Hey, friends! Today launches a new series that’s been kicking around in my head for a couple months – “52 Facets of Beauty.” Each week for the next 52 weeks, I’ll be posting a photo of some facet of me. Could be part of my physical body, an object that represents an aspect of my life, or a particular place that tells something about me. What links all these things will be the fact that I’m finding them beautiful.
As women, it feels to me like we’re under constant attack when it comes to our standards of beauty. In this week’s mail, I received three different magazines with women in skimpy attire on the cover – none of which look like me. No red hair, no sizable thighs – nothing that I can really relate to. This series is my attempt to locate and celebrate the things about me that I think are beautiful. Not because I think I’m so fabulous – but because it feels like so many of the other messages I see out there are designed to make me think I’m not. It’s self-defense.
And I’d love to see more of you do the same, if you’d like. So here we go – Facet #1!
That’s my mouth. Photo taken in my bathroom mirror with my cell phone, and cropped using the crappy photo editing software on said cell phone. My mouth has always been one of my favorite things on my face – not only because I love the sound of my own voice, and my mouth is necessary for that, but because I just think it’s crazy sexy. Back before I was self-employed, and actually made money :), I would spend ridiculous amounts of money on lip glosses and lipsticks. My current favorite is a Bare Minerals lip gloss that comes with a brush-tipped wand. (I’m wearing that gloss in the photo.) I love painting on gloss – there’s something so artistic and girly about painting on lip gloss that isn’t rivaled in any other make-up application.
And the mouth gets Biblical shout-outs that other body parts don’t get. Luke 6 says that the mouth speaks what the heart is full of – so whatever is coming out of my mouth is indicative of what’s really happening inside me. James 3 says, “Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this should not be…” which is a convicting statement about the mishmash of truth and gossip and garbage that so often comes out of my mouth.
So I’m working on improving my mouth – not just with lip gloss, but by making sure I’m filling up my brain and my heart with God’s truth so that what’s coming out of my mouth is just as captivating as its looks.
Now you – what’s your first facet of beauty? What do you love about yourself that you haven’t celebrated in a while? Tell me in the comments!
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