Perfect skin seems to be everywhere: Good for you, models, musicians and movie stars. Thing is, the rest of us can’t filter real life?our blemishes, scars and stretch marks are here to stay.
It’s super common for moms to get stretch marks during pregnancy as their bodies adapt to the baby growing inside them, but even people who aren’t pregnant can find themselves with stripes on their skin anytime their body grows or changes. (Heck, I’m the only guy on Today’s Parent‘s staff, and even I have them.)
So it comes as no surprise that plenty of people are loving these glittery images that celebrate and highlight super-common stretch marks instead of scrubbing them away with a photo editing tool.

GlitterMarks or #stretchmarks #glitterstretchmarks #proudowner . CollageArt.SaraShakeel . . #art #love #glitter #embrace #embracingtheeveryday #happy #happiness #body #vision #bodygoals #fitness #woman #woman #bodyglitter #girl #girls #power A post shared by Sara Shakeel (@sarashakeel) on Oct 27, 2017 at 8:46am PDT

Sara Shakeel, the artist behind the collages, calls herself an “Accidental Collage/Video Artist,” and her Instagram is filled with awesome surrealist pieces of art. She posted the first stretch mark image last week and has since posted four more images in the series?two of which use photos sent by fans asking to be glitter-fied.

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