Big Lips?

Saturday night, David and I were lounging in my dorm room on my couch (IT IS THE BEST COLLEGE COUCH EVA! Hideous, compact, and comfy!) just talking about random stuff and he was looking at me at one point and offhandedly commented, "You have a really small mouth." Immediately, I was offended. I told him that's a terrible thing to say to a girl, it's like telling a guy his junk is really small. He couldn't comprehend what I meant, saying he thought he was complementing me. So then this started this whole discussion of the "idealness" of women with big lips...

I think females with big lips are super attractive. And using the ridiculous illogical logic that society has taught me, my brain goes like this: She's really hot. She has big lips. My lips are small. That must mean I'm not pretty.

Boom. Irrational. Terrible. Nonsense. But it's totally the way my mind works.

I showed David pictures of Penelope Cruz, Emily Ratajkowski...and he just shook his head and said their lips look silly and fake and he doesn't find it appealing at all. I told him he was nuts.

But then he made a point that I had never thought of before: "If your lips were as big as theirs, it wouldn't go right with the rest of your face. Your proportions are perfect the way they are."

Woah. That sort of makes sense. I kind of hate my lips a little less now...

The whole conversation got me thinking about how crazy it is that we all compare ourselves to celebrities, models, our friends, etc. and use their facial features to judge our own. We watch tutorials on youtube to try to copy the way Nina Dobrev does her makeup...how riannstar does her hair...how Lauren Conrad shapes her eyebrows...but they're doing what's best for THEIR faces. Who's to say that I would look so much better copying celebrities? What if, instead, I focused on my best features and owned them as being my own?

Food for thought.