Insideout: Challenge #2

This challenge goes with the song beautiful by Christina Aguilera. Because her song is entitled Beautiful, i thought that we could think about what beauty actually is. What is beauty to you? So, for the next week, we will be pointing out things we find "Beautiful". Whether it is nature, a person, or just something random, if we think it is beautiful "document" it. For example, you can take a picture of it, and make an album on facebook about what you found beautiful. You can write about what you find beautiful, and comment it on this post. This will help us know beauty, so we feel beautiful. It will also help us see what others think is beautiful, and get a different perspective on beauty. Taking time out of our busy days to spend time on thinking about beauty in different places other than our outer beauty will help us to see a little piece of our inner beauty.

Beautiful

The song i chose for this week is beautiful by Christina Aguilera. i love this song so much, and it fits so perfectly in this blog...especially because of the title, beautiful:) Before the song starts, she just speaks, "don't look at me". so many times when we just don't feel beautiful, we do not want anyone to look at us or bother us. Many different and small insecurities can easily bring us down if we let them. They bring us down to this stage of just...don't look at me. In the second verse it says: to all your friends, your delirious, so consumed in all your doom, trying hard to fill the emptiness... this is so true. Sometimes we just go into this beauty depression, and we become a different person all because we are insecure. It is no fun to be insecure! It is hard to always be on your guard of pleasing people and looking good. Sometimes its fun to make a fool of yourself. When we know beauty, and then feel beautiful, then we come out of that insecure shell and out of that beauty depression. Don't let people bring you down by making you feel insecure. The chorus says: "you are beautiful, no matter what they say, words can't bring you down." The last line of the song says: "don't you bring me down today"

check out the video playlist to hear the song:)

Insideout: Challenge #1

Ok, so this is our first "beauty" challenge-living out our confidence or finding it. The song for last week was Who you are by jessie j, so i thought i would build on that. Who are you? sometimes it takes us knowing who we are to become confident and feel beautiful. most people do not put a lot of thought into that. So to challenge us to think of who we are, who we have become, and who we are becoming, we are making a ME list! ok, so whats a ME list. well, you write a list of YOU with the number of years you have been alive. because that made absolutely no sense, let me give you an example: if you are 15 then you write 15 things that describe you. not your hair color, your eye color, etc. but maybe things no one knows about you, random quirks about you, etc. They can be funny, serious, or just weird, but they should be honest. This should not be what others think of you, or what they'd want you to write, but just who you are!

Who You Are

OK, so this is my first "official" post

The song i chose for today is Who you are by Jessie J. You can find the song with lyrics on the video playlist:) I love all of the lyrics to this song, especially the beginning of the first and second verses. In the first verse, she starts off by saying: i stare at my reflection in the mirror. why am i doing this to myself? I think that is true for so many of us-we look in the mirror and do not like what we see, but i love the chorus because she says: seeing is deceiving. The beginning of the second verse says: brushing my hair do i look perfect? i forgot what to do to fit the mold. Again, that is so true. we try to fit each mold of who others want us to be. The chorus is another thing i love about this song. my favorite part of it is the last few lines: tears don't mean you're losing, everybody's bruising. just be true to who you are!

Introducing: insideout

Hey,

My name is ReNay and this is my blog, insideout. This is not a blog about my life or me rambling on about my day, but this is a blog about BEAUTY! No, I am not giving make-up, hair, or nail tips, but I will give tips on how to feel beautiful through something we all love...MUSIC! I will post a song about beauty every other week, and then the following week I will post a "beauty" challenge. We can listen to how to feel beautiful all we want, but actually practicing it and living out that confidence is how we feel beautiful. I hope you guys like it! Tell your friends and comment with song ideas, your take on the song, and even your "beautiful" story.