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.

[jijiian]

A note to young girls watching this: you probably will be much more confident in your looks as you leave your teen years. You're pretty great as you are, it just takes some times to see that for yourself!

[Nooooooooooooooooooooo]

As a black person with a wide nose, I like to think of my nose as a “family nose”. Literally everyone on my dad’s side has this nose and I’d be sad to no longer look like the people I love the most

[kchaukraa]

My ex boyfriend told me his new girlfriend said that I was ugly because I “had a big nose”. It tormented me for weeks until I realized she was the one who is really insecure. My nose might not be the smallest or most perfect but it reminds me of my dad who is my best friend and I know when he’s gone one day I will look in the mirror and see him and be so happy. I will NEVER get surgery.

[TiredHumanBeing]

Yknow ironically I didn't start getting insecure about my nose until I got on social media and I'm constantly finding things I'm insecure about.

[rebeccasaldana]

Honestly I was shocked when she showed the comments about her nose. Not only are they horrendous, but they caught me off guard because Ive literally never noticed it. I've watched a good amount of her videos and never even thought about her nose. Goes to show that those people don't have a life 🤷‍♀️ My dad once told me "the only reason someone would mess with your life is because they don't have one themselves." Her being insecure about her nose when it looks perfect made me feel a bit better. Cause maybe my nose isn't as nearly as bad as I make it out to be?

[faraniel]

I have been insecure about my bigger, crooked nose since I was like 12. And then one day a woman told me I looked like a Roman statue and for a history fan like myself that was the BEST compliment I have ever got.

[britpretty]

I can't believe a PROFESSIONAL said that about your nose! I wonder if he has a tactic of playing off insecurities to get more money out of clients. How RUDE, unprofessional, and what a lie!
Your nose is beautiful. Honestly.

[J.e.m]

From a young age my mother voiced how beautiful my nose is. And she re-enforced that idea forever. How beautiful my face is etc. to this day there isn’t a thing I’d change about my face and I owe that self love to my mom. I can only hope I do the same for my daughter.

[auroradreamcatcher]

Thats it I'm emailing my surgeon and canceling my rhinoplasty surgery. This is what I've been needing to hear. When I started this 4 year goal of sitting down with the cosmetic surgeon to fix all my flaws I felt such accomplishment when I was finally right where I needed to be. as I slowly progressed into getting clearance letters I started to Resent the process specifically the part where I was required to go seek a psychological evaluation. That's when I then started really thinking more about my mental health and how I truly have nothing wrong with my body, there was nothing physical wrong with me.. I just wanted to appear better looking for people that didnt no me at all. When in reality if I was ever to change my appearance I probably would never see the resemblance of my families physical heritages in myself anymore and that realization broke me. Because family means everythint to me. Anyways thank you again for this enlightening video!

[HuyenNguyen-bzmb]

I cant believe there are people telling you to fix your nose!!!! it is so pretty and it fits your other features so well

[bubblegumbxtch]

Bella Hadid regretting her nose job is a massive lesson in this. Her phrase "I wish I had kept the nose of my ancestors" really haunts me. She's so beautiful and was before. (Her ancestry is Dutch, Jordanian, and Palestinian)

Edit: this is not a dig at Bella in anyway- I'm absolutely broken hearted for her, she was pushed into this nose job as a child.

[nenar]

Wow I’m surprised. You are beautiful. There is nothing about your nose that looks bad. I cannot believe anyone has actually told you those things. That’s crazy to me.

[noopnoop]

One of the reasons I appreciated Encanto so much was because it was the first time I'd ever seen a wide, bulbous, downturned nose - my nose - represented so distinctly on a Disney heroine before (and all of the women in the family too!) The homogenous presentation of facial beauty for women is so pervasive and normalized in our media that seeing unconventional beauty depicted in art and entertainment as a beautiful, ordinary part of life instead of something to shine a spotlight on and gawk at has been more profoundly validating than I realized it could be!

[vollkornbroti]

I actually had rhinoplasty because I was insecure about my nose all my life. I really like the way I see myself now. But surprisingly nobody noticed the difference. They just see me like I was before. The change of your nose may look better in pictures - but what people really see is how you are in real life, how you speak and act in general. Don’t be too hard on yourself and your imperfections/insecurities - they have no meaning for the people who know and love you, you are so much more than that

[notcha]

hooked noses are "villainous, " small upturned noses are "pig-faced, " and wide flat ones are "bulbous." beauty standards are truly unattainable. just live your life and don't worry about it.

[yesreneau]

Wowowowow the comments on your videos that talked about your nose... what is wrong with people? I have been watching you for like a year now and literally the thought never even crossed my mind

[SnickersKawaii]

My boyfriend actually made me feel better about my nose, he constantly says “you wouldn’t be you without it, it’s beautiful and you’re beautiful” so that helped me quite a bit, after years of girls in school making fun of it, I’m starting to be nicer to myself

[greeneyedwitch]

German girl with a long hooked "villain" roman nose here. I'm still quite insecure because my nose looks quite "masculine". I can't deny that I have thought about nose jobs but as I am a singer I am afraid that a nosejob might change my voice. So at the wise old age of 40 I decided to cope with my nose in a different way: glitter makes things prettier. So I got a nostril piercing :)

[la]

This video literally convinced me to not do my nose Job in January, my mom will be so happy when I tell her that I changed my mind thanks to you lol 💓

[dianelinke]

To me there was a changing moment when I was an exchange student in England. My host family's little brother draw me a picture with a big nose and titled it "You are beautiful". It was the first time someone simply acknowledged it and it encouraged me in welcoming my nose as something that still can be beautiful, even though it is bigger. Before, everyone close to me just made me feel like I am acting crazy in feeling that I have a bigger or strange nose.