Breaking the Big nose Taboos
‘Side Profile Selfie’
by: Rachelyn Pabines
The new campaign ‘Side
Profile Selfie’ movement gone viral on social media after a freelance
journalist and author Radhika Sanghani posted a side profile picture of herself
on her twitter account showing off her big nose.
She posted
it on Tuesday, February 20, 8:20am. On her post, she was encouraging people to
love their noses no matter what the sizes of it, breaking the beauty taboos.
She
started her new campaign after she posted on her twitter saying ‘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’
Her #SideProfileSelfie movement challenges
people especially women who have insecurities to their noses to embrace and be
proud of it. She wants them to feel beautiful and not unattractive despite of
not having a perfect snub little ski-slope of a nose.
“I grew up thinking that you can’t be beautiful unless you have a snub
little ski-slope of a nose, like Kate Middleton or Mila Kunis, -- and I know
other women have too. There just aren’t enough larger-nosed ladies with
stereotypically ‘hot’ roles in movies or ad campaigns to make us think an
aquiline profile can be pretty.” She writes
on Grazia
Radhika’s #SideProfileSelfie movement’s post goes viral on twitter and some
people especially women quickly response to her, posting their own side profile
selfie showing their noses by accepting the challenge and by loving it
naturally.
One of the twitter user Holly Henderson captioned her side
profile selfie with,
Another one, Breewhan shared her side profile selfie saying
And another woman Simran Kular bravely
tweet her insecurities about it
People are now talking about this, loving
how Radhika’s #SideProfileSelfie movement would break down the big nose taboo.
Her campaign is reminding people to learn how to appreciate and to feel
confident to their noses. People are happily joining her campaign and
supporting it by posting their #SideProfileSelfie
challenge that will help everyone to overcome their insecurities and shatter beauty
standards by loving what they have.
Interesting story but it was a little hard to read because of the weird format.
ReplyDeleteAlso, the headline was a little confusing. I didn't get it right away.
Write a more interesting lede.