22 Beauty Affirmations with Audio: Know You're Beautiful

Say these while you get ready. The bathroom light, the makeup bag and the closet are where most women hear the harshest commentary about their looks, and most of it comes in their own voice. Press play while you do your hair or pick an outfit, so the first thing you hear about your face today is good. "My face is beautiful" works best said out loud before you check anything.

In Futurecast, this board becomes a daily ritual of twenty-two futures, read in her voice over ambient sound. When a future starts to sound like your own thought, record it in your own voice.

They will not change your skin, your age or your features, and nothing on this page promises that. They change what you say about your looks, and that is the commentary you hear most often. Hear "I am beautiful" every morning and it becomes your default, so your inner critic has to argue with it instead of the other way around. If thoughts about food, weight or your body take over your days, tell a doctor or someone you trust. A sentence is not treatment.

The set opens on "I am beautiful" and closes on "I have always been beautiful." Between them, it strikes three claims in different words: you are beautiful as you are, your look belongs to you, and you love being seen. It praises your face, your smile, your style and your presence at every age. It leaves out weight, size and food, and it never measures you against another woman. One future is built for the hard days: "I am pretty on bad skin days too." For the body itself, what it does and how you care for it, go to the body chapter of the full board of affirmations for women.

Pick the future you least believe and say it first every morning for two weeks. Wear the outfit you save for special days on an ordinary Tuesday. When someone takes a photo, stay in it. When someone pays you a compliment, say thank you and stop there.