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I'm Not Ugly. I Just Wear Glasses.

16/11/2021 - 08:15 PM

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When was the last time you saw a celebrity on the red carpet sporting eyeglasses? What about a magazine cover? In movies, she's all that because she took her glasses off. Mia Thermopolis [1] wears glasses. Amelia Mignonette Thermopolis Renaldi doesn't. Toula Portokalos took off her glasses and coincidentally, got the guy soon after. I've worn glasses since the fifth grade. I made the switch to contact lenses as soon as I could because Hollywood made me think that glasses aren't something a beautiful person wears.

Needing a prescription isn't rare: 164 million Americans wear glasses [2]fashionable [3]fog [4] with my mask, or that they clash with my outfit. Truly, it's because, despite all my attempts to change this, I still feel the most beautiful when I see my face without big round glasses covering it.

Just last month, my doctor mentioned Lasik [5] surgery and I thought: wow. I could be pretty all the time. That made me realise I still have work to do on myself. I wear my glasses out to bars and fancy events more often now. It's awkward and I don't feel my best self with them. I haven't entirely come to terms with feeling beautiful while wearing glasses, but each time it gets a little easier. I even get compliments on my frames, which reminds me that society may tell us glasses aren't always appropriate or pretty, but that isn't true. What is truly beautiful is being comfortable with my appearance, with or without plastic frames on my face.


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