you back from your path of greatness. Wearing clothing that exudes confidence can help you feel more confident about yourself. Clothing may have sizes, but style does not…style has no size. Always remember that! Write it down, take a picture….I don’t care. Just remember it. Anyone of any size can have style, style is the way we show our personality through clothing. We speak to the world about who we are and what we represent by our style. I often compare style to art, our bodies are the naked blank canvas that has nothing but an idea attached to it. The artistic medium is our clothing, from the colors and the patterns to the shoes and the accessories. These, along with our vision, make our masterpiece complete. When we create art, we want to create an image that depicts a mood, a certain feeling, or even an art style (impressionism, pop art, renaissance, etc.), and we do the same with clothing. The way we put certain colors and patterns together can represent that mood, feeling, or style. We create masterpieces daily, and most of us don’t even know it. We create walking, talking forms of art by simply getting dressed for the day.
Style is powerful, because it empowers us to be ourselves and have our own identity in this world; it’s simple, yet so visually complex. I strongly suggest all men dress well to feel more confident. I mean, if compliments from strangers don’t help you feel good about yourself, then we need to start back at square one. A woman once said, “A well-tailored suit is to women what lingerie is to men.” Just think about that for a second. Women view men as being sexy when they are dressed up and look, well….Notoriously Dapper. (See what I did there?) Never underestimate the power of clothing. Style can give you enough confidence to help you on this journey of self-love and acceptance, just take it one day at a time.
5 Tips to Help Jump-Start your Self-Love
1 1. Find something you are confident in. For my own part, I have always been confident in my ability to have style. I found a lot of my confidence through clothes and continue to love myself through my own personal style. Wear what makes you comfortable and happy. Remember, clothing has sizes, but style does not!
2 2. Look in the mirror and own who you are. Knowing that your body is good enough the way it is. You are 100% original, you cannot be duplicated, and that’s what makes you beautiful.
3 3. Surround yourself with positive people. On this journey to self-love you will have some moments when you don’t feel 100% confident, and that’s okay. We all have good and bad body days, but it is important to get that positive boost we all need to get out of our funk and move forward in this journey. Positive energy makes this process a lot easier!
4 4. Don’t compare yourself to others. As I mentioned in Tip 2, we are originals, we can’t compare ourselves to other people’s bodies or lifestyles. Live your best life and do things that make you happy. I often find myself down in the dumps comparing myself to others, so then I have to stop and reevaluate why I am doing this. This person isn’t better than me because they have muscled abs or a chiseled chest. I’m just as awesome as anyone else, because I’m me, and being ourselves is the most pure thing we can be.
5 5. Keep moving forward. The road to body confidence is different for everyone, two people are not going to share the same tale on this path. It may be long, bumpy, and full of dark areas, but someone else’s may be the exact opposite, and that’s okay. Just keep loving you, wear what makes you feel happy, have positive people in your corner, and DON’T COMPARE YOURSELF TO OTHERS!
Skies out, thighs out!
Soaking up the sun in my white denim. #StyleHasNoSize
Love yourself before you love anybody else!!
Benefits of Being Body Confident
“Don’t you know your imperfections is a wonderful blessing.”
– Kendrick Lamar
A mind is a terrible thing to waste; but many forget a body is a terrible thing to shame. Body shaming is what the media often does to make us feed into their perception of beauty. Shaming someone, especially about his or her body, is never acceptable for any reason. Body shaming comes in all different forms, from subtle hints to having someone straight up tell you your body isn’t good enough. For some that can be hard to ignore. Even the most confident person in the world has bad body days and can feel unconfident on certain days for whatever reason. You know what I’m talking about, those days where you feel like you have nothing to wear (because you just don’t feel good in anything you put on).
It’s not just a girl problem, ladies – many guys go through this, we just don’t vocalize it. You could say the societal standard of men has in some way shamed men into thinking that these “feelings” aren’t real. They are real, very real in fact, so real that I’m writing about it right now! It’s important to become body confident not only for yourself but for others. We all have been around that “negative Nancy” type of person that just seems to hate everything about anything. A big benefit to being body confident is that you tend to be less negative to yourself and others – we can all agree that’s always a positive change.
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