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Make-up artist Nikki Patel was mocked for her upper lip hair growing up, but now she's using her platform to let young girls within the South Asian community know that facial hair is not a taboo Nikki Patel opens up about beauty standards inside the South Asian community and the way they've impacted her(Nikki Patel) Cultural standards and expectations have long shaped traditional notions of beauty and what it means to be beautiful in several communities. Growing up, many South Asian women were made to consider that body hair and darker skin weren't attractive while a hairless face and fair complexion were seen as much more in fashion. But with a recent wave of...