Glamour is in, thin is in, as any adolescent girl will tell you. But what they don’t know or conveniently forget is that health is in too, and by focusing too much on glamour and obsessing about their weight, they lose out on health. No matter what anyone says, I believe that beauty is definitely skin deep. It doesn’t matter how many layers of makeup you apply, your true inner self is still going to reflect strongly through all of them. You’re as beautiful as you believe you are, and the sooner young girls understand this, the better their physical and mental health.
If you try to explain this to them, then why, they would ask, do women frequent beauty salons and spas? Why do they accord so much importance to looking good? The answer is – they don’t go for beauty treatments because they make them LOOK good, they do so because they make them FEEL good. Aren’t both the same, they would tend to ask? No, they’re not, and let me explain how. Even if the whole world felt that you were the most beautiful woman in the universe, and you still felt that you could look better, then you’re never ever going to feel good about yourself, no matter how many salons you visit or how many spas you frequent. But if you look in the mirror and love the person staring back at you even if someone is standing next to you telling you that you’re ugly, then you have no need for beauty treatments, because you already feel good about yourself.
Salons and spas exist so that a woman can feel good about herself, in her eyes, and not in that of the world. Satisfaction has to come from within, because the moment we start looking into the eyes of other people for approval, we’ve begun an endless search for acceptance. It’s only when we accept who we are that we begin to be truly happy. So go ahead, give yourself a treat and pamper yourself at a spa, but do so because it makes you feel good and not because you want to please other people.
I remember how I felt when a friend of mine treated me to a luxury vacation at a spa in a posh resort – it was a memorable weekend, especially since I was just recovering from a bad breakup and needed something to make me regain my lost self esteem. I needed those two days of “me” time to help me get back to normal, to feel good about myself after a horrible rejection. And yes, I do admit that it felt extremely satisfactory to relax, get the entire range of beauty treatment, and be treated like a queen, just because I wanted to, and not because I was getting ready to look beautiful for someone else.
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