Women with wisdom tooth-shaped butts and beautiful girls altering their hooked, curved noses for a generic, smooth slope are my current inspiration for this article “Nose Jobs and BBLs.” The same copy and paste beauty trends all reflect a lack of individuality, authenticity, and more than anything else, an appreciation for the work of God. Let’s talk about it.
In Ecclesiastes 1:9, the wise King Solomon said “What has been will be again, and what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” Beauty trends have shifted and converged over the years, but nonetheless the heart posture behind the seemingly endless series of new attempts at beauty is a sense of vanity and heart-crushing insecurity.
I was doing my daily scrolls through Instagram and I was disappointed to find a girl with a lovely Aquiline nose and deep brown skin chop her nose into a steep, straight slope with pinched nostrils. Her caption cheekily read “I already know the comments are gonna come, but it’s my body and I can do with I want with it,” with a smiley emoticon followed after.
I go into the comments and everyone is so positive and encouraging, reminding “haters” that they shouldn’t comment on her nose because it’s her body. It reminded me of the Bible verse in Proverbs 27:6 “The wounds of a friend are faithful, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.”
Look, I’m never gonna be a hater on somebody but I’m definitely going to be honest with my opinion. No matter what anyone says, nobody who gets any type of plastic surgery without it being absolutely necessary (like in the case of facial reconstruction because of a vicious dog bite or something like that) likes how they look. I always see people say that they loved their nose and they loved their butt but they just wanted to make some adjustments to make them happier.
It’s a bromidic cop-out that really means “I believe I am unattractive and I must do something to fix it.” And don’t get me wrong: I understand. It can be really hard (especially as a girl) to see all of these different people look so pretty, it is very easy to feel inferior or unpretty in comparison with someone else’s pulchritude. But in reality, everyone is uniquely gorgeous regardless of the main paragon of beauty according to the ever-changing standard of the world.
Your Aquiline nose tells the story of your father’s ancestry, your lips reflect the conglomeration of all those who loved each other before you to make you, your features are a unique mosaic of everyone before you, a perfect demonstration of fruitful love. I think that whenever people get rid of their natural features, they just look uglier because they don’t look real. A hooked nose on the face of one who naturally possesses it fits way better than a bulbous tip.
God crafted everyone like a potter makes clay; the process is intentional and intimate. God breathes His breath into our nostrils and smiles as our faces come to life, resembling His own, for we are made in His image. It is genuinely sad seeing people made so wonderfully by God remove the very uniqueness with which He made them just to look like somebody else. Let the lily look like the lily, and the rock look like the rock, for both are beautiful in their own unique ways. The lily smells sweet and its petals are soft and vibrant, but the rocks skin glitters in the sun’s light and the moon’s glow, and its insides sparkle with purple shards or green jade.
Everything that God has made is beautiful, and we don’t belong to ourselves. God is our creator, our bodies were crafted by Him; we are practically renters of our temporary flesh and bones in this fleeting life. Make the best of what God has given you and enjoy it; the unique beauty that God has given you is what makes you pretty.