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unbidden-yidden · 8 months

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I've been on such a journey with my body over the years, trying to let go of a lot of shit I was socialized into and appreciating my features as they are.

I used to hate wearing glasses but I couldn't wear soft contact lenses so I conditioned my eyes to have calluses on the backs of my eyelids for my hard contacts.

I hated my nose and wanted a nose job. As it was, I was extremely self-conscious about the exact angles and vantage points that I would allow pictures of me to be taken at.

I used to hate my curls and would spend anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour every morning flat-ironing them before class. I also hated the light reddish brown color and would dye it.

I used to feel like I looked sick and my eyes sunken in without a minimum of black eyeliner and mascara.

I used to feel like a sasquach if I didn't shave my armpits, legs, bush, and pluck my eyebrows.

Now, after years of pushing myself to give fewer fucks, I:

Have cute glasses I like and don't wear contacts

Love my ginger curls and take proper care of them, and don't dye my hair

Say fuck the haters; my nose is great

I've embraced the strong eyebrows and will fill them in, but I only wear eye makeup when it makes me happy

I stopped shaving my pits many years ago. The legs and bush took a lot longer, but in the last year or so I've gotten there.

And now, most recently, I've stopped plucking my eyebrows, because I honestly have no idea how full they can get if I just let them do their thing and don't interfere. I'm learning what my face actually looks like, and learning to appreciate it as it is.

#body posititivity #honestly seeing and appreciating jewish beauty made me so much less self-conscious about my hair‚ nose‚ and eyebrows #especially frum women and how beautiful they look in tzniut clothing and without much or any makeup #now I just need to start making peace with the weight I've gained >.>

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