Natchathira
Anonymous asked:
is there any way to submit someones picture to your blog?
Yes here is the submit link :)
Thank you So Much for posting Curly-Haired Desi Women💙 It lets me know that I’m not alone. Im Mixed Indo-Guyanese (Dads side) Afro-Puerto Rican (Mums side) . I have naturally spiral curly hair thats thick . I was raised in an Indo-Guyanese Family , my last name is Narain. All I know and grew up with is South Asian culture & customs. When I wear a bindi with my curly hair around other Desi people I get looked down upon because I don’t look to Indian enough for them. It hurts that my own race doesn’t consider me Indian because of my hair.
Submissions like these are what this blog is all about :)
Happy to see that it is helping others!
Kusala Geethanjali
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Varshini Soobiah
browngirls4bindis-blog reblogged
Growing up as a dark-skinned Tamil woman was not the easiest thing in the world. I used to be jealous of the fair-skinned actresses I saw in the movies and wondered why I couldn’t be beautiful like they were. My mother would put fair and lovely on me every day because she said it made me look clean,as if my dark skin was dirty. To add to that, I grew up in an all white neighborhood where kids were very cruel and made fun of my skin color and my culture and it made loving myself very hard to do. It was definitely a long winding road to self love and I still struggle with it today.Thankfully, I have surrounded myself with people who love me for who I am on the inside and the outside. So here I am, reclaiming the bindi and saying a big EFF YOU to all those who made fun me and my “smelly lunches” :) I am beautiful. I am a proud South Indian woman.