♥️Find Your Little Friday♥️
Over the past several years I have tried to perfect what I say when people ask me what I do for work/living. I have struggled and stumbled thru so many declarations that I started to dread the question. Finding that perfect phrase has taken me a bit of time and I am sure the wording will change many more times over the course of my life. Are you ready to hear it? My work primarily focuses on food and beauty.....yep, I'm completely confusing. With that established, I wanted to start incorporating more and more of my beauty life into my work. This isn't the first time I have talked about it here so it shouldn't come as too much of a surprise .
What makes something beautiful tends to lie in the eye of the beholder. As subjective as I would like to think beauty is, there are plenty of objective reasonings that many of us live by and consider to be the standard of beauty. My work in beauty revolves around skincare. I live by the idea that how you actually live your life, from what you put in your body to what/who you surround yourself with and how you participate in life, can affect your appearance and how you feel on the inside. Also, the golden rule for me here is absolutely, beauty comes from the inside. There is so much more to this idea and I am excited to dig deeper with you as I go.
I was inspired to start sharing more this week by something that happened just a few days ago. I spent several days with my young niece and was filled with joy. Something that came up during our time together was how much she hated her freckles, this alarmed me. I find them to be one of the most beautiful things about her physically, but she looks at them and sees imperfections speckled across the bridge of her nose and tops of her cheeks. I proceeded to show her photos of other women with similar freckles on their faces, included the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan. I even made a point of telling her that the Duchess's personal makeup artist was interviewed post the royal wedding and specifically talked about how they were deliberate with letting her freckles shine thru on her glorious big day. My niece quickly responded with, "Well, she is married to a prince so of course on her they have to be beautiful." All at once, my heart sank at her despair but I turned it around. We snapped a few quick photos of her illuminated face and all of its features. I told her how important it was to love yourself and that you have to remind others of their own beauty when they feel unattractive.
I then shared one of my all time favorite quotes was also loved and introduced to me by the great Audrey Hepburn.
“For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.
People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself and the other for helping others.”
This quote was written by American humorist Sam Levenson. As you head into your weekend on the heels of the beginning of spring and this painful retrograde, spread love and beauty so that it becomes contagious in our lives. #FindYourLittleFriday ♥️
