Beautiful In The Skin You're In

Just me babbling today  <3

 

So I read a post from the fabulous Food Mood Girl, Lindsey Smith, and seriously everything she writes is fantastic, however, one post truly stuck with me regarding people comparing themselves to what the media defines as healthy… Being skinny = Being Beautiful. In my opinion, this is completely false. Whoever said nothing tastes as good as skinny feels, clearly doesn’t eat cheeseburgers and cupcakes.

 

Lindsey is a beautiful girl… Inside and out, and I have known her since our gymnastics days WAYY back in the day. Never in her life has she been fat! Well, apparently people questioned how she would be a nutritionist if she herself wasn’t “skinny”. Ridiculous. She is healthy. When I just threw her a text she was getting out of yoga. I WISH I had the will power to do yoga and eat as nutritiously as she does! Lol! But since this is a fashion blog, people might be confused on how it relates to fashion. Well… Every single person in the world is unique in their own ways. We come in different sizes, body shapes, colors… That’s the beauty of the world. And the key to your appearance isn’t to go on weird diets and kill yourself at the gym to fit into a 00 and have a “thigh gap” – It’s to find out how to be healthy at whatever weight that may be for you as an individual and dress yourself appropriately.

 

I am a very well rounded stylist… I can work with any body type you can think of, price range, any age, male, female, every style imaginable! I would never tell anyone they were too fat for something, however I would also never let a client look ridiculous in something I picked out. We need to understand that not every trend that comes out is going to be perfect for every single body shape – (I struggled with this having man shoulders and wanting to wear spaghetti strap tops, because that’s what was in style during my teenage years.) But there is literally SOMETHING for every single body type out there. Pick your best features, what you want to show off, wear colors that compliment your skin tone. One of the biggest things is wear the correct size! Even if the size shows a number you don’t particularly like, if it fits looser, it will look better. And please remember… Just because it zips, doesn’t mean it fits! I cannot stress that enough! Also, this can go the other way too – Wearing clothes that are too big can make you look frumpy, so find the correct size to avoid that as well.

 

Be happy in the skin you’re in, and if you aren’t change it. But only do it for you. Don’t do it because the person you love wants you to look a certain way, don’t do it to fit into a certain size, don’t do it to look like a celebrity… Do it just for you. You’re beautiful.