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# Style Understatement | by Shivangi Sharma
- URL: https://www.medusarising.org/style-understatement-by-shivangi-sharma/
- Published: 2026-02-17T06:35:36.000Z
- Updated: 2026-02-17T06:35:35.000Z
- Description: Poem | Bonus Post | Beauty Industry BS
- Author: Medusa Rising
- Tags: Womens Poetry, Poetry, Radical Feminist, Gender & Non-Conformity

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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

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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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