Learning To Love Yourself

In a world full of negativity and hateful comments, it can often be quite hard to take a step back and appreciate yourself. However, I feel it is most important to love yourself and understand that sometimes you have to put your life before others. Now, I'm not saying throw your friend under bus or anything, but what I'm trying to say is sometimes allow you to be your main priority.

You shouldn't compare yourself to others. Everyone is their own unique person and comparing your life to someone else's can be dangerous. Seeing people on social media or even in real life with their new handbag or "family" photos can be really disheartening. Looking at people who go to the gym everyday and still have an amazing social life, I sometimes feel deflated. Knowing that I never really find the time to go out with my friends due to other commitments and these 'amazing' people on social media get to do all of this. When in reality they only post what they want us to see, they paint this ideal world for us. Don't compare yourself to those, be who you want to be! Just because they go to the gym and hang with friends everyday does not mean that is the normal thing to do. When in fact there is no normal thing to do. If you want to lay in bed all day and watch Netflix then you do that!

Post what you want to post on social media, don't try to fit within a certain theme. Yes, I agree it is quite nice to see a beuatiful flat-lay, but leave that to the professionals. Don't let your Instagram theme bog you down, if you want to post a picture, then you post that picture! Just because a picture of you in your pyjamas doesn't fit within your food prep and beauty theme... so what? We won't judge!

Another important way to love yourself is to dress how you would like to. I see so much in the media lately about the way girls dress. I can't actually believe a judge in America had the audacity to say this girl was raped because of her lace underwear, apparently wearing that sort of pants is asking for it! Wow, just wow. No, wear what you want to wear! If you'd like to wear your bikini on the beach...then do so! Don't feel like you have to dress for those around you! I certainly don't, some say wearing a skirt is dressing up now, well guess what I'm wearing a skirt because I want to.

The reason why I am highlighting this subject is because, I am fed up with seeing girls around me not allowing themselves to be true online and offline because of society around them. It may be a mixture of insecurity and society but please do not feel pressured to be a certain way because a famous person does or its the trend to do so. I get that not everyone likes to stand out from the crowd, stay below the radar. If there is one thing that you do in 2019, please make it a priority to love yourself.

Thank You,

Jade 

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Why I Wear Makeup

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Evening everyone it is Jade here. Today I am going to discuss something that is quite important to me. I feel like girls who wear makeup are targeted with the same brush. I have a feeling this blog post is going to be quite long, so grab a cup of tea and a biscuit and tuck into my new blog post.

Recently I have had a few comments thrown towards me regarding my make up. I am a lover of makeup and I really enjoy collecting and applying makeup. That is just who I am. So when I was told and I quote 'You only wear makeup to hide your insecurities' and 'You are clearly wearing all that slap to hide something on your face that you do not like' and 'You're so pale and different when you wear makeup' I was quite hurt and shocked that someone would actually say that to me. I am not going to name the person/people or their genders for the sake of less negativity and arguments. This is because I respect that others may have a different opinion than what I have. I am basically sharing my story because it gave me a great idea for a blog post.

So back to the story, I was very angry that those comments had been said to my face. I genuinely thought someone wouldn't be that vile and cruel to say that. Let's get this straight I personally don't wear makeup to hide my insecurities and features on my face. I wear makeup to college and work because I enjoy applying my makeup and it's so much fun in the morning. Now, I don't wear makeup every day to college and work. That's because if I don't feel like applying it in the morning because I'm either too lazy or not feeling makeup today then I won't wear makeup that day. During secondary school, I never wore makeup because I valued sleep a bit more. I also was not that much into makeup. Many people would say I only wear makeup to impress someone. Well, that is not true because you shouldn't wear makeup to impress someone. You should wear makeup because you enjoy it.

I guess what I am trying to say is that I wear make up for myself. I don't wear makeup for a guy, I don't wear makeup for anyone but me. I find it really fascinating that I can make my face look slightly different with makeup. I enjoy that but I mostly enjoy doing my makeup because its creative and I consider myself as quite creative. To anyone who is reading this and might wear makeup because the don't like something on their face, a mole or a scar etc. Please don't hide behind makeup, embrace your differences. If we all looked the same then we would be pretty boring. You are beautiful the way you are and don't let anyone tell you any different. Wear makeup because it's a fun thing to do, don't feel like you have to hide behind your makeup. I hope you see makeup as a good thing and that you are confident enough to go out without makeup. I challenge you to go a day at college/school or day to day life without wearing makeup. It will do you the wonders of good. Embrace your skin and your natural face. I don't wear makeup every day at college. I rarely wear it on a Monday, because I hate Mondays haha!

Another thing I would like to address is negative comments. As I mentioned earlier the idea from this blog post spiraled from negative comments said to me. I brushed them off. It made me think, though, a few years ago that would have really hurt me and I would have thought it over and over again in my head. I am actually really proud of myself that I turned that negative comment into something good. I turned it into a blog post idea and I really hope this blog post has given you the confidence to go a day without makeup. Can I just say, though, I am not trying to say don't wear makeup to let everyone see the natural you. I am trying to make you reading this see how amazing you are.  I embrace my spots and moles on my face. That is because it makes me unique and it is a part of who I am.

I think I am going to stop here as I feel like I am rambling and repeating myself. haha. The main aim of this blog post is self-love. Love and embrace your skin. Don't wear makeup to impress others and because others do. Makeup is fun and don't forget that! Enough from me, I hope you have had a lovely day. Yesterday I went to go see Olly Murs live in concert! I don't want to spoil too much as there will be a blog post on it very soon! Stay tuned.

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