Our founder
Valérie Ayéna
Founder
A model who became a founder. Valérie Ayéna carried melanin-rich skin on the runway — then built MyDermaLife so it would finally get the clinical reading it deserves: science, a named clinician, follow-up over time.
MyDermaLife began with something lived: too much Black and mixed skin receives generic advice, late diagnosis, and follow-up that restarts from nothing each time. The ambition is not a beauty brand. It is a DermaTech platform — born in Côte d’Ivoire, built for every skin, led by a founder with no appetite for vagueness.
What we saw
No skin should have to start its story over.
MyDermaLife began with something lived: too much Black and mixed skin receives generic advice, late diagnosis, and follow-up that restarts from nothing each time. The ambition is not a beauty brand. It is a DermaTech platform — born in Côte d’Ivoire, built for every skin, led by a founder with no appetite for vagueness.
The answer
Connect the science, the clinician and the time between.
MyDermaLife lays out a journey you can follow: prepare, meet the right professional, understand the plan, then track what changes. The technology supports the clinical relationship; it does not stand in for it.
House principle
Understanding comes before change. Care begins with a history read precisely.
This describes the MyDermaLife method; it is not presented as an attributed quotation.
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