Friday, June 26, 2009 @ 9:25 AM
Thank you~
We've started this blog since late January for the purpose of a GB competition. Over the span of six months, we have gathered more than 2000 views and encouraging comments from all of you. Though the competition is ending within a few days and we have fulfilled all the criteria, we couldn't have done it without all of you. Our first thought was that the main point of this blog was for the competition but we quickly discovered that it is more than that. This is a blog that may have reached out to someone who was feeling down because of his or her appearance, who may have felt angry, sad or even alone. We have learnt a lot about reaching out and talking about self-esteem, learned more about overcoming it and we all hope that you've learned and enjoyed the journey as much as we did. Some of our posts may or may not have helped you, but we still thank you from the bottom of our hearts for giving us some of your time to visit this blog.

On behalf of the entire group, I would like to thank YOU for supporting us and we want to wish you good luck on your own journey of self-acceptance :)

- Nadine

@ 9:18 AM

Here's another song to lift your spirits up :)

Tuesday, June 23, 2009 @ 7:08 AM
Are you beautiful or are you fake?
If you are truely beautiful you should not have done any of the following, unless medical reasons:
1.PLASTIC SURGERY, to look slimmer
2.COSMETIC SURGERY, remove minor scars or moles to look more attractive
3.NOT BEING HAPPY WITH WHO YOU ARE
4.DIETING, to the extent that you skip meals
5.UNATURAL HAIR, dye or highlight it to be prettier.

So Here Is My Question To You, Are You Beautiful Or Are You Fake?
chireni

Labels: Beauty?

Monday, June 22, 2009 @ 10:55 PM

what is inner beauty??
Inner beauty is a concept used to describe the positive aspects of something that is not physically observable. Qualities including kindness, sensitivity, tenderness or compassion.. I feel that a person's true beauty is comes from the inside -beautiful personality which create an outer beauty that can never be taken away. Not physically beautiful, but beautiful in characteristics. True beauty begins in the inside and shines through to the inside!!

-Doreen:)

@ 7:10 PM



This is a really inspiring song that I wanted to share with everyone. Listen carefully to the lyrics and know that when you think you're all alone during a particular situation, just look inside yourself to pull yourself through with your own strength.

- Nadine.

Friday, May 22, 2009 @ 5:53 AM
Mordern - Day Epidemic by John Esherick
Have you ever wished you could be someone else? have you ever looked into the mirror and thought if only you could be slimmer and prettier than you would be beautiful? It is normal as at times in our lives, we all wish that we cold be someone else instead. But we don't have to feel daily dissatisfaction with our bodies and ourselves. We have to learn how to accept and respect our body despite our shape and size. Although we don't get to choose the genes passed on to us from our parents, however, we get get to choose what real beauty really means to ourselves. This my reflection after reading this book. I shall leave you this for now to reflect. Venus

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 @ 6:02 PM

HEY EVERYONE SHIREEN HERE! THIS POST IS ABOUTWHAT A KOREAN GIRL THINKS ABOUT BEAUTY HOPE U ENJOY IT!!!

Inner Beauty is the Real Beauty

EunSuk Ji (Jenny) from Korea

When I was young, I read many kinds of books, including fairy tales. Most of the books described heroes who were handsome and heroines who were beautiful. So, I believed I had to be beautiful if I wanted to become a great person. It was a hard time for me. Whenever I looked at someone who was more beautiful than me, I was stressed.

As I grew up, I began to realize outer beauty was not so important to make someone good. I remember a friend of mine who was so beautiful that every classmate wanted to talk with her, but she was very arrogant.

She believed that she could do everything she wanted because she was so beautiful, but she lost friends one by one. My poor friend! But she learned a good lesson: inner beauty is more important than outer beauty. After she learned that, she changed her attitude and made friends again.

In the Korean version of the story Cinderella, there are two stepsisters. One was very beautiful and very kind. Another was very stingy and bad. Because the prince wanted to find the girl with a missing shoe, the prince and the beautiful sister of the two stepsisters got married and lived happily ever after.

In many novels and fairy tales, as in Cinderella, the main characters are usually beautiful or handsome. Beauty is representative of good deeds and kindness.

In our society, beauty also gives us many advantages such as having a good social life, making friends, getting a job, and getting a promotion. Whenever, we look at good-looking guys and girls, we usually form stereotypes. We think he or she is a good and kind person. This is why cosmetic surgery is so popular in our society

Whenever I see TV advertisements, I feel that these things make us believe beauty is very important--especially physical attractiveness. Although we say that inner beauty is more valuable, we often look to plastic surgery to make us more beautiful. There seems to be a boom in plastic surgery. It is surprising to realize the number of people who try it is increasing day by day.

It is true that attractive people get a job easily. For example, we know good-looking guys usually get higher scores on job interviews. So, what is real beauty? I want to say that inner beauty is the real one because if someone has beauty in his soul, he looks like a really beautiful person.

The beauty looked at with eyes doesn't last forever. Instead of concentrating on outer beauty, we should concentrate on inner beauty. The point is that inner beauty is more important than outside beauty. So, if we make the effort to make our minds beautiful, we'll be happier.

---SHIREEN---