Au naturale- I bare all!

I have suffered with self-confidence for quite a number of years as I severely lack it! When I was younger, I was a lot worse and always wanted to look like someone else and never look like myself. I tried, over the years, to alter my appearance to "blend" in and it suited me for a while but it didn't help my confidence in myself at all. Going to the school that I did, you either had to know the "right people" to stay out of trouble or you had to look the "right way" to fit in. I guess that's like many schools across the world and I'd like to clarify now that I wasn't ever bullied as such but I was made to feel worthless at times because I wasn't a "popular girl" and I wasn't friends with "popular people". Bullying at school is a disgrace in my opinion, as there is far too much of it going on!

However, I am getting more self-confident and I wanted to share with you, and to prove to myself that I am strong enough to do it,  pictures of myself with no make-up on. This may not seem like a big deal to you but I rarely (maybes once or twice a year I'll do it) go out of the house without some form of make-up on; foundation being the major one. It struck me today how sad that actually seems; I cannot go out of the house without any make-up on, and that's how a lot of people do things. If I don't have foundation or mascara or anything like that on, I feel completely exposed and vulnerable as if at any moment, someone is going to point and laugh at how ugly I am. In my opinion, everyone is beautiful in their own way but when I look at myself, I think this rule doesn't apply to me!

Anyway I don't want to ramble on too much but the point of this is to show that if I am able to post pictures of myself without make-up and exposing all my blemishes and imperfections then maybe other people will think "Wow, I would never think of doing that. Maybe I'll give it a go..." and gain more self-confidence if that's why they wear make-up. I don't only wear make-up to cover myself up and "hide" but I do it to make me feels good about myself and because I love to try new products out. I'm in the process of changing the way I feel about myself and the way I look to be a positive thing and eventually, I hope that I don't hide behind a mask but feel so confident, that I don't need to wear make-up all day, every day to just nip to the shops!

P.S- I wear glasses permenantly but took them off to show you better! xxxx