This Brave Young Woman Is Bending Beauty Standards By Letting Her Mustache And Unibrow Grow
I’m not sure who said we women have to be shaving or plucking everything on our bodies to be beautiful, but one brave young woman is bucking that trend.
Eldina Jaganjac is a 31-year-old woman living in Denmark who is bending beauty standards by letting her mustache and unibrow grow.
Sometime last year, Eldina decided she was done with the razors and tweezers, and she decided to let her natural body hair just be.
Although Eldina admits on social media that she has had to deal with a lot of nasty comments about her appearance now, it’s not going to slow her down one bit or change how she’s living, and there are overwhelmingly positive comments she’s garnering too.
Instagram; pictured above is Eldina
“A lot of women wrote me that they have been told, that they’re less feminine because of their body hair, and that they were conditioned to hide it,” Eldina explained in one of her Instagram posts.
“Imagine if this were the case with any other part of the body, your left arm for instance. Imagine going out of your door thinking “oh, damn, I need to hide my left arm, because it’s less feminine”.”
Instagram; Eldina smiles in the photo above
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Eldina says that as soon as you start considering standards of beauty in the way, it’s more obvious how absurd they seem.
“…Please just remember, we all look different,” she said in another one of her posts. “Everybody looking alike would have been creepy and very very impractical (Imagine the scenario!) whatever choice you make is okay, just think about who you’re making it for.”
“I think we put too much emphasis on looks in our society and see different bodies as having different values and meanings.”
“But in reality, they’re just our bodies, and how we look doesn’t have to hold any information about how we are as people, what our interests and dreams are or why we make the choices we make.”
At the end of the day, beauty is really whatever you want it to be. Thank you for reminding us of that, Eldina!
You can follow Eldina on Instagram here! She also started a YouTube channel, and although she hasn’t made any videos yet, she will once she reaches a certain number of followers.
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