Stretch marks: many of us have them, so why not celebrate them?
Well, thanks to a truly gifted, and insightful, artist named Cinta Tort Cartró, we are all being encouraged to do exactly that.
Using her Instagram profile @Zineta to showcase her incredible pieces, Cinta conveys women’s stretchmarks in the most beautiful and colourful way – completely devoid of any airbrushing.
Just take one look at these inspirational images and you, too, will see how this Barcelona-based artist is captivating Instagram users with her bold and bright approach to illustrating the realities of womanhood.
Image sourced from @Zineta.
Image sourced from @Zineta.
Image sourced from @Zineta.
As translated by Scary Mommy, Cinta explains:
“Stretch marks are those marks that many of us have on the skin,” she writes.
“I spent years hating them and trying to find a way to eliminate them, until I realised that if I did not accept them I was not accepting myself.”
And it is for this reason that she began creating these self-love-promoting pictures – so that no women feels ashamed of the skin their in.
Rather, they own it.
“All bodies have (more or less) stains, hairs, freckles, stretch marks, curves, lines, wounds, wrinkles … and all are equally valid,” she continues.
“It is time for us to begin to love ours because, after all, this is our tool of communication with the world. And if we do not like the tool we use for it, we can hardly feel free.”
Preach, Cinta. Preach.
