Beauty guru and YouTube sensation Shannon Harris of Shaaanxo has opened up to her fans about her struggles with depression. The 22-year-old, who has 1.8 million subscribers on her main make-up tutorial channel and another 355,000 on her casual vlogging platform, shared her journey with fans in an effort to help normalise mental health issues.
"I definitely started feeling very depressed. At first I thought it was nothing, I was like 'nah... I've got such a good life’. I kind of dismissed the feeling of depression in the back of my mind... It was like this weird empty feeling inside me, it's so hard to describe," says Harris.
After accepting and dealing with her issues, the vlogger is pleased to have turned a corner and now champions a very successful following in the beauty world. Harris is able to look at her struggles in the past philosophically: "Everything happens for a reason... that moment of my life was awful but it ended up being the best thing that happened."
