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What is 'beauty' and who decides? External beauty may be attained with the mask of makeup, but isn't it more important how I feel inside?
What is ‘beauty’ and who decides? External beauty may be attained with the mask of makeup, but isn’t it more important how I feel inside?
This is a personal opinion.
No, I’m not beautiful By the standards you’ve written My face doesn’t glow My scars aren’t hidden
I tried to cover up Everything that I saw Pimples, blackheads, dark circles Everything which you called a flaw
I followed all the suggestions Good and bad, great and small Looked at my skin then It didn’t seem like mine at all
That girl with all the flaws layered Was looking perfectly ethereal But soon, I’ll wash my face And return to the skin that’s real
My face is what it is If you hate it, that’s fine It isn’t a canvas I won’t paint it with glitter and shine
For this lifetime This is how my skin will be I may not meet your standards But I’m confident and free
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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