We've all been there: we see magazines, movies, fashion ads, billboards, makeup ads... We see these women with perfectly airbrushed skin, big eyes, perfect smiles, no flaws whatsoever. We constantly have voices saying, "Wear this, and you'll look like them." And we don't ever really stop trying to look like them. All we see is our flaws, and hardly give our natural beauty the credit it deserves!
You can see how this model has been digitally enhanced and touched up. Her eyes are bigger, her smile lines have been smoothed out, even her arm has been made to look thinner. And she was already so beautiful to begin with! That's what we sometimes do to ourselves. We are already so beautiful, and yet we think we'll be beautiful only if we lose 10 more pounds, or if we have blemish-free, perfectly airbrushed skin.
I gasped when I saw this. The digital enhancement on this model is just baaaaad. No human being looks like this in real life. This sends a strong message of what the media is doing to us.
And guys, you are no exception! He looks 20 years younger with darkened hair and eyebrows and smoothed-out wrinkles.
So I encourage you all to not look to the media for the definition of beauty: look to your Father in Heaven who created your soul! He sees you not for what you can look like, but for what you can do! Think of our Savior Jesus Christ. I know that He has felt every kind of pain that man has ever known, very specifically. He knows what it's like to be a girl who feels as though she will never measure up to the world's expectations. He knows how it feels to look in the mirror and wish you could change every single thing you dislike about yourself. He knows us that well! Isn't that incredible? I know that we will one day see ourselves as we truly are. One day the influence of media will be removed from our eyes, and we will see the truth that we were too blind to see. But until then, be kind to yourself. Love yourself. Treasure yourself. Nothing less, and so, so much more.
Xoxo- Kat
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