The Mirror Lie🪞

Do you ever look at an old picture and feel that tiny ache in your chest, the one that whispers, “I used to be prettier”?

That’s not vanity. That’s the programming every woman grows up breathing.

We’re told beauty is youth.
We’re told men age like wine, and women age like milk.
We’re told to “embrace ageing” but also, here’s a filter, a serum, a filler, a surgery, a panic disguised as self-care.

No one ever told us the truth:
You can love your skin, your face, your body and still grieve the versions of yourself that are gone.
You can feel both proud of who you’ve become and sad about who you no longer are.

That’s not weakness, that’s awareness.

💋 The Real Fear Isn’t Getting Older

It’s becoming invisible.
You start to notice how women disappear after a certain age, not because they lose their spark, but because the world stops looking for it.

But babe, you don’t need the world to look.
You just need to stop hiding from yourself.

Every wrinkle, every curve, every change is proof that you’ve lived.
The body you’re in right now has carried you through heartbreaks, growth, chaos, and transformation.
You didn’t survive all that to spend your 20s, 30s, or 40s hating yourself for evolving.

You are not running out of beauty.
You’re just outgrowing a version of beauty that was never designed for you.

💅 How to Shift Your Energy

• Stop comparing yourself to who you were. That girl was learning. You are living.

• Unfollow unrealistic women. You can’t heal in an environment that constantly tells you to fix yourself.

• Care for your body out of gratitude, not fear. It’s not about staying young, it’s about staying alive.

• Reclaim beauty as a feeling, not a look. The energy that glows from peace, self-trust, and maturity? That’s the kind that never fades.

Focus on now.
Do what you want now.
Whether it’s love, career, a new chapter, or rediscovering yourself, give it your full attention.
If it’s meant to be, it’ll lean on you again.

You’re not behind. You’re just arriving in a new form.

🪞 Reflection

If you stopped trying to “stay” beautiful, how would you become beautiful instead?

💬 Quote

🎧 Song

“As You Are” – The Weeknd 🖤
Because ageing doesn’t mean losing your edge, it means embracing yourself fully, unapologetically, exactly as you are.

Babe, your beauty doesn’t live in your face, it lives in your energy.
And energy doesn’t age. It deepens. It sharpens. It softens.

You’re still magnetic. You’re still her. Just wiser, calmer, and less interested in proving it.

Felipa XOXO💌