About Ayanna
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Ayanna Zahra | AYANNA DENISE SKIN
Ayanna Zahra, Nob Hill's Top Holistic Skin Therapist of African origin, has embraced and helping women of color all over the world reverse hyperpigmentation, acne, and the effects of auto-immune diseases and/or medications, now Certified in Ayurveda Foundations to further support every customer in our Skin Club Skin Services as well as via our clean product formulation and education. This knowledge base has allowed Ms. Zahra to specialize in a niche formed from a huge gap opened by cosmetic focussed skin care products and European centered direction.
Not only is this Healer our Holistic Skin Therapist, but as an author of sought after Skin Guides available on Amazon Kindle, Google Books, and an Educator in spaces that yearn for her unique perspective on Skin Wellness, Mycology, Ayurveda, Herbalism, and anything that allows us to connect various elements to a healthy skin organ...and loving ourselves.
Before creating AYANNA DENISE SKIN , Ayanna focussed on Holistic Studies across South America, Asia, North America, and Europe while Designing Clothes. Her story includes loosing herself and finding herself once more after marriage, depression, divorce, reinvention, and becoming a mother.
Ayanna's Ancestral gifts of healing is helping so many men, women, and children find their confidence and embrace self-love and empowering themselves with skin knowledge, holistically.
Ayanna has established AYANNA DENISE SKIN as NOB HILL's Top SKIN CARE CLINIC by GOOGLE REVIEWS in 2025 and 2026. This is an honor the work she continues to do.
Ayanna's position as a healer has stretched across our community as she deepens her ancestral studies and connection to her African roots. Her African Teas, which has always been part of the AYANNA DENISE SKIN culture, holds experiences across New Mexico to heal our community and center Africa....the AFRICAN TEA EXPERIENCE.
This healing work is intentional and divinely guided.
From Loosing myself to finding Ayanna.
Hello sweetie! My name is Ayanna Zahra. The Creator and CEO of this beautiful community and company, AYANNA DENISE SKIN. I want to take you on my journey. Because, you may relate to what I have gone through as a woman, married woman, mother, divorced, single mother, loosing myself, finding myself, growing, and even falling.
Before I found Ayanna
When I was Designing Clothing for a major retailer (First letter is a D), I traveled the world! Being a Designer was a super stressful job. But, it supported my FAVORITE past-time, INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL. I am also a Writer, by default. So, I carried this little RED BOOK around the globe with me for research and studies. Who knew this lil' red book was also my magnifying glass into the holistic world of human and earth studies. Not me.
Life was great. Then it began lifin'
After years of traveling and living in Asia (yes, I've probably been there. So, just ask me. I love to chat about it.), I returned to the U.S., married, new mothering, and slowly falling into a very low mental state. Soon, I was too low to get up by myself. This was extremely disorienting. Have you ever felt like this? Do you remember my lil' red book?
This is my "who am I" era jump off
When I say I cried constantly, I mean that. I cried when a love song came on. I was in a one way marriage of receiving lies and abandonment, which poured over to my young daughter, Queen. Do I stay in a toxic marriage? Or, do I cut this nightmare short and save myself? I got out, but the affects of marrying a narcissist are extremely damaging. I had no confidence. I forgot who I was. Everything seemed unsafe. Plus, as the woman/wife, I was made to feel as if everything was my fault. Oh, my tears needed sanctuary... I began reading over my RED BOOK entries. I made an oil for my daughter and I. I used it on our scalp and skin. Soon, I gave 1oz plastic vials filled with my magic oil away like candy. My bestie, Bohdana, said to me, "You are going to sell this oil and I am buying your first bottle." (hidden gem; always keep good girlfriends near you. They will save you in ways you just cannot save yourself.)
The Healer emerges...
It took years after I sold that 1st bottle of "oil tbd" to Bohdana to begin trusting the knowledge Creator had shown me and the gifts my hands held. However, I began cash and carry at shopping center kiosks, markets, events, and festivals in Georgia. My ancestral supported self-confidence emerged. a little before 2020, as I became the only New Mexico based Holistic Skin Therapist in a world of cosmetic quick fixes. AYANNA DENISE SKIN was born. I decided to trust in my unique skills, ancestral knowledge, and Creator. My intelligent, discerning customers look for me as their attention to knowledge, wellness, and self-care is priority over quick fixes and long-term damage. You keep me focussed and motivated to dig deeper. You ask me the questions you never had the freedom or space to ask before now. You are safe here and our community of like-minded humans are growing and healing, deeper than skin. I am honored that you trust me with your skin. -Ayanna Zahra
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