Hi, I'm Xixi!

I've spent most of my life feeling the pressure to fit society's beauty standards, and I struggled for years to feel confident in my own skin. I grew up with acne, keratosis pilaris, dry skin, sensitive skin, all of it. The hardest part about skin conditions like these is that you can see them. I was so self-conscious about the KP on my legs that I'd cover up in long pants and sleeves, even in summer. No matter what I tried, nothing seemed to work, and that feeling of helplessness stuck with me for a long time.

My family's originally from Harbin, in China, where it's a tradition to go to the bath houses and use exfoliating gloves to scrub away dead skin. As I got older and more self-conscious, I rediscovered those gloves. With regular use, my KP smoothed out dramatically and the dry, flaky patches just… stopped. The problem was, I couldn't find anything in Australia that came close. So every trip back to Asia, I'd stock up.

Then during lockdown, it clicked: if these gloves changed my skin this much, they could help a lot of other people too. So I made my own version, in my favourite colour, pink, naturally, and that's how the CheekyGlo Glove was born.

I've worked in the beauty industry for over five years, and helping people look and feel their best has always been the thing I care about most. Getting to do that with my own brand still doesn't feel real some days. There's honestly nothing better than reading a message from someone whose skin, and confidence, changed because of something we made.