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Unconventional Beauty

11/9/2017

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Loving your imperfections is hard. I have spent many nights obsessing over my loud laugh, staring at my stretch marks in a mirror, and smothering the circles under my eyes in anti aging eye serums. Now, I'm all for being proactive in skin scare but I really didn't need eye serums. I am 21. I needed sleep and to drink more water. But at times I will try anything to put my insecurities to rest. I will be the first to admit, my confidence is no where near where I want it to be. But I'm trying very hard to love my unconventional beauty. I think it's hilarious that my friends can recognize my voice in a crowd. Sometimes I say particularly naughty things, because I know they will recognize that it's me.  People describe my voice as deep, I prefer to think of it as more likely to hit the Adele notes. My voice was something I was very self conscious about growing up. It was a joke in high school choir that I could sing with the basses(I've learned that this isn't a bad thing, like I said I can fucking kill an Adele song). That is the key to loving the things that make you different, see the beauty in it. Another insecurity that I had growing up was my freckles. I hated them. As an adult they hold no resentment. I learned to love my freckles when my grandmother, Nan passed away. She always loved my freckles, and called them angle kisses. The summer after she passed away I had come inside after being in the sun for a few hours. The freckles were sprinkled across my cheeks and nose. I stared at myself in the mirror, and began crying. How beautiful it was that I could finally see what my Nanny saw my whole life. When I learned to love my freckles, I learned to value new perspectives. It would be so boring if we all looked the same. When my friends look for me in a crowd they look for my eyes; the blue eyes that smile, they listen for my voice; deep and full of laughter. They look for me, flaws and all. 
"I'm still learning to love the parts of me that no one claps for" -Rudy Francisco
-Libby 
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Jill
11/9/2017 09:14:56 pm

Made me cry

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Ceilidh
11/10/2017 05:49:31 am

Love these so much!!! Love you!!!!

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Daisy
11/13/2017 10:44:44 am

I’m enjoying your blog posts, Libby. You write so well. I love how your Grandmother Nan taught you to accept your freckles, one of the things that makes you unique.

I’ve let my ‘fluffy, pleasingly plump” body get in my way of fully being comfortable presenting in front of people, or even among groups of people, my entire life! I watched a young lady competing in a Master Chef program on TV this morning. Her mother was disappointed that she wanted to be a chef and that she is pursuing her passion. To remind herself to be able to pursue, against her mother’s support, she had a tattoo made on the underside of her wrist that simply says ‘enough’ in a nice font. Despite always being overweight, working my way through college, earning two degrees and having a very successful career, as a teacher, I still have to remind myself that I am enough. Love you, Libby!

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Libby
11/13/2017 10:54:09 am

Daisy,
Wow I love that story, and I find that most people struggle with feeling that they are enough. There is beauty in loving the parts of yourself you have struggled with!

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