self esteem

Hey babes!

Hey babes,
I was talking to my long distant friend today, and she was telling me the awful events that recently occured in her area, due to bullying.

Hey babes,

While searching for a blog topic for today, I came across a very inspiring picture, and I thought I'd share it with you all :)

"15 things you never knew or thought about:
1. At least 5 people in this world love you so much they would die for you.
2.At least 15 people in this world love you in some way.
3.The only reason anyone would ever hate you is because they want to be just like you.
4.A smile from you can bring happiness to anyone, even if they don’t like you.
5.Every night, SOMEONE thinks about you before they go to sleep.
6.You mean the world to someone.

Hey, this is Snezna. I recently asked my 10-year-old daughter, Bella, to write down what self esteem means to her...here are her words

Self esteem is about either loving or not loving yourself for who you are! Low self esteem is really common and means you don't like yourself...sometimes not at all, and sometimes only a little bit. But, if you have high self esteem you love yourself :) And that is awesome! Unfortunately, not as many girls have high self esteem as low self esteem :(

Andrej Peijic, if you’ve not heard the name already or seen this high cheek-boned, blonde-tressed, colt-limbed model strut the catwalks showing the most lusted after designer fashion for women, then you will. This Australian model is being hailed as the hottest thing in fashion right now, even scoring the grand finale spot at John Galliano’s show in a bridal gown. Only thing is…that this model parading female fashion is a man!

Bellaboo's ChatterChicks have come up with a really powerful way to get the message out there about real beauty and to help make the change on self esteem! The idea is we want videos of you and/or a bunch of your friends telling us what you think is beautiful about you!!! Most of can count off a gazillion things we don't like about ourselves but when faced with the question: what do you love about yourself? We struggle to come up with just one thing!

Hello Gorgeous! Did you know that you are beautiful?! Well you are and you should never forget it! I know that sometimes it gets tough because we can be surrounded by negative voices and when that happens we forget to see look at our own beauty. But the truth is that we are all Beautiful. You, me, your best friend, the stranger on the street, EVERYONE is BEAUTIFUL!! :) Your beauty radiates from within and no one can ever take it away from you. So embrace yourself! This includes your body, style, strengths, weaknesses, flaws, and assets.

I just want to let you know that you’re perfect. This blog post today is about encouraging self love , embracing your flaws and basically loving the skin you're in. The main thing I want to get through to you is that you’re beautiful no matter what “they” say. Yes, the media post beautiful pictures of women who happen to be skinny, but that doesn’t mean that’s the only kind of beauty out there. Beauty is all about confidence, self respect, and a loving attitude. Loving yourself is the key to happiness.

For all of you who think beauty = skinny:
Skinny is beauty,
But so is curvy,

Bellaboo came across photographer M Seth Jones expose of before and after photoshop shots. No, Mr Jones did not put these up on his site as a service to promoting positive self esteem but as a demonstration of the type of perfect he hopes to achieve post photo. In his words on why photoshop: "This ensures that every element sits harmoniously within the final frame, enabling that ideal state to be presented to the viewer with little-to-no visual distractions."

Hey, as you can see from our site this month we are on a roll about teen role models. We reckon us girls don't exactly have a huge choice when it comes to role models.