A Guide To Falling In Love With Your Reflection
A Guide To Falling In Love With Your Reflection
Mirror, mirror on the wall, I'm not so happy after all... Well, guess what, you aren't alone if you don’t like what you see when you look in the mirror.
Nearly 2 in 5 adults admit to feeling self-conscious about their reflection on a daily basis.
While there are many potential triggers for self-esteem (many beyond our control), there are certain steps you can take to fall in love with your reflection. This will help you not only change the way you carry yourself but also confidently embrace who you are.
With that in mind, here’s a simple guide: Barbie's Beauty Bits has put together some great bits to help you fall in love with your reflection.
Get Serious About Your Skincare
One of the easiest ways to change your perception of your appearance for the better is by learning to take care of your skin. After all, this gives you the chance to deal with any skincare complaints you are dealing with, whether that’s acne or wrinkles.
There are many different ways in which you can improve your skincare game, such as:
- Developing a morning and evening skincare routine
- Identifying the type of skin you have (Oily, dry, combination)
- Drinking plenty of water
- Following a healthy diet
Consider Plastic Surgery
Cosmetic or plastic surgeries are growing in popularity year-on-year, providing a way to address specific body-related concerns. However, it's crucial to approach this decision thoughtfully and for the right reasons - never as a quick fix to deeper issues.
When gathering plastic surgery information, the key is to be honest with yourself about your motivations and expectations. While cosmetic surgeries can help address some concerns, it's important to understand that they are not a solution that guarantees happiness.The best outcomes come when you make an informed, balanced decision based on self-awareness.
If you decide to explore surgical options:
- Gather information from reputable sources
- Research potential surgeons' credentials and patient reviews
- Understand the full recovery process and timeline
- Get clear details about all costs, including aftercare
Remember to prioritize finding a board-certified surgeon who makes you feel heard and comfortable and thoroughly explains benefits and risks. Your safety and well-being should always come first.
However, if you’re going down this road, you should do plenty of research by gathering the relevant plastic surgery information ahead of time. This way, you know exactly what to expect, not only in terms of results but also recovery and payment too!
Brighten Your Smile
There’s no denying that dental problems can lower your confidence, with many people attempting to hide their smiles to mask them. As such, working to brighten your smile is a great way to help you fall in love with your reflection. This can be achieved by taking dental care more seriously and attending regular dental check-ups.
If you haven’t visited the dentist in some time, it's normal to feel a little apprehensive—but remember that the results will be well worth it.
Practice Positive Self-talk
Practicing positive self-talk can also be instrumental to building your confidence and embracing your natural beauty. It helps you stop negative thoughts in their tracks. As such, you should try to complement yourself (and your appearance) as often as possible, even if doing so may feel somewhat alien to begin with.
On a similar note, you should also ensure that you accept compliments offered to you by others, as opposed to dismissing them or assuming they are saying something for the sake of it.
In short, there are many steps that you can take to build up your self-esteem so that you no longer feel anxious about looking in the mirror. While it can be hard to get started, especially if your confidence has been low for some time, you’ll soon notice the benefits of working on yourself!
Selfcare Tips To Help Love The Body You're In
Be open-minded when reading these self-care tips to help love the body you are in.
Do you ever find yourself staring into the mirror, disappointed by what you see, and wishing you could feel better about your body? The situation is not unique to you.
According to a recent study, "61% of adults feel negative or very negative about their body image most of the time". There are various reasons for this. Firstly, we're constantly bombarded with images of the "perfect" body on our TV screens or through social media, which makes comparing ourselves to these figures inescapable.
Furthermore, our bodies change as we age, making it difficult to recognize the person in the mirror, leading to a lack of confidence, anxiety, even depression.
I'm here to tell you it is normal to feel this way! More importantly, it is also OK to want to do something about it, whatever that may be.
And for you naysayers, it is just as wrong to judge someone who wants to make a change as it is to judge someone for not meeting society's standards. As far as I am concerned, the first is the most offensive!
With that in mind, here are some self-care tips to help your love the body you're in.
Love Your Body By Nourishing It
If you are unhappy with your weight, it may be time to consider what you eat and how it impacts your physical health, mental health, and immune system. And I'm not saying you need to go on some crazy diet, as honestly, those do not work or do the opposite, leading to an eating disorder.
You need to adjust your eating habits by eating healthy natural foods placed on this planet for a reason. This eating approach has many health benefits, as the expression you are what you eat is ever so true.
Portion Control To Help With Your Weight
While I can taut adjusting your diet by adding more healthy non processed foods, many, for whatever reason, can't do this. But you can control how much food you eat in one sitting. And restaurants are the worst for over serving..Tips For Portion Control:
- Use a smaller plate
- 20-minute rule
- Don't double your carbs. If you have potatoes, do not eat bread, etc.
- Read food labels
- Immediately place half the food in a to-go box when at a restaurant.
Reward Yourself- It is Not Vanity It Sanity
One way to boost your self-confidence is by practicing self-care and learning to take better care of yourself. Not only can it help reduce stress levels, but it also makes you feel good all the way around. It's kind of like a mental and physical workout for yourself.
For example, you could develop a skincare routine that, while simplistic, allows you to combat any skincare issues you may be dealing with, such as dryness or acne.
Taking better care of your skin will allow you to embrace your natural beauty, and you may find yourself reaching for your make-up bag less often.
Consider Surgical Interventions For Selfcare
You naysayers, shut your mouth on this. Remember what I said above. The truth is sometimes we need a helping hand when working towards our ideal weight. As such, you may want to look into surgical interventions such as bariatric weight loss surgery.
However, if you are going down this route, you must do your research ahead of time to understand what you are getting yourself in for. It would help if you also worked to find a trusted, respected surgeon to get optimal results. So going to a place like Realself can help with this. 
Positive Affirmations To Help Love The Body You're In
Learning to love your body is about embracing yourself for who you are - "flaws" and all. While the idea of accepting and embracing your body may sound like a bunch of fluffy BS. there are many steps you can take to reprogram your mind so that your thoughts are more optimistic.For example, you can practice gratitude through positive affirmations. For instance, give yourself a thumbs up in the morning after you've washed your face. Or, after physical activity like a workout, do a happy dance or sing a song complementing your appearance. Doing so can do wonders for your emotional health.
Research shows that rewarding yourself like this reaps a sense of accomplishment, making it easier to love the body you are in and to start believing in yourself long-term.
Stop Comparing Yourself To Others On Social Media
There are many benefits to social media. For example, they can be an excellent tool for marketing your business or reconnecting with old friends. However, it can also destroy your confidence, making you feel less loved and accepted, especially if you spend your screen time comparing yourself to others.It's important to remember that social media does not necessarily reflect real life. Let's be honest. Most of us only upload the pictures we look good in - and not the moment in between takes where we didn't quite nail the pose or had something stuck in our teeth. Remembering this will make it easier for you to nip self-comparison in the bud.
Update Your Wardrobe To Help Feel More Confident
Often, society negatively portrays mature women, such as graying hair, gaining weight, developing wrinkles, are not being able to remain fashionable. Because of this, many feel hopeless about looking stylish in their middle years.
But stop that stinking thinking, as you can look gorgeous in every outfit you wear by dressing to your body style!
When an outfit flatters you, you will find a boost of confidence and change your relationship with your body.
To Sum It Up
To put it bluntly, you're stuck with YOU forever, so you may as well love yourself. Consistent negative thoughts and focusing on what you "THINK" you lack are poisonous to the mind.
Instead, try implementing some of the self-care tips I suggested to help love the body you are in more each day! And remember small baby steps, with some great affirmations immediately following.
Beauty Blogger BS, Why People Really Wear Makeup
I am writing this post out of frustrations of narrow-minded thinking when it comes to beauty, makeup, bloggers, etc. If you follow my blog regularly, you will notice I only share positive. I only talk about products I like and rarely share negative reviews. Not because I do not want people to know, I am trying to hide something, or I am being paid to say something. But, because I feel that most reviews are opinions, not facts and I do not want to impact a product's success with my negative thoughts as they are just my opinions NOT FACTS. In most cases if I do not like something I kept it to myself and if the product was sent to me for a review and if I did not like it, I offer to send it back.
With that, today I am going to touch on a topic that I see arise a lot on YouTube and Instagram, with people making comments about you don’t need to wear makeup, you look better without, stop hiding behind your makeup, etc. I am not talking about the random opinion comments, but those spewing negativity, because of their insecurities. Reading this frustrates me so, as in my view, it is narrow-minded thinking, that people who use makeup use it ONLY to cover up something or to live up to a standard. Which nowadays is not always the case. Yes, I wear makeup, but there are times, I will go days without washing my hair or even bathing, (yes, I shared that fact) to show you it is not about acceptance.
My Truth About Makeup
I love beauty and makeup for one simple fact, the creativity it gives me to express myself. I am a creative person, by profession and in my personal life. My approach, as well as many others, is, I am artist and makeup is my medium of choice. I view my hair, face, body, etc. as a blank canvass, and the makeup and other cosmetics products I use are the tools to apply my artistic approach, expressing my creativity, ending with a final creation or master piece. Makeup is my palette, the same as paint is to a painter. I am not wearing makeup to hide or conceal anything, but rather to express my artist point of view. Whether it be bold or simplistic, it is my form of artist expression.
Other Reasons Why I Wear Makeup
Aside for artist expression there are other reasons that I wear makeup, fix my hair, etc.
Starting with, I wear makeup for myself. I do not give a rats ass what others think. Nothing I do in my life is to impress others as I do not care what others think. To be happy I need to be happy with myself. At the end of the day, others thoughts are only opinions and do not define me!
While there are many times I look like the below, I like to wear makeup because it makes me feel feminine and purrty. Yes, it is nice to get all dolled up every once in a while, and makeup can help make this more fun!
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Makeup like other things in life has changed. While I would agree there are some people out there that use it to hide behind or to cover up some insecurities, I believe that more so than ever that people are using makeup as I do, as a form of expression or as a statement. I do realize that most may not consider cosmetics as a kind of art as if they did I would not see this plethora of spewed negativity.
With the popularity of Instagrammers, bloggers, and vloggers, the modern makeup culture has progressed. While you may not have to embrace this for yourself, the narrow-minded thinking about makeup and the beauty industry needs to STOP. Why not reconsider your thinking and understand that today's makeup culture is not always about hiding or a standard for beauty, but that it can also be a form of art! And most important that you love yourself with or without makeup!
Misguided Approach
Now I am not narrow-minded, understanding that some are using makeup for approval or acceptance. Unfortunately, with social media and photoshopping, our physical appearances may not always be true. Meaning overly photoshopped beauty ads and filtered selfies that can misrepresent the truth, while setting standards of unrealistic expectations, primarily to those with low self-esteem or youth that are highly impressionable. But as I say, “It is how you deal with the cards you are dealt,” just because you see something in an ad, does not mean it is the truth, that is a standard, or that you must resemble that. Remember as I said in the beginning, it is a point of view, NOT A FACT. Stop allowing ads and others to cultivate this into your mindset and start making decisions for yourself, coming in with the thought process that makeup is a form of art, NOT a standard of appearance!
Stop Your Stinking Thinking
Overall the purpose of this post is to speak up and say it is time surpass the media's marketed standards and reconsider cosmetics entirely. More importantly, stop allowing it to be impressionable upon you as we are in control of what we accept and what we do not. Have an optimistic approach to cosmetics, thinking of it to artistically express yourself, rather than buying into the message that it is a necessary method to alters one's appearance to fit into some crazy society of how some should look. This crazy thinking, unfortunately, is something that we have learned over the years and it needs to stop.
Bottom line, makeup is a form of art, not something that defines someone, or standard of living that society has put upon us and we agree to accept. Stop that stinking thinking about makeup and use it to reflect who you are!
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