The Key to Beauty

After so many posts on this blog, I have to say a learned some things about beauty myself. I know it was mostly about sharing my knowledge and the things I like to do to look better, but I also started paying close attention to what actually makes women feel beautiful. To tell you the truth, I am very sure it is not about what products you use, what you do for makeup or what clothes you wear – it is about you. And I know this might sound like a big cliché, but this is probably one of the most important things my mom thought me. She is very pretty but I look nothing like her physically. When I was little she was like the prettiest thing I had ever seen and I loved watching her getting ready and doing her makeup, and I wanted to be like that so bad. She was always telling me how I am beautiful in my own way, regardless of the fact that I have different hair, skin and eyes, because beauty is different and it is in everything and everyone. What she was basically trying to teach me is to be confident. 

Since I was little there have naturally been many occasions when I doubted myself and my appearance. What brings me back to my senses has always been this lesson from my mom.

So to look beautiful, be confident! Be yourself and be comfortable in your own skin, because the image of beauty is not what you see in the magazines, it is what you see in the mirror. You are it, and it is as real as it can get, so embrace the girl in the mirror. I am not saying to not work on the things you don’t like, I am a perfectionist by nature myself. But what you do for beauty should be making you feel good, rather than restricted, like a fun new sport for example. And what is most important, after doing everything you feel you need to do for your appearance, accept and love yourself for who you are. Fashion and makeup are ways to express your inner self, rather than hide it and follow the trends. So whatever you read here or anywhere else, put your own touch on it, do your own spin… Because all that matters is YOU. 

 

Smile for me!