How to Feel Better About the Way You Look ?

In the current age, people are highly conscious about their physical appearance. The surge in the number of advertisements flashing on television screens, computers and newspapers endorsing beauty products draw our attention towards the rising interest of a significant number of people in buying these products to tone their appearance. While a little care of one’s appearance causes no harm, the problem arises when one starts to base his/her self-esteem solely on one’s physical appearance. Such individuals reach to greater lengths to adhere to the conventional standards of beauty. 
Nowadays, the consciousness about one’s physical appearance starts in adolescence and even earlier in some cases. Sadly, most of these ideas and notions of beauty are based on highly prejudiced and conventional norms of beauty, usually far-fetched for the common mob. Both men and women are prone and vulnerable to low self-esteem due to dissatisfaction with one or more aspects of one’s personality, particularly facial appearance. However, the issue is that the youth is turning towards plastic surgery, laser and other techniques in large proportion to fix their insecurity with their looks and physical appearances. Being over-conscious of one’s looks also paves way for psychological disorders, anxiety, depression, and other ailments.However, one can still overcome the insecure about my looks and lead a life of fulfillment, love, and acceptance by changing one’s idea of beauty.

How To Feel Better About Your Looks?

#1. Redefine Conventional Norms Of Beauty
A lot of our concept about beauty that we have internalized comes from the ways in which beauty is projected in the mainstream media. The bombardment of beauty products which claim to help one achieve a certain type of skin tone, complexion, body type, etc. clearly discriminate against other categories. They claim to help people achieve better looks in a span of few months. Eventually, a false concept of beauty which is not only difficult to achieve but also is discriminatory in nature is cropped up in people’s mind. 
#2. Define yourself in ways other than how you look. Make your self-esteem contingent on your inner, not outer qualities. Focus on what you like about your abilities, personality, relationships, and perspective on the world. These almost invariably show improvement over time and are often more changeable than facial or bodily features.
#3.Don’t freak out when you feel you “look bad.” The anxiety and stress you feel about how to Feel Better about your Looks can take an actual toll on your face, and you’ll be more likely to display the outer signs that truly detract from a pleasant appearance.
#4.Smile. On a related note, assembling your features into a pleasant expression when you see people goes a long way toward giving yourself a more pleasing appearance. As corny as it sounds, people like other people who smile. Plus, according to the facial feedback hypothesis, smiling can actually improve your mood.
#5. Go cold turkey on the makeup. Try a day or two of being makeup-free. You may find out that you actually look better when your skin has a chance to breathe and your eyelashes aren’t weighted down by mascara.
#6.Wear clothing that’s actually comfortable. Along with the makeup, you can also go cold turkey on the clothes you feel you need to wear to look fashionable. You might find that, even for a couple of days, if you “let it go,” you’ll feel less fixated on keeping up with fashion and truer to yourself.
#7. Take a break from the mirror. Don’t break your mirrors, but take a brief respite from constantly checking them. Avoid peering surreptitiously at yourself in the rearview mirror or the store window as you pass by, as well. Instead, focus on how you feel better about your looks.

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