Ever wonder why you go through all the trouble to care for your beautiful black skin?  Are you doing it for yourself or are you doing it because you want to capture the attention of someone else?

Let’s hope you’re doing it for yourself!  Life is to short, even if you’re 100 years old, to live based on what someone else thinks of your skin.

The reason for the rant today is because, I met a beautiful group of young African American women who are aspiring to be models.  Not only are they already talking about their flaws, which don’t exist by the way, but they were discussing the type of plastic surgery that they would consider having done on themselves.

I took a deep breath and decided not to go off on them.  And guess what, they weren’t even comparing their beauty to someone who looked like them.  Every name they called was of a different race.

The bottom line, they didn’t think that black was beautiful unless it was in a dress, a pair of shoes or a handbag. What’s wrong with this picture?

Do you try to convince someone that the skin they’re in is beautiful and envied by the world?

I don’t know if you can.  If you’re constantly seeing commercials on television and ads in magazines that insinuate that unless you’re bleaching your black skin, you’re not pretty, how would you feel?

Not only is your beauty reflected through your skin but it’s also reflected in your personality and your body language.

Confidence is one of those things that’s often trampled upon and sometimes a person can’t bounce back.  If you’re constantly being shown and subliminally being told that you are not a beautiful black woman, with radiant black skin, how will you ever feel pretty?

Do Wigs, Weaves and Makeup Show Your True Beauty?

One woman reminded me that even though it may not show her ‘true beauty’, it was the ‘beauty’ that she was going to put forth.

We’re all ‘Diva’s’ at some point in our lives, but when do we allow the ‘Real’ person to live and be loved?

Natural hair, less makeup just might be the beginning of getting acquainted with a beautiful black woman.

I think she’ll emerge when as black women, we begin to appreciate who we truly are and appreciate the beauty that we truly possess.

How else will the young black women in the world learn how to appreciate who they are?

Who really defines your beauty?  You do!

Dedicated To Your Beauty

Juliette Samuel

Author/Esthetician/Publisher

http://www.nyrajuskincare.com