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Steps to beauty


Step one make up

Step two Hair

Step three lighting

Step four angle 

Step five filter

Step six take fifty photos

Step seven pick just one

 

Because just one has everything I want

Or is it what you want?

Am I beautiful now?

The standards change every month.

Is this me?

Is this what beautiful is?

 

Just stop

look in mirror 

notice every flaw 

Every imperfection

Every tear

Everything they told you wasn't beautiful

That is where your beauty lives

 

It can can not be perfected through a lens

Filters do not not enhense

they distract

Make-up does not show off

but covers 

 

Step one wake up

Step two take a picture

step three don't look at it

Step four post it

Step five make caption #NoFilter

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