Young, Welsh, Pretty Skint... And trying to feel better!!! Xxx

I was watching a programme on Iplayer (don't cha just love it!), about the young generation of Welsh people in the Valleys and how they are spending their entire financial and mental well being on looking good- tattoos, personal training sessions, eye brows waxed, hair removal, chest wax (and all those are just the men, lol!!!).

It is quite the obsession! The beauty pageants, dresses for the young girls costing upwards of a thousand pounds and what not, absolutely incredible.

What really struck me, is the common thread of everyone was basically to feel better...

One particularly buffed and coiffed young gent recounted the times when he was a shrimpy nobody at school. Some time later, he gymmed up and ka splat, he got a lot of welcome attention. He admitted that a lot of those people were indeed reaching for more confidence and that was their way of dealing with it. Same with the pageant queens, same everywhere else.

But that's it though! Everyone in some way or another is just trying to feel better. The thing is... If you can reach for the feeling better before you go doing that external thing to try and fix it, things are likely to go way smoother for you.

Because you'll never get it done! There'll always be more wrinkles, hair in unwanted places and what endlessness to criticise yourself about.

If you can do your best to love and accept yourself exactly as you are now- warts and all, and you can look inside for that feeling better, now you're living an infinitely easier, enjoyable life.

You'll exude self confidence, brilliance and you'll be infinitely more attractive (bushy eyebrows or not!). And the Universe will bring you things that are a perfect match to that.

So that's the key- feel better and then...

Happy pretty-ing!!!

Lots of love, Nick Xxx