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Women Are Posting Their Noses That Look Like “Before” Photos
Beauty comes in all shapes and sizes, and no body part should be an exception. Yet noses are still picked upon over and over in the beauty industry. No wonder so many of us feel so insecure about it.
But 19-year-old Holly Hopkins got fed up with the so-called “ideal” beauty standards that promote polished side profiles. The truth is, they’re all too rare in real life. “It’s okay if your nose looks like all the 'before' pictures,” she stated in her now-viral tweet that got 169.4K likes. Many more people came forward celebrating their unique noses for what they truly are—totally charming, 100% natural and, and thanks to wise moms and dads, rhinoplasty-free.
Let’s take a look at these beautiful profiles down below that hopefully will serve as an inspiration to others who still secretly dread that one camera angle.
This woman tweeted her nose that "looks like before pictures" and it went viral
And it was not an easy thing to do
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#1
Emerald Joanna 5 years ago (edited)
I am LOVING that people are embracing their perfect, beautiful "features I were born with." I really struggle to understand people who alter themselves to the point where they look like a weird, generic person because they think it's a "beauty standard." It's not. The features you were born with - that have been inherited from your ancestors - THAT is your unique beauty standard. Embrace it. It is what inherently makes you, you.
Colleen Garland 5 years ago
All you have to do is love yourself. The rest comes easy. Happiness is yours for the taking
Lisa Chambers 5 years ago
Definitely do! Your cheeks and lips, the way your eyes are set...it all works beautifully. I dont see the problem.
Dorothy Parker 5 years ago
I love your nose.it fits your face; no odd spacing between nose and upper lip.
Aimee Simmons 5 years ago
You are lovely, and I love your nose. Your NOSE is lovely. Courage my dear, you are radiant.
pusheen buttercup 5 years ago
I, genuinely -without bothering to exaggerate, or be extra nice for the sake of people's feelings- do LOVE your nose. I am a photographer. And I do think it's beautiful. I'm not just saying that.
Bored Panda contacted Holly Hopkins, a British criminology student and author of the viral tweet, and asked her about the "nose positive" initiative.
Holly told us that most importantly, everyone has to tell ourselves we’re beautiful. “Even if you struggle doing that, we need to remember we don’t need to be considered ‘beautiful’ in order to be deserving of respect from society,” she said.
The 19-year-old is convinced that “no one analyses your features the way we do to ourselves,” and it’s us who are our own worst critics.
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Elaine Mattingly 5 years ago
Your nose is beautiful and so is your hair and the rest of your face.
#3
Sue Sanders 5 years ago
A very attractive, ethnic kind of nose. I love any physical trait that moves far away from my middle European visage. Especially Middle Eastern. I don't grasp the disapproval for this shape of nose, I find it beautiful.
#4
Dorothy Parker 5 years ago
You come from an ethnicity other than a tiny nosed one. Your features belong to only you.
AnnieLaurie Burke 5 years ago
Love it! And you can also "rub noses" like folks in some cultures do. Tactile stimulation of one schnozz by another is very erotic!
Holly, whose tweet went viral with 15.3K retweets and 169.4K likes, received so many messages from men and women. “Lots of people have thanked me for posting it, but I don’t think I’ve really done anything special.” But she feels grateful to anyone who’s taken the time to message her and everyone who has been kind to people posting their photos under her tweet. “It was so lovely to see so much positivity,” she said.
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Nea 5 years ago
Cant believe women who look like the ones here are also made uncomfortable about their appearance. Does it stop anywhere ?
Liz 5 years ago (edited)
I don't want to come off the wrong way at all, but I'm generally considered to be quite a beautiful woman and I am *so* self-conscious about my appearance...like body dysmorphia level self-conscious. So no...I don't think it stops anywhere, unfortunately. I think we all just have to make the commitment to fight against the messaging and our internal critics.
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Vinniegret 5 years ago
Your face is all over Florence. Just look at the paintings and statues.
I Just Changed My Name 5 years ago
The way your pouty lips sit is complemented by your nose. You're stunning
Aimee Simmons 5 years ago
unfortunately, no. it does not... which is why I always look for something about every person I meet to compliment them on that isn't an accessory.
#6
Sue Sanders 5 years ago
Yes, you ARE kinda cute, and there's a lot more going on than - geez - a nose. Hair, body, expression, the happiness in your face. You're love, m'dear, and here's to decades of love with your husband.
Dorothy Parker 5 years ago (edited)
Beautiful couple. Your children, should you have any, will be happy to look like you.
#7
Alison Kilpe-Smith 5 years ago
You have a beautiful profile. You look like you belong in a Jane Eyre movie. Just lovely!
Unfortunately, Holly still believes that the "ideal" beauty standard exists. “We see it in Hollywood and in the media,” she says, but she thinks that “we’re doing a good job at breaking it down” even if there’s still a lot more we need to do.
#8
Vinniegret 5 years ago
You look strong and exotic. Don't give in to *their* idea of beauty. Who are THEY anyway.
the redqueen 5 years ago
I can second that. As a girl, if I saw you, I would do a double take; because you look like a pair of Jimmy Choo shoes in a sea of Sketchers.......
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Heather Jerrie 5 years ago
I agree with Vinniegret - your dramatic profile makes you interesting and unique.
Wilma Sliwiak 5 years ago
Considering hair and brows (blu!!) why would anyone notice your nose? Overall perfect head
#9
Aimee Simmons 5 years ago
You are lovely. Embrace the fact that you are a force of nature and need only love yourself like the earth loves the sun and moon.
Chris Watson 5 years ago
Why don't people understand, it's all about you? How you feel? If you want a smaller or larger nose - just do it!!
Iron Eddy 5 years ago
Absolutely nothing wrong with that! And nothing wrong with learning to accept myself without that instead.
Load More Replies... Sue Sanders 5 years ago
I have a long-lost cousin who had her nose changed; it was similar to yours. I thought at the time that was such a vain action, but I have to assess her intelligence level and her self esteem and figure that this was the only way that she - housewife and mother - would be happier - go for it. So she did. The results - meh. Not the teen girl I last saw, but someone else entirely, and blessings to her and her family.
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Tambot 5 years ago
At first I thought you were calling her nose a "bird nose", then I saw the bird. She's beautiful!
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Vinniegret 5 years ago
Don't fall for the myth of some weird concept of beauty. Your nose is just right for your face
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Milena Radeva 5 years ago
This IS an Eurocentric feature. Travel through Southern Europe, along Mediterranean and you’ll find tons of women who looks like you in Spain, Italy, Greece. The plastic Barby look is made in America concept of how we all should look. Not a real thing.
Sue Sanders 5 years ago
Ha! I'm European who inherited from her father a nose with a kind of ball-like end and have hated that for decades. After such a long time, it occurred to me that something as basic as a nose shape connects me to a father I didn't pay enough attention to, didn't ask questions I should have. I look at my nose as symbolic of something I should've known a couple of decades ago.
#13
LittleMissPanda 5 years ago
What was he talking about? I see a gorgeous woman with a beautiful face
Becky Moore 5 years ago
This is exactly what my nose is like and I hate it! I I know that goes against this whole post of accepting it, but I don't think it's as easy as saying 'oh you should just learn to love it':( Also, her BF's Dad sounds like a right winner *eye roll*
Karla Littke 5 years ago
I think it's beautifully shaped and see nothing at all wrong or different about it.
Load More Replies... Carol Penny 5 years ago
Your boyfriends dad needs to get his eyes tested, your nose is perfect and so are you
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Dorothy Parker 5 years ago
Your nose is perfect for your face. Most people's faces are a symphony with each feature playing a specific part. Change one feature and you may lose the harmony.
Christine Ladyman 5 years ago
Jealousy is an ugly thing. ..you intimidated that unpleasant person.
Aimee Simmons 5 years ago
People can be rude like that because they don't think, and say things to try and distract from their own perceived flaws. She was envious of your beauty.
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Marlene Ricker 5 years ago
Mt late mother-in-law had a nose much like yours. From the day I met her, I thought she was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. She was never self-conscious of het nose.
Heather Jerrie 5 years ago
You have a dramatic and lovely face - a special beauty all your own!
Dorothy Parker 5 years ago
What we see as our flaw is likely what makes our look memorable. You have been blessed with amazing features. With a different nose your family history wold be erased.
#16
von Funnyname 5 years ago (edited)
Vogue called, they want their next decade of covers back, they've found their replacement.
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Mavi Hava 5 years ago
haha that's funny before I read your comment I was gonna say her nose was cute
Load More Replies... tuzdayschild 5 years ago
You look like Rosanna Arquette. I don't even know why you're on this list
Michael Dworkin-Robertson 5 years ago
your nose is beautiful! Your skin looks radiant! Your hair is beautiful...need i go on?
Bodhi Evel 5 years ago
Omg! Are you kidding? I've sell a body part to kiss that bump on the daily!
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von Funnyname 5 years ago (edited)
It's such a brilliant compliment to the rest of your features! I don't know you at all, but I'm positive there's only one way for you to have been put together and it is perfection, clearly.
#19
Celtic Pirate Queen 5 years ago
It's "YOU". I can totally see your personality from this picture alone. And I would love to be your friend!
Elaine Mattingly 5 years ago
I noticed your beautiful smile first, then your nose just because we're talking about noses.
#20
Heather Jerrie 5 years ago
It makes you look sophisticated and smart. All those women with wimpy little noses don't have that!
Michael Dworkin-Robertson 5 years ago
don't give up the chance to embrace what you have, and what you have is beauty
Aimee Simmons 5 years ago
You are lovely. Everything about you fits together as intended. Perfectly.
#21
Michael Dworkin-Robertson 5 years ago
what would you want with a tiny nose? your nose looks perfectly proportioned to me...
#22
Heather Jerrie 5 years ago
From one with a forgettable little snub nose, I admire your dramatic beauty!
Michael Dworkin-Robertson 5 years ago
You remind me of the lovely and enigmatic Gloria Steinham!
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Carol Penny 5 years ago
You put yourself down, there is nothing wrong with your very pretty nose
Pretty Pangolin 5 years ago
I love your nose, makes you look like a classical painting. Hopefully you will be able to love it too.
Simone Olivier 5 years ago
I have a "button" nose. Which looks like a blob of putty. What I would give to have a big, beautiful ELEGANT nose.
Heather Jerrie 5 years ago
Oh, I hope you come to love your face just as it is. You're lovely, and your nose is part of your own unique beauty!
#25
Aimee Simmons 5 years ago
I am sorry that someone in your past made you hate your nose. As a short wide blocky lady with a lot of personality and not enough of a filter on my outside voice, it's ok to be different. IT is IMPORTANT to be you. It is VITAL that we learn to love ourselves inside and out. My standard for beauty is not everyone's standard for beauty, so I can not expect myself to be beautiful to everyone who sees me, but I am beautiful to those who think I am beautiful, and loved by all those that matter to me.
Heather Jerrie 5 years ago
You know, it's not just one part of our faces that make our beauty, it's all of it together. Your nose is part of what makes you lovely - and you are! I think it makes you look strong and smart.
Ilir Ajdini 5 years ago
There's nothing wrong with your nose. Why did it take you time to like it?
#26
Aimee Simmons 5 years ago
nope, but someone some time in her life said something where she heard it, or directly to her, which made her feel like her nose was wrong/bad/ugly. It happened to all of us about a great many things.
Load More Replies... Heather Jerrie 5 years ago
I'm glad you're learning to love yourself, because you look lovely. Smile, there's no one in the world just like you!
Aimee Simmons 5 years ago
In my not so humble opinion, your nose is awesome. nice smooth lines, and it fits perfectly on your face. :) It is ok. Not one person on the planet is perfect in everyone's eyes. You are lovely, and the only opinion that matters is yours, so give yourself permission to love yourself the way you were made.
#27
Dorothy Parker 5 years ago
Your features balance each other and the result is beauty. With a tiny nose and your gorgeous eyes you'd be an anime.
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Zelda Jones 5 years ago
I had a friend who had a rather long nose. But it suited her. Then she got her nose shortened. It looked so weird. I preferred the way she looked with a long nose.
Heather Jerrie 5 years ago
You look so dramatic, especially with your eyebrows and lovely eyes. Very beautiful, just as you are.
Mo Poppins 5 years ago
Love her creativity. Her face looks like a work of art, and not just ANYONE can pull off these looks. So much character...don’t change a thing.
Miriam Hirsch 5 years ago
There's nothing wrong with your nose, however, your make-up is weird as can be.
Nothanks L. Walk 5 years ago
Holy.... yikes. The nose isn't your problem, munchkin. The paint factory explosion, however...
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Miłka Chromińska 5 years ago
Her profile looks great, she looks more like a princess than a witch 😍
#42
Alex Bailey 5 years ago
I will probably word this really badly and I mean NO disrespect to every other woman included in this thread but I love that you are just bare-faced and not trying to glam up other features to try and take away from your nose. Kudos. Again, I'd like to say that I'm not criticising anyone else for doing that - lord knows I'm no stranger to concealer!
#49
Pretty Pangolin 5 years ago
I have this nose and I love it! If a surgeon offered to 'fix' it for free I'd politely decline.
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Marika 5 years ago
I honestly do not understand what is wrong with all those noses. Like normal noses I see everyday on people. If to compare them to "Barbie" nose, then it is dolls nose not normal, not humans.
Cristina S. 5 years ago (edited)
I have a “before” nose. I can’t drink from champagne glasses because my nose hits the edge. Lol. My husband loves my nose and has my profile tattooed to his chest. 💗
Liam Walsh 5 years ago
You'll have to get the old fashioned wide-bowl style champagne glasses instead! I think they look far more elegant!
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Merty Robinson 5 years ago
From a personal point of view I prefer a longer narrow nose to a snub one, I think they are more elegant, and I love the bump on the bridge. It's just a preference thing, these noses all look fine and some of them are gorgeous. I'm starting to wonder if there isn't any part of our bodies were aren't supposed to hate.
Carol Lewis 5 years ago
Women aren't the only ones who feel self conscious about their noses. My husband has been very self conscious about his. I love his big nose.
Jon S. 5 years ago
Same. I've lost count of the number of times people have cracked jokes about the size of my nose. Hurt a lot when I was young. I guess since being in a stable relationship it has mattered much less to me.
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SilverLining 5 years ago
All these women have noses in proportion to their faces, and they all look amazing. In the words of Dr Seuss: today you are you, that is truer than true. There's no one alive who is Youer than you. 😊 Own it!
CrunChewy McSandybutt 5 years ago
I have drawn many portraits of various people (famous and not). I have found over the years that the things people feel the most insecure about are usually the most beautiful things about them. Our perceived flaws are actually our strongest assets.
Helen Haley 5 years ago
I mostly agree with this. Hollywood would have us believe that there are really only about 6 acceptable faces, and all the actors have them. Everyone looks the same and slightly plastic. bit creepy.
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JessG 5 years ago
It's interesting that so many of these women that are self conscious of their noses, draw attention to them by piercing them. As someone who also has a pierced nose, I wonder what the psychology of it is. I guess if you don't like the way it looks, decorate it! Seriously though, these women are all lovely, and should never be made to feel otherwise
TheExtremeSmell 5 years ago
I’m a guy and always thought noses like these were extremely attractive. I’m not sure why but my father did as well. Noses are overlooked.
Julie Julie 5 years ago
I always hated my nose, for as long as I can remember. After looking at these I just took a profile picture to see what it would look like. I just realised it's actually not that bad...?! An entire part of my complex world of self-hatred and lack of self-confidence just collapsed and I'm not sure how to feel about it.
Alex Bailey 5 years ago
Feel good! People are usually better looking than they give themselves credit for - apart from the types of people who think they are good looking. Conversely they tend to be less amazing than they think they are!!
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Marika 5 years ago
I honestly do not understand what is wrong with all those noses. Like normal noses I see everyday on people. If to compare them to "Barbie" nose, then it is dolls nose not normal, not humans.
Cristina S. 5 years ago (edited)
I have a “before” nose. I can’t drink from champagne glasses because my nose hits the edge. Lol. My husband loves my nose and has my profile tattooed to his chest. 💗
Liam Walsh 5 years ago
You'll have to get the old fashioned wide-bowl style champagne glasses instead! I think they look far more elegant!
Load More Replies... Merty Robinson 5 years ago
From a personal point of view I prefer a longer narrow nose to a snub one, I think they are more elegant, and I love the bump on the bridge. It's just a preference thing, these noses all look fine and some of them are gorgeous. I'm starting to wonder if there isn't any part of our bodies were aren't supposed to hate.
Carol Lewis 5 years ago
Women aren't the only ones who feel self conscious about their noses. My husband has been very self conscious about his. I love his big nose.
Jon S. 5 years ago
Same. I've lost count of the number of times people have cracked jokes about the size of my nose. Hurt a lot when I was young. I guess since being in a stable relationship it has mattered much less to me.
Load More Replies... SilverLining 5 years ago
All these women have noses in proportion to their faces, and they all look amazing. In the words of Dr Seuss: today you are you, that is truer than true. There's no one alive who is Youer than you. 😊 Own it!
CrunChewy McSandybutt 5 years ago
I have drawn many portraits of various people (famous and not). I have found over the years that the things people feel the most insecure about are usually the most beautiful things about them. Our perceived flaws are actually our strongest assets.
Helen Haley 5 years ago
I mostly agree with this. Hollywood would have us believe that there are really only about 6 acceptable faces, and all the actors have them. Everyone looks the same and slightly plastic. bit creepy.
Load More Replies... JessG 5 years ago
It's interesting that so many of these women that are self conscious of their noses, draw attention to them by piercing them. As someone who also has a pierced nose, I wonder what the psychology of it is. I guess if you don't like the way it looks, decorate it! Seriously though, these women are all lovely, and should never be made to feel otherwise
TheExtremeSmell 5 years ago
I’m a guy and always thought noses like these were extremely attractive. I’m not sure why but my father did as well. Noses are overlooked.
Julie Julie 5 years ago
I always hated my nose, for as long as I can remember. After looking at these I just took a profile picture to see what it would look like. I just realised it's actually not that bad...?! An entire part of my complex world of self-hatred and lack of self-confidence just collapsed and I'm not sure how to feel about it.
Alex Bailey 5 years ago
Feel good! People are usually better looking than they give themselves credit for - apart from the types of people who think they are good looking. Conversely they tend to be less amazing than they think they are!!
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