Her elegant drawings and watercolors are recognized for their simplicity and color choice – mainly blue – with her distinctive style attracting a variety of commercial clients and individuals. Hussain has also exhibited her more personal pieces at galleries and art events around London, on top of her noteworthy online presence, with almost 10k fans on Instagram alone.

According to her website, her inspiration comes from everyday life – anything from the patterns of home interiors to the natural shapes of the outdoors and the geometries of architecture. Working in several different media, usually at night, she is driven by experimentation, constantly exploring new techniques and searching for the shapes and subjects they express best. 

Often, her work includes elements that appear incomplete – a bird reduced to an outline or a face with an absent feature – obliging the viewer to pause and engage with the artwork, filling in the absences themselves rather than just dismissing it and moving on. In other words: her creations are well worth a closer look.

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“Getting a nose job is something I have debated since I realized it was possible, aged 11,” she wrote in a now-iconic piece for the Evening Standard. “I’ve imagined my face with a smaller nose and the life that would go along with it: more confidence, more friends and more dates. But I never went through with it, even when my mum offered to pay for the surgery when I was 17. I was too scared. […] I couldn’t bear the thought of having a new nose and then realizing the problem wasn’t my nose; it was me.”

“And then suddenly, this year, everything changed,” she added, candidly. “It hit me that this one insecurity had been ruling my life for 27 years. It had held me back from living my life to the fullest, to the point at which I almost turned down TV appearances to promote my work as a journalist and author because the camera would capture my face side-on. I knew I had to face my fears. So, after weeks of anxiety, I took my first-ever side profile selfie and posted it on social media with the hashtag #sideprofileselfie. ‘I’m breaking the big-nose taboo,’ I wrote. ‘Join me.”’ 

A couple of years passed but the movement isn’t showing signs of slowing down. In fact, it spread so quickly that within hours it was written about on hundreds of websites around the world, from the United States to Australia. “It has now reached millions, and more than 10,000 men and women have sent me their selfies, all with messages I completely relate to,” writes Sanghani. “It showed them an alternative view: that big noses could be beautiful and not something to be hidden or fixed by surgery.”

PREACH!

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A couple of years later, and the t-shirt turned into The Phenomenal Woman Action Campaign – a female-powered organization that brings awareness to social causes, supporting a wide range of initiatives. According to their website, by getting the official Phenomenal Woman t-shirt, you’re not only making a bold statement in support of women everywhere, but you’re also supporting the critical work that’s being done for women’s rights on the ground by fearless organizations every day. 

“I thought I was going to create 20 or so shirts and send them off with my friends,” admitted Harris in an interview with Shape. But then, the Women’s March happened, and the simple t-shirt gained traction. “Instead of saying ‘ok, we hit our goal, let me go back to my regular life,’ I thought ‘holy cow, I have to keep growing this, right? We’re really onto something here,'” she recalled thinking. “Turning what I think was this moment of despair and what was really scary for a lot of people into a moment of celebration and of lifting women up, and of saying that women are resilient and phenomenal in their own individual ways and, together, we can get through this—that’s really what inspired me to commit to this long-term.”

And so, she went from one month to a three-month pilot, during which time she ended up selling over 10,000 shirts. “And here I am now, over two and a half years later, talking about it,” she says. “I never thought that it would be anything bigger than one month.”

Follow her impressive campaign on Instagram:

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Her elegant drawings and watercolors are recognized for their simplicity and color choice – mainly blue – with her distinctive style attracting a variety of commercial clients and individuals. Hussain has also exhibited her more personal pieces at galleries and art events around London, on top of her noteworthy online presence, with almost 10k fans on Instagram alone.

According to her website, her inspiration comes from everyday life – anything from the patterns of home interiors to the natural shapes of the outdoors and the geometries of architecture. Working in several different media, usually at night, she is driven by experimentation, constantly exploring new techniques and searching for the shapes and subjects they express best. 

Often, her work includes elements that appear incomplete – a bird reduced to an outline or a face with an absent feature – obliging the viewer to pause and engage with the artwork, filling in the absences themselves rather than just dismissing it and moving on. In other words: her creations are well worth a closer look.

The post Laxmi Hussain Explores Her Blues appeared first on PlayJunkie.

“Getting a nose job is something I have debated since I realized it was possible, aged 11,” she wrote in a now-iconic piece for the Evening Standard. “I’ve imagined my face with a smaller nose and the life that would go along with it: more confidence, more friends and more dates. But I never went through with it, even when my mum offered to pay for the surgery when I was 17. I was too scared. […] I couldn’t bear the thought of having a new nose and then realizing the problem wasn’t my nose; it was me.”

“And then suddenly, this year, everything changed,” she added, candidly. “It hit me that this one insecurity had been ruling my life for 27 years. It had held me back from living my life to the fullest, to the point at which I almost turned down TV appearances to promote my work as a journalist and author because the camera would capture my face side-on. I knew I had to face my fears. So, after weeks of anxiety, I took my first-ever side profile selfie and posted it on social media with the hashtag #sideprofileselfie. ‘I’m breaking the big-nose taboo,’ I wrote. ‘Join me.”’ 

A couple of years passed but the movement isn’t showing signs of slowing down. In fact, it spread so quickly that within hours it was written about on hundreds of websites around the world, from the United States to Australia. “It has now reached millions, and more than 10,000 men and women have sent me their selfies, all with messages I completely relate to,” writes Sanghani. “It showed them an alternative view: that big noses could be beautiful and not something to be hidden or fixed by surgery.”

PREACH!

The post Radhika Sanghani Wants You to Love Every Inch of Your Big Nose appeared first on PlayJunkie.

A couple of years later, and the t-shirt turned into The Phenomenal Woman Action Campaign – a female-powered organization that brings awareness to social causes, supporting a wide range of initiatives. According to their website, by getting the official Phenomenal Woman t-shirt, you’re not only making a bold statement in support of women everywhere, but you’re also supporting the critical work that’s being done for women’s rights on the ground by fearless organizations every day. 

“I thought I was going to create 20 or so shirts and send them off with my friends,” admitted Harris in an interview with Shape. But then, the Women’s March happened, and the simple t-shirt gained traction. “Instead of saying ‘ok, we hit our goal, let me go back to my regular life,’ I thought ‘holy cow, I have to keep growing this, right? We’re really onto something here,'” she recalled thinking. “Turning what I think was this moment of despair and what was really scary for a lot of people into a moment of celebration and of lifting women up, and of saying that women are resilient and phenomenal in their own individual ways and, together, we can get through this—that’s really what inspired me to commit to this long-term.”

And so, she went from one month to a three-month pilot, during which time she ended up selling over 10,000 shirts. “And here I am now, over two and a half years later, talking about it,” she says. “I never thought that it would be anything bigger than one month.”

Follow her impressive campaign on Instagram:

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