You don't have to try so hard.

Last night while I was in the car with the family this song came on the radio. In true Jessica form I started to sing to it. Since day one this song sunk deep into my heart. I have listened to Colbie Caillat since her MySpace days....ohh yeah! I remember the first time I heard Coco on the radio. I totally squealed. This woman has an amazing voice and sooooo many beautiful messages in her songs. But I digress...

In that moment, in the car: full of boys: on the freeway, it hit pretty dang hard. Enough that I started to cry. Lovingly the hubby placed his hand on my hand and just held it there. I could not help but feel so blessed to be loved so unconditionally. You see I hardly were anything on my face aside from lotion. What you see on the daily is what I look like before I go to bed and when I wake up. For the life of me I cannot figure out how to wear makeup and look glamorous like all of the make-up tutorials I see posted to facebook or the "glamour shots" friends always seem to have like everyday!! Seriously how can these girls look so gorgeous all the time?!?!?

I make time for silly faces

Maybe I am the only one but I always wished I could look amazing like that...even just once but I can't, I am not them. I don't want to make the time to learn or apply makeup. Then I decided I was lazy and plain Jane was who I was going to be. It hasn't been up until the last couple years that I came up with another view of myself.

Now don't get me wrong makeup and girls who wear it is/are beautiful. If it makes you feel more confident then by all means but I see it as a means to cover up what you are naturally blessed with. I see it as a means to hide, whatever it may be that your hiding from. There is so much beauty in what is natural. I have heard girls say, "Well I just look _____ with out it. (sick, dead, pale, sunken, fat, ect,) Or that others think that of them. Just like how when others see me with make-up on-it is a shock because its so rare. The same can be said when others don't wear makeup, its  shock because its rare. Media has trained us to feel we need "something" to look and feel beautiful but what we fail to remember is that beauty comes in all shapes and forms and unfortunately what is deemed beautiful changes and so many of us are trying to catch that train when it leaves.

Don't conform to the expectations others decide, live up to your own. Trust and have confidence that your father and your mother created a beautiful being who is more that a face on Instagram or a good angled body shot on Facebook.


You don't have to try so hard...
The beauty is already there.