sara ali @saradordali - Tumblr Blog

#TakingBackOurCulture #whitepeoplestealingculture #reclaimthebindi

now 21, but still unenthusiastic (at Irvine, California)

Do you personally think it's cultural appropriation to wear a bindi to strengthen my third eye? I was looking around the internet and found that a bindi helps with that. Would it be okay for me to do that, even though I am not indian?

i think by the very basic definitions of appropriation, wearing a bindi to strengthen your third eye would be appropriating! im sure there are more internal ways to strengthen your third eye though. i am positive strengthening it comes from within :)

god youre so ridiculously beautiful!! just your eyes and your eyebrows i dont know just slay it girl wow

thank you so much!!! your positivity means the world to me

Your post made me really sad because I've always been told to put fair and lovely on and I used to every night and morning... Then I realized I don't care but now they say I'm not going to find a man. I don't need a man. I'm just so glad someone as beautiful as you was told the same thing. Maybe I'm not ugly after all

anon- i don't even know how to properly answer this but your ask made me really emotional. im glad i could give you some strength because i struggled with my darkness a lot. first of all, you are not ugly. ugly is a subjective term. and second, we don't need men (or others) to fulfill us and it seems like you already know this. i truly believe that beauty comes from within and to combat all of the dark comments i got i looked in the mirror every day and told myself I was beautiful and i started thinking positively and never letting negativity get into my head. and one day i really started to believe that i was beautiful and that my dark skin was beautiful. if you ever need anything please message me im here for you or anyone else.. i know being a dark skinned desi girl is hard.

#unfairandlovely because i smothered fair & lovely all over my face as i grew up until i realized none of us need to succumb to nonsensical western standards of beauty that base our value off of our skin pigmentation