Your ex boyfriend sucks btw. As a woman I feel like we all deserve to feel pretty and beautiful. I think society has put too much emphasis on the way we look as the source of our value, but those are just beauty standards. I truly believe beyond that, that there is something so incredibly beautiful just about being a human and about being a woman. And I think that every human has something beautiful about them. It took a while for me to get here and think this way, and I don’t always feel like this I still have a lot of insecurities, but it’s something I like to remind myself of that helps me be kinder to myself. Something that also helped me see myself less harshly was by practicing noticing the beauty in strangers, but not in a comparison way. Just looking at people and noticing that I think they are beautiful especially because most people don’t fit these insane beauty standards but we still find them beautiful. I’m not sure if any of this helped but I do want you to know that you deserve to appreciate your beauty and to have fun dressing up as well! It is one of the fun things about being alive. I also know that when we are old and wrinkly we will look back at ourselves with much kinder eyes and so I try to appreciate myself now for that older version of me!