Our world today and our culture puts so much emphasis on physical and outer beauty. It drives me crazy sometimes. In fact, I never wear makeup for that reason. Well....and because I can never get up early enough to put it on, and it's a pain to take off, and it's expensive, and I have natural beauty....but you get my point.

Today I went prom dress shopping, and I found a drop dead gorgeous dress. I put it on, and looked in the mirror. Well, I looked very beautiful, but I didn't feel beautiful. I felt like an extremely sad girl with too many problems wearing a dress that was perfect in every way. Too much of a contrast maybe?
Maybe I was thinking that a pretty blue fabric and a gallon of glitter (only the kind that gets EVERYWHERE) would make me feel beautiful. Maybe I thought that if I was "beautiful" enough, then I would be happy, and all my problems would disappear. Doesn't really work that way, huh?

So then, what does it take to feel beautiful? What are some good ways to contradict the lies and images that we are constantly being bombarded with?