By Delina Cummings, Author, Life, Love & Inspiration: Quotes & Words of Wisdom
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Feeling upretty because your make-up is not on? Beauty is skin deep and it is in the eyes of the beholder, are some of what we were taught, proverbially. However, each and every one of us is beautiful and we don’t need makeup to prove that. Therefore, once we know this we can begin to embrace and love ourselves for who we are. We can become confident and our self-esteem level gets an instant boost.
A few weeks ago I took to my Facebook page and dared women on my friends’ list to go “bare face” by posting photos of their faces without any makeup whatsoever. I was thrilled to see how much interest this challenge attracted. The theme was, “MY BARE FACE IS BEAUTIFUL: Embracing My Natural Beauty.” The competition (ran on Friday July 24. 2015) is powered by Life, Love & Inspiration, an online self-improvement initiative designed to inspire and empower readers.
It also formed part of a personal enhancement and self-empowerment program I am designing to help my friends and women across the world build self-esteem. It is to remind women that we should love our faces and our entire selves just the way we are. While wearing make-up is acceptable, it is when we become a slave to makeup, and feel we cannot leave the house without it, that we know we have a representative face. That is ‘the face’ we put on to face the world when we go out.
With this, we are no longer being our natural selves. We are being someone (face wise) that we think the world is attracted to more and appreciates more. But, when we go home and take our mask off, we see ourselves for who we naturally are and we feel ‘unpretty’ and unworthy because we are not embracing or are not in love with the natural-faced person staring back at us in the mirror.
It was all fun and some of those who took the challenge were able to break out and begin loving their natural look. Winner Gem Sookram, took the prize for following the rules of the competition and dashing into her photo some creativity and poise. The most flattering photo, in terms of creativity, came from Penny Proud, who narrowly lost the winning position because her photo was not a selfie.
The prize was a copy of the recently published book, Life, Love & Inspiration: Quotes and Words of Wisdom, by yours truly and a chance to be featured in this publication.
Copyright 2015. Life, Love & Inspiration.
