Monday Mojo: Accepting your Hair, Curly, Kinky, Wavy or Straight!

Just to be up front, this advice is for curly girls and wavy girls, but lots of it does apply to straight-haired girls as well!
I am very grateful to have my hair. I definitely understand that it's probably the most irritating part of my physical self, but I have learned to accept my curly hair for what it is: A gift.
Let me start by telling you my curl story. For my entire life, my hair has been curly. All through my childhood, my curls simply cascaded from my head and I didn't give it much of a second thought- I surely didn't think of myself as different. Then I hit that "awkward stage" in my life, where I was a bit of a chub and my hair was never it's best, to say the least. My thinking was that if I brushed my hair, it'd look good. That was my first mistake. Anyway, throughout middle school, my hair-brushing-once-it's-dried had eventually stopped (although I will never live those pictures down.), but I began to feel that I was different. The type of different where you feel like you stand out because you're different and nobody likes you for it. I truly thought that my curly hair caused me to have less friends. I went through a series of experiments on my hair (which were probably damaging, now that I think about it) including loading it with mousse, gel, hairspray, straightening product and so much more. I went through a stage where I straightened my hair for a long while. Anything to change my natural hair. Now, I know that my curly hair is actually why one of my now best friends noticed me. It's why I now feel more confident about myself and feel like I can truly express who I am.
So, now that you have my story, I'd like to share some things I've learned along my painful, experimental journey with my hair ;) Here is some helpful advice to help you accept your hair type and learn to rock what you've got!

  1: Learn that you are who you are, with your hair because God made you that way. Everyone is put together in a way where everything fits together. When you change something about you, people may not know what you look like, but I find that about 100% of the time, the person's natural state is super beautiful! Soo...

Monday Mojo Part 2- Men are beautiful too!

Look, I know what you're thinking. "Inner beauty? That CANNOT be manly at all!" (or maybe that's just what I thought.), but I have done some research and have come up with an aritcle that I really think nails what my beliefs are (and frankly, that's hard to do.) : That men should be beautiful too. Many of these ideas and thoughts came from that article, because I truly thought i'd have a tough time on writing something like this, but a lot of ideas are from my head as well :). FYI: while women often need cheering up and assurance, men seem to need more advice than anything. (But there definitely will be some cheering up going on.)

So let's get started.

The whole idea of inner beauty is having qualities that are not associated with the physical attributes of a man. In other words, having good character. Having good virtues feeds into how a man leads his life and that of his family, children, wife or even buddies! "It is only when the mind of a man conceives ideas that the outward body lays it into action. The man who possesses an inner beauty has some basic qualities listed below:
Kind hearted: A man exhibits kindness if there is a strong virtue of kindness inside him. Men who are kind irrespective of the situation, personality, environment or conduction posses a great measure of inner beauty.

Monday Mojo! Inner Beauty- For the Gals

Hey Guys and Gals! Since we all know it's Monday again, and we all know Mondays are always sort of a downer day, I'm going to start a new series called Monday Mojo!
Today's Monday Mojo will be focusing on inner beauty. If you're a guy, I know you'll probably be clicking away immediately, since you think this will be all about the girls, BUT! I will have a guy's section too, in part two! Don't worry. So let's get started, Ladies.

How you look (or think you look.)

This is definitely the main problem with most women and especially teenage girls. With all the media and influences from everywhere, people have become oblivious to what is real and what is actually fake. Statistics stand that 99% of all magazine covers or pictures are airbrushed. You may say, "Ugh, another  one of these 'you're amazing, blah blah blah' articles.", but really, people do need to address these issues. People really do compare themselves to others and think that they're really not beautiful, and that needs to stop. So, here are some basic facts I have come to know.