Hair and home….what do these two things have in common?

I don’t know about you but my hair is my favorite physical attribute about myself. I would not be the same without it. I remember a little over a year ago when my hair needed cut so bad that I ended up having to cut it all the way to my chin.

The cut itself was super cute, but I made up my mind going in that I was not going to like it. Surprise I didn’t like it, There is just something about short hair on myself that I cant handle. Its like a part of me is missing when its short. I know it sounds ridiculous, but I actually went into a depression for awhile after I cut it and I really had to revaluate what it truly means to be beautiful.

BEAUTY

For the longest time I focused more on my outer appearance to define myself as beautiful. I thought long blonde hair and makeup made you beautiful. The right outfit and shoes could make you go from a 0 to 10 in minutes.

The day I cut my hair I felt that no amount of make up or outfit would make me feel better. So I dug deeper.

WHAT MAKES SOMEONE BEAUTIFUL?

I started thinking of the people I thought were the most beautiful. I tried to think of people I knew opposed to celebrities. What I started to realize was that all the people I believe to be the most beautiful are the kindest people I know. They are genuinely happy people with a heart of gold, and that reflects on the outside more than anything you could put on your body.

More than any haircut or hair color you can wear. If your unhappy with your heart and soul nothing is gonna make you feel beautiful.

So I set out to work on my soul. I spent time with Jesus more often and started to fix my inside before I started to focus on the outside. I can now, a year later, tell you that I no longer feel like I cant go to Walmart without makeup on. I don’t worry about how great my outfit looks or how long my hair is and if it perfectly quaffed. I now focus on how my soul is before I walk out the door. How can I be kind to someone today? How are the relationships in my life?

Which brings me to my next topic.

HOME

Like my hair, even more so actually, I would not be the same without my family.

What makes a home?

The people in it of course, your home is only as good as the people inside of it. It can be the most beautiful house on the outside but if when you walk through the front door and the people on the other side are cold and bitter, then you do not have a place that you want to come home to.

My question to all of us as people, Why are we so focused on the outside first? We should be focusing our energy inward first and then outward.

I KNOW WHAT YOUR THINKING, WHAT DOES ALL OF THIS HAVE TO DO WITH HAIR? IS THIS NOT A HAIR BLOG?

To be honest it doesn’t relate much to hair at all. What it does however relate to is beauty.

Beautiful people and their beautiful homes that are made up of families that love to be together, so before you make that hair appointment, wax appointment or just go in for a full on makeover on the outside. We need to first turn our attention to the inside. Work on our souls and our families before we become consumed with what the world tells us those two things are supposed to look like.

We are spending so much time chasing the wrong things. Lets work on ourselves and our homes from the inside out. I promise you that once you have improved those two things I can help you look on the outside, how you feel on the inside.

So lets get families back to the table together and focus on loving others and ourselves. Flaws and all.