Beautiful Inside & Out

First and foremost, I suck at not washing my hair! I only made it two full days with no washing! This morning I woke up and my hair was all stuck to my head and I just had to wash it! This is what it looked like at the end of the day yesterday. Ga-ross. 

I'm sorry, but the Messy Challenge was too much for my grease-ball hair to handle! 

So this morning, I shower, blow-dried, and even straightened (I like...never straighten. I love that full just blown out look) and...

Voila. All Clean. 

But on that note, let's get down to the nitty-gritty.

Seems how I just finished (and was defeated by) the Messy Challenge, I figured it would be a good time to talk about self-image and why we do the things we do with our appearance. 

I think that, yes, often times the only reason that we get all dolled up is for someone else. Maybe we feel like we need to impress someone or that it's required of us to look a certain way due to the fact that we have a certain role or that we're female. But I think there's a lot of other reasons to get up in the morning with the intent to look fabulous. 

Being recently single, I've made it a point to dress particularly nice and look extra lovely each day. I don't do that because I want to catch the fancy of a new man (although, it would be nice...). I do it because it makes me feel good. It feels good to walk around at work and be confident in who I am. Sometimes it's really nice to show your confidence on the out side. Personally, it was something that I didn't care all that much about when I was in a relationship. It didn't matter to me if I looked nice because J wasn't around to care about how pretty I looked that day...

Things have changed. I look great because I want to look great. I dress up and put on some make-up because feeling beautiful makes me feel good. It's for me and for no one else.