why you hate your nose | the damaging normalisation of nose jobs

hate your nose? yeh, this is why. the normalisation of nose jobs and the media have convinced females (and males for that matter) that their perfectly lovely, perfectly functional noses are hideous. Too big. Too curved. Too crooked. Not straight enough. Too bulbous. Too thick. TOO BIG. When what is a nose really? They’re not, in fact, useless pieces of flesh in the middle of our faces to cause us grief over our appearances, they are FUNCTIONAL PIECES OF OUR BODIES. We NEED our noses. And we need them to work. We need them to breathe. To smell, to TASTE for that matter, to rid our bodies of mucous. When did noses become nothing more than an aesthetic feature of our appearance?

Our bodies don’t do things by accident (usually), and the shape of our noses is no different. Your nose was perfectly made for your face, and handed down to you by your ancestors. Your nose tells their story. Is your nose wide and short? Look at your genetics - maybe your ancestors came from a hot climate where they needed this shape nose to breathe easily. Your nose long and thin? Perhaps your ancestry comes from a cold climate, where your family needed thin noses to warm up the cold air before circulating it through your sinuses. Have you got a bump or hump on the bridge of your nose? Then you may have what’s known as the ‘aquiline nose’. This nose has only recently become ‘unattractive’, and for the majority of time in Europe, was considered the most ‘desired’ nose shape.

Your nose isn’t ugly. If it works, and you can breathe through it, PLEASE don’t feel like you need to change it. You’re bloody perfect.