5 Ways To FEEL BEAUTIFUL ⧸⧸ Embrace the differences between MEN and WOMEN!
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In this episode, I talk about 5 ways to make yourself feel beautiful and how to accentuate the parts of your body that make you feel beautiful. These are things you can do on a day when you re not feeling your best, or even on days where you re feeling not so great, and you just want to amp it up a little bit.
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Hello, Classic Crew, and welcome to today's video where we're going to be talking about
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So before we get into today's video, I just wanted to mention that it was pre-recorded.
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I am still pregnant in this video. I have already had my baby. I'm going to be posting a bunch of
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pre-recorded videos, and this is one of them. So I recorded this when I was pregnant, but I'm no
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longer pregnant. I had the baby, just so you know what's going on. If you are new to my channel,
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my book club, my podcast, as well as weekly discussion threads. In today's video, I want
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to bring it back down to basics a little bit. I want to talk about five ways that you can make
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yourself feel beautiful on a day where maybe you're not feeling your best, or even on a day
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that you are feeling your best and you just want to amp it up a little bit. Ways to embrace that
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feminine outer beauty. So something I've been thinking a lot about here on my channel and on
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my Substack, I'm doing a series on my Substack about this actually, is the idea of what femininity
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is. And femininity is really two parts. It's the outer beauty that accentuates our inner beauty
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and our inner beauty and those feminine qualities that we have that are very womanly. So it's our
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womanly nature plus the accentuating of those differences that make us women, that beauty that
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we like to embrace. And that together is what femininity is. Now I think that talking about
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outer femininity and beauty gets a bad rap and I don't like that at all. I think it's really
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important for us to embrace the things about us that are feminine and beautiful. I mean, it's a really
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lovely thing to take care of our hair and to accentuate our hips and our bodies in ways that
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are really attractive. Now, when we talk about accentuating our bodies, I don't mean showing
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everything off. I am a proponent of modesty. But there's a difference between the way that men are
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built and women are built. And it's always nice to play up those differences by accentuating our
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waists or wearing dresses, things like that. So today we're going to talk about how to make yourself
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feel beautiful and that wonderful part of femininity that this includes. So let's get into it.
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The first thing that you should do when you want to make yourself feel beautiful is exercise. Now I know
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this sounds funny and I'm not even talking about regularly exercising because I do think that
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that's really important to maintaining a good sense of self and feeling good in your body. I did a whole
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video about good beauty standards, beauty standards that actually are helpful. And one of the things that
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I talked about is physical health being beautiful is a good thing. But the endorphins that are released
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when you exercise and the way that you look at your body when you realize that it's supporting you
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will make you feel so good and make you feel better about the way that you look. So even if that for you
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just means taking a brisk walk, or if you're somebody who exercises a little bit more and wants to go to
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the gym and lift some weights, taking some time to exercise will really make you feel beautiful. I know
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that as soon as I exercise, when I look in the mirror, I'm like, wow, look at how beautiful my
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body is. Like I can see much more clearly and quickly the beauty of my body because I'm able to
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see what it does for me. And the way that I'm treating it is with love and respect. So taking a
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few minutes to exercise if you're not feeling great in your physical body is a really good way to make
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yourself feel good about yourself and feel beautiful and love the skin you're in. Number two is shower
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and wash up. There is something about a shower that makes you feel squeaky clean. And that feeling of
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squeaky clean really translates to like a fresh start. And when you feel fresh and clean, it can give
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you like a base to feeling beautiful that day because you're able to say, okay, well, I'm going to like
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wash off anything that I don't feel good about and start new. I love the feeling after I take a shower
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of like, I feel clean. I feel good about myself. I feel good in my body and I feel beautiful, especially
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because if you take a couple minutes to pamper in the shower or pamper right after the shower,
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it can make you feel so good. So for example, if you do a leave-in conditioning mask in the shower for
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your hair or if you shave your legs or if you put on a body oil, like you're taking care of your body and
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there's something really special about taking care of your body. It really, it reminds you how beautiful
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your body is. And so taking a few minutes to actually just pamper yourself is a really good thing. And this
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is the good form of self-care where you're just regularly taking care of yourself and that is what makes you
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feel good. So showering and washing up and maybe doing a little bit of pampering, that is a really
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good way to feel beautiful. Number three is learn how to do your hair in a way that you love. I have
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learned over the years how important it is to love your hair. I think that hair is something that can
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make you feel really beautiful or make you feel like, eh. And if you take the time to do something with
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your hair that you love, it really makes a world of difference. So if you have beautiful curly hair,
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figure out the best way to care for it so that it looks moisturized and feels moisturized and makes
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you love to look in the mirror. Or if you're somebody who has kind of wavy hair, maybe you want to figure
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out how to play that up. Or if you want to just learn how to curl your hair in a way where you only have
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to do it a couple times a week but you really like the way it looks, maybe do that. That's something
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that I do. I love my wavy hair, I really do. And then there are times that I enjoy curling my hair
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and I love the way that looks and it lasts a few days. So figuring out ways to do your hair that make
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you feel really pretty is, it's huge. It's really huge to the way that you will look in the mirror
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because hair is, it's such a feminine thing. For some women, having a pixie cut will look so
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beautiful on them and that's what they love. And that's great. But for other women, it's having
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longer hair and learning how to style it. So make sure if you're going to have some sort of hairstyle
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that you really do learn how to style it in a way that makes you feel beautiful. And that can also
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include like a hairstyle. So maybe you love putting your hair in a really loose braid or maybe you love
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putting your hair up in a pretty ballerina bun. That also counts. But figuring out things that
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make you feel beautiful and play up the beauty of your hair. Number four is figure out some makeup
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tips that will accentuate your natural beauty. Not everyone loves makeup as much as I do. I love makeup
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but not everyone does. So I like to try and simplify it a little bit. For those of you who don't want to
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take 15 minutes on your makeup but would rather take five minutes on your makeup. And I totally get that.
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So here are some things that you can do to play up your natural beauty and won't detract from your
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features. They'll add to them. They just kind of give you a little extra oomph that really just
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accentuates your natural beauty. And that is that's the goal. I mean honestly. So some simple things you
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can do is buy a cream blush. Cream blushes look super natural on the skin but they give you that really
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pretty flush. That just that just makes you look romantic. A good mascara and a good eyelash curler
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will do wonders for you. I mean honestly. Finding the best mascara and the best eyelash curler
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it will just make a really big difference to how beautiful your eyes look. Finding a good concealer
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if that's what you need for blemishes or for under your eyes. Something that you can apply quickly and
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easily. And a tinted lip balm. I think that's just really easy to throw in your bag. Adds a little hint of
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color. Make sure that your lips don't look like they're you know really dry or anything like that.
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And it really just gives you some extra beauty to your face. So I think figuring out those things.
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I personally like really like contouring a little bit. I like contouring my cheekbones. That makes me feel
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beautiful. But figuring out ways to accentuate your natural beauty that will make you feel good about
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yourself. But don't have to be like a 15-20 hour long process. Last but not least. A way to make
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yourself feel beautiful is to buy or wear a favorite pair of shoes. I like bringing up shoes because
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shoes are pretty much going to stay the same size no matter how your body fluctuates. Not so much at the
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end of pregnancy. Which is where I'm at right now. But other than that your shoe size doesn't really
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change. And so you can find a pair of shoes that will always make you feel beautiful no matter what
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you're feeling towards your body that day. So that can mean going into your closet. You have that
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beautiful pair of shoes that you absolutely love and throwing those on and wearing them. Or it can mean
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going online and finding a pair that you really love. Or going to a store and finding a pair that you
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really love. But finding a pair of shoes that you absolutely love that make you feel beautiful no matter
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when you wear them. That is a really good addition to your wardrobe. Because as I mentioned it's the
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one thing that you can pretty much always depend on to make you feel pretty and make you feel happy
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and make you feel feminine. So those are my five ways to make yourself feel beautiful. Let me know in
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the comments what you think. If you guys have tried any of these or if you have any other tips to make
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yourself feel beautiful I'd love to know. If you're not already subscribed to my channel make sure to
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