Naturally Confident: My Bare Face is Beautiful

By Delina Cummings, Author, Life, Love & Inspiration: Quotes & Words of Wisdom

Gem 

Penny 

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Brenda 

Corda

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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. 

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Copyright 2015. Life, Love & Inspiration. 

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The Imperfection of Others Makes Us Better

“Without the imperfection of others, we are unable to see our own flaws; we are unable to search ourselves and see our own weaknesses; we are unable to find and embrace our own strengths.” –From the book, Life, Love, & Inspiration, by Delina Cummings 

Some of us are driven towards perfection--a virtue which really does not exist. The need to be perfect in all that we do and in all that those around us do may be so strong that we become what is called "perfectionists." 

Whenever we encounter people who test our need for perfection because they are everything but perfectionists, it is easy to become frustrated. 

On the brighter side, however, we need people’s imperfection to help show us our own imperfection. We are everything but flawless. We are weak and flawed just like anyone else. Our strive for perfection just provides an illusion, making us believe that our lives are perfect.

 

When we encounter people who do not live up to our high standards, it should provide an opportunity for us to search ourselves to determine if we are asking for too much. This can help us discover our own weaknesses. Once we discover them, we can now become conscious of our own strengths.

It is in the discovery of our own strengths that we are able to work on becoming better versions of ourselves and let go of the need for perfection in us, and in others.

Copyright@Delina Cummings 2015

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