The Beauty Journey... go for it!

I had lived a great life by living, feeling, and looking my best. I would like other people to achieve it and know how it feels when you're wearing the best version of yourself. All together mind, soul, and body.

Which is not vane, is doing what we came to do, live life to its fullest, living your body at its tulles is part of it too. life is not perfect, so there will always be something that will make you feel uncomfortable or that can damage your self-esteem. And the purpose of this book is to encourage people to fight for it and feel the results of what I call “The beauty battle”.

People like to wait to take a hand on things, especially cosmetically, procrastination on beauty and health (which come hand in hand) is a big topic to talk about.

People feel bad about spending money to fix cosmetic things, other than budget, for many psychological reasons. Which one are you?

They don’t feel “good looking” so why fix that,

The pity talk “that is not going to make me good looking”

It is too expensive (which is one of the most valid ones, but then the investment is you!).

It is vain, and vanity is wrong.

I have other priorities (like everybody else’s bills, school, cc, etc).

How do qualify if it is important or not? Vane or not? Selfish, etc?

If it is in your mind constantly (especially if you are not staring at yourself in the mirror). This is my #1.

if it is something other people have picked on you about or you have been bullied about.

If life happened to you and/or you had an accident.

You were trying to achieve something and you fucked up, like in sports.

Some people are naturally born happy with the looks and body they got. They find paying much attention to their looks and general beauty secondary and vane, or easy and natural flowing on their daily routine. And I applaud those people. Is just not for me. If I don’t like something I like to fix it, especially if it’s within my reach to achieve so.

I have several examples of how it affected my life fixing, from a young age, the things that bothered me about myself.

Like most humans, I grew up with self-confidence problems, I wasn’t the pretty girl of a popular girl at school.

Yet one day, I walked into one of the biggest tv networks in the world where casting was being carried and got the job over 1500 girl applicants, mostly aspiring models and actresses, really good-looking professional people.

5 times, 5 consecutive years, I had the balls and confidence to be rejected 4, yes rejected, and still walk into the office a fifth time of the maxim magazine editor and ask to be cast and featured. Until I got it. And when I got it, I killed it.

To keep the stories short and just make the point. And I will elaborate more on this last one, because every time I got rejected, I got rejected from the top beauty masters, the creators and exposers of beauty today, so I always took their rejection and feedback, and every year I came back stronger, and what I consider, more beautiful after applying any previous advice I got (I would say 25% of the knowledge I got for this book, came from those 4 years of deep Beauty battle) and even when I got featured there was even more feedback than ever before because now that you got top model level now you need to reach perfection goes level. Haha. Obviously, I never reached that level but I try every single day my best which is all that we can do as humans and I encourage you to do so.

Because I will never be more beautiful than yesterday. I can only try to keep it, improve it, or make it last.

I need you to love the way you look right now. This is the youngest you will ever be, and there is beauty on that, natural beauty on that. Embrace it and love it. Realize it. Even if you are not perfect, have messy hair, and just start your beauty journey. But youth has its own beauty, and you will find one day realizing that your everyday battle is trying to achieve the youthful look you have now. Today, as you read this. Feeling uncomfortable or trying to improve or change something. Yes, now, this is the most perfect, and beautiful you will ever be. You just need some production, time, love, and mastery. But embrace and acknowledge the shine, feel, and effortless beauty youth provides, your YOU today. I don’t care if you are 50 and reading this, it still applies. You will make it to 60 trying to look like today. And this applies all your life for the rest of your life.

I have coped with this fact, digested it, and embrace it, because I have managed to keep looking as much as possible like my younger self, and calming my “fear of aging thoughts” with the fact that I do something, I battle it while loving myself, every day. And that I really do the best I can. And that Is enough, makes me feel enough, and I carry on my life with the power this brings. Especially when somebody says something about my looks not being the same, about me not being that young or pretty to do something I still love to do like modeling, or because I am now going harder on my beauty battle because is my passion but because I care about it for myself and people, with or without wanting, bring it up, mostly to bring me down, because I am so intense with my beauty and looks that makes some people feel uncomfortable and I know is because of their own projection on me.

Yes, I know I spend a lot of time on myself, and that is exactly what I am trying to encourage you to do.

One may think it’s just about looks but it is not, ultimate fabulous looks it’s a secondary reaction to all the love I pour into myself, and many times have been misunderstood and judged by my closet peeps as pure vanity. And you probably will too. Even if you do not go as hard as I do, just the fact that you will start taking better care, time, and money, and focus on yourself might make people around you, feel something, and they might try to project it on you.

Intense or not, vane or not, expensive or not, self-absorbing or not, your beauty journey is yours. And the way you feel dictates most of the way your life will go. Feeling good about your looks, body and overall health is beautiful and it’s the most important battle you will have in this life, even more, important than making money and a career.

Actually, I saw these 2 aspects of my life directly affected positively once I took care of the things I didn't like about myself. Until this very day that I am writing this, at 42 years old. The fact that I took care of the things I could, and started young my everyday beauty battle, is the reason why I still can make a living with the way I look. And I am not saying everybody will want to become a model. But is more like the old saying refers, “they will treat you based on the way you look”.

This applies until this day of my life and rules most of the outcomes of many opportunities that cross my path every day. And hurtful but it is true. People will react to you by the way they perceive you, especially on first impressions.

So, what are you waiting for?

I am here to guide your journey...

With Love,

Jay Rodriguez

The Beauty Designer