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Send your own Operation Beautiful Note to Caitlin at seebriderun@gmail.com, and it will be posted on the site. If you have a blog, be sure to include a link! It takes about three weeks for a photograph to show up on the site, so be patient! 
Write a motivating note on a post it and put it up in a public place– such as on a bathroom mirror, in the gym locker room, or even on a random car’s windshield. If you want, you can write the web address www.OperationBeautiful.com on the bottom so other women can find the site!
If you send me your photo, it becomes the property of Operation Beautiful and may be used on the site or in other media.
PLEASE RESPECT THE OPERATION BEAUTIFUL TRADEMARK. For legal reasons, Operation Beautiful cannot endorse other sites that are "Chapters" of Operation Beautiful. Thank you.
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I just officially made a school group/club type of thing and it has alot to do with this. Like feeling totally out of place because of people teasing you and not having friends and not being cool enough. So as of today Im just gunna try to set a good example for my Youth Group…
Its really inspiring((:
that is soo cool. i wish we could do something like that here but they dont believe in “groups”
really? wow, i thought most schools encourage that sort of thing
so dont do it in a group officially, get a bunch of friends and after school or work hours hang out and stick stick it notes all over and just learn to love yourself!!! spread the word of inner beauty! you never know whos day it will make!
wow! this is such a great idea!
im going to post them around my school (australia) and i hope others will catch on and do the same.
im writing some out right now
i always tell people theyre beautiful, but they dont believe me…
just like when people tell me, i dont believe them..
we all need a bit of positive reinforcement on those bad days and need to feel special, because we all are.
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I live in Australia, and people posted them around my school, and I thought it was a really good idea
So my friend and I are going to do the same thing.
The idea its self is beautiful, and you can be sure that my whole town will be covered in post-its. I thank anyone and everyone involved with this. You brilliant individuals filled with nothing but optimism are the real ones that’ll change this world. x
I really love this idea, and I’m going to start doing this and try to get my friends to do it too(:
I think its amazing that people are doing this to make women feel good about themselves, and it changes how I look at myself too.
Thanks(:
Promoting your amazing idea! THANKS!
I love the idea you have for this website. It really cheered me up for a little bit at least. I’m recovering from an eating disorder and sometimes I really do get depressed over how ugly I think I am. But this website helped!
It’s really good to know that you feel more positive. you are beautiful and there will always be people there to remind you.
don’t be depressed because of something your not doll.
I was having a pretty crappy week feeling bad about myself but today at school I went into the bathroom and as I washed my hands I looked up at the mirror and saw this post-it note and I couldn’t help but smile. I’ve been having a good day ever since. This is a really good movement. So many girls out there feel horrible about themselves because of society this is a way to show them that no matter what anyone says they are all still beautiful in their own way!
I am definitely going to do this
After trying on several pairs of jeans this morning before class (and then opting for yoga pants)….I came across a post-it note in the bathroom stall I was using on my campus. Thanks Caitlin for being so inspirational and positive…and thanks for the girl who left the note behind….it really made my day! I’ll be sure to pay it forward.
Stay Beautiful!
I just heard about this site and what it is doing for people all over to night. so i am making a lot of different notes, and im just going to start leaving them in different places for someone to find. i’m glad that i can be part of something so great!
i just want to say that this website is amazing. my friend recommened it to me and it is awesome!! i have self confidnce issues and as soon as i see this website i smiled straight away (:
i am going to use some of the notes that have been posted because they are such an influence. i want to thanks you caitlin and all of the other girls who have posted notes because you are amazing people.
thank you (:
I’m going to have post it notes made up with operationbeautiful.com at the bottom so they are easy to fill out and set into action!!!
I checked out a book from the local library, and i flipped to a page and there was this index card that said “You are beautiful, don’t let anyone tell you differently.” It was the most confidence boosting thing ever.
This site is amazing.
This is such a wonderful idea but why is there no link to share this on social networking sites such as Facebook? Please?!
haha because i’m bad at technology!
i am working on redesigned the site and will add that feature 
this website is so brilliant…ive always felt so alone, but its nice to know that people know exactly how i feel xxx
I just found this website and I travel all across canada for work…I am doing this every place I go and come from!!!
This website is bloody brilliant. It has given me and my friends a huge confidence boost. :]
I can’t wait to help out with this message and help spread it.
Caitlin, your awsome! This is a wonderful idea! And i am totally doing it!!!!! Now i need to buy post its!!
Keep up the wonderful beautiful work! 
you’re awesome too!
I even favorited this website!
i didnt know this was a site, and i cant believe it…but today, without any of my class mates knowing…i wrote out 116 post it notes saying “you’re beautiful” and put them on their lockers before school. It was the topic on everyones mind all day as too who did it, but i wont speak a word. All i say when they ask me is “why find an answer? why not just accept that someone here finds everyone as beautiful as the other, this is one of those random acts of kindness to make you feel good, embrace it!”
they smile and agree, but i really hope they take it in.
Now i know this is an actual site, i will continue on this mission.
thankyou.
‘it takes a truely beautiful person to see the beauty in others”
I heard about this at my university’s Queers and Allies meeting tonight. And when they started discussing it I couldn’t WAIT to attack everywhere with a post-it! My girlfriend has a VERY low self esteem and quite frankly I do too, just not as much… When out president of QandA started talking about it I thought of her and how much I hate her thinking she’s not perfect… and I’m sure that happens with many people that are indeed beautiful. So I can’t wait to cover walls and mirrors in post-its (thought I think I’ll change it to handsome when it comes to the bathroom).
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hey, just saying that I am so not comfortable with my body either, and my boyfriend says the same things. hes always saying that he hates knowing that i think im less than perfect and he always tries to make me happy by sayin “hey beautiful” or “hey perfect” and maybe you should try that with your girlfriend caus i know it makes me feel better.
Wow. I absolutely am going to do this. My school and public toilets shall be covered in positive post-it notes! I have found a use for my Dad’s office supplies that he doesn’t use!
omg i keep seeing these little sticky notes stuck all over my school. in the girl’s bathroom, in the locker room, the lunch room. an 8th grader in my school does. i m a 7th grader and i m going to start doing this
my friend and i found this website and we have been leaving sticky notes all over the place.
we put them in the stores we go in bcuz we believe that girls need to feel good about themselves even when someone tells them they aren’t beautiful or that they wont succeed when in reality they will. thank you for caring about all of us, it really means a lot
i believe that this is truely insperational, im not a small girl at all ik a size 14-16 in australia. which is curvy. and i have a bit of weight on me and i dont care i fell into a deep depressing spiral and my finacee brought me out of it. and my educational officer showed me this site and i come on everyday before school. ahnd after school and i post notes everywhere in the bathrooms, on computer screens i hoestly believe all you do is need one person to start something massive and change the world and that is what you have done caitlin. you should be very proud of ho many girls u have helped and how many girls you inspire everyday. I just hope this message reaches every girl before they do somethig stupid or create an eating disorder in themselves. It’s not to late we can do it. all we do is need to believe in outselves
<3
peace out girls stay beautiful smart and strong. and you will get everywhere you need to get
I created a facebook page about believing everyone is beautiful.. I would like permission to post a link to your page. If you are ok with that let me know. I dont want to claim relationship with the site. Just want to direct others to you. By the way I will be putting post its everywhere i go!
of course! spread the word!
The more you tell yourself you are “ugly”, the more “ugly” you will appear to others. So have a good attitude, that has a lot to do with the way people think you look. If you always have a confident smile on your face, you will always be beautiful. YOU are the only one who can change your mind, don’t let others fool you. (:
I saw this for the first time today and immediately sat down, wrote a few notes and posted them at the YMCA where I work. One went right in front of the scale. I plan on writing up some more tonight and plaster my Y with them!
Thank you for Operation Beautiful! I Love it!
I found one of the notes in my schools bathroom and it made me smile im going to start putting them up because I know Im not alone and there are other people who need the comfort of others just like I did.
thanks operation beautiful
I think this an awesome thing you’re doing! I only grew up with my mom so I understand how women feel! I’m posting positive sticky notes all over reno!
The time has come, the walrus said.
I’m totally doing this. Can’t believe I’ve been so slow on the uptake. How big is this project in the UK?
I’ve had a lot of UK notes but I’d always love to see more!
I love what you guys are doing. Can you try to make it more friendly for the blind, like write out what the notes say on the home page? and… I’m going to post notes on my computer and email them to all of my friends!
i would love to make it more blind friendly, but how would writing out the notes make it so? let me know!
There are computer programs for the blind that read text aloud, but since all the post-it notes are images rather than text, any blind person visiting your site will be able to find out what Operation Beautiful is, but unable to read any of the notes themselves! The solution to this would be to caption each image with the text of the post-it. Hope that helps!
You might not know me, but I know that you are beautiful.
I sent that to my friend Abby because she was having a bad night last night.
http://www.operationbeautiful.com
I’d never heard of this before, until…
Our school had a choir festival yesterday, and one of the other schools left a bunch of Operation Beautiful stickynotes for us on the mirrors in our bathroom.
This is a wonderful thing you started, Caitlin.
YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL! <3
I first saw a ton of sticky notes when i was a at a choir festival. When i saw them from far away,i was expecting them to be rude comments or something like that. When I read all the positive things, it really changed my perspective on life and now, a bunch of girls at my school and I are doing an Operation Beautiful day on March 14. We are telling as many people as we can to write at least one note and post it around school before first bell rings. We want to have so many up that people wont even bother trying to take them down. I want to help spread this amazing thing, so i am inviting everyone who reads this to make March 14 Operation Beautiful day. It only takes one note to change a persons life <3
I mean march 12, sorry :] march 14 isnt a school day
hi you website realy tutched me . i have sent text forwards of this website to all my freinds hopping the would join this !
I think this is a fantastic idea! Very inspired. It’s great just to get kind words from strangers. And no one should ever feel self-hatred, because of other people or otherwise. However, I think you should rethink your slogan, Caitlin. Yes, you are beautiful just the way you are, but you should always strive to improve yourself. My personal body image issue is that I’m really weak, no muscle mass to speak of. And I know I’m beautiful, and I’m happy with who I am, but I also know that I can be better and that the way to do that is to get to the gym, work hard, and build up my little chicken wings! =D So, maybe your message should still carry the wonderful truth that we are beautiful as we are, but that we can always and should always work to be even better!
I read these post-it notes in the toilets and uni and it made me feel better in myself and brought a smile to my face knowing that there are people making the effort to help women feel good about themselves. After reading that note i looked in the mirror differently and was happy with what i saw. great idea
I love this site i think this could really help a lot of people!!!! <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
tbh, this is pretty much the best idea i have heard in ages. im from New Zealand and my friend in england just told me about it so it shows this thing can get to all corners of the world
A little more than a week ago I was at Target getting some Valentine’s Day candy for my friends and I saw this overweight girl walk over and look at an extended size Valentine’s day shirt. She looked at it really sad and then walked away so I decided to put a post-it note on that extended size Valentine’s Day shirt. So I posted the note and I stayed in that section and then I saw the same girl go to that same shirt later and she saw the note, smiled, took the note and the shirt, and bought the shirt. That absoulutly made my day!
This is such a wonderful and inspiring idea!
I found this out from a friend, watched her doing this, and joined right away. I cant do this at my school, though. Im going shopping soon, so i will start there and never stop. Dont ever feel bad about yourself. I once did. Now I have someone who likes me for me, and i mean alot to him. Love yourself, and others will too.
This is wonderful! I work at a clinic for children with eating disorders, and we are joining as part of our activities for National Eating Disorders week. Thank you for the great ideas!
At school today, I saw a sticky note on the bathroom mirror that said, “Always smile, for you never know who might be falling in love with it! http://www.operationbeautiful.com.” It made me smile myself, so I checked out this site when I got home after school and I saw the video on here. It was shocking for me to see that there are more eating disorder cases in the US than breast cancer cases! My friend is anorexic, so I’ll show her this site. Thanks for what you do!
I’ve been overweight since I was a little girl. My doctor has always told me there’s something wrong with me. I’ve went to numerous doctors since I was about 12 to get this all fixed. When I was about 10 my doctor diagnosed me with a thyroid problem. Turned out, nothing was wrong with my thyroid. Then another doctor said my tongue was in-larged. That has to do with weight? When I was a child, I was always teased in school. Last year, my freshmen year of high school, it all stopped. I had a much different attitude then I do this year. I’ve been teased, some, this year but not much at all. Then in early February 2010, I found http://www.operationbeautiful.com from a friend of mine. Since then, I’ve been positive that I’m beautiful and if nobody likes that then I should just shake them off. Remember your always beautiful no matter what. Your God’s creation. Sometimes I think, “Why did he do this to me?” But in reality it’s the way he created me. [;
I posted my VERY FIRST OB note last night!! It said “You Are Beautiful” and listed the website. It was in a diner bathroom in maryland. I hope someone finds it!
I found two notes today in the bathroom at Kent State on right by the mirror. They definitely lifted my spirits. I’m working on my confidence and self esteem but some days I just don’t feel pretty, but that little note made me smile and look in the mirror proudly. Thank you so much for your idea Catlin and thank you to however left those notes in the bathroom. I will definitely be posting some operation beautiful notes in hopes that whoever finds them will feel the way I felt when I saw one. Definitely a saw gift with a big impact in so many peoples lives.
I was in debenhams in portsmouth uk yesterday looking at the urban decay stand. I saw a post it note saying your are beautiful and then the website at the bottom. I thought it was amazing and really want to get involved.
It really made me think, i don’t actually need any of this expensive makeup, I spend so much money on cosmetics, hair stuff and perfumes and for what? to conform to what is expected of me in our patriarchal society.
I think this campaign is amazing, women supporting other women, so we all feel better about ourselves and each other. I will definitely get involved!
I hope guys aren’t banned from this, I wanna help!
i would love you to help! we get men involved in OB all the time! please send me your notes
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