there are more than enough videos that exist on the internet today about how to glow up how to have the perfect hair skin makeup and look I take responsibility for some of this because I am someone who is in the beauty industry and I love makeup skincare and hair but I also really want to put an emphasis on the importance of the real glow up which is your mindset your emotional health your physical health your Financial Health your spiritual health today I want to talk about how to glow up for real and not just the
way that you look I believe if you feel good you look good anyway so you might as well focus on the inside glow up first so if you're new to the channel here hi my name is krisia I'm a makeup artist who is also a multi-passionate creative person let's jump straight into it I'm not going to tell you to dip your face in an ice bath which I'm sure there are some great benefits to that I actually have been wanting to try that myself but today I want to talk about five steps that's it five
steps you're probably thinking who are you to talk about a glow up right well I'm going to give you a little backstory for a lot of people including myself tragedy is sometimes what unfortunately has to happen in order for you to change your life for the better and that was the case for me because 2 years ago I was in a completely dark place my my dog my best friend of 14 years suddenly passed away and it was very very tragic I don't even want to talk about it because if I get into detail you
will be traumatized but it was sudden it was unexpected and it was traumatizing that in combination with so many other things that happened around the same time my sister went missing which I have never talked about I don't plan to at this moment but one day maybe I will and now I was in debt because taking my dog to the hospital on these last days the last thing that I wanted to be doing was negotiating extremely expensive hospital bills probably the lowest points of My Life coming from that dark place it did force me to
lean on spirituality I wasn't really a spiritual person started praying I meditated I journaled I cried I looked for therapy even though it was really impossible to find for some reason I did everything and anything because I was so desperate to change my life which leads me into my first step which is embracing spirituality no matter what spirituality looks like to you you know whether it's religious or just spiritual in a different sense to glow up from within you have to believe that you are here for a bigger purpose than what you can see this
helps you connect with yourself on a deeper level I truly wholeheartedly believe being spiritual will raise your aura and light in a way that nothing else in life can you can feel when you're in the presence of someone who has a higher purpose and is functioning from Beyond the ego step two is start a new Journey this kind of happened to me intentionally and unintentionally at the same time so not that long long after this whole situation passed for me I lost my job I during the most crazy inflation lost my full-time job unexpectedly I'm
so grateful that I intentionally chose to start a side hustle which is content creation which is now my main hustle starting a new journey is the beginning of a true glow up you have to be open to New Beginnings for me starting the content was a New Journey that I conscious L decided to do before I got laid off from my job but when I got laid off I was forced to look at my life and think well do I embrace being uncomfortable and just go all in or do I try to find another job
but that I know that I wouldn't be happy at because this was ultimately what I wanted to be doing full-time anyway start a new Journey okay if you're not in this position where you got laid off or lost a job or something happened outside of your control starting a new routine starting a new class maybe you are tired of being in a toxic environment you're now on a mission to get out and find a new place to live starting to post your journey on social media passion or a dream that you've always thought about that
you never had the courage to do like any of those things would be starting a new journey and I found that sharing aour my journey like I'm someone who's on social media so for me this makes sense but for example I found sharing this on social media to hold me more accountable when I said I'm starting a globe Journey at the beginning of the year I said I'm starting a globe journey and I am going to get in the best shape physically and financially mentally emotionally like after my year of Darkness I told myself that
I am now embarking on this new glowup journey and that truly drove me to stay consistent find something that is kind of similar that you can do for yourself that makes sense in your case because you want to just break the routine and you want to give yourself a little new energy maybe you can run into new people that day maybe you can run into a new opportunity anything like that and step three is to focus on your Financial Health this was a big one for me because you know I'm kind of like a crazy
person in the sense that I decided to go all in in all areas of my life like this year I was not playing around because like I said I had gone through such a dark traumatic year that the following year I decided that I'm going to turn my life around and I'm not joking this time part of that was my financial glow up because I had accumulated debt that I had not really fully dealt with and to be honest I didn't even really pay attention to my debt prior to this I was like just throwing
random payments and hoping for the best but like I decided to get serious and take control of my situation and with that came getting clear on my debt what is it that I actually owe how can I save but also more importantly how can I make more money because if you are in a path of paying off debt you know that there's only so much you could save you have to just make more money if you really want to make change and you want to make it fast I have a whole other video that goes
into how I paid off my debt and that whole story if you guys want to watch it I'll leave it in the description box money gives options it's no secret right like you don't need to be a millionaire but you do need to be in a better position to think clear to make better decisions and if you're constantly in scarcity mindset because you're living paycheck to paycheck you're never going to be able to invest in your yourself in other areas you won't be able to get your physical health on point you won't be able to
think clearly you'll be constantly stressed and it just it just affects everything so I know it's easier said than done but really prioritize a plan and get serious about your finances if you can find a way to pick something in your new Journey that can also make you more money then that's the jackpot that's truly what I did content became my new Journey but with I didn't even plan on making really like extra money from it it was more of like a way to cope during that time but being creative and embracing my new Journey
as a Creator helped me actually accidentally make a a ton of money to pay off all my debt so if you can find something that does both even better but the bottom line here is if you really want to glow up like you also have to change your mindset on the way that you spend and look at money overall like I've realized you either want to look rich or be rich okay okay and sometimes you are both sure but most times and not people are striving to look rich more than be rich and that's because
it's easier to look rich because it's a short-term decision of spending now buying now having now versus training yourself to think more long term and do things in the short term that make you feel more poor like not splurging when you don't necessarily have enough room in your income to actually afford what it is that you want by delaying the gratification you're you're going to glow up because you're just that much more confident in your decision- making and not trying to keep up with everyone not trying to compare yourself to everyone and not trying to
fit in with everyone like you the whole idea of glowing up is like finding that inner confidence that is so unbothered and unshakable no matter what I do like to invest in my appearance a little bit like as far as like my hair makeup skincare and having like decent clothes but now that I'm even making a lot more money like I truly don't even feel like I need it step four is build emotional intelligence this one hits home for me it's very big for me because there's some people in my family that are very emotionally
immature and in know it affected me a lot to the point where I think that's what drove me to want to be the complete opposite now that I'm in my own life and my adult life it's very clear when someone is emotionally mature versus immature okay and if it's not clear enough for you let me just give you a little rundown emotional immaturity it doesn't have anything to do with age you can be 50 years old and be emotionally immature and you could be 20 years old and be very emotionally mature it's self-awareness that's what
it is are you self-aware to know when you're being part of the problem when you're engaging in toxic Habits Like gossip or trying to stir up things are you being manipulative like are you the problem you know I think self-awareness is huge if you really want to glow up you have to be willing to take accountability and look at yourself first more than anyone because it's easy to blame and it's easy to blame and point the finger on outside things that we can't control like the government our family people we don't like but when it
comes to taking responsibility like that is where your confidence really comes from when you are so emotionally mature that you're aware oh maybe I am the problem and I can work on that because now you're thinking in a solution based mindset vers a versus a complaining victim mode mindset journaling will help you fine-tune your emotional intelligence a lot every morning if you focus on gratitude and every night you focus on reflecting your emotional intelligence will just you'll be so surprised how much different you handle situations how much less you react to situations that used to
trigger you so much and this all has to do with an inner glowup because again if you are in control of your emotions you claim your power back so if you're so easily triggered and so easily reactive towards every little thing and person you maybe aren't as emotionally mature as you might think you are I have a simple rule that I live by and it's create before you consume and that literally changed my life I think Marie foro had said that so shout out to Marie but create before you consume if you wake up and
you just start consuming content other people's lives other people's opinions and then you watch TV and you're cluttering your brain with so many different stories and like scrolling so fast through different things how can you set yourself up to even hear your own voice and your own thoughts you can't start prioritizing your yourself your mental health your emotional health first thing in the morning and the last thing before bed trust me people who are happy confident and secure don't constantly criticize and judge other people and you know this was really hard for me because I
feel like I grew up in an environment like part of my my family's culture was sitting around a table and talking about other people in our family and honestly it's sad to say but like I didn't realize that was toxic because that's how I grew up and eventually decided to opt out of it once I started to separate myself from that kind of environment I started to realize how much better I was feeling while I wasn't constantly hearing chatter about other people and gossip is so toxic listen more than you talk you don't have to
be the loudest person in the room to show that you're confident in fact I would argue that the loudest person in the room is usually the most insecure just stop feeling the need to prove yourself in every little situation especially in Social settings part of emotional intelligence is get educated a lot of times we C we stressed and anxious about things because we're not educated enough on them start reading books start opening up your your mind to New Concepts to new ideas especially if you're someone like me who I grew up in a small town
and I wanted to manifest bigger into my life and I realized that if I didn't have anyone in my immediate circle that I could be inspired by or who could give me new ideas I needed to go out and find them so you know finding people on YouTube or finding books that I can relate to like you need to find some kind of way to keep growing your mind and opening your mind to new ideas because you won't even know what is possible until you hear that it's possible like just the other day I thought
I was thinking big found an entrepreneur and she's talking about buying small businesses and I was like I never even thought of that like how did I never that thought never crossed my mind so the thing is if you if you want to actually glow and grow you need to find new sources to get information from and be around people who are smarter than you honestly and step five is prioritize physical health okay I know we've heard this so many times and let me just tell you before you roll your eyes how you do anything
is how you do everything so if you can show up for yourself physically you can definitely show up for yourself in all other areas of your life if science isn't enough evidence to show you that it also affects your mood your stress your energy if vanity metrics motivate you you will also look so damn good find some sort of exercise routine that makes you feel good you know and don't feel a need to like punish yourself in your workouts I just felt like once I started this new pilates class like I could really just show
up clock in and that's it cuz the rest was taken care of my instructor is amazing and all I had to do was show up you know and there's something to be said about showing up to class too I love classes personally because you know even though I like working out at home and I know you can I do feel that there is value and investing in your environment so not only are you investing in yourself but you're investing in your environment go where your higher self would be and I asked myself where would my
where would the higher version of krisia be she would be surrounded by people who share values of Being Fit being wealthy following their dreams so I need to be in those places where I can be surrounded by people who share those similar values and what kind of people go to Pilates a lot of times people who are willing to invest themselves financially physically mentally spiritually all the things that I share values with as well with physical health also is prioritizing sleep do not sleep on sleep your skin looks better your mood is better everything is
better when you get good enough sleep you make better decisions you eat better you're happier you're more alert you get more done you're more productive please get your sleep every time that I did something in this journey that gave me some kind of result it motivated me to keep going I paid off my debt keep going I started to see results in my body keep going whatever you can do to give yourself some sort of result immediately I promise you it's going to inspire you to keep going so take some sort of action on any
of these categories and I promise give it 6 months with we're in July if you have if you challenge yourself to start a new Journey from now to the end of the year you could become a completely different unrecognizable version of yourself by the end of the year so in conclusion those are the five steps that I truly believe will contribute to a full glow up not just a surface level type of glow up but a true glow up it's all about becoming the best version of yourself the biggest thing is starting to think less
shortterm and more more long-term choosing to not gossip may not be fun in the moment because people will think you're uncool but you don't want to be around those people anyways train yourself to to resist short-term satisfaction with long-term gratification detach from the results detach from the outcome and don't look at it every day like am I am I different today am I different today just lose yourself in the process I hope this video was helpful if it was let me know in the comments and I'm rooting for you if you made it to the
end say glow up if you enjoyed this video then I'll leave a couple videos linked here that I think you'll also enjoy live out your highest dreams and be the best version of yourself love you friends and I will see you in the next video
