Blush helps acid attack victim Reshma Bano look prettier than Katrina Kaif

Faced with derision in society, some lost confidence restored.

By Dileep Thekkethil

BENGALURU: Acid attack victim Reshma Bano Quereshi, 18, has a smile on her face after Blush, a YouTube channel on beauty and fashion, helped her with a makeover, making her feel she is prettier than Bollywood actress Katrina Kaif.

Quereshi was attacked by a group of men who threw acid on her face, disfiguring her badly, and making her wince every time she looked into a mirror.

After the makeover, however, she exclaimed: “Aaj main Katrina Kaif se bhi sundar dikhoongi (today I look prettier than Katrina Kaif).”

In a country that is obsessed with cosmetic products that claim to make dark-complexioned people ‘white’ and ‘fair’, teenagers have become extra sensitive to even pimples, locking themselves inside their house as if their identity has been questioned.

Every acid attack victim, however, faces a more dire truth. She starts the day by seeing a totally different person in the mirror, shattering self-confidence time and again. Society looks at them with derision.

“I learnt to live with the physical pain but what hurt more was the way the society reacted. My own relatives stopped seeing me, as did my friends. I stayed indoors for eight years and ventured out only in a ghungat,” another victim Laxmi said in an interview to The Hindustan Times.

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