Woman Refuses To Shave Moustache Or Unibrow And Instead Embraces It
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A bit over a year ago, a Danish woman from Copenhagen made a decision to not shave her face anymore. Eldina Jaganjac, a 31-year-old tutor from Denmark, decided to defy society’s standards of beauty by going boldly against them. She became more and more frustrated by the expectations that were laid upon women in this age, even more so when it came to men who could just freely go around without the fear of being judged and without touching a single hair on their own bodies.
Jaganjac dropped all the formalities when she decided to completely stop plucking her eyebrows and upper lip hair back in March of 2020, and soon realized that it made no difference to how she felt, as she found herself feeling just as feminine regardless of the “extra” hair on her body.
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Of course, her Frida Kahlo-inspired looks didn’t go unnoticed outside of her house, as unfortunately, she had to deal with various rude men on the streets of Denmark
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Though Eldina isn’t overly concerned about her looks overall, she had to deal with occasional comments such as “pluck that” or with people just rudely staring at her eyebrows as if she had a “third head”
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However, soon enough, Eldina found that sporting a unibrow and additional facial hair might’ve been a blessing in disguise as it helped her to “weed out” “conservative” people she wouldn’t want to be around anyway, as most of them are immediately put off by her unique looks
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The Denmark-based tutor thinks that her unibrow and facial hair allowed her to select people who weren’t concerned about her looks and wanted to know her as a person
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Here’s what Eldina told Tyla magazine about the way other people handled her recent change in looks: “The reaction is actually almost completely positive, but I am sure that there are some negative comments behind my back, but I don’t really care about that”
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“I have noticed a few grown men stare at my unshaven legs and my eyebrows like I had a third head”
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“If anything, I get more positive attention and I get to weed out the more conservative people from the beginning”
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Jaganjac also told Tyla magazine that she felt tired of policing herself all the time to fit in with the beauty standards that were placed upon women
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“I used to feel less feminine because of my rather voluminous eyebrows”
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“Growing up, I noticed that I was considered a brute when my body hair first started to grow as a teenager”
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Eldina also told Tyla magazine that: “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.
Before I let my unibrow grow out, I did feel like there were extremely limited options to how women were supposed to look.
Compared to men, we are expected to spend much more time and money on our looks just to be deemed visually acceptable in society, especially when you are in public spaces.
If a man doesn’t shave and doesn’t pluck his eyebrows, no one notices or comments and it’s nothing out of the ordinary.
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.
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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I'm going to be brutally honest, I admire her for doing it but I don't think its a good look, if I left all my facial hair to grow wildly it wouldn't be a good look either. She does look a bit like Frida Kahlo though.
like me. she can do what she wants, but i don't like that. but again... who cares what i think if she's ok with that.
If she is really okay with it, I don't think she'd be making a post about it.
mac: I couldn't agree more with you. I mean, to make a point that nobody should tell her how to look, she makes a post about how she looks so that people can comment it? Come on.
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It's only not a good look because society deems it so. 1k years ago nobody cared. Heck even 30 years ago certain norms like full bushes were prevalent. It's only modern society deems these are faux pas because everything is shaved
Yes. But we live today. Not 1k years ago.
I dont know about that I mean ancient egyptians shaved every hair of their bodies. Sure it was mostly cos of lice and stuff but still became a fashionable thing to do. If she genuinely believes she looks better then good for her. I strongly believe you should do what makes you happy not what society dictates. However if this is just a protest against what see feels everyone around her is forcing her to do and she doesnt love the look then i dont think its worthwhile.
Agreed. While i'm no fan of unibrows and moustaches (not for men either), it's great that she's found a look she embraces. She's a very pretty girl.
She is pretty! I just do not like those things, on anyone!
Mac and Giovanna, people who have overcome issues that shouldn't be issues often share that experience in hopes of helping others who suffer the same. It's shared courage, and it can be very powerful.
Yes...men have facial hair but they still groom it. I think she has every right to look the way she wants but it sounded like she was offended that people looked at her strangely....people are going to look twice at something they don't see every day.
yes, same here.
Agreed. We promote individuality, but there is a lot to be said also for "fitting in". Her life, her choice, but she will face challenges simply because being unique or different put some people off in some situations. It is no secret that "better looking" people are more likely to get jobs, get promotions, and have others have a positive opinion of them. Whether we like it or not, we are a species that subconsciously prefers the norm. It is a conscious effort to break free of that and that is a challenge not everyone can or will rise to.
Don’t worry, this post is full of shït anyway. She has a conventionally beautiful face so it’s acceptable. If she had any other flaws, she wouldn’t make headlines.
Brutally honest she'd look better with shorter hair I'd think, but that's equally irrelevant.
With social media you can monetize anything. Once she has to deal with competition or the ROI tails off, I expect she will cash out and clean up that look. Appearances do matter, like it or not.
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Good for her! Remember, she isn't here to please you. What you think doesn't matter. Women (or men) shouldn't have to pluck their hairs, wear makeup if they don't care to. We do not owe to the society to look beautiful, attractive, neat or even acceptable. The only thing that should be required is to keep one hygiene so that they don't smell, and all other things are up to you.
Apparently she cares what other people think about her, so it matters...
You have a point.
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I'm female and have quite thicc eyebrows and a line of hair above my top lip that's so thin it's barely noticeable, but some observant fools (who were all male) have pointed it out and mocked it and said that it made me "unattractive". I have always just responded to them by saying that I am not trying to attract anyone, which is true.
"That's unattractive" "Oh GOOD, I was worried you were attracted to me. That's a relief!"
I have that too but I think the only women who are ridiculed for it are ones who don’t have conventionally attractive faces. That’s why she gets away with it, you don’t, and I shave my mustache lol.
I'm going to be brutally honest, I admire her for doing it but I don't think its a good look, if I left all my facial hair to grow wildly it wouldn't be a good look either. She does look a bit like Frida Kahlo though.
like me. she can do what she wants, but i don't like that. but again... who cares what i think if she's ok with that.
If she is really okay with it, I don't think she'd be making a post about it.
mac: I couldn't agree more with you. I mean, to make a point that nobody should tell her how to look, she makes a post about how she looks so that people can comment it? Come on.
yep me too
It's only not a good look because society deems it so. 1k years ago nobody cared. Heck even 30 years ago certain norms like full bushes were prevalent. It's only modern society deems these are faux pas because everything is shaved
Yes. But we live today. Not 1k years ago.
I dont know about that I mean ancient egyptians shaved every hair of their bodies. Sure it was mostly cos of lice and stuff but still became a fashionable thing to do. If she genuinely believes she looks better then good for her. I strongly believe you should do what makes you happy not what society dictates. However if this is just a protest against what see feels everyone around her is forcing her to do and she doesnt love the look then i dont think its worthwhile.
Agreed. While i'm no fan of unibrows and moustaches (not for men either), it's great that she's found a look she embraces. She's a very pretty girl.
She is pretty! I just do not like those things, on anyone!
Mac and Giovanna, people who have overcome issues that shouldn't be issues often share that experience in hopes of helping others who suffer the same. It's shared courage, and it can be very powerful.
Yes...men have facial hair but they still groom it. I think she has every right to look the way she wants but it sounded like she was offended that people looked at her strangely....people are going to look twice at something they don't see every day.
yes, same here.
Agreed. We promote individuality, but there is a lot to be said also for "fitting in". Her life, her choice, but she will face challenges simply because being unique or different put some people off in some situations. It is no secret that "better looking" people are more likely to get jobs, get promotions, and have others have a positive opinion of them. Whether we like it or not, we are a species that subconsciously prefers the norm. It is a conscious effort to break free of that and that is a challenge not everyone can or will rise to.
Don’t worry, this post is full of shït anyway. She has a conventionally beautiful face so it’s acceptable. If she had any other flaws, she wouldn’t make headlines.
Brutally honest she'd look better with shorter hair I'd think, but that's equally irrelevant.
With social media you can monetize anything. Once she has to deal with competition or the ROI tails off, I expect she will cash out and clean up that look. Appearances do matter, like it or not.
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Good for her! Remember, she isn't here to please you. What you think doesn't matter. Women (or men) shouldn't have to pluck their hairs, wear makeup if they don't care to. We do not owe to the society to look beautiful, attractive, neat or even acceptable. The only thing that should be required is to keep one hygiene so that they don't smell, and all other things are up to you.
Apparently she cares what other people think about her, so it matters...
You have a point.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
A woman
I'm female and have quite thicc eyebrows and a line of hair above my top lip that's so thin it's barely noticeable, but some observant fools (who were all male) have pointed it out and mocked it and said that it made me "unattractive". I have always just responded to them by saying that I am not trying to attract anyone, which is true.
"That's unattractive" "Oh GOOD, I was worried you were attracted to me. That's a relief!"
I have that too but I think the only women who are ridiculed for it are ones who don’t have conventionally attractive faces. That’s why she gets away with it, you don’t, and I shave my mustache lol.