You are your greatest critic. But the worst part is, you are your greatest critic because you let society dominate your way of thinking. You believe that you are ugly because you don’t look a certain way, act a certain way, or wear certain clothes. You might believe that your genes make you ugly. I watched this video about people bleaching their skin to make themselves attractive. It hurts me to think that there are people out there that believe their skin color is ugly. Now, don’t get me wrong, when I was growing up I was criticized for my skin color and till this day I still am. I used to hate the color of my skin and my ethnicity because I was not considered “attractive” to society. But then I realized that people are awful and the way they make you feel is saying something about themselves and not you. They are uncomfortable about themselves and need to search for an outlet to make someone else feel worse.

Now if you are tanning and bleaching your skin because you want to do it and are not worried about what others think about you, fine, that is your choice. If you wear makeup because you like the way it makes you feel, do it! If you don’t wear makeup because you don’t want to, beautiful! If you wear colored contacts because you want to be different, lovely! If you dye your hair to make yourself happy, please do it! If you do any of these things because society is calling you ugly, look in the mirror and realize that you are beautifully made and you are beautiful regardless of what society thinks.

I am going to tell you a secret… what makes you beautiful is not how you look on the outside, but how you act and treat others is your determining factors. It pains me to see these young women trying to please guys with their appearances and young men doing the same to please women. Have a beauty routine for YOURSELF, not anyone else. If dressing up makes you happy, do it for you. Do not do it because you want to make society happy, do it for you.

There are too many important things that you can do in your life that are more meaningful than worrying about someone’s opinion of you. You are beautiful the way you are and your attitude should match that. You do not need to bow down to society, show society that you are better than that. You were perfectly made, that makes you beautiful.