Here’s the challenge: This Valentine’s day, celebrate yourself.
I’ve realized that I’m happiest when I am trusting my gut. Loving who I was created to be. Taking risks. Just doing me.
This seems to be the theme for our blog, The Refined Woman, this year too. We are done playing it safe. We are ready to step into bigger and better — even if it scares us.
In recent years, our society and culture has been embracing a more natural, more realistic form of beauty. This concept is novel in that it is based on a female’s inherent beauty versus overly polished, photo-shopped models. The media is beginning to show real, regular women with all of their wonderful imperfections.
While the idea of beautiful imperfection is new in the western world of advertising, this philosophy is deeply rooted in Japanese culture. So much so, that the Japanese have a name for it. It’s called wabi-sabi.
Fear is something we all experience and sadly it’s an emotion we just can’t avoid. There are some who let fear run their life, while others learn to make it work in their favor. Fear is both painful and disorienting, but we also don’t need
Unlike winter's cloaking costumes, bathing suits reveal bodies for what they are: natural, complex, ours. This kind of exposure can be intimidating as we bare what is otherwise mostly hidden behind bedroom walls. Prancing around in next to nothing, we open ourselves up to scrutiny -- that of others, maybe
When we think of beauty, we tend to think about the externals: hair, eyes, skin, body shape. It’s a habit that has been drilled into us by the culture that surrounds us, but it’s based on a lie. Beauty is so much more than our physical appearance