A disabled makeup artist has painted her face with the negative and hurtful comments she receives from strangers.
Watch the makeup artist who has painted her face with hurtful comments
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21-year-old Doaa Shayea, from Plymouth, Devon, is now sharing the hurtful words that strangers call her by painting them on her face to raise awareness.
‘Sp*z, ‘r*tard’ and ‘ugly’ are some of those words that strangers call her because of her disability.
Doaa, who was born with spina bifida, uses a wheelchair and receives negative and hurtful comments on her Instagram pictures and videos.
Doaa said: “I do a good job of hiding it but I want to show there is damage underneath and makeup is my mask. So with my makeup design, I wanted everyone to see what disabled people still have to put up within 2019.”
“It is like the words I write on my face – r*tard, bedridden – I get called them. It’s hurtful.”
She says disability still has not been accepted and it frustrates her. Doaa is now raising awareness by sharing videos of her makeup on her social media pages and hopes to inspire people with disabilities.
She said: “A lot of the time – to my face – I get people saying “it’s such a shame you’re pretty, it’s wasted on you”. I had a guy on the bus come up to me and look at me with the most sympathetic look.”
“Then he said, “it really is a shame you’re so beautiful as you’re never going to do anything with it because you’re in a wheelchair”. What can you say to that?”
She says people stop seeing your beauty as soon as they see you in a wheelchair and she wants to change that. She wants people to accept her and people like her with their imperfections.
She said: “I used to be really paranoid being on crutches as I had a limp and I was always aware that people were staring at me.”
“Now, they still stare, but I can whizz right by them and speed off. I can do everything anyone else can do.”
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