Who Said Our Imperfections Aren't Perfect?

It's all very common for people to get braces and straighten their teeth, for people to cover up their freckles with makeup and have their scars removed by lasers. I have a question though, why do we do this? Who decided that our imperfections are flaws and should be hidden from everyone else? These differences are our true beauty, these things make us individuals.

These thoughts all came about when I glanced in the mirror and noticed the shift of my teeth, the once beautifully straight teeth from braces had slowly began to move back into the crooked teeth they once were. But then I second thought my disappointment, why aren't my slightly crooked teeth not beautiful? Why can I not embrace this individual beauty.

If it wasn't for the gap in her teeth would Maybelline model Georgia May Jagger be so famous?

"I wouldn't even have braces on my teeth. I think they are horrible and this idea that everyone should conform and be perfect is ridiculous"

Two years after having my braces removed I have come to agree with what Georgia Jagger has to say. I think we should all learn to love ourselves, to love everything that makes us unique, from our scars to our teeth. We should appreciate our individual beauty and from loving ourselves the world may begin to accept that these things are okay, that these are the true things photographers should be catching on models and not their perfectly straight pearly whites or their flawless complexions. 

"A person that has good thoughts can never be ugly. You can have a wonky nose, a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely" - The Twits, Roald Dahl. 

Chloe x