Have you guys seen Colbie Caillat’s new music video for her song Try? I saw it for the first time earlier this week and I am so thankful for it. The lyrics and the video together send such a powerful message about worth and beauty apart from cultural standards, photoshop and makeup. After all, while makeup can be fun, we should all be able to love and accept ourselves without it, right?
I love the song’s emphasis on just being who you are—not running the race to look a certain way and have all of the right things to be loved. It’s a reminder that beauty isn’t connected to what we look like, but something so much more. The best part of the song is this line:
When you’re all alone, by yourself, do you like you?
It poses an important question, don’t you think? Are we okay with who we are, or do we only like ourselves after the daily “enhancements” of hair, makeup and clothes?
What do you think of the video and its message? Do you like yourself when you’re all alone in the mirror, hair down and makeup-free?
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LOVE THIS! So beautiful.
Do you like you? Because I like you! I’m loving this video too, and it encouraged me to think about a few thing’s I’ve done the past month seeking to feel beautiful, like wearing false lashes daily. I mean, what was I thinking?
Natalie, thank you so much for sharing this. It touched my heart and I may have shed a tear or two. So moving!
I love-love-love this song. I want to sing it at the top of my lungs every day and whisper it into the ear of every woman I know. Powerful!
This song speaks to me so deeply! I have been on a journey to bring more balance into my life, and have been focusing on the balance of my body and of my hormones. I just finished a whole foods cleanse and the result of focusing on myself in this way is that I now have been practicing not wearing makeup & appreciating seeing my natural beauty. I am so excited to share this song with the women in my community. Thanks for sharing!!
A very powerful sentence that – some days the answer is a resounding yes, other days not so much.