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The times are new. So are the looks. Everyone is a wanna-be star in their own way. It is easy to be someone else in an hourly ‘makeover’ session with the stylist.

A brunette today can be a blonde tomorrow, and a blonde can as easily be a red-haired in a day. A perm can change to a silk straight can change to waves to curls to bangs and no-bangs to short to long …all in a matter of minutes. Beneath five layers of make-up you can be glamorous-in-seconds. From liposuctions to protein enhancements, men and women today have choices that are almost overwhelming.

Makeovers are not just limited to how you look. A docile and laid-back person may appear aggressive and out-going in public because his work/society may demand that from him. He may don an image about who he is, hiding his real self. At home he may be the prefect loving husband for the sake of shared mortgage payments, while in reality he may still be in love with his neighbor’s wife.

These times demand great expectations. And from a desire to cope up stems a quest for new ‘avatars’. But beneath all these masks of glory, do we even remember who we really are? What is my hair really like, what does my natural skin feel like, what do I really look like, and most importantly, what do I really feel like?

The only way to connect with the real self is to accept the real self. The Creator is the ultimate artist, and we will never be able to be more beautiful than what he made us to be.