Bride shunned by her family for not wearing makeup on her wedding day

Your wedding day should be something to look forward to, but it can also be a major source of stress for brides-to-be.

Aside from the venue, reception, and dress, there’s your beauty look to think about. What makeup route do you go down? Should you hire a professional makeup artist or simply do it yourself?

One bride decided to completely shun makeup, going for a natural look instead.

But her story wasn’t the uplifting one you’d expect.

Tasnim Jara, who lives in Dhaka, Bangladesh, shared a photo from her Muslim wedding that has gone viral for its story of unrealistic expectations placed on brides (and women in general).

“I walked into my wedding reception wearing grandmother’s white cotton saree with zero makeup and no jewellery. Many asked me why. So here is my reason,” she wrote in a now viral Facebook post.

“I was troubled by the singular image of a bride that our society has — with tons of makeup, a weighty dress and mounds of jewellery weighing her down,” Jara continued.

She went on to explain how her childhood involved hearing people gossiping about brides, saying: “‘Is the bride pretty enough?’ ‘How much gold does she have on?’ ‘How much did her dress cost?’

“Growing up listening to these questions, a bride feels pressured to look for the best makeup artist in town, pays a hefty amount in time, money and energy, and ends up looking nothing like herself; because the society constantly reminds her that her actual skin colour isn’t good enough for her own wedding.”

Jara also stated that she had grown up to feel like a bride was “incomplete without ornaments; that her and her families’ status depends on how much gold she puts on on the day.”

Shockingly, she also revealed that certain members of her family refused to take photos with her on her wedding day because she didn’t look like their image of a “typical bride.”

Tasnim finished her post with a powerful statement in which she explained that young women shouldn’t feel the need to bend to stereotypes. “If a girl wants to use makeup, jewellery and expensive clothes for herself, I am all in for that. But it is a problem when she loses her agency in deciding what she would like to wear on her wedding day,” she wrote.

“When society forces her to doll up and look like a different person, it gives a message that the authentic look of a girl isn’t good enough for her own wedding.

“We need to change this mindset.”

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