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Published: 2012-11-19 00:05:39 +0000 UTC; Views: 8146; Favourites: 706; Downloads: 139
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I'd be pretty if I'd just smileIf I'd cut my hair a certain way
And cover myself up in that chemical crap you call make-up
But did you ever think that just maybe...
I don't wanna be pretty
That I just wanna be me
Who cares if no one ever calls me beautiful
Who cares if I'm never asked to dance
Hell I don't even know how to dance anyway
I don't care how the world sees me
I only care how I see me
And I think there's nothing wrong with the girl in the mirror
Sure she doesn't smile much but that's cause she's going through hell
Her face may look plain without any make-up
But that's just the way I like it
An old pair of jeans
The first t-shirt could find
My hair in a braid
I'm ready to go
To where no one cares just what I look like
Least of all me
It's a barn full of horses
That's where I choose to spend my days
Where no one cares about what I wear
Where I never have to hear "I'd be pretty if I'd just..."
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I love this! At first, when I began reading it, I thought I could really relate, but when you added the horses, I connected :'D
You've got it exactly ♥
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I can relate i dont wear "fashion" id stick with my jeans a t shirt anyday i dont wear make up and i dont care and quite frankly im telling you that you are beautiful
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Thank you for this. If only others would hear it like you and I can.
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the point of this poem could have been put much more eloquently.. it's not so much a poem at the moment, but rather a rant broken up into vaguely poetic lines. though parts of the message are great (self-love/self-acceptance), right now it's completely cliche and could use some work. for example, playing with interesting vocabulary, structure or verbs as well as inserting more descriptive anecdotes would vastly improve it. also, i think you ought to rethink the whole "make-up" part. who are you to judge people who wear make-up? isn't the whole point of your poem based around the idea of not judging based on looks?
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Yes! Writer, LISTEN TO THIS PERSON!
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Agreed. The makeup bit is kind of "I'm just being a rebel for the sake of being a rebel, and I don't understand the mentalities of the many people who wear it at all so I dismiss it completely." If the writer is very young though, I suppose I remember exhibiting a little special snowflake syndrome as well. Guess it's not a bad thing to capture the raw honest feelings you have at that age.
Also, there's an art to artifice, and I like people who own that fact just as much as I like the natural ones.
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you gotta start somewhere i guess! hopefully raw emotion can progress into a more thoughtful or at least more interesting piece
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Omg I love you so much. Thank you. I agree with every word. I was actually offended by this poem as apposed to feeling empowered. Why you hate on people who wanna look nice? You wanna look they way you look, that's fine. You let me look the way I wanna look with my makeup, don't put me down because I want to be pretty. When you do that you only contradict yourself.
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haha this. dressing nice or wearing make-up =/= bad, automatically... it's only deleterious when looking nice is done only for others (as in, trying to live up to unobtainable standards) rather than for the person's own pleasure.
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Again, thank you. I'm glad I'm not the only one who got that from this poem.
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You do have some good points, but I'd just like to point out that I think the make-up part is fine. Makeup is, after all, chemical crap. She states her opinion (make-up is chemical crap and I don't want it on my face), but she never insulted people who do wear it. Also, makeup isn't looks.
It's a choice. Any girl, with makeup, can choose a face for herself, so it's not the same as judging people for facial features that they were born with. This poem is, in fact, about the choice not to follow the mainstream "look pretty, act dainty, have a boyfriend" girls that are expected today.
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Have you ever heard of mineral makeup? A lot of us don't like the 'chemical crap' on our faces either.
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I have not. I don't wear make-up, so I don't take a lot of time to learn about it.
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Then I would respectfully recommend, for future reference, that you don't enter a conversation about something you are not very familiar with unless you come in with an open, non-judgmental mindset.
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I do apologize for that oversight, but I still believe that I can state of make-up means to me in an abstract, logical sense.
I haven't been judging or closing my mind, and the fact that mineral make-up exists does not drastically affect my argument.
I reccomend, for future reference, only correcting others where a mistake has been made.
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i mean it's sort of indirectly insulting people who do cosmetology for a living... as in an art form. i guess she probably didn't mean it that way but at the moment the entire poem is sort of crude and blunt, so it's easy to take it that way. i guess the overarching generalizations and sort of "i'm a special snowflake, i don't care about anything" vibe i'm getting from it is making it hard to appreciate anything she's trying to convey.
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Ah. I thought you were referring girls who are glued to their compacts and believe that make-up is beauty. Makeup in art is different, as the point is not to make a girl beautiful, but the make-up itself. I do fully accept that. I think these kind of poems are going about it the wrong way. The problem isn't that some girls are above that, the problem is that it's an expectation in the first place.
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essentially... a more in-depth observation on how people set such high standards on other people, and how this alters society on the whole, would be much more effective than fluff about "look how great i am, i don't care what anyone thinks". (which is a ridiculous statement in the first place)
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of course. That kind of thinking does have some truth behind it, but it doesn't leave a lot of room for empathy, nor does it pay heed to logic. Self-preservation, like many things, should be used in (surprise, surprise) moderation. Paying attention to what other people think is helpful. It brings new insight onto your own behaviors and is necessary for other people to help you and want to interact with you.
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I'm glad some people share that opinion. The loudest people at my school do not, at least, make their common sense note-worthy, and while I accept that, I honestly forget what real conversations are.
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How lovely it is to finally find another like me. Beautiful poem. I love and relate to every last inch of it. Thank you for sharing it with the world.
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Amazing, just, amazing. My mother tries to make me look "pretty" or "lady like" All the time. Making me wear dresses and skirts, which I hate both. She doesn't like it when I let my hair flow loose without any hair band or ponytail holder or whatever. I always tell her I just want to be me, but she says that I should change me then. This is really amazing and has a big important message to it.
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My mom is the exact same way!
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That is the main reason I dislike my mother greatly :\ She wants me to be the "perfect daughter".
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Heh, this thing explains me in a nutshell. a girl form my old school said tht i don't have a "Proper hairstyle"...because I have a parting the middle of my head. =.=
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true beautiful is being your self
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well said! this is why i hate people saying things like "all girls are beautiful". no one has to be beautiful, you have to accept all people, pretty and ugly.
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Though there are obvious pluses to putting effort into how you present yourself, I feel like society often takes this to an unnecesary extreme. I swear, the make up I see some girls cake onto their faces is disturbing. And you don't need to pay for overexpensive fabric that covers the smallest little bit of your body either. Don't be afraid to show off your beauty, but don't cover it up by conforming to this idea that everybody needs to slather to the makeup and show more skin.
Every once and a while I get caught up in this extreme sense of thinking too. And when those days finally come where I don't feel like doing myself up, I hide inside. It takes a wonderful man telling me I'm beautiful either way to remind me how unecessary it all is.
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You'd be pretty if you'd did nothing. Just saw your IDphoto (I was curious after this writing 
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i wish i was a self secure as you are.
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So true!
I'm one of those girls that doesn't have self confidence in themselves, but I don't wear makeup or anything. I honestly hate the girls that go to my school and make themselves look like sluts with so much makeup.
I really wish I was strong and didn't care about what people say, but it just makes me feel terrible when people call me ugly.
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Why would you hate someone because of amount of make-up the person is wearing.
Why would you hate someone for looking like a slut.
There is so much in your comment that I don't understand.
(btw i think it's time to learn what slut-shaming is)
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Never change yourself, changing yourself is changing your heart...Stay the way you are. I'd be ""pretty"" If I got a brace. Uh uh. I'm the way I am sister, live with it.
Horses are awesome, they don't judge on looks~
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This piece was amazing.
The wording and the meaning that lies inside is what really gets to me.
Most people have a very hard time accepting the fact that they don't have to be perfect to be beautiful. You can't be perfect, no one is. People need to not try as hard to be perfect, but instead, try harder to like what they see in the mirror; not a magazine.
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Thanks! I totally agree that you can't be pefect and I honestly wouldn't wanna be I think it'd be boring.
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