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Entity explains how women can find self love by taking selfies.

When was the last time you snapped a selfie? After getting all gussied up for girls’ night? The moment you got a promotion? Or just a regular Tuesday night?

But whenever and wherever we show off our selfie skills, we have one trait in common: We’re part of a worldwide social media trend.

While selfies have become more and more prevalent, the act of taking a selfie has received plenty of backlash. Some argue that when you flash a duck face at your phone camera, you’re acting conceited.

For many women, however, this isn’t an act of egotism. In fact, selfies provide an opportunity to promote self-love.

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Accepting ourselves with all our flaws and imperfections is no easy task. When you take a selfie, you celebrate that you are one fine lookin’ woman. And why not promote self-love? According to a Dove survey, only four percent of women around the world consider themselves beautiful and 80 percent of women believe everyone has a beautiful feature but cannot recognize these features in themselves.

In fact, Dove’s Self-Esteem Project revealed that the average woman spends one hour and 24 minutes preparing for selfies each week. If anything, much of this time is probably spent trying to placate restless insecurities. And although taking selfies don’t always elicit the most appropriate responses, getting Instagram likes, as Forbes points out, uncovers a very basic human desire – “to feel noticed, appreciated and recognized.”

So essentially, this selfie trend helps overcome our personal war against self-hatred. Most likely, you won’t post a picture of yourself that you don’t enjoy. But sometimes there’s a need to purposefully take silly pictures of yourselves too. As Dove’s “Selfie” video shows, the practice of taking silly portraits helps women see their self worth in an honest way.

This means that for every picture you see on Instagram, Facebook or another social media site, someone loved his or her body for at least as long it takes to click a photo. Essentially, a selfie is a testament of positivity that both men and women share with the world. They’re saying, “This is a side of me I want you to see.”

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“Seeing a close up picture of your own face and willingly showing it to thousands of people with one click is a form of self-confidence that [shouldn’t] be quickly dismissed,” The Huffington Post writes. Because over time – with enough selfies – self-love can grow. However, this can only happen if we give positive feedback. When we repeatedly criticize people for posting selfies, we are hindering their efforts to embrace their own beauty.

So if you see someone post a selfie, hit that “like” button or leave a comment that will trigger a smile. And if you’re on the other end, realize that the happy, beautiful creature staring back at you from your phone is one of a kind.

Now it’s your turn to show your brand of perfection to the world. Tweet us your selfies at entity_mag. We want to see your smiling faces!

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