Selfies!

Okay, so who takes selfies? Almost everyone, right? Someone out there is making millions and came out with 'selfie sticks', a stick to hold your phone out farther so you can take a picture of yourself as a whole or a bigger group to fit in the screen. I'll admit. I'm a fan! I want a selfie stick!!!

Now, being in the cosmetology industry, I think it is important for hairstylist to stay updated on their selfies...does that mean we should post one every day? NO! But I do agree that we need to stay up to par on our image and let people know that if we feel confident and beautiful, we can then make them feel confident and beautiful. If we look like crap all the time, nobody is going to have faith that we can make them feel like a million bucks!!

They say this is a selfish century because social media has made us conceited but isn't that why we get our hair done, nails done, worry about fashion and celebrities? We did it before social media became popular so to say its just now showing because of social media is silly because it's just merely amplified and at our fingertips. You know grandma was snapping Polaroid "portraits" or "glamor shots" back in the day! 😄

Some people hate selfies. They hate how people are always posting more than one pose as if we don't know what they look like.They are not posting because they think you forgot what they look like, they are posting them because they feel a certain way about themselves. They feel confident. Sexy. They like the affirmation of people 'liking' or commenting on their photos. It is in our human nature to want to be liked. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Etc. All these social media sites help us achieve that where as back in the day, these were not available and you were lucky if you got your picture in the black and white newspaper.

Should married people not post selfies because they are already married? I don't think they should be excluded. We need to feel beautiful too and my husband can tell me till I'm blue in the face how beautiful I am to him, however I still like to hear it from other people because in the end, we will ALWAYS care about what others think, whether you think you do or not. Nobody likes to hear that someone thinks they are UGLY!! Unfortunately, it's the world we live in today.

Maybe you just got a fresh new haircut. Or color. Maybe your makeup was on point more so than your profile picture...if you feel like updating that profile picture, you go on and do it because in the end, it is YOUR page, YOUR profile and don't worry about them haters because more than likely they are just jealous.

Us women only dress up and do our hair and makeup for other women, it's not for the men....they could care less if we have a brown paper bag on, no makeup and a ponytail. Shoot, some guys actually prefer that over 10 gallons of foundation and lipstick they have to cuddle with and get all over their clothes and their own faces. Nothing like sharing a drink or giving a smooch and that lipstick is all over the straw and your man/woman's lips!!

Feel beautiful, take a selfie and share away! If people don't like it, they can scroll on or delete themselves. We are all beautiful in our own ways and we need to have individualism or we would be boring and the world would be mediocre.

(T-Rex needed a selfie stick, don't we all? LOL)

My most recent Selfie! <3