Post by @therealrawtalkphoenix

BOTH VERSIONS ARE ME, AND I LOVE THEM EQUALLY. ❤️🔥 What makes me ME is not the makeup, the hair, or the nice clothes. It's the CONFIDENCE behind it all. I'm confident enough to come on this internet and walk through this world looking my natural bad self. Not because anybody forced me to. Not because I can't afford to look good. But because I'm comfortable in my own skin. I'm comfortable with my alopecia, my bald spots, my missing teeth, my belly, and every other flaw people might use to try to embarrass me. I can show up exactly as I am, without makeup, without extensions, without pretending to be anything other than myself. And guess what? I'm just as comfortable putting on my makeup, wearing my hair extensions, dressing in beautiful clothes that I design myself, and stepping out looking like a whole supermodel! 💅🏽 One version doesn't cancel out the other. One isn't more authentic than the other. I'm not hiding when I dress up, and I'm not less beautiful when I don't. BOTH VERSIONS ARE ME! And one of the reasons you can't easily shame me is because I have already embraced the very things you think you can use against me. You cannot embarrass me with what I have openly accepted about myself. I'm an onion, baby! 🧅 I HAVE LAYERS! And I'm proud of every single one of them. I love looking like a vagrant, and I love looking like a supermodel. I love the natural me, and I love the dressed-up me. Neither one has to compete with the other for my acceptance. I don't need to look perfect to feel beautiful, and I don't need to hide my flaws to enjoy looking good. I'm not one-dimensional. I'm not here to fit into anybody's idea of beauty. I'm simply a woman who has learned to embrace every version of herself. And that, my people, is REAL CONFIDENCE. Uncensored. Unapologetic. THE REAL ME. ❤️🔥 #TheRealRawTalk #UncensoredAndUnapologetic #SelfLove #BodyConfidence #AlopeciaAwareness