You’re headed out to a night with the girls and you ask if you look okay. The resouding response is, “Yes, that’s exactly how you look.”
What is truly important is how you feel about the way you look. For some, not even makeup is necessary in feeling great about physical appearance. For others, it takes much more to project his/her desired image.
There is no problem with getting work done if it is for the right reasons. If exercise and lifestyle changes alone won’t change the part of your body that you find less than satisfactory, the option of plastic surgery is certainly a viable one to increase your confidence and help you feel better about your life.
In my last newsletter, I discussed building a foundation of solid self care. Feeling great about the way you look is part of that foundation. Not even the most fervent believers in equality or the notion that you cannot judge a book by its cover can reasonably refute the power of appearance.
Feeling comfy in your own skin has many benefits. These benefits are not assumptions or common sense, but ones that are supported by independent data. Improving your appearance can:
- raise your general self-confidence.
- boost your salary 5-10 percent.
- make it more likely that you will secure a second Interview.
- make it more likely that you will land a higher starting salary.
- improve your ability to be persuasive.
- improve your credibility.
- amplify how others perceive your accomplishments.
- make a better first impression.
- help you expand your personal and professional networks.
How much is too much?
Where is the line for you? Who would you deem as your “skin deep” role model; the ladies on Little House on the Prairie, or the ladies from Big Rich Texas?