Before a dance, girls go out and get their hair done.  It’s great and the hairstyles can look awesome.  They can really dress up your attire.  But sometimes, it can also ruin your look.  When you begin adding things you find around your house, that’s a sign you’re going to far.  Leave the pencils, chopsticks and notebooks in the drawer.  Okay, so I’m exaggerating.  Something a little extra is nice. But if you’re in a chair for more than 2 hours getting your hair fixed, stop!

Then there are hair extensions.  Don’t do it!  I’m sure your hair looks fine the way it is.  Adding onto it only makes your natural hair look fake.  You begin to look plastic, like a Barbie doll.  I understand in some cases you may need to get hair extensions, but while you are in high school and just want to do it, think again.  Hair is probably in its healthiest state for teenage girls so why hurt the chances of beautiful hair in the future?

Hair dying seems equally as bad.  In many cases, natural colors or natural highlights can turn out very nice, but your head shouldn’t be a rainbow.  I guarantee you won’t find a pot of gold at the end of that rainbow.  If you could, I would be all for dying your hair all those colors!  But in all seriousness, there is no point in dying your hair colors like blue, green, and red because it just looks funny.  Actually, that goes for crazy light blond and jet black, too.  Unless it’s natural, don’t do it.  You are only hurting yourself and your reputation with everyone at school.

Most guys don’t like when a girl’s hair is changing colors as often as a stoplight.  Plus, some things may be permanent.  While hair styles can be changed, dying your hair and getting extensions could be tough and really expensive to fix.  I’m not saying don’t ever change your hair, but when you do it, make sure you think it through and talk to all those who care about you.

“Inner beauty is more important that outer beauty.”  “It’s about who you are on the inside.”  Every teenage girl hears this over and over throughout her life, but still make-up stores like Claire’s and Sephora are always booming with teen girls trying to “beautify” themselves.  But their efforts don’t always work because honestly natural beauty is best.

I’m not going to lie and say looks aren’t important because, of course, guys are going to care how girls look.  But it is definitely not the most important thing.  Now when I say this I don’t mean let yourself go completely and lose all self-pride, but don’t stress about impressing us guys and especially DON’T overdue it with make-up.

What do I mean by overdoing it?  Don’t make yourself look like a Barbie Doll.  If you are spending more than five minutes to put make-up on before school, then something is wrong.  If you skin color noticeably changes after putting make-up on, then you have too much on.  And if you get an abnormal skin rash anywhere on your face, there is a problem and you must seek medical help.

Lots of times girls wear so much make-up , it looks like they’re dressing up for Halloween.  What a way to turn guys off.  We prefer the athletic girl who isn’t afraid to sweat and be herself around us.  Or the smart girl who takes pride in her work and partying isn’t her priority.  We want you to be who you are, not try to be someone you’re not just to impress us.

Too much make-up shows that you aren’t happy being who you are.  It shows us that maybe you’re trying to cover up a major flaw.  Too much make-up, although it sounds cliché, never lets us see the real you.  A guy who really likes you won’t want you to wear make-up because he loves the real you, not the make-upped you.  If a guy ever tells you to wear make-up, he’s not worth your time.  Forget about him and move on because if he only likes you with make-up then he isn’t the one for you.

A little make-up doesn’t hurt.  And for special occasions and dances, it’s fine to dress yourself up with make-up.  But to school?  Save yourself the time and money.