8 Beauty Secrets to Enhance Your Self-Confidence
These beauty secrets and tips will enhance your self-confidence, self-esteem, and body image. Here’s beauty secret number one: how people perceive you is affected by far more than your size and shape!
Before the tips, a quip:
“You are 20% more beautiful to other people than the woman you see in the mirror every morning,” says Eva Ritvo, MD, co-author of The Beauty Prescription. “Why? Because when you look at your reflection, all you see is your physical form, and all you’re doing is looking for flaws. But when others see you, they also take in your personality, style, intelligence, sex appeal wit…the entire you.”
For a complete guide on looking and feeling beautiful, click on The Beauty Prescription by Ritvo and Debra Luftman, MD. And, read on for eight beauty secrets to enhance your self-confidence…
8 Beauty Secrets to Enhance Your Self-Confidence
1. Charm matters more than appearance. “Charm…it’s sort of a bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don’t need anything else,” says J.M. Barrie. “If you don’t have it, it doesn’t much matter what else you have.” How you act and treat people affects your appearance far more than what you actually look like.
2. Energy is the best reason to improve your self-image. “A better self-image doesn’t pay the rent or cook supper or prevent nuclear war. Feeling better about ourselves doesn’t change the world by itself, but it can give us energy to do what we want and work for change.” – From Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century from the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective. The more beautiful you feel – regardless of how the world perceives you – the more energy and vitality you’ll have. And this, my friend, makes you more beautiful in other people’s eyes.
3. Personality is more important than appearance. “It’s beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart.” – Unknown. This beauty secret is backed by scientific research: the kinder, more compassionate, and more reliable you are, the more attractive you’re perceived to be. To enhance your self-confidence, remember that who you are is more important than what you look like.
4. Your beauty isn’t about your body. “Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical,” says Sophia Loren. She was one of the most gorgeous women in history – and her beauty secret stemmed from the fact that that true appeal stems from how you feel on the inside - not what you look like on the outside.
5. Your imperfections make you beautiful. ”Some beautiful things are more impressive when left imperfect than when too highly finished,” says La Rochefoucauld. Your flaws and weaknesses can make you more beautiful! When I studied psychology, I learned that people who make mistakes are more likeable than those who appear perfect. You can’t connect with perfect.
6. Plus, perfectionism will drive you insane. “Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people,” says Anne Lamott. “It will keep you insane your whole life.” I think Lamott was referring to writing here, but it’s a true beauty secret, too! You’ll never look perfect - so stop comparing yourself to the perfect bodies in women’s magazines!
7. Beauty isn’t about your skin, hair, or nails. “People are like stained-glass windows,” says psychologist Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. “They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.” How you act when the s**t hits the fan makes you more – or less- beautiful than makeup or cosmetic surgery! For more beauty tips that aren’t about your appearance, read 10 Tips for Beauty From the Inside Out.
8. Your beauty is about self-confidence. ” ‘Glamour’ is assurance. It is a kind of knowing that you are all right in every way, mentally and physically and in appearance and that, whatever the occasion or situation, you are equal to it,” said Marlene Dietrich. This beauty quotation – from one of the most beautiful, famous, strong women in history – shows that self-confidence makes you more appealing than perfect skin or a slim figure.
What do you think of these beauty secrets that enhance self-confidence? I welcome your comments below!
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