#iwultohio

[iwultohio]

“The word beauty to me means both how you carry yourself on the inside and out. To me, beauty is nice, caring, and loving. 

It is important for me to be honest about my own beauty because I should not try to feel more confident than I should about the way I look, but also I should not bring myself down with the thoughts that I’m not pretty enough. Therefore, I need to be true to myself and not think of my beauty as any more or any less.”

Jessica Flower, age 14

[iwultohio]

"I feel like to honestly be happy with your looks, your life, anything, you have to have a happy heart. I feel that, that's what makes me beautiful now. It's the things I do for others that makes me feel beautiful, not how I look."

<3 <3 <3

Raia Presto

[iwultohio]

"You have to get to a place where you accept what you look like, embrace your own particular brand of beauty. It takes awhile... but it's important, otherwise, other people, other entities have too much power over you. Having a solid sense of self helps prevent people from selling you too much garbage."

Allyson Drinkard

YES.

ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION YET?

[iwultohio]

“I wanted to be a part of this project because I love the truth. Sometimes it’s good to know that everyone doesn’t wake up perfectly.”

Kaelan

[iwultohio]

"I think it's important to be honest with myself about my own becauty because I feel like it's another step forward in a struggling, personal journey to gain self respect, love. Because looking at yourself & saying so many negative things you believe them. Because it imporoves so many areas iin your life & within to be truly honest with myself about my own beauty... to be more comfortable in the soceity we can't escape, and also to be so confident & have the ability & strength to ignore judgement or comments. It builds strength in myself. I still am not honest to myself about it...." The quote continues ",but I try to be more aware & stop a negative thought & try to be real & loving to myself. Also because when you can openly show that confidence, I could only hope it would inspire other women to try & be more aware & respect & love themselves more, because they deserve it,e verybody deserves to love themselves honestly & to be loved. Being honest about my beauty to myself is one big leap toward's that!"

Also written: "I was thinking about how even if it's just a picture of my face, I never know what to do with hands, haha. How getting this photo today- instantly brought awareness [to] how many times we face a reflective object & feel forced, an obligation, mostly subcouncioulsy to take even a quick look at yourself & have some thought or judgement whether it be positive or negative."

Hannah Knapp