Introduction

Hi. I'm an 11 year old girl in Grade 6. I'm from Egypt but live in Canada. I am proudly a muslim. All my life, I've loved writing. When I was less than 4 years old, my mother introduced me to Microsoft Powerpoint. I started to make "books" on it. When I started school, my love for writing just grew. But from kindergarten to Grade 3, I had something called Selective Mutism. In Junior Kindergarten, I wouldn't talk to my teacher. I was completely silent. I don't know what caused me to be like that. As the years went on, I would whisper and only talk to my friends aloud. I had therapy, but even the therapist couldn't solve the problem. So I did. I gathered the little courage I had and finally decided to transfer schools. I'm much more comfortable in the school I'm in right now. I talk out loud, have the best friends in the world, and have the best teachers a girl could ask for. I have given it some thought and realized. I love saying my opinion. I love hearing other's opinions. Being a journalist is the job for me. Now I don't know if my dreams will change, but for now, I want to make the most of this dream.

Friday, 20 March 2015

Makeup

Happy First Day of Spring! 

     I am not afraid to say I was wrong. I was wrong when I said that women wear makeup for men. I have realized that not all women are like that and it was very wrong of me to accuse everyone of that. I will most probably never change my opinion on makeup. I am 100% against it. But it has taken me a while to finally learn that women wear it for self confidence. Women look at themselves and say "I'm not perfect." They think that makeup will solve all of their problems. That is not true. Makeup will just create more problems. Some makeup actually hurts your skin and damages it. Why are we wearing something that will make us fake? Don't you want people to look at you and say "Wow! She's not wearing makeup! She's all natural! That's her real face! It's so much more beautiful than the lipstick, mascara, eyeliner and blush that she would wear!" Don't you want people to see the real you and say to themselves that you're more beautiful without makeup? Why should makeup be our only source of self confidence? Phoebe Baker Hyde stopped trying to make herself even more "perfect". She "Skipped Lipstick, Ditched Fashion, Faced the World without Concealer, and Learned to Love the Real Me". 
She felt more confident than ever. She even wrote a book about it called The Beauty Experiment . We should all embrace the real us. There are better ways to gain confidence. 

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