Sorry for such a gap in between postings its been a busy month. A day after New York Fashion Week I got on a plane to Alaska to work Fur Rondy for two weeks. Then a few days after I got back from Alaska I started LA Fashion Week.
LA Fashion week was incredible! It was the most stressful one I have ever participated in but it was the very best one. Our team had such favor. God really used us in incredible ways. We got promoted to dressing supervisors mid week and through His help we rocked it. There are so many amazing stories where He was so faithful and moved in crazy ways, but during this week He also taught me something really big and that's what I want to share with you today.
He actually put this on my heart during New York Fashion week and has kept building on it since them. Being backstage at fashion weeks and having went to make up school I hear, "oh well that girl is totally airbrushed she really isn't that beautiful or that perfect," quite often and I am guilty of having those exact words coming out of my mouth. God recently convicted me on how wrong this is. Yes, many ads are airbrushed and enhanced but there are many beautiful girls out there. Runway models and just models in general are beautiful! I don't like when people choose so much to focus on how something is photoshopped to make themselves feel more beautiful it's downgrading the actual person in the ad. Instead we should focus on what we think think is beautiful about ourselves and not compare our image to the one in the magazine or on tv. Yes, they most likely airbrushed or fixed a bit but they are still a beautiful human! It amazes me how quickly we are to justify how beautiful she is because of being airbrushed to make us feel better rather than just saying they are beautiful and we are too. It is true that ads can give you a very very wrong idea of beauty through enhancements but all I am trying to say is that if we focused on how God made us each individually beautiful, including the girl in the ad, and stopped comparing, our lives would be different and it would open doors to a whole new world! We as women in general would be happier and fill more fulfilled. We would stop looking to the wrong places to define our beauty and we would find our identity and worth in Christ.
So that's my newest revelation and it has really made me see models on the runway and in ads in a whole new more loving way.
Genesis 1:27 ESV
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
Proverbs 6:25 ESV
Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;
Song of Solomon 4:7 ESV
You are altogether beautiful, my love; there is no flaw in you.
