do something once or twice a week to make me feel feminine

I realised a while ago that I’d used the word “pretty” in every single entry I’d written under this goal. I guess I felt, consciously or unconsciously, that feeling feminine is more… worthy, less shallow, than wanting to feel pretty. Not that there’s anything wrong with wanting to feel pretty, but it needs more thought and then I’ll come up with a more honest goal.

I’ve just had a long, luxurious shower, washed and styled my hair, put ylang-ylang oil in my face cream and jasmine in my body lotion, moisturised all over, cut and painted my toenails and dressed in comfortable but pretty clothes. The idea was to make friends with my body again after this morning’s disastrous effort at running (about which I don’t want to talk yet :-p ) but it’s made me feel pretty good too. I’m wearing sandals for the first time this year and I’m off to the park to sit in the sun and run my toes through the grass.

I don’t usually dress up for after-work drinks, but since I was going out for the whole evening on Friday, I did the works – nice clothes, boots, contacts instead of glasses, make-up. I felt pretty, and got a couple of nice compliments – people at work tend to be surprised at how well I scrub up cos I don’t usually make the effort :-p

I’m wearing pretty underwear under my office clothes :o)

I don’t have much patience with “girly stuff”. I don’t usually wear makeup, or fancy clothes, or high heels. I don’t own a ton of bath & body goodies. I don’t do anything in particular with my hair. Last night, though, I gave myself a pedicure for the first time in ages, and it was really lovely; and when I woke up this morning with nice pretty feet it spurred me to use my current-favourite cherry shower cream to make the rest of me feel pampered too. And I’ve noticed today what a difference it’s made to how I feel about myself, even though there’s no visible change to how I look. There’s a spring in my step and a swing in my hips. I feel pretty and feminine and sexy. This is a nice feeling, so I want to make a bit more of an effort to feel like this more often.