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You know what? Maybe you did know better! Maybe you didn’t do your best. There are a lot of posts that talk about “give yourself grace. You didn’t know better. You didn’t know then what you know now”.

And it’s a great message. I’ve shared it too! But maybe you did know better and still made bad decisions. Maybe you knowingly didn’t do your best. And you know what? You still deserve your compassion and forgiveness.

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you don't talk too much. you're not too loud, or too needy, or too annoying.

you are not too much.

you're allowed to exist and take up space.

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don't judge yourself by other people's actions; if they do you wrong, they’re the bad person, not you

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“Hair removal, at its core, is a form of gendered social control. It’s not a coincidence that the pressure for women to modify their body hair has risen in tandem with their liberties, Herzig argues. She writes that the effect of this hairlessness norm is to “produce feelings of inadequacy and vulnerability, the sense that women’s bodies are problematic the way they naturally are.””

— The Casualties of Women’s War on Body Hair

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this is so sad holy shit

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“Women may well say makeup empowers them but the interesting question is, what disempowers them about being without their mask?”

— Sheila Jeffreys, Beauty and Misogyny

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Dove’s beauty statement

Dove: Reverse Selfie

Help girls positively navigate social media

This is a representation of how far retouching apps can distort beauty. #NoDigitalDistortion is Dove's movement to help build confidence and positive body image on social media. Watch Video: https://wp.me/pcFG9B-6cL

Campaigns like this should be pushed in social media in order to create more awareness within our society.

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society and makeup companies to women at all times: you have to wear makeup, like you literally have to or else you look like a corpse, so wear it you fucking corpse. aren't you terrified of getting old? aren't you insecure about your little blemishes? we have the $80 solution.

someone online: you don't have to wear makeup

someone else in response, without fail, every single time: yeah but it's okay if you want to wear makeup :). I mean, it's a personal choice, which involves no coercion from the constant social pressures that dictate how women should present themselves, so go ahead! Don't let mean people bully you into thinking it's okay to have flaws in your skin.

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SKIN

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Girls, ladies, women*! You are not beautiful in spite of your so called “ugly” features. Those features are part of your beauty.

Your facial hair is pretty

Your body hair is gorgeous

Your fat is beautiful

Your scars are stunning

Your big nose is lovely

Your acne is radiant 

Your stretch marks are ravishing

Your moles, birthmarks, and freckles are enchanting

Let’s romanticize these features so we can learn to feel as beautiful as we are! 

Please add other traits so we can all appreciate them!!

*Before any TERFs step in, this absolutely includes trans women

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What the hell is even “beautiful?”

The beauty standards have changed so much that now it’s implemented in bizarre threads that are sometimes unobtainable.

Now people are rushing to “glow up” and “look maxx” in order for privileges. Everyone wants to be beautiful, the pressure to be beautiful has been so stressful on this digital generation that people are rushing to forums for tips or hastily going to their favorite beautiful influencer for tips. The pressures to be beautiful is now simplified by the statement: “everyone is so beautiful,” and the consistent comments on looks, it’s overwhelming and depressing. There are unique looks, characteristics, differences with all kinds of people. Beauty is objective, and it’s more than superficial beauty.

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Weight is not a reflection of your worth.

Weight is not a reflection of your worth.

Weight is not a reflection of your worth.

Weight is not a reflection of your worth.

Weight is not a reflection of your worth.

Weight is not a reflection of your worth.

Weight is not a reflection of your worth.

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The Comment Section: Brett Cooper

The Patriarchy did not set The Beauty Standards

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Are You truly Ugly ??

I made a project in college called the reason why you’re ugly

It was about my studies on the beauty standards in society, throughout each decade and which muses were pinnacle within each generation for the centrism for the beauty standards. It was very telling how currently, we’re at a maxed out age of trends — steamrolling us continuously into oblivion. Every second there’s a new “look” trend of words like: Mogging or Look Max or the various kinds of pretty you can me (ie. boy pretty, girl pretty, or deer beauty or low vs high visual). It’s not only overwhelming — I can only imagine how confused teens nowadays feel being overly exposed to such criticisms— but it’s disturbing how much looks are being glorified.

This platform is to lessen the voices that continue to tell us there’s always something wrong. I’ve read a quote saying: if you feel like you’re not attractive you’re looking in the mirror too much. I completely agree.

Let’s give each other a break, detach from the web and just go out in nature.. but that’s just me.

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I’m happy to say I’m now active on this blog again. I really enjoyed making posts about before and after faces of celebrities, and to place a different concept of the standards of beauty. It’s super important in this hyper saturated culture.

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you don’t need to be beautiful or sexy or desirable in any way, it is not the pinnacle of female achievement, you are so much more than a pretty object and i can’t believe ‘feminism’ nowadays is pushing the idea women have to look good to feel good