Here's the video.
I spent a lot of years hating my curly hair. Well, not necessarily hating it, but wishing that I didn't have it. I was born with curly hair, and then something happened and it went straight till I hit puberty. I spent a lot of time wishing that my hair had never changed back. Curly hair sounds glamorous, but the reality was not what I expected.
Plus, I'm never really sure whether I can claim curly. I have definite wave and ringlets sometimes, but I always feel like some curly haired police are going to jump out of the bushes and inform me that my hair isn't curly enough to claim myself as a curly haired girl.
But today I'm going to claim it. I think it's awesome that Dove is trying to get people to accept themselves the way that they are. If you start comparing (which I am totally guilty of) you'll find that you're never quite what you want to be. Even as someone who loves their curls (sometimes :) )I find myself wishing I had someone else's curls. But the truth of it is that the most beautiful people I know are the people who rock whoever and whatever they are. They own it.
I've had people tell me how I should look and what I should do to be beautiful, it took me a long time to get their voices out of my head. I can still remember what they said. The difference is now I don't let what they've said influence my decisions.
So own it, curly hair or not :)
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