You're Beautiful the Way You Are
- Diana
- Jun 7, 2023
- 3 min read
Updated: Apr 7, 2024
Something most people grow up learning is that beauty is valuable. Worth a lot. People spend a lot of money to have it if they think they don't. Even if people are beautiful in other people's minds people still want more of it. Something I grew up thinking was that if my hair was white people "might" consider me to be "old". The thought of looking old to most people is something not desirable. Men, as well as women, do things to themselves to keep from looking old. I don't work in the beauty industry, and so I might be wrong, but I'd think women worry about aging, or looking old, more then men. If men get grey or white hair they're considered to seem more distinguished but woman are thought to just look past their "prime".
As for me, starting at the age of 21 I started getting white hairs. I didn't want to look like somebody's grandmother when I was having children. Once I realized a semi-permanent hair color would fade, and not leave as bad of a root line, this is what I started to use. Years into coloring my hair I watched a "Twilight Zone" show about people getting new "bodies" at the age of 19. The episode was called "Number 12 Looks Just Like You".
In this picture from the T.Z. show, the girl, "Marilyn" that was brought into the Clinic to get a new body, is shown after completing the transformation even though she didn't want a new body. Marilyn's mother and the Sales lady from the Clinic both said whatever it took to Marilyn to convince the 19 year old to go through with the procedure. Everybody wears their name on their shirt to tell people apart.
"Fashion is a fickle industry, a frightening fact for twenty-four-year-old model Ivy Clark. Ten years in and she learned a sacred truth, appearance is everything. Nobody cares about her broken past as long as she looks beautiful for the camera. This is the only life Ivy knows so when it starts to unravel, she'll do anything to hold on. Even if that means moving to the quaint island town of Greenbrier, South Carolina, to be the new face of her stepmother's bridal wear line." - Katie Ganshert
"A Broken Kind of Beautiful" speaks to this dilemma. I highly recommend this book to anybody that wants to know that it's normal not to feel "beautiful" or "accepted". But God loves you just the way you are since He's the one that made you.
In this picture is me now with my Toy Poodle "Iris", and I'm so glad I stopped coloring my hair. God made me and I'm exactly what he had in mind. Who can find fault with that? Before I knew what Jesus did for us on that wooden cross, worrying about my looks plagued me but now I realize that if I don't like what I look like it's like telling God that He made a mistake when He made me. This is the same God that made the planets, stars, animals, and everything else. Would you tell a zebra that you didn't like it's stripes? Or a leopard it's spots are ugly? If not why is it Ok to tell yourself that you're ugly? Below are a couple quotes from the Bible that state what God feels about us.
"I knew you before I formed you in your mother’s womb."
"Charm is deceitful and beauty is passing, But a woman who fears the LORD, she shall be praised."
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