Hypertrophy Your Beauty!

"Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself." -Coco Chanel

Growing up with best friends that better resemble T-birds than Pink Ladies makes personal growth develop around athletics, the outdoors and not caring about bodily functions; atrophied are the tendencies to engage in makeup, sleepovers and raiding my momma's closet for dresses.

I figured I'd let high school run its course and then move to the Big Apple and become a self-proclaimed style queen that made an impression by walking in confidence... and my favorite sky high stilettos.

My time in New York City consisted of a New Year's Eve vacation with Wicked on Broadway, a meal on Staten Island and leaving Times Square early to instead watch the ball drop on TV from my hotel while eating pizza that I'm allergic to.

The glamour was missed... and when people start becoming surprised if you have makeup on, it's easy to realize the atrophied tendencies from youthful years haven't be exercised.

***Cue the phone call from Howard Shultz to appear on extreme makeover***

It was never that I didn't love dressing up, putting on a face and walking on cloud 9; I just never had an environment that reinforced the behavior...until now. In deep gratitude to a fellow track & field teammate (WWU!!!) I learned about SeneGence by agreeing to help host her very first online party. It was a blast! -- Connecting, engaging, complimenting, being lifted up, and being encouraged to take shameless selfies for a couple of days.

Then it happened, "Hey, you did such an amazing job leading the party, have you thought about being a SeneGence distributor?!"

Ummm... NO way!!!! Cosmetic/Skin Care anything is like me trying to get to space in a cardboard box that I already tossed the instructions for.

>>>so we turned her online party into my launch party<<<

Why though...??? Well here's the thing: I always loved those things and I still love all of those things. Also because the reasons I was thinking, "no" were rooted in fears of what others my think:

• "Why would Brooklyn try to sell makeup when she doesn't ever wear it?"

• "Does she know what she's doing when it comes to skin care? She has adult acne!"

• "What if they don't like the product and start to dislike me because of that?"

• and so on, and so on, and so on...

Thankfully I'm not a celebrity so the amount of "bullying" I experience peaked in 4th grade when C. Nelson was mean to me and I kicked him hard enough to knock his feet out from underneath him and leave him lying on the ground while I went back to class. (don't clap for this because looking back there may have been a better way to handle it)

That being said, my "fears" were (1) unrealistic (I'm awesome sooo...) and (2) not who God made me to be! (2 Timothy 1:7)

As I near the end of my first month with SeneGence and gear up for MY first online party, I am excited about what I will get to share. Please walk with me as we open the door to inspiration and empowerment through BOLD by Brooklyn.

I decided to be myself and that my friends, is beauty!

Let's be BOLD, live BOLDly and hypertrophy our beauty; together. <3