“It's okay to be ugly. What's not okay is to give up on yourself. It’s absolutely fine that you don’t fit in the mold of what everyone else thinks is beautiful. The real challenge is improving the rest of yourself. This involves unraveling years of trauma, self-flagellation, and failure by truly looking the monuments to pain that you’ve built into the blueprint of who you are. From there you can work towards forgiving yourself for the things you are not and the life you don’t have. This is the work that will improve your life, but it’s not instant or easy.”   This episode could very well have been inspired by these beautiful words from a piece in Projectvanity.com by its founder and editor Liz Lanuzo, the OG Pinay beauty blogger who has harnessed the power of embracing her true beauty towards fulfillment and success. A 15-year veteran in the beauty industry, she is also the founder of In Her Element Skincare, designed for busy women who, like herself, are lazy when it comes to applying skincare.   Listen and learn from our intriguing conversation about beauty standards and stereotypes, beauty vs. attractiveness, beauty politics, beauty empowerment and disempowerment, youth worship and ageism in beauty, and the three steps you can take to find and embrace your true beauty.