ABOUT

The image features a person with long, wavy blonde hair, wearing tortoiseshell glasses and a black top, applying makeup with a brush. Their lips are painted a deep red, and they have facial piercings, including a septum ring and a nose stud. They wear a pink bracelet and a smartwatch on their left wrist. The brush is held in their right hand, applying makeup to their left cheek. The background is plain and light, drawing focus to the subject.

The image shows a person with long, wavy blonde hair standing against a plain, light background. They are wearing glasses with round frames and have their eyes closed, leaning slightly forward while blowing a kiss. Their lips are painted a bright red. The person is dressed in a short-sleeved black top and has tattoos visible on their left forearm. An electronic watch is worn on the left wrist. The overall mood of the image is playful and warm.

Hi, I’m Saskia, a disabled beauty advocate and accessibility consultant dedicated to transforming how the beauty industry designs, formulates, and delivers cosmetic products. My work is rooted in lived experience, professional insight, and a deep belief that beauty should be accessible to every body.

For years, I struggled with everyday beauty routines because products simply weren’t designed with us in mind. Packaging was too stiff to open, applicators were impossible to grip, braille wasn't added to packaging, and instructions often ignored the needs of people with chronic pain, joint conditions, sensory sensitivities, or neurological disabilities. Instead of accepting this as the norm, I decided to make it my mission to push for meaningful, industry-wide change.

I now specialise in accessible beauty consultancy, helping brands and creators understand disabled user experiences and improve their products through inclusive design, accessible packaging solutions, and user-centred formulation choices. My work combines practical accessibility knowledge with a strong foundation in disability advocacy, allowing me to translate real-world disabled experiences into actionable improvements for product design teams, marketers, and formulators.

In addition to consultancy, I am also a public speaker specialising in accessible beauty, disability inclusion, and user-centred product design. I speak at events, panels, workshops, and corporate trainings to educate teams about the importance of accessibility in cosmetics and the personal, emotional, and practical impact inclusive design can have on disabled consumers. My talks blend professional knowledge, lived experience, and industry insight to inspire brands to think more critically, more humanly, and more inclusively.

As someone living with chronic illness, I bring a perspective that goes far beyond theory. I know what it’s like to fight with a mascara tube you can’t twist, lose grip on slippery serums, or struggle with packaging that requires strength or dexterity many of us don’t have. I understand tactile sensitivities, fatigue-friendly routines, and the importance of independence when applying skincare or makeup. This lived expertise allows me to highlight barriers nondisabled teams often never notice, and provide practical, innovative, and realistic solutions.

My goal is to make accessibility the foundation of good beauty design, not an afterthought reserved for a niche audience. I believe disabled consumers deserve products that are intuitive, comfortable, dignified, and safe to use. Through consultations, audits, workshops, and education, I guide brands in making their formulations, tools, packaging, and product experiences genuinely inclusive.

Whether I’m advising on a new product line, reviewing packaging prototypes, or educating teams about disability-inclusive design principles, my focus is always on creating beauty experiences that everyone can access and enjoy. The beauty industry has the power to empower or exclude, and I’m here to ensure it chooses empowerment.

If you’re ready to design cosmetics with accessibility at the forefront, or you want to understand what disabled users truly need, I’m here to help. Together, we can make beauty more inclusive, more thoughtful, and more human.

- Beauty, Reformed