Kira Upin’s Colourful Mustache and Matching Make-up Rule TikTok

In questioning this female commonplace of magnificence via coloured facial hair, Upin has embraced her personal insecurities. In center faculty, the TIkTok creator was self-conscious of her mustache and was bullied by her classmates for the “unfeminine” and “undesirable” look. (A reminder: Physique hair, together with facial hair, is totally pure for folks of all genders to have.) Till junior yr of highschool, Upin has waxed, bleached, and even Nair’d her higher lip to slot in along with her classmates.

Now a scholar at Duke College, Upin has taken to TikTok to empower different folks to embrace their mustaches. And it appears to have resonated with viewers as Upin has amassed over 28,000 followers since Might 2020 and over one million likes throughout her mustache-dying movies. (She solely has 36 movies on her TikTok web page as of early November.)

Whereas Upin says many individuals have been receptive to her mustache-dyeing (her mother and father’ solely request is that she retains the dye from staining the lavatory tile), others have criticized her or have been fast to supply strategies of removing for her colourful ‘staches. However, Upin is devoted to normalizing facial and physique hair on folks of all genders and deconstructing the notion that girls with any such hair is “unhygienic” and “disgusting.”

“It is not that girls don’t develop mustaches. It is that almost all girls get busy eradicating or concealing them. So, the expectation is that they don’t exist until you could have a hormonal imbalance,” Upin explains. “I am breaking the stigma that girls do not develop mustaches by posting movies and dyeing mine totally different colours. Facial hair is pure, with or with out a hormone imbalance. No matter whether or not or not girls determine to take away their facial or physique hair, the selection must be made on a person stage, not a societal one.”

And whereas Upin leads the cost of physique hair acceptance on TikTok, she’s not the one one pushing for a larger acceptance of this utterly pure phenomenon. Celebrities like Emily Ratajowski, Yara Shahidi, and Cardi B (to call only a few) have all taken a stand towards shaming somebody’s physique hair — and aren’t afraid to point out off their very own.

“Gender expression is a spectrum and no person wants to evolve to notions of masculinity or femininity no matter their identification,” Upin stated. “Do what makes you snug and assured, and don’t really feel a necessity to evolve to any opinions that aren’t your personal.”

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