True Beauty
I was listening to a podcast the other day, and they said that recently the clothing company H&M admitted to using computer generated people to showcase their clothes in advertisements. Why? Because real human bodies, the kind they want to showcase their clothes in don't exist! I've seen several video-shorts where they show how every cover model is airbrushed, erasing wrinkles, cellulite, whitening teeth, slimming down parts of the face. Image is everything and in a world where everything is digital, nothing seems to be real anymore. I want to be someone who measures beauty the way God sees it, by studying the character of the people around me. By seeing the generosity and joy of the women around me; their beauty comes from within and makes me more beautiful too by how accepted I feel when I'm with them. Let me tell you a story about one of my dear friends. Last night I got a text from her asking "does anyone want this Clinique eyeshadow kit?"...