CHRIS SANCHEZ
Advertising Manager
“When you look good, you feel good. When you look good, you feel good.”
These are the words I can remember my mother telling me as she confidently looked into the mirror applying her lipstick or primping her hair just before we left the house for work and school.
But what did she really mean? In a culture of constant pressure to look your best, be your best and to fit the societal mold, was she pressuring me to justify society’s ideals of what I should be?
To this day, I’m still not sure what my mother meant by the words, “when you look good, you feel good.” However, I’ve given them new life, and I still hold them in my mind as I, too, gaze into the mirror primping my hair and choking on the fumes of too much hairspray. “When you look good, you feel good,” I tell myself each morning.
These words carry a newer meaning than what most might assume was their original intent. Today, I use them as a motto to show the world just how much I love myself. Each morning when I wake up, I feel confident in the fact that I trust and believe, love and want to continue to grow into the person I am meant to be. By putting myself together each day — and being proud of the person I put out into the world — I feel as though the beauty I know resides on the inside gets to peek out just for a moment and let the world know that there’s a beautiful person beneath this proud, confident and hair-sprayed exterior.
“When you look good, you feel good!”
From now on, carry these words in your heart — let them inspire you to show the world how beautiful you are on the inside. Wear your lipstick and primp your hair as a badge of pride and confidence in yourself. Do not let anyone define your definition of “beauty” or “fabulous!” Put forth the image of yourself that makes you feel good and most ready to tackle the world.
There is a fabulous person inside each of us; we must first recognize this person within ourselves before we can step into an unfortunate society of pressure and judgment. Being fabulous is about owning everything about yourself, claiming it as your own and letting everyone know that when you look good, you feel good — and you’re always fabulous!