Decolonize Your Beauty
It has always been easy to point at features that stand out: big nose, thick eyebrows, fat cheeks, big moles, stretch marks, big breasts, small breasts, too tall, too short, so skinny, so fat, thin hair, frizzy curls, tiny mouth, pulpy lips… Honestly, the list is endless and I don’t have time to write it all. However, it seems that there are specific features of beauty commonly agreed upon, although no one sent me the rulebook yet: you already have a picture in mind, there’s no need for me to describe further. But this picture isn’t you, is it? it’s too perfect to be true.
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