I am Brave and Beautiful....

 

HAPPY MONDAY!
Ok people this post is super out of my comfort zone! But I am going to be brave and feel beautiful doing it.

I follow a few bloggers who like me are moms, wives, friends and daughters. Sometimes we see these titles as just that, titles! But the truth of the matter is we are BEAUTIFUL moms, BEAUTIFUL wives, BEAUTIFUL friend and BEAUTIFUL daughters. Sometimes we forget that.

For this reason I am joining the Brave and Beautiful Movement. Hoping that we can all remember what is truly important. Not what we look like, but who we really are.

 

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.  “Take your make up off. Let your hair down… Look into the mirror at yourself, Do you like you? Cause I like you… “

 

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! If you don’t want to share your own photo you can still do some good by SHARING this post. Facebook it, tweet it, Instagram it and Pin it. Tell your friends, tag your girlfriends, your sisters, your mom, your daughter(s)….When we share goodness it comes back to us in ways that we might not expect.

 

Are you brave and beautiful? I am, here I go!

 

Me without make-up. Really no make-up or photoshop.

 I don't wear a lot of make-up but the little I do wear does a lot. I have small eyes and red lips and cheeks. I always have. I am now 32 almost 33 and I have some wrinkles! Yes people wrinkles!! It is just the way I am. There are some things about me I like and some I don't like so much. I try to think about the good things and not dwell on the bad or imperfect. I could nit pick myself all day but there are more important things for me to do. like take care of my 4 beautiful children and wonderful hubby.

 

I hope that as you get clicking around (links are below!) to all the other women who are being brave and sharing their own beauty you will feel a spark inside and that you follow that  in the direction it takes you…. Where ever that may be for you! xo – Megan

Time to 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 and share these different posts!) you will feel the importance of it, the empowering effect it has and that it encourages you in some way.
 

Important info! Blog Hops often have glitches the first day. If the link has an ERROR, simply click on the HOME button for each site, or google the blog name next to the link, and you should see their brave and beautiful post there. Links will be updated as soon as possible.

1. BrassyApple  2. Peace from 6 Pieces  3. Is this Really My Life  4. Among the Young  5. Love Me Dani Marie  6. Sweet Charli  7. Kim Orlandini  8. XO, Ashton Tilton  9. She Calls Me Mama Leisha  10. Raising Memories – Canada  11. A Little Tipsy  12. Amy Cornwell  13. A girl and a glue gun  14. My Craftily Ever After  15. Maybe I Will  16. WhipperBerry  17. Paging SuperMom  18. All Things Thrifty  19. Ashlee Marie  20. The Project Girl

 21. One Little Momma   22. Entirely Eventful Day   23. Diary of a Brown Eyed Girl   24. Tips from a Typical Mom   25. Utah Sweet Savings  26. Flats to Flip Flops  27. One Krieger Chick   28. What Meegan Makes  29. Simply Kierste  30. Live to be Inspired   31. HoneyBear Lane   32. Pretty Providence  33. Ma Nouvelle Mode – in FRANCE  34. MomEntity  35. Serger Pepper  – in ITALY  36. Kiki and Company  37. Girl Loves Glam  38. Thrive

39. The Potters Place  40. Crafting in the Rain  41. Cooking With Ruthie  42. Delineate Your Dwelling  43. The Pennington Point  44. Bakerette  45. The Happy Scraps  46. Shannon Baird Photography  47. Tried and Tasty  48. Lionesses at the Gate  49. Fry Sauce and Grits  50. Lolly Jane  51. That’s What Che Said  52. Sugar Bee Crafts  53. Your HomeBased Mom  54. Happiness is Homemade  55. The Crafted Sparrow  56. R&R Workshop  57. I Should Be Mopping the Floor   58. Sassy Steals

59.  Let’s Eat Grandpa  60. Being Spiffy    61. Sumo’s Sweet Stuff  62. Ginger Snap Crafts  63. Bless This Mess  64. Apronista  65. Dreaming About Someday  66. Frenchie  67. Tastefully Frugal  68. Four Marrs and One Venus  69. Your Sister Circle  70. Over the Big Moon  71. See Vanessa Craft  72. Infarrantly Creative  73. Family StoryTelling

74. Albion Gould  75.  Life as Mrs. Larson  76. Tried and True  77. Play.Party.Pin.  78. Bite of Delight  79. Ink Happi  80. ObSEUSSed  81. U Create  82. My Mommy Style   83. Find it Make it Love it  84. The Contractor Chronicles  85. Novae Clothing  86. Mommy Makes Things  87. At Home with Sweet T  88. We Like to Learn As We Go  89. House for Five  90. Organize and Decorate Everything   91. Sassy Southern Gurl  92. The Creative Mom  93. Keep Moving Forward with Me

94. The Benson Street  95. Mom 4 Real  96. Sowdering About  97. illistyle  98. The Crafty Blog Stalker  99. A Fiery Red Life  100.  Cupcakes & Crowbars  101. One Sweet Appetite  102. My DayLights  103. Restless Risa

104. Sypsie Designs  105. Vintage Mother  106. Like Mother Like Daughter  107. 30 Handmade Days  108. Queen B and Me  109. Apples by Ashley  110. Boutique Cafe – in CANADA  111. Just My Little Mess  112. Bombshell Bling  113. Sarah Tyau  114. Taradara Make it  115. Capturing Joy  116. Ivory Lime Photography  117. Jenkins Kid Farm    118.  Free Time Frolics  119. Bella Storia  120. Dana Ohlsen Photography

Ready in join in?Snap, hashtag and share! Tag @BrassyApple and @Peacefrom6Pieces if you can too!

Thanks for being brave and remember you are beautiful!
-Lindsay

TRY by Colbie Caillat
Put your make up on
Get your nails done
Curl your hair
Run the extra mile
Keep it slim
So they like you. Do they like you? Get your sexy on
Don't be shy, girl
Take it off
This is what you want, to belong
So they like you. Do you like you? You don't have to try so hard
You don't have to give it all away
You just have to get up, get up, get up, get up
You don't have to change a single thing You don't have to try, try, try, try
You don't have to try, try, try, try
You don't have to try, try, try, try
You don't have to try
You don't have to try Oh Get your shopping on,
At the mall,
Max your credit cards
You don't have to choose,
Buy it all
So they like you. Do they like you? Wait a second,
Why should you care, what they think of you
When you're all alone, by yourself
Do you like you? Do you like you?
You don't have to try so hard
You don't have to give it all away
You just have to get up, get up,

get up, get up
You don't have to change a single thing You don't have to try so hard
You don't have to bend until you break
You just have to get up, get up, get up, get up
You don't have to change a single thing You don't have to try, try, try, try
You don't have to try, try, try, try
You don't have to try, try, try, try
You don't have to try You don't have to try, try, try, try
You don't have to try, try, try, try
You don't have to try, try, try, try
You don't have to try
You don't have to try No
Oh You don't have to try so hard
You don't have to give it all away
You just have to get up, get up, get up, get up
You don't have to change a single thing You don't have to try, try, try, try
You don't have to try, try, try, try
You don't have to try
You don't have to try Take your make up off
Let your hair down
Take a breath
Look into the mirror, at yourself
Don't you like you?
Cause I like you