I am Brave and Beautiful – a beauty movement that is sweeping the globe. Colbie Caillat started it with her recent song and video called TRY. My blogging friend Megan of Brassy Apple wanted to push this movement along and invited women from all over to share what they looked like without make up and I joined in!! Colbie’s song says, “Take your make up off. Let your hair down… Look into the mirror at yourself, Do you like you? Cause I like you… “
Megan and her friend Cobi of Peacefrom6pieces have been the team behind this whole project. Their worldwide vision included creating their own video inspired by the song TRY. The talent of Robbins Creative made it possible for them to pull it off. You have to click play and see the beauty and bravery displayed and you might even recognize a few faces in there.
Me along with 101+ other blogging women from different backgrounds, religions, ethnicities, ages, shapes and sizes have decided to be Brave and Beautiful! You can join in this movement too by sharing what you look like without makeup on. You don’t need a blog either! Just tag your photo with #IamBraveAndBeautiful on Instgram and search the hashtag to see who else has joined in. ALSO, if you tag it with a second hashtag – #ColbieTRY we just might be able to get Colbie Caillat’s attention since she was the inspiration behind it all!
Are you brave and beautiful? I am, here I go!
When I was a kid, I was extremely self conscious because I wasn’t the naturally “skinny minny” that I felt surrounded by. And at times I wonder if anything has changed. I feel it creep up on me even today as an adult. I have grown a lot over the last few years, and I know that those self-conscious thoughts are a snare built by only one person, Satan. I am a religious person, and I truly believe that Satan tries every single day to make us believe that we aren’t good enough. After all, misery loves company. But, God only wants us to be happy. I love this quote:
Are you happy? I have reflected on that question deeply over the last year. I’ve noticed that life can get out of control quickly. For me the number one thing that I know is that in order to be happy I need to feel close to my Father in Heaven and feel his guidance in my life. I know that my Father in Heaven loves each and every one of us. If I can’t feel Him in my life, then I know I am too busy and need to adjust. I am a better mom, a better wife, a better neighbor, and I am so much happier when I am listening to the guidance of my Father in Heaven. That doesn’t mean that I don’t make mistakes, and every so often I have a pretty rough wake-up call, but I am trying to keep my priorities in the right place.
So, what do you think!?! Do you want to be a light in this dark world we live in? I do, so that’s why I agreed to be a part of such a cool cause.
Sharing my bare face was really hard for me. I’m not going to lie. I feel self conscious without makeup on, and since I have had eyelash extensions for the last couple of years, I haven’t seen my bare face for awhile. {Sad but true}. I took them off for this campaign. I wanted to participate 100%, so I had them removed. It was a shock to look in the mirror without those dark, long lashes. I’ve been thinking about them for awhile and I’ve worried that my daughters will think they need fake lashes to feel beautiful, and they are already BEAUTIFUL!
I am trying to embrace my natural face! Join us and help us redefine beauty.
Don’t stop here. Get clicking around – its a blog hop! Below are more brave and beautiful women bearing more than their natural beauty. They each have a little bit of their heart to share with you. Some get very personal. Some share stories. For some this was very hard to do yet they gathered their courage and did it anyway. We hope as you click around (and YES pin these different posts!) you will feel the importance of it, the empowering effect it has and that it encourages you in some way.
>>>>>>>Important info! Blog Hops often have glitches the first day. If the link has an ERROR, simply click on the HOME button for each site, or google the blog name next to the link, and you should see their brave and beautiful post there. Links will be updated as soon as possible.<<<<<<<<<<<<
1. BrassyApple 2. Peace from 6 Pieces 3. Is this Really My Life 4. Among the Young 5. Love Me Dani Marie 6. Sweet Charli 7. Kim Orlandini 8. XO, Ashton Tilton 9. She Calls Me Mama Leisha 10. Raising Memories – Canada 11. A Little Tipsy 12. Amy Cornwell 13. A girl and a glue gun 14. My Craftily Ever After 15. Maybe I Will 16. WhipperBerry 17. Paging SuperMom 18. All Things Thrifty 19. Ashlee Marie 20. The Project Girl
21. One Little Momma 22. Entirely Eventful Day 23. Diary of a Brown Eyed Girl 24. Tips from a Typical Mom 25. Utah Sweet Savings 26. Flats to Flip Flops 27. One Krieger Chick 28. What Meegan Makes 29. Simply Kierste 30. Live to be Inspired 31. HoneyBear Lane 32. Pretty Providence 33. Ma Nouvelle Mode – in FRANCE 34. MomEntity 35. Serger Pepper – in ITALY 36. Kiki and Company 37. Girl Loves Glam 38. Thrive
39. The Potters Place 40. Crafting in the Rain 41. Cooking With Ruthie 42. Delineate Your Dwelling 43. The Pennington Point 44. Bakerette 45. The Happy Scraps 46. Shannon Baird Photography 47. Tried and Tasty 48. Lionesses at the Gate 49. Fry Sauce and Grits 50. Lolly Jane 51. That’s What Che Said 52. Sugar Bee Crafts 53. Your HomeBased Mom 54. Happiness is Homemade 55. The Crafted Sparrow 56. R&R Workshop 57. I Should Be Mopping the Floor 58. Sassy Steals
59. Let’s Eat Grandpa 60. Being Spiffy 61. Sumo’s Sweet Stuff 62. Ginger Snap Crafts 63. Bless This Mess 64. Apronista 65. Dreaming About Someday 66. Frenchie 67. Tastefully Frugal 68. Four Marrs and One Venus 69. Your Sister Circle 70. Over the Big Moon 71. See Vanessa Craft 72. Infarrantly Creative 73. Family StoryTelling
74. Albion Gould 75. Life as Mrs. Larson 76. Tried and True 77. Play.Party.Pin. 78. Bite of Delight 79. Ink Happi 80. ObSEUSSed 81. U Create 82. My Mommy Style 83. Find it Make it Love it 84. The Contractor Chronicles 85. Novae Clothing 86. Mommy Makes Things 87. At Home with Sweet T 88. We Like to Learn As We Go 89. House for Five 90. Organize and Decorate Everything 91. Sassy Southern Gurl 92. The Creative Mom 93. Keep Moving Forward with Me
94. The Benson Street 95. Mom 4 Real 96. Sowdering About 97. illistyle 98. The Crafty Blog Stalker 99. A Fiery Red Life 100. Cupcakes & Crowbars 101. One Sweet Appetite 102. My DayLights 103. Restless Risa
104. Sypsie Designs 105. Vintage Mother 106. Like Mother Like Daughter 107. 30 Handmade Days 108. Queen B and Me 109. Apples by Ashley 110. Boutique Cafe – in CANADA 111. Just My Little Mess 112. Bombshell Bling 113. Sarah Tyau 114. Taradara Make it 115. Capturing Joy 116. Ivory Lime Photography 117. Jenkins Kids Farm 118. Free Time Frolics 119. Bella Storia 120. Dana Ohlsen Photography
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I love this so much! I wasn’t ever a natural skinny mini either. I still feel self conscious over the dumb things kids said to me in 6th grade! I mean, hello?! Can’t I just get over that already? You are seriously a babe in both pictures! You have the most infectious smile and the greatest attitude. I just adore you and am happy to call you a friend!
What makes you beautiful is your infectious laugh, that you encourage the best in other people, that you are a good listener, great friend and that you live a real life of imperfection and flaws and that you are okay with it. I love the way you love your husband and talk about him. I love that your kids drive you crazy and life gets hectic and overwhelming at times but you still love fiercely. I love that you still smile and still see your life is worth living because you were created by God for such a time as this to be the woman you are for those around you. Have a great day beautiful Brooke!
I love what you have to say, I teared up. Love that you took your lashes off, you are so beautiful inside and out, my friend, I’m grateful to know you. It IS Satan that creeps in to tell us awful things. I want to be a light in the world!
I know what you mean! I often worry about the message I send to my girls about make-up. I am not sure what message I want them to get, so it’s hard to know how to respond when they ask about it! I think I will share my post from this project with them, and maybe some of the others as well.
This is such a great post!! You are so naturally pretty and you have a darling smile! We are so glad to be part of this!! #womenneedwomen #floodtheworldwithgood!!!
This was so touching Brooke. You are one of the most beautiful women I know! Not just because of your outside but because you are so real and sincere. I struggle with some of the same insecurities and don’t know that they will ever go away. We really need to hang out more!
I know exactly how you feel. Why do we need to be so hard on ourselves? Why do we compare ourselves to others? It’s so hard. But I know Heavenly Father loves me for who I am on the inside. He looks on my heart and knows that’s where the beauty is. Same with everyone else! This was so beautiful, thanks for sharing!
You’re beautiful! Thanks for sharing that with us. Eyelashes or not your one hot momma! xoxo
I stopped wearing makeup a few years ago when I was so time-crunched in the mornings that it stopped being important. It’s completely liberating. I watch women trying to put their mascara on at traffic lights and wonder who they’re putting it on for.
Love you lady! You are one of the most beautiful women INSIDE and OUT that I know and am grateful to call you a friend! xoxo
You look beautiful in both! I don’t know why we as women but ourselves down so much. Thank you for posting the picture.
Wow,,you guys ARE brave and you’re even MORE beautiful! This is a big deal and I am standing up applauding you for it!
Thank you for sharing this wisdom. God bless you! Lisa~
Way to go Brooke! I love all of what you said, but especially about what impression we are giving our beautiful daughters about what beautiful means. You are beautiful and wonderful and super fun.
Love that quote! I love everything you said! Besides being a hot momma…you have such a way with words!
Brooke, you are beautiful. You shine from the inside out with or without makeup, with or without lashes. I’ve seen the “Try” music video plus similar efforts through other organizations. I almost always think the woman looks prettier withOUT the makeup. So why can’t I feel that way about my own face? I rarely let non-family members see me with a totally bare face. It’s silly. Thank you. xo
I adore how REAL you are, and btw i love the new look (not sure when it was new – it’s been while since I’ve gotten to read the blogs I love) and I love this quote, it’s so true, being happy is a huge success!
This is such a neat thing you are doing. What a pretty lady you are…inside and out! I feel very lucky to have such a brave and beautiful sis-in-law. Love you Brooke
Aw you made me cry!!!! thank you for joining in! thank you for sharing pieces of your heart. Im touched that you went as far as having your eyelash extensions removed – wow!!! thank you…… xoxo