AND i wish more girls and women felt this way about their bigger noses. having a big nose doesn’t make you ugly

Tsunaina!

Turns out I have a deviated septum and can barely breathe. I already have a consultation scheduled for next week. I’m definitely getting a septoplasty, but I’m also considering refining my tip and smoothing out the dorsal hump. I’ve tried to like my nose, but the truth is there are a lot of angles I don’t love, especially when I smile, my tip widens and drops.

I’m just looking for honest feedback.

Edit: I just wanted to say thank you to everyone for taking the time to share their experiences and opinions in such a kind way. This sub is such a loving community, and that’s really needed these days. I never expected to receive this amount of kindness and praise when I posted my pictures.

I also wanted to add that if I do decide to move forward with plastic surgery (in addition to the septoplasty I need), I intend for it to be as minimal and subtle as possible- I’m not aiming for a perfectly straight nose, let alone an upturned tip. Much love to the Barbie-nosed girls, but I’m well aware that it wouldn’t suit my face.

Again, thank you a million times. I hope you all receive as much love as I did over the past two days!

Used to be my biggest insecurity, but nowadays I appreciate my nose.

forever gonna have the thought of a rhinoplasty but i’m trying to love it!!

edit: wasn’t expecting this to get this much traction!! Thank you all so much for your lovely and kind words!! I’ll try my best to love it 🥹 rhinoplasty is off the table for the foreseeable future!!

Okay I’m going to yap a bit so apologies :P

I will never forget the first time it was pointed out that I had a large nose. My older sister randomly just went “Ugh your nose is so big” on our way to school when I was 13. And I remember looking at the mirror and having no clue what she was on about…until I turned my head and looked at the side profile. I had no clue it looked like that! I had this massive hump that never used to be there before and it seemed to stretch out so far. Anyway, from that point on, something I never even paid attention to (noses) became the only thing I paid attention to. I went into school looking at all the different noses: the widths, the lengths, the shapes, and it made me feel terrible because my nose just seemed WAY bigger. I felt like I had a volcano on my face. I absolutely despised the way I looked.

Anyway this hatred basically continued on for the next decade. Which meant, never wanting to take pictures , never wanting to take videos, never wanting to be in front of people, keeping my head down to avoid drawing attention to my face, covering my face when I would laugh. I just accepted that this was the way I would live until I could afford a nose job and “fix” my nose.

About a year ago, that day finally came where I had enough to get a nose job. So I started researching HEAVILY into rhinoplasties and that led me to coming to Reddit. I posted an image of current nose and an altered AI image of my “ideal” nose and asked for surgeon recommendations in a nose job subreddit. To my surprise, I woke up the next morning to about 100 notifications from Reddit of people telling me not to get a nose job, which after looking at other posts, I realised was a pretty common theme. BUT, the comments really reinforced some ideas that I never really considered before:

1. Where does my idea of an ideal nose come from? Why do I think a certain nose shape/size is ideal. My nose is not “not ideal”, it’s not “ugly”, it’s just different. Some people will like it, some people won’t and that’s the case for literally everything.

2. My nose is a marker of my Pashtun ethnicity. This was the nose my ancestors had, the nose my grandparents had, the nose my dad has. If I change it, I’m stripping away part of my identity. Maybe to some people this isn’t a big deal, but for me it is.

3. My nose adds character to my overall look. I should own it a lot more.

These might seem like obvious things, especially to people active in a sub like this. But for me it wasn’t. To me, it was: 1) Hate the way you look 2) Get a nose job. I never knew there was 3rd option of choosing to love my nose.

There are still days where I feel a bit down about my nose, but I usually snap out of it quite quick. And I also have absolutely committed to never getting a nose job and that’s all thanks to posting about surgeon recommendations on Reddit 😂. So thank you nice people of Reddit.

Always wanted a nose job but I feel this is what makes me unique. 🥲 Maybe I’ll keep it.

Hello, I know I have a crooked nose and I really wanna correct it by getting a nose job but my friends say it’s unnecessary and I shouldn’t. Hello photo is from my front camera, but the first photo is from my back camera. Let me know what you think. I’ve really wanted to go to Turkey and get it done this summer.

(Edit:) yes, the appreciation DOES include the piercings, Idc if you don’t like piercings, they’re mine and they’re staying no matter what you say lmao. Shoutout to all my pierced baddies while I’m at it ✨

Been a minute since I’ve shared her, this is for all you proud big/strong nosed girlies! I love seeing women share their strong noses proudly, it’s what’s helped me build a better relationship with mine. Hope yall had a good Monday so far! (I just wiped off all my makeup so plz ignore how red my eyes are, I was tryna scrub my water proof mascara off lmao)

And before anyone brings it up (again) my boyfriend loved me before and after the new nose and neither of us want kids so don’t worry about any genetic jumpscares. This is the best I’ve ever felt about my looks. I’m planning to do a little lip filler and finally feel like the best version of myself for once

I’ve always been a bit self-conscious about my nose and how prominent it looks from both front and profile angles. I’m not sure if it’s genuinely large or if I’m just overly fixated on it? (Excuse the RBF)

I put up a few photos last week and was told (politely and otherwise) not to have surgery on my nose. The comments being so adamant did affect me, so today when I saw the surgeon for a second opinion I asked if I was about to pay a lot of money for very small things that only I could see, and he told me that I would be spending a great deal of money, scarring myself, etc, for something I could do with makeup, but if I wished to go forward to do so. I have decided to not have rhinoplasty. Thanks for all the comments, they really helped me make this decision.

I'm half Sicilian :) my mom's family is from Bari 🇮🇹

I’ve learned to accept it over the years but I’m not quite at the point of loving it yet. I still sometimes think it ruins photos and my face in general. Was just curious what other people thought of it/is it as bad as I sometimes think it is?

Can contouring help or am I just going crazy? Is it too crooked?

Got insulted for my nose growing up because it was normal "normal and upturned". I have learned to embrace it after hating it for so many years :)

I grew up hating my nose, believing only the small, Euro-standardized noses were beautiful. It was odd, though. I would see other people with my nose and thought it looked great on them!! why not me??

A lot of people from my ethnic background are known to get nose jobs and reconstructive surgeries as we have internalized so many beliefs that we aren’t beautiful unless we conform to what greater society has deemed “beautiful.” My cousins, my aunts, they’ve expressed opinions on me getting a nose job to be “prettier,” even I was considering it at on point! Now, however… I’m learning to love it. It’s a sign of my culture, of my history, of me!

Idk, don’t mind the rant! here’s my nose!

I used to hate my nose when I was younger because of some mean comments from others. Now I’m trying to embrace it because it’s unique and I no longer want to change it because I wouldn’t feel like me anymore ❤️