Girls and Beauty

[Skanky Vamp]

Surely girls would just use their camera phone, instead of using the mirror, so I can't see this making that much difference, to how people actually view themselves.

Theoretically thats true, but if you are coming out of the pooper and washing your hands ands seeing that as the mirror it would make you stop and think. Just the idea of no mirror at a sink would seem odd to me.

 

[nightshade]

I was thinking more to check make up and what not, not as a hand washing after toilet look at the mirror

 

[thetopher]

I don't need to get emotional validation about myself from another human being- I get it from dogs!
Seriously, dogs don't care if you're ugly or fat, only that you smell nice/interesting (or have some food)- their always happy to see you and think you're a great person. Their really 'up' animals.

Personally I think everybody should try and be their best self- by that I mean healthy and happy. Whatever your best self is, be that. Self-confidence usually means people will like you, which in turn makes you happier, which builds more self-confidence- its a positive upwards spiral.
Most days that works for me and I've had it really rough in the past with emotion/self-esteem. I mean really.

 

[Moonchild]

I want to live in a world where everyone, not just females, can love and value themselves. Self love doesn't mean that you just accept where you're at and don't work for anything better and it doesn't mean that you are okay with everything about yourself, it just means treating yourself the way you think you should treat others. And it doesn't begin by avoiding mirrors, it begins by acknowledging what you see in the mirror. Some things you can and should change, like if your weight is unhealthy, it's not self love to stay that way. And some things you should work to be okay with. I also think that it's silly to imagine that looks don't matter to some degree. We are all attracted to certain appearances, typically for biological reasons, and no amount of denial is going to make that go away. That being said I think that a lot of girls(and boys) need to work on what's on the inside to be okay with what's on the outside and if covering a mirror is the push they need(I doubt it is) then so be it