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Have you ever thought that you were ugly? Or just hated the way your teeth were or maybe you think you're a bit overweight? Whatever it is, you can learn to deal with it, or change it. But because your changing your appearance, doesn't mean you have to change your personality. Truth is, ugliness doesn't occur in appearance...but personality.
Steps
- Make sure you know what about your appearance is bringing you down. If it's something you can't change on your own, like your nose, don't have plastic surgery. Afterall you might grow to love THAT nose later on in life and plus it's bound to change as you get older.
- Once you know what you're insecure about, take a closer look. Is it really that bad?
- Solve it. You can either solve it by; Getting over it (not harshley) or by doing something to make it look better. If you hate your teeth, eating too much candy and not brushing your teeth won't help you love them. Consider braces if your teeth need straightening, but first you might want to have a dentist appointment.
- Love it. Whether you've changed that bit about you or not. Be proud that you have a unique face and/or body (unless you have an identical twin). Beauty comes in many forms. Words such as "Ugly" and "Hideous" are used by people who are either jealous, or too full of them-selves.
- Ignore. Yeah, so if one day you're proud of your appearance and then you start to hate it because someone says that you're "Fat", "Skinny" or "Fugly". Remember it's not always their business on what you look like. If you decide to use a ton of eyeliner or foundation (if you're a girl) and ignorant people decide to call you things like, "Orange freak" or "Emo". Or if you decide not to wear any sort of make-up. Or if you have braces or anything that people make rude remarks on, just say thanks for noticing and walk away. Afterall you can look HOWEVER you want to look.
- Talk. Talk to someone if your insecurity level as gone over the top that you just can't bare it anymore. That person might help you, if they make it worse, your just going to have to find someone who will take you seriously and will try to comfort you.
- Be You. Have you ever noticed on how your personality tends to reflect on your appearance? That doesn't mean you have to change the way you are. Just be who you are, some may hate you for that, but remember NEVER to change for ANYONE. No matter what.
Tips
- If your spots are bringing you down, go to a cosmetic store and ask for a product that might help you with your spots. Don't go straight to buying make-up, it's braggable that it's going to create more.
- Remember, ignore people who label you and judge you by your appearance. They might be jealous or just in the mood for being rude to people. Which isn't fair and is completley ignorant.
- During this process, don't call someone ugly, it doesn't make you any prettier what-so-ever.
- Treat your-self by going shopping or just have some chocolate if you feel depressed by the remarks. If the remarks are seriously damaging you, you might consider repeating something in your mind which helps you get over appearance depression.
Warnings
- Make-up will give you spots if you don't pick the right quality. Always do checks before you buy any sort of cosmetic product from a store. You seriously don't want to know what it may do to your skin.
- Don't change your personality! Let it change on it's own, not by force to impress anyone
- If you decide to do any sort of piercings to make your-self more proud of your-self, make sure you check the stores hygiene. You don't wanna get any sort of infection.
- Changing because of a boy or for a boy won't always work out the way you want it to. This goes for boys who want to impress girls.
- NEVER stop eating if someone calls you fat. If you're over-weight and think you wanna change that about you for prehaps health reasons more than appearance, go on a sensible diet. But please don't stop eating all together or limit your daily intake of certain food.
- I don't think it's a good idea to change your style either if your not comfortable with changing it. Change your style when you want to, not when someone else says you should. But it's always great to try out new things, just don't do it because someone says you should.
Things You'll Need
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