The pure lack of expression had gone on for too long. The stifled fashionista within just kicking at the door, begging and pleading to come out: I had decided it was time to go for it. Who cared what I decided to wear the progressive community I was a part of was bound to embrace the "new" me. I wasn't concerned with it becoming a daily pattern of youthful, cooky, outfits because if it did: at least I was expressing who I was internally. This is when I came to the conclusion that there was no such thing as a "classic" beauty and my self conscious mind was not going to get me any farther than where I currently was standing. I crawled out of the insecure teenage skin I had been dwelling in for too long and thew on the first outfit that came to me. The Levi Denim Pants and White Velvet Tank Top (which I describe to look like something straight out of the Parent Trap) revealed the girl that had not been known to the world, and started of a love for beauty: both inner and outer. To be totally honest with all of you, it actually did not start with the way I was going to tweak my appearance. But rather, after I had been struggling with the idea of internal beauty I took a visit to Lauren Greenfield's Beauty and Culture Exhibit. This experience altered my view at how I was determined to look at myself, by learning from the insecurities that those in my Los Angeles community had taken to another level. My idea of external beauty was changed however the way I reflected inwards upon my teenage self had been eternally changed. I knew from that moment on that I was gorgeous whether that meant more than met the eye.
Anyways, I want to spread this internal beauty to the rest of my community and truly explain to the rest of the unsure teenage girls out there to look farther than the image that is reflected back into the mirror because truly we are all so much more than the appearances we possess. The sooner we convince ourselves that beauty does not, and never has, had a set definition, the sooner we can start reminding everyone else: make it your own, be who you are, own your stuff, pedal to the medal full on all of it or none of it, and then never change...
"Beauty comes as much from the mind as from the eye so make it count"
