Azra Tabassum's Blog, page 167

Do you have instagram?

I don’t! I’ve been toying with the idea of getting one. Should I?

Have you ever been insecure about your skin colour? I'm from a Bangladeshi family too, and my mother (and her side of the family) are all so fair and beautiful, and then there's me. I've always been taught that being fair is more beautiful, and that people

Silly, you’re aligning yourself with a Western conception of beauty which is of course, centred around pale skin. I don’t know why brown people are so obsessed with fair skin like that bullshit Fair and Lovely cream. How dare they tell young girls they’re inadequate from such a young age. There’s nothing wrong with your skin. You just need to understand that it comes from a place that says white skin is the most desired and it ONLY comes from that place because Western = Best. It’s very ethnocentric. You’re gorgeous, I promise. You’re just as “hot damn” as the rest of them. Gotta believe it though bb g.

How did you and alonesomes become friends?

It’s so funny because apparently she’d been following me for months and was super resentful that I hadn’t followed her back and unfollowed me for a little bit because of it. I’d noticed her writing around tumblr and I was super resentful of how damn talented she was, so I deliberately wasn’t following her out of spite but then I caved and noticed she liked Supernatural so we started talking about it and she’s the softest most beautiful light so naturally I fell in love with her and met her in NY and the rest is rust and stardust.

trigger happy shakes me every time. i love it so much

100% going to spoken word that one. I hope that shakes you too x

Totally just bought $130 in lingerie thanks to youuuu

I’m at once proud and kind of super jealous. Like I feel I didn’t buy enough? Ah well, there’s always tomorrow ;) x

Where did you order the lingerie from? I'm in love

IT’S FROM ASOS. PLEASE BUY IT TOO SO I FEEL LESS BAD. IT’S THE ‘POUR MOI’ COLLECTION. 

I did it. I have no impulse control to speak of.

I did it. I have no impulse control to speak of. 

do you ever just feel a tremendous urge to buy an armful of lingerie even though nobody is going to...

do you ever just feel a tremendous urge to buy an armful of lingerie even though nobody is going to see it and it’s going to cost you the equivalent of a kidney on the black market but it doesn’t matter because suddenly you really, really desperately need cute new lacy sexy things???

"When you speak I like to listen to you because when you speak it feels like hearing a story about..."

“When you speak I like to listen to you because when you speak it feels like hearing a story about the first time somebody saw the ocean, no matter what you’re saying.”

- Dalton Day “Do You Hear Those Crows?” 

azra i know you're not an advice blog but i have no one else to turn to - how did you become so confident in yourself & your body? i am cripplingly insecure about certain things (small boobs, stretch marks) & it prevents me from experiencing stuff that i w

Baby it was such an uphill battle and it still is. I’m still trying not to hate myself because it feels like everything tells me that I should. But it starts as an inward process, I think. I started to like who I am as a person, nothing to do with my looks, just me as I am. And then it slowly began to be okay that I have stretch marks and rolls on my tummy and dimples on my thighs and my knees are darker than the rest of my body because it doesn’t matter so much as long as I was happy that I’m nice to people, and occasionally very gentle and funny and clever. Once you start beginning to appreciate who you are outside of how you look, you can start loving how you look because of those things x