Body Positivity: Women Show Their Noses
All noses are beautiful – and that’s why women and men are now self-confidently showing their profile under #sideprofileselfie on Instagram and Twitter!
It is really not so easy with this self-confidence. On the one hand, we all know that in the end it doesn’t matter how we look. That every person, no matter if big, small, curvy, skinny, with or without reddened skin is beautiful. That many of our complexes and insecurities are intensified by the fact that we constantly see retouched photos of idealized people.
But then we are again insecure when our skin is red. Then we hide our thighs, put a filter over our selfie, and just show our good side on Instagram. Sure everything is okay. Whoever is at odds with himself is not weak (and being weak is not bad anyway, but totally human!). But Radhiki Sanghini has simply had enough of struggling.
“Determined to love my nose the way it is”
Breaking the big nose taboo with my new campaign on the #sideprofileselfie!! Let’s stop hating our noses for not being tiny, little snubs and learn to love them by sharing a #sideprofileselfie https://t.co/2WpuNQmqmY pic.twitter.com/hL6mZmYEwZ
— Radhika Sanghani (@radhikasanghani) February 20, 2018
For years she suffered from her big nose, writes the journalist at Grazia UK. This should end now. “Yeah, I don’t look like Gigi Hadid, but I don’t care. My nose belongs to me and I’m determined to love it for what it is.” It took a lot of effort, said the 27-year-old, but now she is happy that she took the step and posted her #sideprofileselfie.
“It’s so liberating to no longer have to shirk profile photos and just like my face,” Sanghini told Mashable magazine. The journalist also wants to encourage other women to post their profile photos – many women have already followed her call on Twitter and Instagram.
I always watched as all my friends with their cute little noses got piers, but I never dared myself because I thought it would draw attention to my hooked nose … scraped up a bit of courage and did it anyway – I LOVE IT!
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Do only one of these women have to be ashamed of her profile? No! So it’s high time that we finally get away from another deadlocked ideal of beauty: From the ideal of the little, oh so sweet snub nose. “Big noses have been a taboo in our society for too long,” Sanghini writes. And she is clearly right!