Brave and Beautiful - Kiki & Company

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!

Here I am with makeup…

And here I am without. My daughter wanted to jump in with me too, and I was more than happy with that, especially for this movement!

As my daughter was waiting to be tucked into bed the other night, I came in to a conversation she was having with my husband.

“What if other people don’t think I am pretty?”

“Does it matter if my hair and clothes are pretty?”

She is 5.

I LOVE this message by Colbie. My answer to my daughter was the same. It doesn’t matter what you wear, it doesn’t matter the makeup you wear.

It matters WHO you are.

It matters that you LOVE yourself.

It matters that you are HAPPY.

And when those things happen, you will glow. You will be so beautiful and you will radiate that beauty to everyone you see. When these things happen, it doesn’t matter what clothes and makeup you have on the outside, you will be confident and beautiful because YOU believe it.

My mom never wore makeup and I think she is one of the most beautiful women there is. She always told us we never needed it to be pretty. And I believe that still to this day. I really do feel comfortable in my skin. I worry what I am like on the inside and I work to improve it a lot. I also work at keeping myself healthy and put together on the outside because I think it can reflect that beauty from the inside.

I have this quote hanging in my daughter’s room. I want her to believe every word and to be herself, to be comfortable in her own skin and let her inner beauty radiate the gorgeous girl she is! And more than anything, hope I can be an example of the same thing, so she can see that in me.

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.

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