Love Thy Face

Hey beautiful!

Yes, I’m talking to you.

There is the old cliché that says “beauty is only skin deep. “

I disagree with that cliché - True beauty comes from the heart.

I have known people who were horribly disfigured but who were beautiful because of what came from the inside. How many of us have met a strikingly beautiful face with an ugly heart. There is another side to the skin deep theory and that is “ugly goes clean to the bone”.

All that is a topic for another time though.

Under all of the application of makeup -- foundation, lipsticks, mascara, eyeshadow, lies your beautiful, natural face. We cannot let the beauty industry define our beauty.

There is so much pressure placed on us to look like the images we see on TV, magazines and film. This especially is prevalent among our young girls who strive to achieve the unattainable airbrushed looks they see in

magazines.

Many have been impressed with Tyra Banks, a former runway model, who published a coffee table book revealing herself au natural which is quite different than the Tyra wearing a full face of makeup. "Perfect is Boring," she says, as her title suggests.

Today’s focus is on you loving your beautiful self.

Knowing that you are wonderfully and fearfully made attests to your uniqueness —in all the world there has never been nor will there ever be another you.

When you wake up in the morning and look at the face in the mirror what do you see? Can you see yourself for who you really are—God’s beautiful one-of-a-kind creation? Human nature, of course, usually focuses on negative aspects and always sees the glass as half empty when it is really half full.

Take a good look at your face and see your features—eyes, nose, lips, cheeks, etc. Do not focus on negativity.

Learn to love you as you are.

Love the morning face you see in the mirror. When you accept that your natural features are already appealing you can feel comfortable with or without cosmetics and learn to look like yourself, only better.

What about cosmetic procedures? If you have learned to love and accept yourself then any additional enhancement fillers, nips and tucks, etc. will always be because you want to, not because you feel you have to.

Self-confidence and self-esteem are byproducts of loving yourself.

Loving yourself is prerequisite to loving others.

Stay beautiful!

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