How do you feel about yourself?

You may well have seen the Dove adverts on the T.V promoting the campaign for real beauty. Dove are known for using models of all shapes and sizes in their advertisments- and hats off to them I say! They can call me up anytime- I’d be up for jumping around in my undies- looks like a lot of fun! OK I know we aren’t all as confident as I am (Daisy’s a little too confident at times- let’s just say streaking used to be a bit of a party trick of mine back in my younger days! Ooh I say!)

Anyway back on topic, I’ve been rooting around Dove.com and I’ve come across some great features, especially on the sister site www.campaignforrealbeauty.com. There are some amazing videos that really get you thinking about real beauty. Plus you can take the self esteem quiz- how do you feel about yourself? You never know it could kick start some positive thinking! The site has certainly made me think twice about how I see beauty in others.

We can’t look at models in magazines and believe they really are that beautiful anymore- not with photoshop hacking away at the real person moulding them into someone completely different.

We can’t look at celebrities’ hair and think wow I wish mine were that shiny or long or curly- not when they spend thousands to destroy their real hair and then thousands more to use someone elses.

We can’t look at ourselves and think that we need to be perfect. Well we shouldn’t anyway. The differences in us all make us who we are. If we all had shiny blonde hair, bright blue eyes and a tan the colour of my pet goldfish- we’d all be very ordinary. Wouldn’t that be a much scarier thought for us all?