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Paris Hilton, Kendall Jenner, Jennifer Aniston; what do these women each have in common? As teenage girls, we look up to these women in awe of their beauty with admiration and envy, wishing that we’d one day be able to look like them. However, this goal of ours is fairly unrealistic and ends with disappointment and dissatisfaction about ourselves. This sad truth continues throughout our lives as a woman. We eventually realize that comparing ourselves to celebrities is fairly unrealistic, and begin comparing ourselves to our peers. Then we add social media to the mix. A place where beauty is worshiped and idolized. Throughout the course of our lives, we will forever be surrounded by women who are beautiful. We will be envious and wonder why we don’t look the same as them, however something we must understand is that outer beauty isn’t everything. Society has convinced us that we must look a certain way for us to be deemed beautiful. It’s easy to feel bad about ourselves because we lack certain features or don’t look like the beautiful women in the media. However, something that takes time to understand is that outer beauty lacks the true sense of goodness that comes from within. In other words, beauty is a wonderful gift, but it doesn’t match the beauty that comes from our spirits. Have you ever met someone that you viewed to be fairly average looking, however after getting to know their spirit they continued to become more and more beautiful, even more so than the people in the media? This is because of the power inner beauty holds. It is so much stronger and significant than outer beauty could ever dream to be. 1 Peter 3:3-4 says, “Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes. Rather, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight”. Just like outer beauty, our inner beauty has adornments as well. Showing love, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, and self control. These are the attributes of what make up a genuinely beautiful person. As women we love to feel beautiful, however we have to train ourselves to understand that focussing on the outside will only lead to disappointment and emptiness. Want to know the biggest beauty secret? Try caring less about what the world tells you is beautiful, and instead focus on your spirit. Only then will you get to experience what real beauty is.