"In Ghana, Namibia, and Nigeria, a gap in women's teeth is a sign of beauty and fertility, says Bernice Agyekwena, a Ghanaian journalist and Gates Fellow of African Agriculture at the University of California Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism."So I hear that models and regular people were actually going out to get their gaps WIDENED!!! Say what?! I've heard of people rushing to get their gaps closed. People thought gaps were hideous! I had an ex...you see that, right... ex tell me more than once that my gap was a defect. That I should smile with my mouth closed. (That's my transparent moment.) So reading a article, not even sure how I got there, about gaps being the beauty trend of 2010 put giddy bubbles in my water. I just wish I saw more images of Black women online with gap teeth. I understand that the standard of beauty in the US is any and everything non-black but you have to acknowledged the original exotic women.
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"Some women even go to the extent of creating an artificial gap in their teeth because they want to meet the traditional standards set for African beauty," she says."Now's the time to let whatever is interesting about your look shine through. Embrace it."
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/beauty/dont-mind-the-gap-20101019-16rs2.html#ixzz24svIXHNS
I'll leave you on that note. Embrace all that you are.
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