Happy Friday beautiful people!
I know you are ready to get your weekend started, and a long weekend it is for most of us with Labor Day coming up!!!
I am SO excited to bring to you a special blog post today, featuring the beautiful Fallon Jai, who happens to be a fellow fashion/beauty blogger, focusing on inner beauty and uplifting other women. I absolutely love Fallon Jai's website and the spiritual message she brings to women ~ and I am so very delighted to have her featured on my blog today!! Please check out her blog when you get the chance: http://faithfulandfabulousfemale.com/
The below article by Fallon Jai is really touching and I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did....
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Can You Recognize Real Beauty?
By: Fallon Jai
Its 10:30 on a Friday morning and your alarm clock is singing and dancing demanding your
consciousness. You jump out of bed and rush to your bathroom and pounce on the scale. Once
you look at your current weight, your hope fades and your confidence evaporates. It’s been two
months and you’ve been working out for an hour five times a week and all you’ve been eating is
fruit, vegetables and drinking water. And despite all of your efforts, you’ve only lost 8 pounds
and you thought you would have at least lost 20 pounds by now. “I’ll never look like this,” you
say, staring at a picture of Beyoncé. You continue to visually dissect yourself in the mirror. “If I
just had Halle’s skin color, Beyoncé’s curves, Nicki’s butt and Rihanna’s eyes I’d be perfect.”
In today’s society females are taught that we are never good enough. Television commercials,
magazine ads, social media and everyday conversations are always telling us what we need to
change and who we should aspire to emulate. When in reality the women we want to look like
don’t naturally look the way they are portrayed. They are mostly products of hair extensions,
fake eye lashes, tons of makeup, plastic surgery and eating disorders. We spend obscene
amounts of money and time trying to be beautiful when we are already stunning beings.
We fail to realize that what really makes us unattractive is the fact that we don’t see our TRUE
BEAUTY—our spiritual beauty. Our spiritual beauty cannot be damaged by a scar, age or lack
of makeup. It can only fade when we forget to acknowledge its awesomeness. It’s important for
us to see ourselves in God’s eyes—through spiritual eyes. No matter how flawless our skin, hair
or body is, if our character is ugly, it will seep through and cause us to look hideous. If we put as
much energy into our spirits as we do our physical selves, we will all be dimes. So the next time
you look in the mirror make sure you see your real beauty—SPIRITUAL BEAUTY.
“Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.”
Fallon Jai is the creator of faithfulandfabulousfemale.com, the perspective of a fun, fiery
Christian fashionista. Her goal is to entertain, enlighten and empower teen girls and women to be
the best version of themselves.
Twitter: @FallonJai
Aw that is such a sweet article and so true! Thank you for sharing this!
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