"Wear the lipstick!"

When I first started understanding my season, I focused mostly on clothes. I bought lots of new items (as a "recovering Autumn" I had lots to get rid of) and worked on wearing the 'dark/light/bright' recipe House of Colour suggests for Winters. Once I got the hang of that, I still felt like something was missing. So I figured, time to start trying lip color.

I remember the first few times I wore it to work people would make comments. "Wow look at that lipstick" or "she's got the red lips today!" or similar. They weren't bad comments. Just "noticing" comments.

And guess what? It made me super uncomfortable.

I would think to myself, "is this too much for work?" or "do I look like am calling too much attention to myself?" So I would pull back and just wear a lip gloss or something a little lighter and more muted. And then I had this realization one day. They weren't actually saying that anything looked bad, some even said they liked it. What made me uncomfortable was people noticing me.

I was uncomfortable with people looking at my appearance.

After understanding WHY I felt uncomfortable I decided to honor myself and my season. If I liked the lip color on me - even if it was bold and eye catching - I was going to wear it, dammit! I didn't care if people noticed.

Because I am worth being noticed.

So if you are feeling similar, I am empowering you to embrace the attention and compliments. Let them soak into your soul. Let them wash over you like a warm sunshine-y afternoon.

You are worthy of being noticed, complimented, celebrated.