Day 50

Today is Day 50. I figured I needed to do something a little different for the 50th day. I found an image like this on google and thought it was awesome!!! 

Day 49

Day 49

Today was a long day and I'm tired. This is me with a Anti-stress mask. It felt delightful!

Day 48

Day 48

This one was fun to do. I've discovered how much I love purple. I'm looking forward to doing more pictures with fun makeup. 

Day 47

Day 47

This one I enhanced in photoshop. I brought out the green in my eyes because I thought they looked so intense. I wanted to emphasize them. I had a lot of fun playing with this one.

Day 46

Day 46

Today hubby and I got to go on a date night! (YAY for grownup time!!) We went and saw Oz The Great and Powerful. Such a great movie!! I love the Wizard of Oz and Wicked. The wicked witch has always been my favorite character so it was only fitting that I channeled her today. This is my wicked witch coming out :)

Day 45

This is Day 45. I had a lot of fun taking this picture. You may recognize the printed picture from  Day 21. It's not the exact same picture but its from that photoshoot. I printed it up in black and white. I love the contrast between the simplicity of day 21 and the look of today. 

Day 44

Day 44
The hardest thing about today's self portrait was to get the mirrors lined up so there was more than just one reflection. I really like this concept and I think I'm going to revisit it in the future. 

Day 43

Day 43
This one took a lot of help from my amazingly patient husband. He's very helpful to me. I love him so much.
I like the way this one turned out. I love the contrast between the light and dark. 

Day 42

Day 42.

I love this picture. I love the softness, the color, the feel, everything. Even if it isn't the most technically perfect picture. I still love it. 

Day 41

Some days its harder to complete this project than it is other days. Today was a harder day. I didn't have any idea or inspiration tonight so I'm not as happy with this picture. But that isn't stopping me from adding it to the challenge. I figure I can't love all 365 pictures can I? lol

Day 41

Day 40

Today is day 40.

The most interesting thing I found about this picture was you can tell exactly what my expression is by just looking at my eyes. Its amazing how that works. You don't even have to see the rest of my face to know what my expression is. 

Day 39

Today is day 39. I didn't have any ideas on what to do for today's picture. I was sitting there thinking about it and remembered a picture my husband had done of him holding a picture of his face on his Ipad over his real face. So I thought that would be a great idea. Here is my picture for Day 39

Day 38

Yesterday was my twins' 5th birthday. I can't believe they are already 5! 

Because I missed yesterday (again, Ugh I'm not doing so great lately. I'm going to make sure I do it earlier in the day instead of waiting until night and then forgetting about it) here's a collage of 4 pictures from today's photo shoot.

You are more beautiful than you think Day 36

This video was going around Facebook today and it really touched me. Its something that I struggle with on a very regular basis. One of the reasons for doing this project is I want to learn to see myself as everyone else sees me. I want to see myself as beautiful and not constantly see all of my flaws.

You may notice that I accidentally skipped yesterday. I am trying not to skip days. To make up for skipping a day, I'm posting two pictures today.

This is how I tend to see myself.

 

Maybe not exactly like this. But I see myself distorted. I see my big forehead, my scars, my acne, the bags under my eyes, my weight, my frizzy hair, my double chin, every single flaw I have - real or imagined. 

This is how I want to see me

I want to see my amazing green eyes, my cute freckles, my Marilyn Monroe beauty mark mole on my cheek,  my experience, my worth, my knowledge, my compassion, my strengths, my talents.

I am more beautiful than I think and I am working on realizing that. 

I think this is a goal we should all have. We all need to look at ourselves through someone else's eyes. Find someone you love and trust and ask them to describe you. Ask them to tell you how they see you and here's the key REALLY LISTEN TO THEM. Don't diminish what they say. Don't brush it off. 

The next time someone gives you a compliment say "thank you" and sincerely smile. It may be super hard at first. It may feel weird and uncomfortable the first few times you do but slowly you will start to believe it. Even if its just a small part of you. 

We are all more beautiful than we think. Even with all of our flaws. 

Our imperfections make us perfect. 

Day 34

This isn't one of my favorite pictures but I love the effect so I decided to post it anyway.

Day 34

Day 33

Today's picture is not going with the color theme. I was shooting a wedding all day so I am exhausted. This picture is straight out of the camera. No editing at all. Tomorrow I will be back to the color theme. Not sure what color I am planning for tomorrow. Looks like we'll all be surprised. 

Day 32

Today is day 32 and the color theme is continued :) Today is black. I decided a darker theme was appropriate (no pun intended)

Day 31

The color for today is pink. This one was hard. Only because the gum I was chewing hurt my teeth so bad. I still have the temporary thing on my teeth and the back doesn't seem to be covered. The sugar from the gum was really painful. 

What's a little pain for the project? 

Day 30

Today is day 30!! I've completed just about one month of self portraits!

Today's color is white. I tried to do a milk mustache but didn't like the way it turned out.

But I liked this one without the mustache. 

Day 29

Today's color was brown. I wanted to show emotion and exhaustion. We had a rough day at our house today. Last night my youngest was up from 11:30 - 3:00 am throwing up. Then up just about every hour from 3 until 7 throwing up. Needless today Mommy was tired, VERY tired. Plus my stomach started hurting about 10:30 this morning.
It was not a good day today. Thankfully she is on the mend. Hopefully tomorrow will be better. 

Day 28

I've decided to make this week have a theme. I'm trying to stay creative and make all of the pictures different. It's a harder than I thought. The theme for this week is color. All pictures this week will be based on a specific color. The color will change each day. Today's color is Red. 

Day 28

Day 27

As you'll notice day 26 is missing. No its not a typo. I missed yesterday. Sigh

I made sure to get today's picture. I'm having a hard time coming up with new ideas though.Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!! Just leave them in the comments. 

Here is today's picture. It was taken in the kitchen window. 

Day 25

Well technically it's already day 26 but I took this one on Day 25 I just didn't get a chance to post it. I'm tired and it's 1:45am. But I had a great day.

Day 24

I decided to make sure to put a little more effort into my picture today. I'm still practicing with the flash. I need to work on softening the light so you don't see EVERY SINGLE DETAIL on my face. lol 

This was my favorite of the day.

Day 22 and Day 23

Today you get 2 posts in one.
To be honest I didn't take a picture yesterday. It briefly popped in my head around 10:00pm and then I went back to editing other pictures. I thought "I'll do it once I'm finished with this." Well I finished what I was doing and promptly forgot about it. I sat down on the couch with hubby and started to fall asleep. We went to bed before the thought came back to me. I did wake up this morning and thought "Oh crap! I forgot to do it!!" So I took one picture earlier today. But didn't get a chance to post it because I had to go to the dentist. So here is "yesterdays" picture...

They say the eyes are the window to the soul...

This is today's picture. I didn't want to do the same thing I've done before (that's one of my rules) So I decided to play with taking a picture with the camera of me taking of picture of me using the Ipad. (Wow that was confusing to type.) Jim is holding the Ipad. I don't actually have three hands - how awesome would it be if I did?!! I couldn't hold the Ipad and the camera and get the picture to work 

Day 21

Today is day 21. 

I am again practicing with Flash and lighting. I'm really happy with how this picture turned out. 

I'm learning to be comfortable in my own skin.