Monday, February 25, 2013
Beauty
One of my goals this year was to focus more on myself and taking care of my looks. I think my biggest problem in this department is mental. I don't think I'm pretty or can be pretty so I don't try. I'm not saying I think I'm ugly. More like a plain jane kind of look and boring. So, first of all, I need to see myself as beautiful and then I can focus on actually doing things like hair and makeup and stuff to enhance that and have fun with it. My little sister is a huge beauty/fashionista girl. She's always dressing so stylish and she always keeps herself looking supermodel gorgeous with hair and makeup and what not. Just because she's a big city single younger gal and I'm almost 30 and a country mom doesn't mean I can't at least put a little effort into my looks. Maybe not as much as she does but at least some. So for this week I'm going to post photos I have of myself where I actually think I look pretty to remind myself of what I have to work with over the next year.
This was taken quite a long time ago when I used to be skinny - before pregnancy, before the military. I was practicing taking self photos with my camera and I liked this one. I used to like anything dark or gothic which explains the necklace as well as the dress in this photo and of course the teddy bear is cute, much like my personality. I'm super white but I think it actually works for me in this photo instead of against me like usual.
This was taken when I was in tech school in San Angelo in the Air Force. This is one of my classmates during her 21st birthday. We all went out to a local bar to celebrate with her.
This was taken New Years Eve night before Josh and I headed out to a local club in Las Vegas when we were vacationing there. I was actually extremely self conscious about my looks going out to party in a club on New Years Eve in Vegas. I felt I wouldn't fit in at all since I'm just a plain looking girl amongst famous people but I actually think the dress and shoes really worked for me. I couldn't walk in the shoes so I spent most of the night sitting while Josh got me things but hey I'm a girl. Isn't that how it should be? ;-)
This was taken in high school in Texas at the Renaissance Festival. To my left is my future husband Josh. To my right is my high school best friend Sam.
And this one I took on the computer at work one day and then played with effects to make it black and white and kind of blur my face a bit. I think it turned out well.
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Very good plan! Obviously with my lifestyle and career personal appearance is more important and has direct affects on my life, but I think "looking your best" is pretty much always a good motto to have. I think most girls just feel better about themselves in general, and self-esteem boosting is always a plus! And believe me, all the fashion, hair, and makeup things make a huge difference lol. You deserve to feel good about yourself!
Yeah, self-esteem is probably my biggest fault. I'm not going to go crazy with it because I want to be comfortable and able to live my life as a mom and a country gal out here so wearing high heels most of the time would not make sense in my life here but just to put on some makeup and do my hair nice and wear something other than jeans and tee shirts would be a good start. I really just want to work on my skin and teeth and very minimal makeup at first but we will see from there.
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