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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.
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 read the article in glamour magazine and fell in love with the idea of telling people they are beautiful! i have personally struggled with society’s idea of beauty but i have had enough i am beautiful just the way i am! i leave post its everywhere!
Operation Beautiful is an amazing and genius idea! Especially me being a fifteen year old girl, I plan to put post it notes in the girls locker room and washrooms; spreading the smiles!!
I am LOVING this idea! I read about it in Glamour and Fitness magazines..and I’m hooked. I’m buying Post Its tomorrow and am going to keep them in my purse so I’ll have them ready. This is life changing…for me as a 37 year old ‘negative talker’ and for all the women out there who will be touched by this. Thank you for starting this amazing movement..I truly believe it’s LONG overdue!!!
This is an AMAZING website. I discovered this through Glamour and I was just so inspired.I myself tend to think negatively about myself, and just to think that a small sticky note can brighten someone’s day and make them feel beautiful. It’s the littlest things that make people happy. YOU are a genius, Caitlin.
You are beautiful. I’m going to carry sticky notes with me wherever I go now!
What a wonder idea!!! I am a mother of 4 teenage daughters and the images the media puts out there is unreal. My husband and I have always tried to stress beauty starts from within and now finally girls can get a positive message!!!! Thank you operation beautiful!
The other day I found a message in the inside waistband of my new favorite pants that read: You are beautiful. Thrilled, I took a picture and shared it with my friends on a social network. Another friend pointed me here! I’ve joined your movement and I am excited to make other women feel just as wonderful as I did that day when I put on those new jeans! I have a pen and a stack of stinky notes… and I am not afriad to use them!
Follow us on twitter for daily affirmations and messages of positivity and inspiration for your sticky notes!
http://www.twitter.com/InnerBeautybook
operation beutiful is an awesome website!!
iam planning to start putting up post it notes!!!
This is such a great idea not only for me being a 14 year old girl who is very self conciece bit for all women…. I not only put up post it’s for others but put them for my self on my bad days so I can realize that I’m beautiful no matter how I feel
read about this in glamour! i want to post some all over my school. all my friends are so selfconscious and i really think this will help
I LOVE this idea!! Women are sooo hard on themselves and each other, it’s about time we do something positive!! I decided not only to do the post it’s but anyone who has a social network out there should post a note to the walls of their friends randomly…..I have done this several times and it has gotten a great response!! Everyone needs a pick me up sometimes not just a random stranger…. I want all of you to know that you are all beautiful in your own unique & fantastic ways be proud of you and hold your head high with that beautiful smile to light your way!!
i sat down in the library to read a weight watchers cookbook and i opened it up to find a handwritten note that said ” you were given life. it’s your duty to find something beautiful within it no matter how slight!<3 operationbeautiful.com" that really brightened my day(:
Hi I just love the book. I am a teacher looking to do an after school activity using Operation Beautiful. I wanted to gear it towards 5th and 6th girls, because I think their self esteem could use a boost. Any ideas, suggestions??? I would be doing a 1 hour class that runs 8 weeks. Thanks Dana Klag
You could talk about healthy balance, photoshopping in magazine, and other body image issues! I think Dove also offers a program you can download.
Thanks for your support!
I think that Operation Beautiful is such an inspiration. I just read about it in Sept. Glamour. I work at a university in student housing and see students on a daily basis so I really think that something such as this could really help our students. I am so inspired that I copied the article and gave it to my boss, the Greek advisor to give to the sororities, the community service director, the counselor, the RAs, and the hall directors. I hope that I can keep it going… I plan on giving a copy to my pastor so that he can give it to the youth advisor at church! Just doing this makes me feel beautiful!
i have dealt with anorexia for 4 years and when i saw this mentioned in glamour magazine it almost made me cry. The fact that someone would start this is sad (because it shouldnt have to exist because there should be ridiculous standards for image) but also amazing because instead of complaining about the stupid images we see in the media and other places they are fighting it. I cannot thank you enough for this website and this “operation”. You are all beautiful, inside and out.
shouldnt be ridiculous standards***
I read the article in Glamorr and it inspired me, I post notes around my office, and even every morning on Facebook. This morning I reminded everyone to smile…..because they are beautiful, and blessed. Sometimes I have to remind myself in the morning as i get ready for work…..this was a wonderful idea.
This website advertises an amazing idea! I myself gave up caring about so-called celebrities ling ago (what makes them so special and different..?) but none of my friends seem to be able to. Maybe they’ll understand when they see this because i’ve been telling them for ages “Everyones idea of beauty is different, what if you made your idea of beauty YOURSELF?”
I just started leaving messages,and it makes me feel good to stand back and watch another girl or woman find my message…and smile.
this website is fantastic! being a teenager, i deal with lots of pressure to look a certain way. i am also a dancer – and that means i have to be tiny. i’ve already improved my mindset about how i look and i’ve started putting notes on my school mirrors
i think this is amazing and i love it im so going to use it!!!!!!
I found a sticky note on the bathroom mirror today at school today promoting this website. Its my birthday and its been pretty dull, and seeing this made my day! Its rather inspirational and I plan on leaving these notes wherever I can from now on. The woman who came up with this is a genius.
As women trying to get through everyday life, the last thing we should have to deal with are the body and self esteem issues. Operation beautiful is sending an amazing message. Young girls should learn to accept their bodies, and not care what anyone else thinks. I will try to put sticky notes everywhere promoting this message that beauty is inside. Weight is only a number, and we are all fabulous!! Thank you for inspiring me and finally sending a positive message to all women and girls!!!
Me and my best friend wrote a whole pad of these and put them allll over NYC. I think this is my favorite thing in the world
After reading this article in the Sept. issue of Glamour Mag i realized that those simple comments i give to women daily are all worth it and appreicated I am pleased to know there are so many others out here encouraging beauty in all forms
) wonderful job!!!
i made a photo for tagging on facebook and i tagged all my friends who are girls and i told them to tag their friends who ar girls on facebook. i hope that i made someones day telling them they are beautiful
i like this idea and the hole thing about this web site
Your “cause” is viral!! I saw your segment on the Today Show and thought…”what an awesome way to uplift people today in times that we need it.” I’ve even seen a Post-it note with an inspirational note on it in a public bathroom. Today, I bought some Post-it notes and am going to spread the inspiration!! Keep up the good work!!
I really need to reach or contact the owner or starter of this operation. I can honestly say I’ve been touched completely by this not I found last night on the restroom stahl. I’ve been very down lately and my confidence has been completely gone. I keep putting myself down and my boyfriend has been telling me I am more than perfect to him in every way and I don’t need to change. He has been trying to get my confidence back up by telling me I’m beautiful every chance he has. I was still down last night when I went to the movies lastnight. Hamilton Imax 16 in Noblesville, IN. I had to go to the restroom half way through the movie and descide to go. When I stood up to pull my pants back up there it was at the top of the door looking me straight in the face. I came out almost in tears asking my boyfriend if he has set this up. he took it out of my hands and said no…. The irony of it is so magnificent and so well planned I can’t understand how important this little orange sticky note is too me honestly. I would LOVE to leave little notes like this for other woman to see. If half the people on this site were touched as half as much as me, they would understand. This was such a helping hand. Thank you. Please email me back or contact me. I want to help.
It’s true – you are worth it
I hope to see the notes you post as well!
Ive shared this idea with a few of my friends and im gathering supplies so when the county fair comes in 2 weeks, i can leave an inspirational “your Beautiful” “you are strong and beautiful” “smile, I love you just the way you are” Etc. Message on every car every day. . thats over 2000 cars a day. . . the fair is 9 days long. and i do it 2 times a day, that is over 18000 cars. . . 18000 people! Wish me luck!
send me pictures!!!
I just read an article in First magazine about this movement today. I’m not one to do a lot of posting or commenting on websites, but I couldn’t resist. I struggle with being positive, but I’ve grown tired of being such a Debbie Downer, so to speak. I have a lot to be thankful for and I’m ready to spread that message around to others. I’ve never seen one of these notes, but I am very excited to get started. I’m putting some post its in my purse and sticking them around tonight. I feel better already!
I, like everyone else on here found this article in glamour magazine and I think it’s absolutely incredible that you guys do this. I am going to start doing this. Young girls especially in these times are so pressured to fit into this impossible image. I’ve always been the type to be like “oh well who cares what i look like as long as I am happy”..although deep down sometimes it gets tough with all of the horrible stereotypes of what a girl should act and look like. Please keep it up. It inspires me and many others.
Thank you Caitlin for this website an creating the book Operation Beautiful Transforming your see yourself one post-it note at a time. The book is amazing and so is this website. I read the book in 2 days….so inspirational. Thank you!!! Yes, women do say a lot of negative fat talk to themselves and to their friends but so do a lot of men. I have battled with an immense amount of my own fat talk as well as from others and it’s stopping NOW! I am beautiful and so is everyone else. Beauty should not be defined by the media but by ourselves. Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.
I am glad you like the book!
I read about this in a magazine a few days ago, and thought this was such a great idea.. there have been many days where I don’t feel that good, that pretty, or anything else.. and if there was even a small note left around for me just to say to say ‘you are beautiful’ or ‘you are amazing’ that would mean so much to me.. I’m definitly going to start leaving little notes everywhere I go..
I am a counselor for teenage girls who live in a group home due to family and other outstanding circumstances. We read your article in glamour while we were on vacation and cannot wait to get home and get started.
Thank you for such an inspirational idea and hopefully we will be spreading the message of being beautiful around NJ.
Caitlin,
This is so wonderful that you are doing this. I read your story in Glamour magazine and was just completely touched by it. I emailed a bunch of my beautiful friends about your story and told them my story. I’ve gotten positive responses and they too want to spread the positive message. Thank you so much helping young girls and women to embrace their beauty.
I wound up using your mission as a base for a project my senior year of high school. I had to do something around school that would create an impact and would invoke responses from the student body. Our idea was stemmed from wanting people to believe they are beautiful. So we took a bunch of sticky notes, some pens, and some printed and hand written quotes, we plastered them in all of the bathrooms on the mirrors, leaving room for people to respond how they wanted. The response we got was amazing, everything from people writing that they wish that someone actually cared about them to people responding with “someone always cares, don’t worry” or “you are truly beautiful. you don’t need all that make up or a guy to tell you”! I was so pleased and excited that people take it seriously! So keep going and I’ll keep posting sticky notes!
Someone did something similar to this to me on the first day of school (i.e. today). My backpack was entirely cleaned out, and at the end of the day when I was on the bus, I noticed a little strip of paper rolled tightly into a scroll and secured with a Silly Band in my backpack’s side pouch/pocket. I looked at it, and it read:
“Smile. You look beautiful today
‘Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.’ – James Dean
Love,
Someone who cares”
It certainly made my day, and I was thrilled and ecstatic that other people in my area care enough and are sweet and loving enough to do such a beautiful thing.
Now, I’m going to pass it on in hopes of making another girl’s day better, even if by a little bit. I especially hope I sneak one in the backpack side pouch of a girl who is having a bad day. Or a boy, with a different but similarly-inspiring message.
What a brilliant idea! It’s usually in a public restroom that I end up standing next to a girl that I think has smoother hair or better skin, (fill in the blank). How wonderful it would be if at that moment I looked up & saw a post it that told me I’m beautiful because I’m me?! I love the idea that I could give that moment to someone else! Once again- BRILLIANT!!! *standing- clapping* You better believe post its will be a permanent right next to my chapstik & cell from now on:)
I’ve been up all night reading the little tid bits of stuff on here and it’s made me feel so much better. I’m going through a rough time and even reading that people out there can say that someone else is beautiful puts a smile on my face. :]
As the mother of four children one son and three daughter’s..I think this is such an awesome idea..I think we should all have daily reminders of what really makes each one of us beautiful and it’s not the size of our jean’s or anyone or anything portrayed in the media at this point..Enough already of not loving ourselves..We all have something to offer the world!
I read the article in Glamour magazine and it inspired me! Since reading the article I’ve posted a few notes to mirrors in fitting rooms and to mirrors in the bathroom at my school! I’m sooo glad I read about operation beautiful. It’s been an inspiration!
I was just chatting with a friend of mine, and I was telling her that I wanted to do more in life, but I did not know where to start. I was reading my Glamour and saw the article on Operationbeautiful.com. Now I know where to begin!
Love this IDEA!
I just read about this, and think it’s amazing! I’m in high school, and when we start I plan on posting a few in the bathrooms. And I’ll bring a pen and a pad with me wherever I go, so I can do it other places to! Such a fabulous movement, I can’t wait to become a part of it(:
I had never heard of operation Beautiful until my mother bought me the book. Its really inspiriring to see that people care to leave these little note for others. Im 19 and in college and after recieving the book i ran out to school and started posting them every where! It really does make you feel good when you stick on of those little notes to a mirror, knowing that when someone else see’s it it will hopefully make their day.
I do really struggle with fat talk, im a bit over-weight in my eyes, and just dont see why anyone would like me this way! We have all grown up with the image of tiny skinny models, thinking that we need to look like them to feel good about ourselves! I can’t take it anymore, we just need to love ourselves and our bodies!
I love what operation Beautiful is all about and i will continue posting note!!!
~everyone is beautiful and special in their own way!! <3
I also read the article in Glamour magazine and I immediately got inspired to get involved in this inspiring global movement. I love the message you are sending out to every women in the world. I always strive to teach young girls that they have a lot to offer and that they are special in their own right and they deserve respect in every aspect. Young girls need to know that they are beautiful inside and out and that they matter and if anyone tells them otherwise, they need to omit their from their lives. I want to get involved, how do I do that?? THANKS!! Keep up the incredible work!! xo
Post a note and email it to me at operationbeautiful@gmail.com!
I am a youth Minstery and I have changelled all the youth in my group to take a pack of post it and put them in different place that say you are beautiful and they were very excited to do this. I will keep you posted on what they have done. Thank you for this beautiful activity.
I put these post it notes all over my house after I saw the article in Glamour. I’m a stay at home mom, so at times Im too busy to do hair or make-up and dont feel beautiful. When I look at these notes, I realize I AM beautiful, no matter what my hair, makeup or clothes look like.
i saw one on my mall floor yesterday
and i smiled! it said “you’re beautiful so smile 
” and i did!
I read this artical in glamous magazine and boy did it make me feel amazing about myself. I’m 15 1/2 years old and have always struggled and obsessed over my weight. Most things you see out there are skinny women, skinny women and more skinny women. There are tons of articals out there that say your body is good now but loose a few pounds and your body will be great. This is the first thing I’ve read that lets girls embrace their body how it is.I took the pictures that where in the article, cut them out, and posted them on my wall for a constant reminder that I’m beautiful how I am. Every body and every girl is beautiful and amazing in their own way. I’m going to join in posting messages so everygirl near me will feel better about themseleves. Thank you so much for helping me see my body in a different light
I READ THE ARTICLE IN FIRST FOR WOMEN. I LOVE THE IDEA. I STARTED WRITING THE NOTES AT WORK. I LEFT THEM IN ALL AREAS. EVERYONE SEEMS TO KNOW ITS MY HANDWRITING. I AM GOING TO PUT A PEN AND PAD IN MY PURSE AND POST THEM WHEREVER I GO!!!!
THANK YOU SO MUCH
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