Females only, please.

[Andreina]

What do you when you have a day when you feel utterly ugly?

I could use some good advice how to...well... make myself feel like a pretty bee again, please

 

[WhatsHerName]

What do you when you have a day when you feel utterly ugly?

I could use some good advice how to...well... make myself feel like a pretty bee again, please

Well I find that buying myself something new or just spending some time deep conditioning my hair sometimes works. Perhaps painting your nails.

 

[Calamity Jane]

I put on my prettiest undies and bra. I know that I look good under my clothes, and it's like a nice little secret to carry around.

 

[Andreina]

I even ran out of my most favourite face mask. Life is a piece of beauty shit right now

 

[Cipher]

I take a bath, shave, make sure i'm smelling good, i put on my pretty bra and pantie set, cute clothes, and i go run errands, or i'll go visit a friend.

Sorry you're having an "ugly" day

I hope after all the suggestions you get, you'll do a few, and feel simply beautiful again

 

[Rubyfruit]

Do the things that make you feel pretty, pampered and well-cared for. If you can afford it, book some spa treatments. A facial, massage and body wrap never fails to make me feel good. Salon appointments are great too. Get a hair cut or color or both. Have a manicure and pedicure.

If you're on an austerity program (like I currently am), take a long soak in a bubble bath and then do your own nails. Give yourself a facial. Lay down with ice cold cucumber slices on your eyes for 15 minutes. Pluck your eyebrows. Put on some makeup and clothes that you feel good in.

Call a friend who loves you.

Have you ever received love letters, poems or songs written for you? Now is the time to dig them out and re-read them.

Have any particularly flattering pictures of yourself? Put one in a frame and put it out somewhere you can see it.

Clean the house. Buy or pick fresh flowers and put them in a pretty vase.

Masturbate.

 

[Never]

Embrace my ugliness?

Seriously, due to various circumstances my ‘body-image’ is permanently wasted. I’m not saying that I’ll never consider myself pretty – I’ve just never looked in the mirror and seen anything attractive. I can live with that though because I’ve convinced myself that I’m more than my body, that people who like me and care for me do so regardless of how I look.

Women like to feel pretty but I think they need to give themselves permission to be plain, or old, or ugly, or fat, or disproportioned, or any number of unattractive things.

 

[DustyWolfe]

Never,

I know what you are saying. I am overweight at the moment so for me it is really hard to feel pretty. So instead I went a bit boish and am going for the cute look. I guess it works lol

 

[Andreina]

I’m not saying that I’ll never consider myself pretty – I’ve just never looked in the mirror and seen anything attractive.

same here

I can live with that though because I’ve convinced myself that I’m more than my body, that people who like me and care for me do so regardless of how I look.

my words...


but I still hate it when I feel uglier than I usually feel

 

[peachykeen]

Lots of good ideas here on how to feel prettier, and the importance of embracing the idea that your worth is not to be determined by your attractiveness.

Personally I feel great if my nails are done. I was a nailbiter until my late 20's and it was really a hard habit to break, so now when I look down and see them all painted and shiny, it makes me feel not just pretty but a bit proud.

 

[Never]

True.
Okay, here are my suggestions. I don’t think ‘ugly days’ have anything to do with what you look like as much as they have to do with where your head is at. Put on some comfortable clothes (they don’t have to be good looking or flattering) and watch an uplifting movie. Or go take a friend out to lunch. Or write a long letter to a friend/family member about how much you appreciate them and send it along with some flowers.

I find the less I focus on myself the less critical I am of my appearance.

 

[Andreina]

it's 9.00pm here.... I think I'm just gonna take mah bodee to bed, sleep and hope that tomorrow I feel a lil prettier. Okay, and I'll buy tons of new make-up tomorrow that I'm never gonna use.

 

[Laurel]

I mope.

hehe

 

[Never]

Laurel:
"I mope.

hehe"

Have I told you how lickable and delicious you are lately?
And I say in only the most base and shallow way you can imagine.

 

[Andreina]

I mope.

hehe

thought for a sec you'd mop your floor with your kitties.

 

[alltherage]

I mope while I can. Then. Dum de dum dum. A kid will insinuate themselves in my day and I dont have the luxury of feeling too ugly. Kool aid sprayed on a white tea shirt makes me feel sooooooo cute.

 

[Laurel]

Have I told you how lickable and delicious you are lately?
And I say in only the most base and shallow way you can imagine.

I love it when you get base and shallow. It gives me tingles.

 

[Laurel]

thought for a sec you'd mop your floor with your kitties.

That too...when I can catch 'em. They're pretty quick.

 

[Andreina]

That too...when I can catch 'em. They're pretty quick.

attach some velcro on their paws.

 

[Never]

Laurel, that tingling could be a sign of poor circulation. You haven’t been eating good food, walking, kissing and making love enough, have you? Don’t worry, I can help you with at least two of the above.

No, no need to thank me. I’d move mountains for a friend like you.

 

[calypso_21]

What do you when you have a day when you feel utterly ugly?

I could use some good advice how to...well... make myself feel like a pretty bee again, please

I have to be honest...I'm rarely allowed one of these days. But when I give into it and don't listen to other people complain about my behavior...

I ask mom (or another family member) to take the kids. I put on my favorite music I take a long hot bubble bath while listening to various tunes. I make whatever food I want. My favorites and a bunch of junk food. Then I bust out my favorite movies (a bunch of sapy flicks...Made In Heaven, Gay Divorcee, Somewhere In Time, What Dreams May Come, and of course Casablanca). I just veg out on the couch eating to my hearts content...I then go out and buy myself something.

As I said this all rarely happens. I did this for the first time in a long long time two weekends ago. Take the time hun. Enjoy you. It is so important to appreciate yourself. Pamper yourself...you deserve it.

 

[Laurel]

Laurel, that tingling could be a sign of poor circulation. You haven’t been eating good food, walking, kissing and making love enough, have you? Don’t worry, I can help you with at least two of the above.

No, no need to thank me. I’d move mountains for a friend like you.

Hmm...do I get to pick the two?

Back atcha, Nevergirl.

 

[Never]

Of course, which ones would you pick?

 

[intrigued]

I'm with Laurel, I mope. I just give into it, let it be, and try not to look at myself. Usually, it isn't really looking bad that is the source, its feeling bad, which affects everything I think and do.
No amount of "pretty~ing up" helps.

Sleep, on the other hand, does help. Sweetest dreams to you....

 

[asenath]

I go to the store and look at the people there. That’s always a good ego booster.