{"id":1669,"date":"2016-05-04T19:38:28","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T19:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/?p=1669"},"modified":"2016-05-04T19:38:28","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T19:38:28","slug":"pretty-hurts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/pretty-hurts\/","title":{"rendered":"PRETTY HURTS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Author: Amy Nicole<\/strong><\/p>\n

We have all heard the common phrases, \u201cembrace your own beauty\u201d or \u201clove the skin you\u2019re in,\u201d but with mainstream society\u2019s close minded standard of beauty you might find yourself second guessing your individual and unique beauty.<\/p>\n

Social media went crazy last week when Lil Kim posted a selfie on Instagram with an obvious altered facial appearance and a lighter skin tone. Some of the comments from people were very harsh. She was accused of wanting to be white and many people expressed that they felt she looked better before her surgery.<\/p>\n

In a 2000 interview with Newsweek<\/a> Lil Kim admitted to having low-self esteem and had the following to say about her poor self-image:<\/p>\n

“Guys always cheated on me with women who were European-looking. You know, the long-hair type. Really beautiful women that left me thinking, \u2018How I can I compete with that?\u2019 Being a regular black girl wasn\u2019t good enough.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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Lil Kim in 2006(L) Lil Kim in 2016(R)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I sympathize with Lil Kim because I thought she was an attractive woman before the surgery and I hate that she let other people\u2019s opinion influence her.\u00a0 The whole \u201cbeauty is within\u201d statement is hard to swallow when we live in a society that caters to physical appearance and youth. I feel like it\u2019s especially harder in society for women.\u00a0 A lot of rappers contradict themselves when they refer to women as queens in some songs and in other songs will refer to them as basic if they don\u2019t resemble picture perfect women like on television. \u00a0It\u2019s hard to feel beautiful when the definition of what constitutes beauty looks nothing like you.<\/p>\n

No one knows this about me except for my twin sister but 4 years ago when I was on a trip in Dallas I got fillers under my eyes. If you\u2019re not familiar with a filler, it is a liquid substance that is injected into the skin with a needle to help add volume to a specific area of your body.\u00a0Most people who get fillers are women who are 40 plus but I was in my 20s! Crazy right?!\u00a0 Well the reason I got them in the first place is because I have small natural bags under my eyes.\u00a0 The crazy thing is that my bags are really only noticeable to me. \u00a0I didn\u2019t really have a problem with the way that I looked but I guess I was looking to have this flawless appearance like the women I saw daily on television.<\/p>\n

Well to make a long story short my experience was horrible.\u00a0 My face reacted badly to the fillers and it swelled up. The area under my eyes ended up turning white and I looked like a geisha doll literally! The scary thing about fillers is that it can sometimes take months or years for the substance to completely dissolve from your body.\u00a0 I was horrified because I thought my face would be frozen like that forever. Lucky for me I was working at a college at that time and the school was closed for a week for spring break. By the time the break was over my face was back to normal. After that experience I said I would never try any type of facial altering again. It\u2019s just too risky because sometimes some changes can become permanent.<\/p>\n

I think what a lot of people including myself struggle with the most is getting too stuck in the physical. Dwelling on physical appearance is very materialistic especially since your looks can easily change. You could get in a bad accident which could permanently alter your appearance; not to mention as we get older what we look like is going to change so we shouldn\u2019t base our self-worth solely on our appearance. In essence we are all spiritual beings so we should start to look more at internal beauty as opposed to external.<\/p>\n

Photo Credit: <\/strong>The Blacker The Berry<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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