How did you manage to stop hating your looks and just living with and loving yourself?

Easing up on hating your less than perfect looks is a great skill to learn. And take it from an old lady, it's a necessary one. If you live long enough, you'll need a better attitude, believe me.

Here is what helped me: I started giving a little bit of money every month to a charity called Operation Smile. I highly recommend it.

Do this and you'll help some afflicted children with facial deformities to look and feel much better. If you give Operation Smile a little money, they'll send you some literature that will really put your wrinkles or your extra pounds or your imperfect nose or ears or whatever into some kind of perspective.

Now I just chuckle at my own unhappiness with my shape and my other imperfections. It seems like a very minor problem compared to kids who have trouble eating because of a cleft palate, kids who have to stay in a hut all day because they are believed to be cursed. When the poor overburdened families that love and care for them die, if they're still alive they will have to beg and sleep on the streets. For a surprisingly small amount of money, you can hand someone like that a normal life, make it possible for someone to go to school with other children, grow up and get married, get a job. You can give a child his or her life back from the facial deformity that stole it. And in the process, you can see how minor a problem not looking like a sexy arrogant movie star really is.

Well, in all honesty I still haven't the gotten over the fact that I could fit into a walrus pack pretty well. Still, I guess a good way to forget about all of it is to quickly think of anything else as soon as your mind wanders onto the topic of appearances. Most of the time, just acknowledging the fact that you look how you look and there's basically no way to change it, helps immensely, as then you'll just have to accept it and move on. Worked for me at least a couple of times.
Not giving a crap might be a pretty good thing to do, however as far as I'm concerned, I couldn't do that if my life depended on it. So, in general, just accepting the fact and moving on (whilst actively trying to fix it any way I can) is the most surefire way to do this. It's getting there that's the hard part...

Anyway, I hope this helps even a little bit. Best of luck to you!

Plus you will be much happier with how you look when you choose to be happy with how you look.

You cannot control the thoughts you may be plagued with but you can choose what you wish to do with them and how you allow them to affect you, if at all.

And here's a thought for you; you're beautiful as you are x

the cure is to get rid of the mirror..

the problem isn't you..[[mostly] its the way society brainwashes people.. they tell us what is beautiful, and if you don't look that way, they sell you their products to help you become that way...

Unless a woman is very beautiful then I think it's pretty normal to worry about how we look, but I bet even they have some insecurities. Then again I have known many who are not what you would describe as good looking who are abundantly confident so I suppose it all depends on outlook.

it simply happens... sorry for not being able to "explain" it in a better way but... it happens!

Self acceptance and not caring what others think.
I'm still working on both.

Stop judging. Just get accepting. You are YOU! Leave it it at that.

Stop caring what others think. That's the first big step.

Self improvement helps

Yeh embrace yourself

Whaaaat ? You are a beautiful woman !