Going au natural
She finally decided to ditch her makeup around two years ago after washing it off to encourage a young girl with the condition to embrace herself.
Since going au natural she feels ‘happy and free’ – and even started dating construction worker Robert McCoy, 35, eight months ago, who thinks she is ‘beautiful’.
Ms Chamberlain said: ‘I started wearing make up in the fifth grade and I didn’t stop wearing it on my face until I was 40.
‘I wore it every single day and I learnt how to perfect it so people who looked at me wouldn’t even know I had it on.
‘I didn’t want people to ask me questions and I didn’t want the stares.
‘I stopped wearing it on my hands when I was 24 and if people saw it, sometimes they wouldn’t want to touch me.
‘It made me into a person who didn’t want to be noticed. That mask was everything for me.
‘Vitiligo clenched me for so long and didn’t let me prosper. Now I’ve ditched my makeup I feel like a completely new person.’
Ms Chamberlain first tried to go makeup-free around five years ago on a trip to Walmart but suffered a panic attack because she felt ‘exposed’ and like ‘everyone was staring’.
The next time she tried was two years ago, after a young girl who she chatted to as part of a vitiligo support group told her she struggling with the condition.
Ever since, she has gone makeup-free.
