"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"

So today I was taking off one of my filled in eyebrows with my makeup remover and I got a sudden inspiration for a blog post. This is something which is very personal and I just felt I should share it to help other girls or guys who are going through what I went through. 

When I was in high school in year seven I had a huge huge crush on this guy. I didn't have much confidence and was very shy so I just kept my feelings to myself. A few weeks of gawping over how good looking I thought he was I found myself in food tech and he was shouting things to me, I can honestly say I have never felt worse in my whole life. I remember his words still; "Chloe you're ugly as f**k" and "you'll never get a boyfriend" "they'd have to be blind to kiss you" I just remember fighting back tears and acting as if I didn't care but the worst thing was I really did.

This is a photo of me in year 7 at school.

What made this worse was a few years later when we'd left school and I had started doing my hair and makeup he liked a few of my photos on social media sites. I had no idea someone could have the cheek to bully me for two years of my life but then decide to stop because I started to wear makeup!

So many young girls and boys are bullied because they don't fit into someone else's definition of perfect and I was one of them. It breaks my heart to know that my little sisters and brothers are going to grow up in such a harsh, materialistic world. Nearly every photo we see online or on a magazine cover has been manipulated and many people fall into the trap of believing that that is the real deal. 

So my idea tonight was take a picture of half my face with makeup on as if I was going out with my friends and the other half with absolutely nothing, just my bare face. I just want to show you that makeup doesn't make you beautiful and wearing no makeup doesn't mean that you're ugly. 

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"

No matter what anybody tells you, you are beautiful. Believe in yourself because I did and now I'm engaged to somebody that tells me I am beautiful every single day. I promise you can do this.

Love chloe xx