Bath Time

Originally uploaded by SarahSparx

Freckles by Natasha Bedingfield

I used to care so much about what
about what others think about
Almost didn’t have a thought of my own
The slightest remark would make me embark
On the journey of self doubt
But that was a while ago
This girl has got stronger
If I knew then what I know now
I would have told myself don’t worry any longer it’s OK

[Chorus:]
’cause a face without freckles is like a sky without stars
Why waste a second not loving who you are
Those little imperfections make you beautiful, lovable, valuable,
They show your personality inside your heart
Reflecting who you are

Who you are
Who you are
Who you are

I wondered if I could trade my body with somebody else in magazines
Would the whole world fall at my feet?
I felt unworthy and would blame my failures on the ugliness I could see
When the mirror looked at me
Sometimes I feel like the little girl who doesn’t belong in her own world
But I’m getting better
And I’m reminding myself

[Chorus]

Reflecting who you are
Reflecting who you are
Hmmm
Whoooooo whoa hmmmm oooooo

[Chorus]

Redhead – Glebe street fair

Originally uploaded by xssat

Another beautiful redhead. These two photos we found on flickr and thought they were worth sharing. It is the everyday redhead that true beauty emanates. It is not necessary to be anything other than ourselves to be absolutely stunning.

Take for example this girl. She is doing her own thing and does it perfectly. So well in fact someone asks to take her photograph for simply walking down the road. This is a beauty one cannot fake. A beauty one grows into. A beauty way deeper than the freckled, pale skin.

Maybe it is the years of teasing or being different. Maybe it is the gorgeous redheads symbolizing sex in the media. Maybe it is in the missing gene that allows most redheads to look more comfortable in themselves than most.

We are what we are—love us or hate us, and its rarely in between.

Image Source: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3137/3034456758_67997c31f5_o.jpg

I was called ‘the ugly one’. A lot of girls go through an awful time growing up, thinking they’re too fat, too thin, have a nose that’s too big or legs too short.I did all that surrounded by four of the most gorgeous girls in the country. My thing was my white skin and red hair. I hated it and hated myself.

At 16, comments like this coupled with constant comparisons to her average haired band mates eroded away at her self-esteem, distorting her self-image.

Flash forward some many years and through an inspiring romance with fashion Nicola Roberts has reclaimed those words, “red hair and white skin” and finds she is much more comfortable in her own skin. In an interview recently she gave credit to her first fashion party for her long-awaited self-acceptance. It was at that party that it dawned on her that it is not only OK to be different but that she could be beautiful as well. Redefining those same words that haunted her for years, she declared,

‘The fact I have white skin and red hair is my thing. It’s my different thing and in the fashion world, that’s OK.’

Congratulations Nicola! You are beautiful in every way! Stand tall and show the world what you are made of—fierce freckles, tall-standing alabaster core and a fiery intellect cap!

Pssst…You are the beautiful one.