How Beauty*licious are you?
Are you a Beauty*licious babe or in need of some serious beautification?
In school photos, are you…
a. Always at the front.
b. Hiding behind the super-tall girl in your class.
If someone pays you a compliment, do you…
a. Accept it with a smile.
b. Feel uncomfortable, blush and change the subject.
It’s prom time and your favourite song is playing, are you…
a. First on the dance floor.
b. Shuffling in the corner.
You’re checking out your reflection in the mirror, do you…
a. Smile and blow yourself a kiss.
b. Cringe at what you see.
You’re going out with your friends and can’t find the t-shirt you’re looking for, do you…
a. Cut and customise an old one so it’s exactly what we want.
b. Ring up and say you can’t make it.
Mostly a’s
Sweet thing, you’ve got it going on!
You know you rock and you’re not afraid to show it. In party snaps, you’ll be in every picture and you sunny attitude will be sure to rub off on those around you. You know life is too short to worry about whether or not you bum looks big–so instead of wasting your time fretting, you shake it on the dance floor!
Mostly b’s
You need a boost of Beauty*licious self-lovin’! Comparing yourself to others or worrying about people judging you will hold you back. Your real friends don’t care what size is on the label of your jeans, so stop hiding. Get out there and have fun. A girl having a good time is so much more attractive than a pouty-model face any day.
Diggin’ on You
When I check my reflection, I dig what I see.
That’s because I’m Beauty*licious, baby!
Having a Beauty*licious ’tude doesn’t mean I’m a mucho vain-girl, it just means that I’m through with hating my thighs and dissin’ my chubby tummy. Instead, I love myself up–just the way I am!
If you’re the put-down Polly and say things like ‘I’m so fat/ugly/skinny’ or ‘I hate the way I look’, it’s not your body that’s the issue, it’s your ’tude.
We spend so much time trashing our bad-body-bits that we forget to love up our assets and, quite frankly chica, that’s just wrong, wrong, wrong.
Negative self-talk–whether it’s shout-out-loud or in your head–is toxic, so if you intend to become Beauty*licious anytime soon, dissin’ yourself just isn’t an option. You’re a work in progress, you’re still growing and changing, so why waste time bad-mouthin’ your bod, when diggin’ on you is so much more do-able?
What I dig most about myself is:
My sugar-pink tresses that make me look like a rock girl in a too-cool guitar group.
I adore my big, baby-doll eyes that would steal the screen in every scene if I were a movie starlet and how great my nails look with day-glo pink varnish on them!
And I love how I laugh out loud, because laughing is very pretty y’know.
Your turn!
What do you dig most about yourself?
Beauty*licious Booster
If bad body talk has become a habit, break it right now with what I like to call a Beauty*licious Booster–catchy, eh?
Whenever you think something negative, like, ‘I’m fat’ or ‘I’m ugly’ stop the trash-talk in its tracks by saying something positive right back ‘atcha self! With practise, your body bashin’ self-critic will have to admit defeat and your self-esteem will positively sky rocket with the sweet talk, leaving you feeling allsorts of fabulous about how you look and feel.
Here’s some of my favourite Beauty*licious Boosters…
“…My eyes are sparkly-gorgeous when I smile…”
“…My hair looks great today…”
“…I really know how to work a pink fishnet tights and legwarmer ensemble…”
What are your Beauty*licious Boosters going to be?
Can you feel the force?
For a whole lot of time I couldn’t understand why my hair didn’t come with a permanent wind-machine that made it look all swish-like and delicious. Thoughts of being a blonde-haired beauty with a buff bod used to run through my head like back-to-back episodes of The OC, and I became obsess-o-girl about getting an ab-tastic stomach and having glossy-blonde hair like the girl in my maths class. The trouble was, I just wasn’t made that way. So when I realised it was never gonna happen, I got glum.
It was official: I had felt the force.
Y’see, the buff blonde look that I was aspiring to, sure-as-stars wasn’t my idea of beauty. It had been cleverly created by media types who have images they want us all to aspire to on constant replay–and I fell for it. Grrr.
Our bodies are going through all kinds of crazy changes like we’ve got zilcho control over and when we feel unsure about ourselves, it really can feel that life would be infinitely more sparkly-gorgeous if we could just fit into those skinny-fit jeans, right?
When we feel low or insecure it’s super-easy to let media, peer and family pressure decide how we feel about ourselves. The thing is, when your idea of beauty is being shaped by others, it can sometimes make you feel like you’re on a constant quest to become perfect-o-girl. This is pretty sucky because ideas aren’t real, what with them just being ideas, and all.
But what is most definitely real, is you, so ditch the pressure to conform right now and make beauty your idea!
Snap happy
When you have a Beauty*licious ’tude you can erase other people’s yawnsville ideas of beauty and perfection and replace them with your own–I know, fabulous isn’t it? Think nose-twitching Samantha in the film Bewitched, except you, L’il Miss soon-to-be Beauty*licious, are capable of banishing negativity at the snap of a candy-pink, manicured finger. Who knew, huh?
This is how…
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