisturizing addition for their face and body care, respectively.
“There [are] so many people going through the same things, and you can actually be more proactive when it comes to taking care of your skin,” Dr. Copuyoc shares. Later joined by the rest of the group, they expressed how having sensitive skin should not stop others from exploring their own passions, instead letting their experiences lead them to the products that encourage them to do more.
Photography by Louis Anthony Duran. Video by Chapters PH. Art director Lara Castaneda. Styling by Shark Tanael, assisted by Jia Torrato of Qurator Studio. Makeup by Christian Arapoc and Mariah Santos (Coleen Garcia). Hair by Patty Christobal. Account Manager Yassi Centeno. Producer Erika Palacios. Project implemented by Esab Raymundo. Written by Liam Biteng.
