our-skin: These are my legs, and my favorite part about my body. Before last year, I was afraid of p
our-skin: These are my legs, and my favorite part about my body. Before last year, I was afraid of people seeing them. Having keratosis pilaris was a big insecurity in my life and I would constantly get comments on my skin, about how i needed lotion, questions on what it was, if it hurt, if i have it everywhere, if i didn’t care about it, if i did care about it, if its eczema, if it goes away, if i tried this homemade remedy, if i had a certain scrub and so forth. I avoided these questions by comments by covering myself up and kept my insecurities about my “weird” legs inside until I found out about the body-positivity movement. From the beginning of last year I started wearing skirts and shorts without tights for once in my life. I don’t actually think ive owned a pair of pants since then. People always ask me why I don’t wear pants and I always say its because I don’t get cold very easily and I don’t like the way pants look or feel on me. What I don’t tell them is how I used to hate my legs. How seeing them every day now, and letting other people see them everyday feels empowering. My legs are never smooth and “perfect”, they’re covered in bruises from concerts, cuts from adventures, scratches from nature, and most of all little red and black bumps from my keratosis pilaris and they will always be perfect to me. -- source link
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