Today’s post is all about ‘Beauty’. To make sure I understood what this really meant I quickly googled the term (my close friend Amanda would tell you how much I overuse google to search random things…She would ask me any question and I would always have a response and if I didn’t, I simply said ‘google knows’). I am digressing as usual. So beauty according to the cambridge dictionary is: the quality of being pleasing, especially to look at, or someone or something that gives great pleasure, especially when you look at it.Some people see beauty as vanity. For example, they see the use of make-up as a cover up the ‘real’ self. They view women that focus on and spend considerable about of money on looking good as extremely vain. Some believe that the act of bleaching one’s skin is not beauty. I disagree (not that I bleach my own skin or think it’s appropriate).
So what are my thoughts on beauty? Beauty can be about makeup or implants or looking lighter, it can be about waking up ‘flawless’ (no makeup at all) #IWokeUpLikeThis. It could be about being a size zero model and it could be about having some flesh. For me, beauty is simple. It’s about being comfortable in your skin (with or without any enhancements you see fit). It’s about conveying a message to your inner self that says ‘I am ME and I am loving me, flaws, implants and all’. It’s about being confident that what you are is FABULOUS whether anyone else thinks so or not. It’s about living life on your terms.
So what’s the lesson here? Simply that beauty is not defined by one person, that it is unique and that we all have the power to define what beautiful is and as such we shouldn’t take to heart when the world doesn’t think we are beautiful. Know that you and only you define beauty and as such it is imperative to own that power to define your own kind of beautiful everyday. So stay beautiful, always.
#SassyFunke