Participate
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.
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Such an amazing idea. My sister and I have started putting random happy notes all over our university’s campus, and even though we don’t know who sees them, its so amazing to be involved. Thank you for this idea, and for all the good you do.
this is such an amazing thing to do for people who don’t feel comfortable in their own skin. like me,I’ve always been teased because of my weight. but ever since I herd of this website from a friend, I learned to ignore the people who make fun of me and just have fun with my life.
I was introduced to operationbeautiful.com through my friend Hannah – I think it is an absolutely amazing idea – Caitlin you are such an inspiration. I’ve started leaving Post It notes everywhere. I left one on the bus “Neverlet anyone tell you you’re not beautiful” the other day when I was on my way to work and when I had finished I got back on the same bus and it was still there – made me smile to think it hadn’t been moved or thrown away and made me wonder how many people had seen it
xx
I just found out about Operation Beautiful today and I’ve already written about 20 notes that I will be putting up around campus when I go to school tomorrow! I’ll also make sure to have some post-it’s in my bag at all times, for when I feel like trying to brighten someones day~ This is a great idea<3
I’m in recovery from a 14 year battle with anorexia and bulimia. The past week I have struggled quite massively with negative body image and just unhealthy thoughts in general. I sat at a coffee shop this afternoon near tears trying to decide whether or not to eat…I went to use the restroom and on the door of a stall came across a note urging me to trust in the truth and beauty of who I am…I cried…and then walked across to my favorite Mexican restaurant and ordered lunch…thank you whoever left the note that allowed my heart to believe that who I am is exactly who I need to be!
Oh honey! Thank you for sharing your story. It made me cry and then hardened my resolve to participate in this wonderful project. My daughter is 14 and I’m grateful everyday that she is comfortable in her own skin, and I hope that you are finding your way to that same resolve, as well. You are the most wonderful, beautiful YOU there is! Keep up the positive thoughts <3
Thank yo for this. I’ve struggled my whole life with self-esteem and weight issues. But my boyfriend has been working to change that whether he knows it or not. I don’t know what I would do without him. He’s my hope.
I’ve spent the last 3 hours filling out post-it notes to post around. I plan on spreading them around stores, and next week I will start at my school. Thank you! You are truly beautiful and amazing.
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check this out. you might like it. it’s very appliable.
i was at college with my friends today ( i live in scotland) and there were 2 little notes near the girls bathrooms that we picked up in curiosity, we googled the link on the note and found this. this is a great idea and is so good that it has spread so far and come to our college. great idea!
I heard of operationbeautiful.com on my life is average. the story was that theses two friends were going into a public bathroom and they saw 2 post-it notes on the doors of the stalls. they said thank you mystery person for brightening their day.
I started putting some up around my town. I hope it makes people smile. =)
i did this at my shul and some one came in and said awwwwwwwww thats so nice
i started puting some postet notes saying your eyes look beautefull without makeup and your personality only counts if u belevin your self :*
This is amazing. Sweetest thing ever. I think it rlly brings up ppls self-esteem!
this is an AMAZING idea! im going to start putting sticky notes all over now
i think this is a really lovely idea im going to do it all over my work the bathroom the office the kitchen. its a very feminine dominated place and im going to make them all feeel great <3
supporting TWLOHA <3
everyone should be so proud of themselves for getting involved . Karma will repay you , everyone should live there life in happiness , together we can solve the problems one at a time .
-always .
yeah, i found a peice of cardboard on the city bus one time
and it say “:) Hey Gorgeous!” with operationbeautiful.com at the bottom.
it definitely made my day:)
I think this site is a brilliant idea. I’ve always had self-esteem issues and my way of overcoming them always involves a boyfriend which i know is a really bad thing. If things start turning bad or problems start happening i start feeling really bad about myself which is happening at the moment. I need to learn to accept myself without relying on others and don’t really know how to do it, maybe this is the place to start.
I think this site is great, I haven’t fully struggled with my appearance because I’m blind and can’t see, but it makes me feel great that there is a site that encourages people to put notes out there that tell those that struggle with the issues of the pressure form media, the appearance of other people and there own self esteem that they are perfctly beautiful the way they are. I guess, in all honesty, I don’t fully understand the concept of eeling ugly or thinking that I’m uglier than someone else because I can’t see myself or anyone else, so I look at people differently than most people look at each other, I see the inner beauty of the outer beauty, which is why I love my blindness, I can’t judge people and put myself down because of it, I can’t pick on someone else or say something hurtful because someone looks different, I can be me without the media or magazine photos getting to me.
I hoep the more people realize this one thing; that not matter if youc an or can’t see, you should look for inner beauty over outer beauty, who knows, you might meet the greatest person ever and just because someone “looks” or you think you “look” onbeautiful, doesn’t mean you are, there is someone out there that admires you and looks up to you, you may not notice it, but it’s true. I never and still don’t fully realize how much people admire me, but every now and then a random person comes up to me at school and says “I admire you, I don’t know how you do what you do, I’d be so scared to go through school like you.” and comments like that brighten my day so much, words mean a lot and so do actions, if someone says you are ugly or that you are worthless or soemthing like that, just reply to them “I’m not and neither are you.”
I hope this helps someone somewhere.
you are changing the world one step at a time.
you are my new hero. thanks for making me believe in myself, and in others. you truly inspire me. and i’m sitting here crying as i read this. thank you so much. keep lighting up the world.
I go to school at a public high school. Things have been rough for me at home, and my mother had recently confronted about my eating disorder so I used the bathroom during study hall to purge. I usually wait until there was no one there, but I didn’t know there was someone else in there until I heard her shoes. I waited until she was gone to come out.
Written on the mirror in lipstick was
You ARE beautiful
That message probably made me reconsider what I was doing, and made me seek help. I still struggle on a day to day basis, but that anonymous message helped me turn my life around
I hope you get the help you need!
i bet words cannot express just how that made you feel. you are worth so much and do not deserve to feel bad about yourself. i really, really hope things start looking up for you. please listen to whoever wrote that message on the bathroom mirror. you deserve so much.
Thank you for this awesome idea. There is a post-it in the bathroom at my university, and seeing it always makes my day and makes me just a little bit more comfortable in my own skin. I have always struggled with self-image, so seeing the note makes me feel so happy. I finally went to the website
and I feel so uplifted. Starting tomorrow I am going to start spreading the anonymous word!
This is seriously the greatest idea ever! As a young girl who used to struggle with body issues , I just want to let you know how much this has changed my LIFE! I’m going to start this ASAP so other women and girls know just how beautiful they really are! I don’t like it when all these beautiful girls in my school and anywhere don’t see how beautiful they are! Thank you so much! Everyone on this site, You are my new role moldels! Thank you all so much!
hello.
my name is sam. i have always wanted to get involved with something that can help people around the world. i think that this is a wonderful idea. thank you so very much. i appreciate it. and i’m going to start right away.
I’m going to buy a camera THIS WEEKEND. I promise. I left 5 more large post its at the metro, one on a poster of a model! I really want to go to those stores with the “live models” (girls who dress up, stand inside, and try not to breathe/blink) and put one near her so she’ll go outside and see! (hopefully I won’t get yelled @ by her boss!)
*supporting TWLOHA
Hey. I absolutely love operation beautiful.
It was so amazingg when i saw other people read it. Caitlin passed away a few weeks ago. And for a long time, the post it notes stayed.
A girl at my school, Caitlin Buemi put a post it note in allll the girls bathrooms.
Thank you so muchh.
I think it’s magnificent what you’re all doing. You’re reaching out to people who aren’t just women, I hope you know. I am bio-female, but I identify as Female-to-Male transgendered and I am just starting to tell the world about my choice to transition to male. It is not because I have a distaste for being female, in fact I love women inside and out. I long to be known by them, I am just not one of them. Nevertheless, I found a random post it on a bus stop sign, plucked it off and put it in my pocket. I decided to come to the OB site just to figure out the gist. I definitely plan to design other notes…
you are beautiful for being true to yourself <3
I love this idea, it´s so great. I got so inspired I put a note in a book at the library today. I live in a small town in Sweden so I haven´t come across this myself yet, but mayby I can inspire others like you inspired me.
I really love what Operation Beautiful is doing. I’m honestly not sure what happened a long the way in my life, but I’ve developed a heart and passion for helping women and making sure they know that they DESERVE to be treated with the utmost love and respect. <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
It’s weird I came across this site. I do this, but write inspirational messages on money. It’s never thrown away, and passed between millions
I’ll add the website from now on.
that’s an awesome idea
great way to impact the masses.
i have never really been comfortable in my own skin for so any years, and my mom isnt really supportive. I kept on eating and eating, while she thought i was doing great, i was hiding what i was eating from her. One day i ordered pizza while she was at work at it took forever, but when it finally came, she was home. I shoved the pizza boxes under my bed and was eating it. She asked me what i was eating, so i lied and told her bread, but she already knew i was lying and she said “Well that doesn’t smell like bread.” She asked me where it was and I pulled it out from under my bed. She started yelling at me telling me that i don’t have to hide it from her, but in the meantime she’s always bitching me out because I’m committing ‘carb-aside’. She may thing that she is supportive but she really isn’t.
always do you is right for YOU and make YOU feel good. remember that! everyone has their own baggage, even your mom.
you are beautiful.
Today 3 friends and I put up about 400 sticky notes in out school. It was quite interesting. Most of the girls tapes them to their shirts, and the guys too.
AMAZING! Did you take any pics?
How old do you have to be to be in the mission?
I’ve had 8 year old boys participate!
and 90 year old women! anyone can participate 
Thanks! I am 10!
This is such an amazing idea!!!! I recently broke up with my fiance and my sister told me about this site. We spent the whole day making postits and displaying them around our town. Although we didnt know if anyone say them it felt good just to take part. I wrote down things that i knew would make me feel better that day and hoped it would brighten up someone elses. Love xx
You know, I never even knew how beautiful and thoughtful a little note can be until I found one of your notes. I was going through a rest stop in Missouri on a trip with my husband. I was quite depressed with somethings that have been taking place, quite depressed, and I run to use the restroom after a 10 hour drive. I wasnt looking for anything and was sure not expecting to have any hope through my unlogical thinking that kept running through my mind, but I instead find a bright yellow sticky note placed directly in front of me in a bathroom stall. I take the note smile and am completely speechless. It says “Never Ever Give UP! operationbeautiful.com” I smiled and can honestly say my heart had changed and my thoughts were not on self-centered sadness, but more of how thoughtful someone else was. I then, after 12 more hours to get home of driving, got online to see this site. It is amazing what you are doing and I would be more than happy to participate in any way. Please let me know how I can get involved. Take care and THANK YOU.
Lisa Marie
What a wonderful story!
I heard about this through a scavenger hunt Superchick is doing. One of their things was to write “You are SO BEAUTIFUL just the way you are…” on index cards and hand them out to at least 30 people. It has made me want to always keep index cards filled with sayings that will make someones day on them with me so I can just hand them out… it really can change someones life to see a little note telling them that they are pretty. Thank You for taking the time to create this.
A friend sent me a detailed text with your mission and website, and at first I was like, “ok this is just some dumb forwarded stuff.” Then, just out of curiosity, I went to this site and what I saw nearly made me cry. I’ve had anorexia with bulimic tendencies for nearly a year now (Im 16) but this cause made me rethink why I was starving myself. I will definitely be carrying around post-its from now on in hope that I could make others see thier true inner beauty too. Thank you so much! <3
Please rethink the way you treat yourself… you are beautiful.
I will start doing this when ever I go out with my family! I will carry post-it notes in my pocket with a pencil, and when I use the bathroom use them. To make other woman/girls feel great about them selfs. I will even post some in my school and in my locker. Maybe even put some in someone elses locker! This is a wonderful mission!
~*~ Denisse the 11 year old ~*~
OMg that is cool denisse! You’re just awesome! I wish people were more supportive of OB @ my school. We could use you here!
you are absolutely,positively,gorgeously a beautiful princess-ciao!
I am a student at Iowa State University. I walked into one of the bathrooms to check my eyeliner and next to the mirror there was a note that said “Change the way you see yourself, not the way you look – http://www.operationbeautiful.com”
It made me smile and wash off my eyeliner.
I just start to do a volunteer radio program in Finland for a portuguese speakers and we have this new blog for the people who listen the program take some more informations, can I put a link for ur website? I want more people envolved on this here is Finland. If it´s “YES” please let me know each photo I can use to put there. If u guys have some suggestinos for a small frases will be good, I don´t have too many on my mind now, ups!
yes please spread the word about OB!
this was a great idea i walked into our school bathroom the other day and on each door and mirror and wall their were sticky notes that had a sayin and then this site on them… THERE IS INPERFECTION IN EVERY BEAUTY… DON’T BE SO HARD ON YOURSELF!!! staybeautiful??
I’ve always been self concious about my outward apperance until I meet my boyfriend. He tells me everyday I’m beautiful and that brings a smile to my face. For every young girl, never let some tell you your not beautiful cause you are. Inside and out! Love yourself cause there will never be another like you. Keep your head held high and believe in youself!
I’ve started making happy notes, and tomorrow a plan on going all over town and leaving them in public restrooms and such. Women need to know that they are ALL beautiful.
I was at a Jodo seminar this weekend at Guelph University, it was a VERY hard seminar, and I cried several times. During a break I was in the washroom trying to stop crying,to ground myself. I washed my face and looked up at the mirror and saw a post it note on the mirror, it said; Smile! You are beautiful in everyway, everyday!
I can’t express how much that note meant, and how much it got me through the rest of the seminar!
Thank You!
Amazing idea. I’ve made ten post-its so far and I plan to keep making more. I’m going to put them in the bathrooms at my school. I’m assigning kids from each grade to put in their hall. I’m taking care of my hallway. I hope this makes a big impact on their attitudes. I always see girls obsessing over themselves in the mirror. So, thank you for sharing this amazing thing.
This is a great idea, it really is! The only reason I’m not participating at the moment is because I’m working on a truck with a bigger back window to write a note on. Pictures to come as soon as possible!
cant wait to see!
I think this is such an amazing idea!! I was at a super huge christian conference in the city (YC) and was having such a rough day when I ran to the washroom to pee and the stall I was in had post it notes everywhere! The website was on the notes so I searched it on my phone and now I will for sure be doing the same!! My note I read that was my favorite said “how many times have you smiled today? Keep going, you look wonderful!”. It brightened my day and I couldn’t stop smiling. I will do the same for others now
Today I walked into my Junior English class and read one of the most positive and uplifting poems ever and at the end I was operationbeautiful.com. It’s nice to see that there are so many people who are fighting against all the magezines that make everyone feel like they aren’t good enough.
Caitlin, this is a brilliant idea and so honours the best of what it means to be a woman! I’m in, watch for photos
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