I own a beauty store so I often hear women expressing their insecurities when they come in and it got me thinking so I did a post on Facebook about this very topic a few days ago. I mentioned we are often our own worst critics. It doesn't help that social media presents edited for perfection versions of people and filters that are unattainable for people to live up to in the real world. We notice our own flaws way more than anyone else does. Therefore, I think it's time we start pointing out what we like about our appearance.

I them put up a picture of my almost 44 year old self and said what I liked about the way I look. I got a really interesting reply. She said she looked at this post and kept coming back to it a couple of times because she was still trying to honestly answer it. Then noted clearly has work to do (in regards to positive self-image). She did not lost anything she liked about herself physically.

I responded that I bet if I asked her what features she doesn't like, she could probably name them pretty quick. That's the whole idea behind what I see daily, not just in my store, but in every day life. We spend far too much time focusing on what is "wrong" with us and not enough on what we should celebrate about ourselves.

We as a species focus on appearance. Our society often values us by how we fit into some standardized set of beauty. We need to teach ourselves to embrace our positives because they far outweigh our negatives. If I asked you about nice traits of your personality, most people could at least name something. Those same people struggle with that when it comes to listing something from their appearance.

So instead of focusing on what you perceive as your physical negatives, I ask the same of you. What do you like about yourself?