Does beauty come from within? Answering can be simple at first, yet once you dive deeper, it can become challenging.

When thinking of beauty, many think of how something appears.

When we see a sunset filling the sky with pinks and purples, we call that beautiful; we are talking about the external factor of how it looks.

When we take a deeper dive into the word “beauty”, it is challenging to truly define the word.

This is because “beauty” is a polysemous word: a word with many meanings.

Beauty to one person can be appearance, but to someone else, it can be personality.

In my opinion, true beauty comes from within, whether that be how we perceive ourselves or who we are as a person. 

Growing up and going through a significant amount of change, I think we are always cautious of our appearance.

My mom never wore any makeup.

I’d always ask her why. She’d always respond by telling me, “I don’t need it” or “I don’t like wearing it.”

I never understood her answers at the time and thought it was always a bit off that she didn’t even want to wear at least mascara or lip gloss.

However, little did I know, my entire perspective would change, and I’d be just like her.

From fifth grade to freshman year, I would always buy the newest makeup trends, watch all the trendy YouTube makeup tutorials, and cake my face any chance I could.

I wanted to fit in with the girls around me and have something in common with them.

However, they felt beautiful in their makeup, and I just felt embarrassed.

It wasn’t until my sophomore year in high school that I asked myself why I was wearing makeup, when I felt so much more confident with none on.

It made me question why the others around me were wearing a lot of makeup when I felt so much more beautiful without it.

When trying to come up with an answer, I began to change my interests and focused heavily on what “beauty” really meant.

I started focusing on my skin and pointed out what features I didn’t like and what I did like.

Not only did this urge me into researching how to fix what I didn’t like and how to accentuate what I did like, but it also brought me into esthetician school.

This is where I came to the realization that beauty truly does come from within.

Learning all about our skin and the services that we can provide ultimately answered my question.

Being around so many clients who wore makeup made me realize it’s deeper than that; they had underlying insecurities they wanted to cover up.

Many of my clients wore makeup because they weren’t happy with the features of their skin or their skin in general, and wanted to hide it by wearing makeup to feel more confident.

This fueled my desire to want the same women who wore makeup to feel as beautiful in their skin as I do.

Over the course of seven months, I was able to transform women’s confidence and give them the confidence they searched for just by focusing on their skin.

Beauty comes from within, it’s how we feel on the inside, it’s a feeling.

When we don’t feel beautiful, it can affect our confidence and our state of mind.

This is why makeup is such an influential thing, because it makes people feel beautiful. Though if people were able to understand that they could feel beautiful in their bare skin.

I truly believe it would alter their perception of themselves, and they’d be able to experience true beauty from within.