Artist paints for body positivity

Women around the world suffer from a poor body image; whether it be that they have a little more curves, a little less curves, or even things that are uncontrollable like stretch marks and periods. Artist Cinta Tort Cartró paints on the “problem areas” women have to prove that their body is, in itself, a work of art.

This artist paints rainbows with paint and glitter on period stains and stretch marks to show women that their bodies are beautiful despite their insecurities.

What drove Cartró to start doing this was her own insecurities about her stretch marks. Soon she started to see them differently and decided she wanted to turn something usually thought of as ugly into something beautiful, so she painted her stretch marks.

As she started posting the images of her artwork, more and more women wanted her rainbow work on them; eventually this started going viral on Instagram.

From the positive feedback she got about the rainbow stretch marks, she then went onto putting glitter on period stains. The goal of this was for males and females to be comfortable with the fact that periods are natural and normal, just like stretch marks.

“To accept all this is to accept your roots, your history, everything in it and, after all, accept yourself,” Cartró writes on an Instagram post.

Students seem to have positive feedback to this work.

“It’s nice to see woman regain confidence and feel good about their body through this,” sophomore Angelina Prieto said. “A lot of girls lack confidence because they’re not happy with how they look, so it’s a good thing to see women feel better about their bodies because of this.”

While society should want women to feel happy with their bodies without any “adjustments,” it’s known that body confidence doesn’t come easy and Cartró makes it possible for women to feel that confidence.

“Girls should feel good about their bodies without having to put glitter or paint on their flaws, but if it’s what helps them feel better about themselves then it’s a good cause,” junior Julieann Mendez said.

To see her different artwork, visit her Instagram and Twitter @zintetaart.