Do you ever feel the pressure to be more beautiful? Of course you do. We all do. We look in the mirror and wonder why we’re not as pretty as the girls in the magazines. We wonder why we can’t look like them, act like them, wear clothes like them, walk like them, talk like them…
We wonder all sorts of things because we’re just…us. There’s nothing special about us, we’re just normal girls living in normal towns doing normal things.
Nothing special.
We see these girls on tv and in movies and they’re so beautiful. They wear their makeup just right, and they have it all together.
We see these girls in magazines. They’re dressed provocatively, and look gorgeous. The headlines in these magazines make you feel like you could be beautiful if you just wore the right clothes and chose the right makeup.
While there’s nothing wrong with wearing stylish clothes and putting on makeup to make yourself feel good, it’s not going to make you any more beautiful than you are to begin with.
We’ve all heard the phrase, beauty is only skin deep. And over the last few years, I’ve realized just how true that is. Someone can be beautiful on the outside – like she just stepped out of a magazine – but the personality of that person is just crude and angry and that no longer makes them beautiful, but instead, ugly.
We, as young women, need to realize that we don’t get our beauty from makeup products or cool clothes.
We get our beauty from where it counts most – our hearts. And if we have hearts of gold – we love those around us, even if we don’t necessarily like them – and we learn to love ourselves just the way we are, we are going to look beautiful.
So, my thought for you this month is to stop looking at those magazines and wishing you looked like the girl on the cover.
You need to be the best you that you can be.
And you just happen to be beauty-full.