growing up between two beauty standards | angie's tangents #8

hi there 🤍 i’m angie! welcome back to another video, accompanied by a topic i've wanted to talk about for awhile! growing up in indonesia, i was told my features were wrong. flat nose bridge, soft eyes, skin that was too dark, that came with comments, with lulur tips from my mum, with cousins who made sure i knew i was the odd one out. then i moved to australia and suddenly everyone was fake tanning and the rules were completely different. and i was just standing there like... what is even happening. this video is about navigating two sets of beauty standards that contradict each other. it's about colourism in indonesian households, about wanting to be white just to feel like you belong somewhere, about the 'fix your genes' advice i got from well-meaning adults. and it's about a great-uncle at a funeral who said something that absolutely destroyed me (in the best way). it took me until 25 to stop seeing my face as a problem to solve. this is how i got here. thank you for sitting with me 🤍 -- 🌐 find me IG:   / jejak.anggrek   TikTok:   / angiesyaf   🔗 links https://linktr.ee/helpoutpalestine https://free-palestine.carrd.co/ -- #grwm #beautystandards #indonesianaustralian #colorism #colourism #diaspora #indonesian #getreadywithme #selfacceptance #bodyimage #angiestagents #selfhelp #melbourne #melbournecreator #indonesianinaustralia #identitystories #mixedidentity #growingup #selfesteem #skintone #anticolourism #anticolorism #womenofcolor #womenofcolour #asiancreator #grwmtalk #grwmandchat #personalessay