Everyone and I do mean everyone, hates something about the way they look. I guarantee that if you were to ask Beyoncé if she had any self-image issues, she would have an entire list. This picture being at the top:

Of course, I am kidding; Beyonce is a queen and completely slays my life.

However, my point still stands; everyone has body image issues and that is okay. If Beyoncé has pictures of herself that are this bad, then it is okay if you take a few bad pictures here and there. It has taken me a very long time to become comfortable in my own skin, and I still have a long way to go. It is a daily battle, but it is one worth fighting.

Everyone has insecurities but it is so important to not focus on them. You have to focus on what you love, and accept what you don’t. I love my blonde hair, my blue eyes, and the way I look with a full face of makeup on. However, I hate the bags I get under my eyes, how pale my skin is in the winter, and the fact that I am nowhere near the weight I wish I was. In fact, there are a lot more things I wish I could change than just those three. It isn't easy to accept the things you hate about yourself, I know that. It will take time, but you have to slowly work on it day by day.

Through it all, I love who I am and how I look with and without makeup. God made me this way, so who am I to try and change it?

You have to realize that you can look entirely different from someone, and be equally as beautiful. I recently saw the picture below on a friend’s Instagram story, and it resonated with me so much.

Flamingos and peacocks are both birds and are both beautiful, but look completely different from one another. Neither one of their individual beauty detracts from the others. They are equally beautiful, and yet look totally different. Just because you do not look like someone that you think is attractive, does not mean that you aren’t just as hot as they are. Just look at Gigi Hadid and Zendaya. They look nothing like one another, but holy cow, they are both stunning. It is okay to look totally different from someone else and to be unique. You just need to embrace it and love it.

On this note, it is also so important to spread love. When you like someone's dress then tell them. It just might make their whole day. If someone posts a beautiful pic on Instagram then leave her a nice comment. It is just as important to love others as it is to love yourself.

Plus, attractiveness is so much more than the way you look on the outside. As cheesy as it sounds, it's what's on the inside that counts. A person’s personality makes them so much more attractive when they are kind and funny and smart than when they are mean and boring. It sucks when physical beauty is wasted on someone with a crappy personality. There have been plenty of guys through the years that I thought were so hot until I actually got to know them, and realized how terrible they were. The opposite is true as well. I've met plenty of people that I am not initially attracted to but as I get to know them, their physical appearance is all of the sudden way more attractive because of how great of a person they are.

When someone is happy, they look ten times more beautiful. I used to hate pictures when I am smiling. Not like a picture-smile, but like a real smile. A wow-that-person-is-so-genuinely-happy smile. I don’t like it because it makes my eyes squint to the point that you can barely see them, and it makes my mouth open way too wide. But I’ve begun to realize that it makes a picture so much better when it is genuine like that. When you see how happy someone else is, it makes you happy too. And that is what real beauty is.