Style Understatement | by Shivangi Sharma

Style Understatement | by Shivangi Sharma

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I was never a stylish girl

Shoes always only about comfort

Sweatpants often the fashion statement

A passionate non-believer in beauty product claims, or often the point

A cream that is 90% water?

Don't bother with bottling

I will get that from my tap, thank you!

Give me a book over makeup any day

I can live for days without a mirror

I might doll up when I want

But don’t ask me to, I will question your depth

Clothes without pockets are sheer waste

We need those pockets even if to keep our disparity ridden salaries

I am not the one to lug a bag if not needed

The ones engraved with the initials of some random guy

like MK, CK…what the FCUK

…that is patriarchy selling for thousands of dollars

Or something equally bad

The brave part of me is happy getting older

I am close to putting an end

to eyebrow shaping trauma for good

And I will finally not care two hoots

I have already mustered the indifference to stop dying my grey hair

The future looks quite bright from where I stand

Author, multilingual poet, and mad lover of words, Shivangi Sharma’s writing has been featured at the Frankfurt Book Fair, The Wall Street Journal, and The Asian Age, among other places. She lives in the Netherlands with her family in a house overflowing with books and ideas.

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