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BEAUTY FOR ASHES - 1

     There has been a lot of talks, quotes, seminars, admonishments on self love, self confidence, embracing of skin colour, shape, size, and personality. Yet, some people still cannot relate to all of these. Now, this could be because of a lot of events such as bad past experiences, sexual abuse, habits, skin faults, lack of love from people that matter to them, scars, physical deformity, or just lack of contentment.
   
      It seems easy for someone to teach or preach all the self love, acceptance and high self esteem thing and yet another still can't relate to them, I know because I have been there.
   
      Of course I knew the importance of having a high self  esteem and all but I couldn't practice all that I heard and had been taught about it, because for some time in my life, I didn't like myself, I felt that I was just one unhealthy looking, thin and very smallish girl and the only part of me I felt was good was my face. I was always mocked publicly even by so called friends, I was compared to a lot of ridiculous things such as broom, stick, etc. To make matters worse, I was often falling sick, I didn't have good clothes or foot wears because of some family challenges. It was like every single day, I heard one negative comment about how I looked. I remember one of my friends who touched my collar bones irritably and said, 'uh, what's this, if I'm as thin as you are, I would not be going out, I just always hide myself', you can imagine.
   
      All those words really battered my self esteem and I didn't even know where to find the self love. But, for a lot of us, the story could be totally different, worse off, especially for those who have been through a sexual abuse or who have some form of physical fault or who lacked love from friends and family. There is good news for you! You are actually more beautiful than you can ever imagine, your story makes you beautiful, I respect you, and you can get that confidence, that healthy self esteem.
     
      In the second part of this article, I will be sharing some very established tips that will change you inside - out. They are golden tips and you hardly come by them in lots of beauty articles. So, stay beautifully connected ☺

~JhummieOOZ

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