Thinking of a bold new look? This one might not be for everyone.
But I gotta say, she sure is bold!
At the beginning of the pandemic a lot of women reassessed their beauty routines. Working from home for the first time in their lives opened up a path to freedoms they might not have had or felt comfortable with previously.
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Wearing slippers and pajama bottoms at the office.
Not wearing a bra to work.
Not wearing makeup or washing their hair every single day.
For others, they made even more significant changes back in the spring of 2020. And it had nothing to do with the pandemic.
Meet Eldina Jaganjac, a 31-year-old tutor from Copenhagen.
Or at least meet the old Jaganjac, the one she was before she embraced her own reality. I’ll gradually introduce you to the new her.
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Tyla reports that she’s dealt with an abundance of body hair since she was young.
“I used to feel less feminine because of my rather voluminous eyebrows. Growing up, I noticed that I was considered a brute when my body hair first started to grow as a teenager.”
And she goes on to share what she noticed as a teen.
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“I noticed most girls around me panicking around the age of thirteen to fourteen and starting to shave and pluck anything pluckable because they wanted to be accepted as female and tried to fit into their new role as a young woman.”
However, the day would come when she just didn’t give a pluck anymore.
News18 shares her current feelings on the subject.
“I don’t care what people think. I don’t want it to become this big thing—no pun intended—but it’s a personal choice for everyone to make themselves, and I wish that people wouldn’t care no matter how a woman chooses to look.”
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I think a lot of women feel the exact same way. Whether we admit or do something about it.
Jaganjac has done something about it.
Her feelings have certainly changed. She admits,
“I used to feel less feminine because of my rather voluminous eyebrows.”
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But she eventually realized that expectations about what’s acceptable for a woman’s looks are narrow.
“Before I let my unibrow grow out, I did feel like there were extremely limited options to how women were supposed to look.”
And I think she’s right, don’t you? Agree or disagree with what’s she’s done, there are limited options and expectations for women. Like we all have to come from the same or similar cookie cutters.
And why is it so very different for men? If he’s got hairy legs or a unibrow, is he judged as harshly as a woman? If a man is allowed to choose to wax or not, pluck or not, or shave or not, without being given grief about it, why is it different for a woman? Is she not allowed the same choice?
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Jaganjac realized she was doing something she didn’t like, and maybe it’s part of what prompted her change.
“Just like many other women, I have learned to police myself. For instance, I used to not feel comfortable going outside unless my eyebrows were the accepted small size, and I wouldn’t go to the gym unless my legs were clean shaven.”
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Interestingly, she says that changing her look and letting her brows and mustache grow in has increased her confidence in herself.
“In a way I am more confident because I am not afraid to look different anymore and I’ve come to feel like I can make more untraditional choices in general.”
She also admits that her focus has changed.
“Now, I’ve chosen to focus on the tasks and goals that I need to have done and less on how I appear while doing them and whether people like me or not, because I probably won’t ever see them again, and if I do, I still don’t care.”
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So what do you think?
Do you admire her strength for choosing to go against accepted norms? Or do you think she’s gone to far?
I agree that it’s unhealthy to get too caught up in what other people think of us, but I also think there should be some sort of happy medium.
In the end, it doesn’t matter what I think, though. I’ve gotta let you and you and you and you be you. Just like you all will let me be me. Right?
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