The beauty services industry is a booming business believed to market and sells us products that keep us looking and living our “best, most beautiful self”. The fundamental belief of the businesses, salon owners, and professionals in this industry is that something about ourselves is lacking and needs improvement. When we resonate with this false belief, we buy into what these leading beauty salons, companies, brands, and services are selling in the hope of fixing ourselves and making ourselves “more beautiful”.

For this reason, this blog is to shed light on True Beauty - the ultimate feel-good ingredient that lives within you! I am not suggesting you stop using your favorite beauty brands and products. Instead, I’m inviting an alternative style to beauty services. Here’s how to allow your natural inner beauty to shine in the coming years without beauty care services.

The Five Elements of True Beauty

In a nutshell, the secret ingredient to all beauty brands, salon services, trends, treatments, and products is YOU! However, the more you are in alignment with your true, inner beauty, the more your inner light shines through and is perceived as beautiful. Your favorite beauty brands, services, trends, and products are illuminating and reflecting your inner beauty - you are more than just one of beauty services attractive consumers.

Simply put, beauty on the skin and outside reflects beauty on the inside, as within, so without. Therefore, the path to ultimate growth and beauty starts within. So, follow my highlights on how to align with your inner beauty through the five elements for personal growth and watch your inner beauty shine.

Earth Beauty

To begin, I want to highlight the Earth element, which goes way beyond the beauty industry. This layer of beauty is the most physically dense of the five elements, which makes it the most accessible expression of embodied beauty for women. This also explains why it is more typically accepted to focus on beautifying makeup and styling techniques and treatments that enhance physical beauty.

However, you are more than the outside of your skin, hair and physical being. You are multidimensional - when you integrate and explore all of the levels of your being, you become even more radiant. These non-physical aspects of yourself are subtle yet necessary to incorporate in the process of illuminating the light of your soul and radiating your True Beauty. Forking out money for leading salons to look beautiful is not necessary.

The Earth element governs the physical body. The physical body functions in direct proportion to the quality of care you provide for your physical wellbeing. Consider those days when you did not care optimally for yourself physically and how you may have experienced the body as tired, sluggish, heavy, unmotivated, and such. Then, recall how you feel when you extend adequate attention and care for your physical wellbeing through exercise, sleep, self-care, organic nutrition, non-toxic beauty products, and so on. When applied consistently, these self-care practices generate long-term wellness without the need for makeup to make you feel good.

When you embody physical health, then you exude more physical beauty, not because of your level of fitness, stylish appearance, or healthy habits, but instead because you cared for your body and got into optimal resonance with this one element and aspect of your essence. When you observe someone who you perceive to be physically beautiful, consider this a reflection of your inner beauty and an invitation to care for and shine your own Earth Beauty optimally.

Water Beauty

The Water element governs the emotional body, your feeling body. When your emotional body is overly engaged with, or repressing, the feelings of worry, fear, anxiety, sadness, or anger, then you are obstructing the availability of your inner beauty.

To feel your emotions is how you heal your emotions. When your emotional body is honored, and all emotions are welcomed, not just the preferred emotions, then you reconnect to this powerful source of wisdom within. Recall, for example, an interaction when you “stuffed” your emotions or, the opposite, played victim to your emotions. You may look back at those moments, wishing you showed up more authentically and emotionally attuned because you know deep within this is the highest expression of your emotional nature.

Look into a time when you were completely vulnerable and honestly communicated your feelings. In this experience, you may have had the feeling of fulfillment, love, and a deeper level of connection to yourself and those around you. Living in connection to your subtle water element and emotional intelligence is an embodied expression of Water Beauty. Dare to practice showing up in a relationship with emotional honesty and feel the flow of your Water Beauty - one of which requires no tools to make you feel beautiful, just emotional strategies.

Fire Beauty

The Fire element governs the energy body, your vitality. Consider the Sun, a life force energy sustaining all of life on this planet. This same source of energy lives within you. When you engage in activities that you enjoy, you are fueling your store of life-force energy. However, when you participate in activities that you do not want, you are depleting your store of life-force energy.

Regarding beauty, when your energy reserves are depleted, your light is dimmed, and this Fire aspect of your inner beauty is weakened. Yet, when you are engaged in life in a way that fuels your energy, you live from this lit-up, activated, motivated energy source that shines bright and effortlessly inspires others to embody this source of inner beauty.

Dare to start saying yes to activities that light you up and saying no, or delegate the tasks that drain your energy. Practice spending more time around the people who exude vitality, this aspect of inner beauty - without service offerings or beauty salons - to stoke more of your own Fire Beauty.

Air Beauty

The Air element governs the mental body, your mindset. The universal law, ‘what you focus on grows’, applies to this aspect of beauty and the air element. Have you spent time around people who focus on the negative and then taken note of how that affected your state of mind? Conversely, consider how you feel when you have an uplifting and fun conversation with a friend, you read something inspiring, you engage with your creative expressions, and so on.

When you are actively participating in life through the lens of positivity and open curiosity, without judgment, criticism, shame, or blame, then you reconnect to your subtle form of Air Beauty. When you or others embody this aspect of inner beauty, you may notice that you get lost in the moment, bypass the logical mind, are creatively inspired, and feel peace and acceptance within.

Embodying this level of beauty is magnetic and inspiring. Dare to start a gratitude practice and begin uplifting your thoughts today for strong growth.

Ether Beauty

The Ether element governs the spiritual body, your essential nature. This can be explained as the Oneness that is uniquely expressed through you and simultaneously through all of life. The Ether element is always and effortlessly present and is accessed by deepening your sacred connection to the subtle realms within your physical body.

In each moment, you have the option of choosing to turn toward this source of wisdom that originates from within or not. When you choose to connect to the source within that contains the Whole, you pierce through the veils of illusion and see through the dense layers of limiting beliefs (air), blocked access to energy (fire), stuck emotions (water), and physical imbalances (earth). You open, you allow the present moment to meet you, and you experience an embodiment of True Beauty within yourself and another, and the two become One. These moments may be fleeting, but when experienced, they are transformative and reap numerous benefits for a positive future.

Who Needs Salon Services?

The more you practice a segment of embodiment, the more you bring to life the True Beauty within yourself, which effortlessly opens the possibility of others awakening to their unique expression of True Beauty.

Rather than compare levels of beauty and spend money on beauty services, may it be a blessing to witness and create beauty whenever and however it is naturally reflected. Yes, a treatment like nail care (manicures, pedicures), haircuts, tanning, spas, facials, waxing, and massages can make you feel good. Still, it’s essential to take into account that the beauty you see is your own beauty being reflected to you through another person, place, thing, or experience.

Witnessing true beauty is a reminder to turn inward rather than relying on beauty care services to feel good. Connect to your unique essence and allow your highest, present-moment expression of natural beauty to shine.

What the Beauty Industry Does NOT Want You To Know