Believe in Me

by Desiree
(Minnesota)

I have decided to take the True Beauty Challenge because I want to not look beautiful, but feel beautiful and have knowledge of it. I have several insecurities about myself that absolutley no one else knows about. The real me would never be insecure about wearing a bathing suit, going without make-up or even the simplest thing of letting my hair down. My hair is a completley different story. Mostly every other girl at my school and all of my friends have straight hair, but me? I have curly hair so it tends to frizz easliy. I feel like an outcast if I let it down or let it be natural. I damage it everyday by clobbing a bunch of hair gel in it and tying it up. I feel like without make-up I can't show my personality. Everybody else labels all the make-up and hair gel as me. The real me, the natural me,has practically been hiding. Nobody knows her, nobody has seen her. I feel like I get up and prepare myself for fakeness. Putting on make-up and all the things that are supposed to be fun, have become a job to me and I feel like I have no other choice but to waist all this extra time to become artificial. I just want to be done with it and believe in me.