Photography Friday \\ Selfie Series - Randomosity

So, for the entire month of August, my friend Andrea and I decided we weren't going to wear any make-up. 

We weren't going on some "skin-purge" or giving something up like at Lent. We just liked the idea of taking off the mask that so many people hide behind and showing ourselves as well as the rest of the world that we're comfortable and happy with who we are, with or without mascara or eyeliner or any of the other beauty "enhancing" things the world pushes on us.

I have to say it's been a really wonderful month. Empowering and humbling at the same time. I'm now more confident than ever with myself, just for the reason that I stopped spending time worrying about what other people were going to think about my face, and instead resting in the knowledge that God created beautiful in HIS sight, and the rest of the world doesn't matter.

I have acne. I have chicken-pox scars. I have braces and big, blue circles under my eyes. But I'm finding myself no longer caring about that stuff. God likes me and I like me. :) 

So, yes, in all these pictures for the last month, I haven't had much make-up on. Hope you like these new ones. They'll be the last "make-up-less" selfies, because next Friday will be September 5th! 

"I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it."

~Edgar Allen Poe

(I think that's my new favorite quote),

~The Scribbler in the Attic