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Send your own Operation Beautiful Note to Caitlin at OperationBeautiful@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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we live in a world where the idea of beauty is twisted.
Everyone has beauty. we are are all beautiful and no one can take that away.
weather your a size 2 or a size 22 weather your skin is pale or dark weather our tall or short as you are beautiful.
and another thing. happiness is beauty itself (:
there was a sticky note on the bathroom stall at school. it said “smile, you are beautiful. operationbeautiful.com” and it made my day! (:
Hi Caitlin,
I love your concept and have been trying to tell myself that for many years.
Unlike you I am not young- 55 years old and try like heck to keep up with
myself, but, somedays I feel like I am losing the battle.
That aside, I am starting a womens clothing website that will be launching
in Sept. My idea is to offer clothing that will enhance all types of body shapes and make woman feel good about themselves.
I saw you on the today show and thought- wow, that is perfect on my website. It would be great to have a heart on the home page that says
“You are beautifull”. Also, with your permission, I would love put a little
heart soap into every order that is placed- again with the same saying on it.
If you would allow me to do this, I would love to tell your story and give you
credit for the beauty of it.
Thank you for making the world a better place- I see you have a beautiful
soul to go with your beautiful outside.
Linda Eisenstein,
Owner/Clothes Befitting
Hi Linda:
Operation Beautiful is trademarked, but if you want to spread a positive message through your clothing line, do it!
I’m sure your customers would love it.
Thanks for your support!
C
Found a note when i was a work today on the fitting room phone. Didnt have a clue what it all meant but googled the website when i got home. What a fantastic thing your doing. It was a lovely pick me up. Thanks x x c
Caitlyn , I am going into middle school and I think your blog makes so many peaople feel good I just wanted to say that thanks to you I am so confident. I am telling so many other girls about it
I am planning a progect icky own: I am going to put sticky notes on the elmentRy girls bathroom stalls Some of them say ugly things and it always made me fell down I thought by doing this the younger kids wouldn’t feel so bad
I was working tonight at Kings Island in Ohio and when I got back from break I saw this yellow sticky note that said
Smile! Beautiful! YOU ARE LOVED!!!! O[erationbeautiful.com
my co workers and I were like this is cool we are checking it out
it made our nights
thanks soo much for this site!
This is so inspiring, l am going to live a sticky note on my blog today…thanks for inspiring many young women…how beautiful.
We are meant to be the person we are at this exact moment and it takes every step and experience in our journey to bring us here. Always remember you are needed, important, special and worthwhile. You are beautiful in your own unique and personal way. Thanks for being you!
~ my virtual post it~
Michelle – I hope you don’t mind but I’m copying this to post on my friends’ facebook pages… it’s beautiful and just the type of thing I love leaving for them now and then.
Stay Beautiful!!
Christina
Michelle,
I hope you don’t mind, I’m sharing/posting this with all my FB friends.
Also posted it on my mirrors at home.
LOVE this also! I’m going to borrow it as well and post to my facebook page(with credit to you of course) LOVE this concept of the sticky notes- am heading to the store today to get a bunch and start writing to post.
I am in high school, and i have an uncle who lives nearby, with my aunt, their son, and two daughters. he works hard to keep himself, and the rest of his family, in shape, which is great. their family is not overweight, and very good athletes. but i dont think he realizes that when he talks about not just staying in shape, but losing weight, it can have negative effects, espically on his daughters, who are 11 and 12. the other day, in the car, i was talking about how hard soccer practice has been, and he asked me if i knew how much weight i had lost from playing. i dont consider myself to be overweight, nor do i consider myself to be completly skinny. but still, i was completly taken aback. does it matter that i lose weight, so long as i am healthy? he constantly talks about being skinny, and i worry that my little cousins could have problems with self esteem, espically because they are just becoming teenagers. any tips on how to help them deal with staying positive? im not comfortable talking to my uncle directly, but is there anything i can say to them, other then just, your beautiful, no matter what?
thank you so much!!
just try to talk to your cousins privately about how YOU feel about being active and eating healthy… how you do it to be strong and not just thin. maybe discuss with them negative messages in the media, like photoshopped magazine covers, and help them understand what’s really important. you can definitely make them see things in a new light!
I’ve learned that it’s not about being a size 2 or size 10. I’m going off to college in less than a month and STILL worrying about my size. However, I think that this summer has really taught me to just let go more and live life happily. Read, hang out with genuine people, sing loudly, dance crazy, and eat right. I’ve learned that it’s also not about depriving yourself of every single “fattening” food there is out there. I think- really- that it’s about just loving you for who you are. The simple yet gorgeous fact that we are women. Our bodies can give life, we love and nurture, we are beautiful creatures. So, why hate your body or yourself? Just have fun being you and be the best you that you can be. Exercise and eat right because you deserve to have great health as a human being. Take care of the beautiful body that you have. And most importantly, appreciate it. Because without this beautiful body, we wouldn’t have the wonderful gift of life.
I have to say from someone that suffers from anxiety and a tad bit of depression…these post its are wonderful for more then just weight issues. For me I have bad days and a note saying I am beautiful just how I am reminds me that I am NOT my illness…and I am beautiful in the midst of the storm…wet hair and all!
thank you and know I will be buying post its in bulk! God bless!
I have never heard of this before but I live in upstate new york and i went to an italian festa with my boyfriend. I had to go to the bathroom and there weren’t a lot of people in there so I just took the first stall that was open and on the toilet paper holder it said smile! Your beautiful and had the website on the bottom of the sticky note so I decided to check it out! I must say that it was a weird place to put it but it deffinately made me smile!!
I tried leaving a message last night, but am still learning to use my blackberry and I dont see it here….so gonna leave it again!
I just wanted to say that I love this idea. I found you from a magazine article….and I am in love with this.
One thing I wanted to point out, is that its not just “fat talk” that we can combat with this. I struggle with anxiety and what my doctor says is depression, I just say I am overwhelmed with life sometimes!
These compliments are a reminder that I am not my illness, and that I am so much more. Things like you are beautiful inside and out….reminds me that even though I am struggling so much on the inside, I am still a remarkably beautiful person.
I will be buying Post Its in stock for this “movement”. (Glad I found out about you before school started, I can stock up CHEAP!) LOL
Thank you again,
Blessings to you!
I already looking for a pad of sticky notes and pen to shove in my backpack for the beginning of school(:
Me too! :]
I live in china and i found this site and im doing it too! OB is now more international than ever!
I live in china and i found this site and im doing it too! OB is now more international than ever!!!! Stay beautiful!
I’m only 10 and already, this is happening in my grade. My best friend will tell me that she is FAT. I’ll say, no. No you are not fat. You are beautiful. And she’ll argue. Once she went on a diet for almost a year. I was so sad! So many people stress over their weight. But all of them are beautiful people. But I was on a computer game called moshimonsters.com and I was on the kid-safe forums. A person named forksbellamarieswan came to a discussion and started telling us we were ugly and that she was beautiful and SO much better looking than all of us. I was so hurt. So hurt. But I didn’t show it. I helped those who reacted. I told them that they were gorgeous people who shouldn’t pay attention to such a comment. Then, yesterday I stumbled upon this website. i loved the idea and I am starting to leave post-its everywhere. thank you so much for the inspiration!
I believe I I but these words from an article in Oprah magazine:
“I am ageless, adventurous, active, beautiful, balanced, and blessed…”
I have it taped to a top shelf on my computer desk.
Beth
Age 70
I believe that every single person is beautiful because we were each created by the hands of the Father, who is more beautiful than anything. This is a great thing to do. We are each gorgeous in our own way. <3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3
Absolutely! :] It really is true. “In our own way”…people seem to take that for granted. We have to realize that our own beauty is unlike anyone else’s, and because some of us are similar, we are by no means even close to being the same as anyone else on this planet, whether it’s looks, personality, mind, ideas, purpose, the list goes on. Find beauty in others, but never compare your beauty to theirs! You are incomparable! :]
i will believe that girls hav started dieting at 8 …cause one of those girls is ME I am goin 2 middle school an i cant stop absusing about my body untill my c/z introduced me 2 this website but b4 that I had just went on vacation with my family i didnt want to take one step outside in my bathing suit i thought i was a cow but wen my mom finally made me i went to the pool and jumped in wen i got out i walk by 3 boys my age one said who is she? the others siad i do not no but she is hot … and that made my day ..but even if a boy doesnt say that 2 u thats there lose bc/z in siad a big person is a big heart and i love u all 4 dealing withb all these rude pig boys the ones that r sweet LOVE U 4 U!!!!!!!!!!!!! love ur self now or i am gonna jump out there and sit there till u do…lol ..hehehe… no i meen it love ur self no matter wat!!!
This is such an inspiring idea!!! I first saw it in Glamour magazine, I bookmarked it and showed my mom. She thought it was awesome too! I’m going into high school and its a great way to boost confidence. I now have a pad of sticky notes and a pen so wherever i go, i can post a note
Im currently struggling with an eating disorder. EDNOS because I dont fit criteria for Anorexia. My best friend who struggles with depression, (much caused by me) told me about this website, told me to check it out (after she tagged my car, of course).
This is very inspiring. I plan to participate in it this fall when I leave for college. I feel like this gives me the extra boost I need to not only feel beautiful, but finally be beautiful too.
Rice, 19 NY
Hi Caitlin! I have been following your site for awhile, and I think your message is so wonderful. I am going to be a Resident Advisor in the dorms at my university this year, and you have inspired me to decorate my floor’s bathroom and the girls’ mirrors with uplifting post-its! Any other ideas for a female college dorm? I’d love to do a program sometime during the year where we focus on healthy living and positive body image… I can’t wait to share your message!
You’re such a beautiful person! Thanks for the inspiration!
-Shelby
Some groups do massive note-writing days where everyone gets together in the rec room and fills up post-its!
I saw the Operation Beautiful story on the Today show I was so excited to get started and wanted to share this book and the message with my sisters and my two daughters. I ordered 6 books 3 at a time. I’m going to gift them with a buch of post-it notes. I have just started reading the book and have been in tears several times reading the stories. Tears of joy because I know I too can touch many lives. Thanks for the inspiration,speading joy is my mission thanks for giving me a direction and a path to follow. Mary in Idaho
Thank you for this! I just bought your book today and I am going to start post-iting away when I get back to Quinnipiac University. I was one of those girls who struggled with an eating disorder, depression, anxiety etc. I started dieting in the 3rd grade because I was overweight. I come from a very wealthy, image-conscious, and materialistic town (my family was so far from that). Eventually it got to the point where I was at a dangerously low weight. I don’t think I fully shook anorexia until the end of High School. But during high school I took on the habit of cutting. I hated everything about myself including my frizzy curly hair (which I now love) and my skin condition all over my body (one thing i still can’t accept but I’m working on it!). I won’t lie and say that I don’t have bad days. The thing about these bad days is that I KNOW they will not last. I fight everyday with a positive attitude to never ever go down that road of misery. I am, for once in my life, healthy and at the average ratio for my height and weight. I am not a size 0 or 2 anymore; I was not meant to be that. I have muscle. I am strong. I’m on a dance team. I’m in a sorority. I have a 3.9 GPA. I have an amazing boyfriend and am in a healthy relationship for once in my life. I’ve never been happier in my life! I am 21 years old and the first time I went public about my struggles was in front of around 85 girls in my sorority last year. I gave a presentation about my story and even shared my darkest hours when I wanted to end my life. I wanted to share my story to help others. If I can prevent one person from going down that road, everything I went through will be worth it. I hope one day I can continue to share my story and help others like you do Caitlyn. I want to be a teacher and I want to teach my students more than just the material. I want to teach them confidence and self-acceptance. You are my inspiration and amazing!!!
Love always,
D.
You are awesome! Stay strong.
Our ladies bathroom at work doesn’t have a mirror. It’s been missing for weeks. The girls around the office started complainging that they couldnt’ see how they looked. I didn’t know about this project yet – but I posted post-its on the bare wall above the sinks that say “You are beautiful.”
I am a patient at the river centre clinic. The girls and I learned about Operation Beautiful and decided to particpate. Walking around the mall placing post-its was a wonderful experience, it was even better when I had to (politely) argue with the security guards about how wonderful this campaign is, and how it helps everyone to post the notes.
thanks for sticking by us!
Michelle, hope you don’t mind, i loved your virtual post so much I copied and paste it on my facebook page for all my friends to read. Thank you.
You put a smile on my face today.
Caitlin,
I just wanted to share with you how excited I am to have found your site and discovered your mission. I am part of an exciting new website for women http://www.newjane.com and our theme for the month of August is to focus on body image issues. We were all charged with the task of blogging about body image and the topics all seem to have headed in the direction of how to turn around our own negativity and “fat talk”. We are all (admittedly) intelligent women, but it would seem that our positive talk has been drowned out and the beautiful inner voices that we all know exist have been lost. As the mom of a young daughter, I tell her everyday that she is my beautiful princess, but I have somehow lost the ability to speak to myself in the same way. I now plan on sharing these thoughts in an upcoming blog of my own and passing on your message… maybe even offering one of your books as a prize
Thank you for the incredible gift of inspiration. You are beautiful… and so am I.
HurricaneJane
Too many people don’t love themselves – including me. And it seems like so many people are successful due to their beauty or perfect body and such. But nobody really seems to think of how unfair it is that the media is controlling our opinions on beauty. We were all born with different opinions. That’s one way we’re unique, yet we allow someone else with a make-up team and a computer editor to narrow our view on beauty. It’s okay to see the glossy photos in magazines as beautiful. They are, but they also aren’t very realistic, and they aren’t the only form of beauty on this planet. Words are beautiful. Flowers are beautiful. Lipstick is beautiful. YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL. Your eyes, your skin, your hair…your love for animals, your ability to write beautiful music, your ability to understand others. Oh there are so many things, some you haven;t even discovered in yourself yet! Love yourself. Love yourself unconditionally. Don’t be shy to do so. Ignore those who put you down – you really don’t have time for them. Get up, walk to a mirror, and tell that wonderful, beautiful person, “I love you”. Those words are words you deserve to hear from #1 – yourself. :]
I am so inspired by this project that I just ordered customized sticky notes from vistaprint with your website name on them to help pass the message. Thank you for helping us all accept who we are the way we are!
Hi I just heard about your website yesterday. I googled for a picture to post onto a friends profile on a website that I’m apart of, and I found a picture that had your email address on it. So I googled your site and found this site very motivational. I went onto all of my friends profiles and posted that picture along with your web address. Thank you for such a great site!!!
I read about Operation Beautiful in Glamour last night and I am so excited to get started! I plan on buying sticky notes today(:
I’m starting highschool in a couple weeks and a lot of people think they’re ugly and fat when they’re NOT! everyone is beautiful in their own way and Operation Beautiful helped me realize that.
I think this site is amazing and not many people know about this where I live, but I’m going to change that. (:
-Krysta 15, South Korea
i am a teen. and all my life i have been put down for being “ugly” or”fat” and operation beautiful gave me a little confidence. even though i may not look beautiful i feel like i can be
Right before I started my workout today, I went to the bathroom at my gym, and on the inside of the door of my stall was a post-it that said, “Scales measure your weight – not your worth…www.operationbeautiful.com”. I had been feeling upset about my physical appearance, and it totally just made my day =)
We think this is such a great idea! Today’s media makes girls feel like they need to become somebody different because they show models and actors that are unreasonable sizes. Girls should be comfortable in thier own skin and should accept who they really are. Beautiful comes in every shape and size.
“For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.” – Ivan Panin
WOW. This is amazing. My friend posted ur site as her fb status and i checked it out! I totally love what you are doing! im SUPER excited to start! im going out today to buy lots of post-its and index cards! i plan to put em everywhere! =]
This website inspired me to bring Operation Beautiful to my town.
I have an early-morning class so I get to school an hour before most students–a perfect opportunity to put post-its on the bathroom mirrors! Thanks so much for starting such an inspiring project! I believe it can do a lot of good in the world! 
Hi my name is Juliana. One day someone made me think I was a victma but today I realize I am a surviver! We got to be strong!
Everybody has people in their lives, who doubt them or make them feel less than they are. We got to believe in ourselves!Sometimes We loose it but We got to dig deeper to find balance and peace…You can have everything, but it does not mean anything if you don’t have confidence in yourself. We fall in love with everything else and forget the most importand, We got to be in love with ourselves. BEAUTIFUL can be anything We want! It is ok to be in love with ourselves! It is ok to love our whole selves even our imperfections because you are absolutaly beautiful as you are:-)
I saw an article about Operation Beautiful in Glamour magazine and couldn’t help but visit the website. I can’t wait to begin participating! Kudos on an awesome idea and a warm heart to back it up. You make me feel beautiful
I read about this operation in Glamour magazine. I instantly got inspired, now i am posting notes all over my school! to let girls know how beautiful they really are. It is really amazing.
This is something i need to hear about on the channel 33 news today. Ive been feeling so down since ive graduated in june…im losing all my friends. and i think its causing me to be depressed and sick. ive felt nothing the past 2 months r so. Thank you for this message i love it.
You are beautiful
I just ordered your book tonight. The article in Glamour (September 2010) about it sparked my interest. I can’t wait to read it! I’m hoping that you have a fan page on FB so that I can see all of the post-it’s as tagged photos. I LOVE what you’ve done
~Thanks~
Karen
Thank you so much!
Being a girl of 14 usually comes with alot of pressure you always have to be the right size, have the right clothes, and be perfect in every way or so I thought. When I saw an article for this in FIRST magazine I was amazed that this whole movement had been going on and I didn’t even know it! After reading this and seeing the website I decided that I’m beautiful the way I am and I want to tell every other girl out there that same message. I can’t wait for school to get back in or even to go to the grocery store with my pen and sticky notes and tell the world or at least the people in my city this message!!!
I saw the article in Glamour Magazine, and I think this is a wonder thing. I myself had lots of confidence issues as a teen, so I get it. I haven’t seen any post it notes where I live and it makes me assume that no one is doing this here. I would like to participate and include my small town in SC in operation beautiful. Maybe I can change some young peoples thoughts so they can feel better about themselves as a teen, so they can be confident enough to chase their dreams and have a happy life
Because, after all, that’s what it’s about!
hey, i just found this website today, but i think what youre doing is amazing. im starting middle school soon and i heard that sometimes the grade 9s can be pretty mean to the younger kids, so ive decided that i will leave a message on every bathroom door, mirror, change room door and locker possibe at my school to brighten every girls day!
Operation Beautiful was just mentioned on KSBJ in Houston, Texas! What a glorious movement ~ can’t wait to be a part. I’m posting a note today! Maybe 2 or 3. PS… You’re BEAUTIFUL just the way you are!
This is a wonderful idea! For so much of my life I’ve despised my appearance and felt I was never enough for what the world expected me me to be. It’s a daily struggle for me, and I think so many of us as women feel this way to some degree because the standard for what “beautiful” is seems so unreachable. But we are made by the perfect hands of God and we are just as we were made to be. Thank you for speading this beautiful idea and encouraging us to love ourselves as we are:)
God bless you, Caitlin!
We’re all BEAUTIFUL from the strands of our hair and all the way down to our toes oh and don’t forget how extra BEAUTIFUL (all of what’s in between is!)
Hey, this is a great idea! I’m Gonna start doing this everywhere i go!!!! I live in northern NSW, Australia
This is an awesome idea. I stumbled across this website accidently & I’m so happy that I did. I absolutely love this concept. Although I don’t feel good about myself often, I love uplifting others. I’ve always left notes around my house with encouraging words for my Fiance, however, I’ve never thought about leaving them in public places. I can’t wait to go out tomorrow. Imma stock up on post its & sharpies & leave positive messages everywhere. I can’t wait to make someone smile.
I say hi to everyone I pass & I smile at them because you never know what someones going thru & that could make they’re day. Adding these little messages
This is an awesome idea. I stumbled across this website accidently & I’m so happy that I did. I absolutely love this concept. Although I don’t feel good about myself often, I love uplifting others. I’ve always left notes around my house with encouraging words for my Fiance, however, I’ve never thought about leaving them in public places. I can’t wait to go out tomorrow. Imma stock up on post its & sharpies & leave positive messages everywhere. I can’t wait to make someone smile.
I say hi to everyone I pass & I smile at them because you never know what someones going thru & that could make they’re day. Adding these little messages everywhere will allow me touch many others. Thank you for such an uplifting website & concept.
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