Ever have that moment. When you feel fantastic. Your cloths fit perfect, your face (make-up or make-up free) looks great, your hair is shiny and smooth. Not a hair out of place. You feel amazing in your skin! You check yourself in the mirror and you feel BEAUTIFUL. You walk with confidence because today you did it right. Perfectly put together.
No sound track for this one but here is a funny photo of how you can feel and look fantastic and the photo can ruin it. It's ok you can have a little laugh. The flash bounced off my foundation making me a ghost! No I don't go out for my birthday dressed as a ghost.
Picture time and you click, click, click...perfection...Or not!
Check out the picture you know the camera adds an extra 10 pounds (that you really didn't need), and realize you have makeup lines your face is ghostly, dress is wrinkled, hair static-y and a little too much oily shine (how can you even have static and oily at the same time!). Time to redo, and redo, and redo. Lean forward, suck it in. Remember those photo to do's. Bend slightly, head slightly down, don't giraffe your neck, head forward (man do I feel like a turtle). Don't concentrate on the fun of the moment but be a robot and be mechanical.
When I take pictures sometimes I feel like the most beautiful women and 10 minutes later the pictures make me feel like a sloppy mess. I look back at pictures and think why did I think or worry about the imperfections. It is a fantastic picture and dang I looked good. I think this can be a problem with the insta-everything world we live in. Instead of enjoying the moment and the surroundings we are so worried about getting the best group shot, selfie, perfect kids in the photo. Pictures are a great way to remember memories. Instead of getting the perfect picture focus on really living in the moment. My favorite photos are not the ones that are mechanical and posing perfection (yes there are moments for this, family pictures, engagement photos, wedding portraits). They are the in the moment, real smiles, real laughing pictures. Photos playing with my kids, photos that I don't even realize are taken, photos that don't have my "fake cheerleader smile" as my husband calls my photo smiles.
Not only does the forced smile, 10 times taken photo, take away from so many of the moments it doesn't always capture you. Don't let the nit picking of imperfections take away from the entire picture.
I am a quilter and when I was just learning the basics of it I remember being told that every quilt is going to have an imperfection and that is ok because that imperfection makes it unique. You may have a stitch wrong, you may have the fabric pattern facing the wrong way in one area, you may have a small buckle in the fabric. In the scheme of the whole quilt it is one small imperfection it doesn't mean your quilt is ruined or ugly. It may even make it that much more beautiful. This is the same thing for photos. I feel beautiful in the picture on the left make-up done (that doesn't happen everyday), loved my outfit (finally cool enough for layers, and boots, and hats), I felt gorgeous! The right one was taken less than 10 minutes later. Even though I had my makeup done, outfit perfect, felt fantastic. I looked at the picture and all I could see were the imperfections. 10 more photos down the line and it was all the same thing. Now I look and see my beautiful babies with perfect smiles and dang my lipstick made my teeth look super white! And wouldn't ya know, the first picture taken is my favorite one!
Moral of the story. Enjoy the moments, because they really are fleeting, and allow yourself to love you! Your perfection in its entirety. Let go of the little imperfections and love yourself for the entire picture.
With Love Always,
Beautiful
No sound track for this one but here is a funny photo of how you can feel and look fantastic and the photo can ruin it. It's ok you can have a little laugh. The flash bounced off my foundation making me a ghost! No I don't go out for my birthday dressed as a ghost.
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