Participate
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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fantastic idea
Never stop
The things that you said to me,
Even though you ment it,
Trying to crush my dreams,
They never sank in,
Your only one being,
I’m one soul,
Those old sayings are true,
You can’t force me to do anything,
I’ve gone throught thick and thin,
With my life,
Trying to get to my number one goal,
Nothing would ever stop me from it,
You try to tell me what’s right from wrong in the wrong way,
Even though I know I’m smarter than that,
You tricks are too old,
I lift my chin and walk away,
Stop me all you want,
Nothing is going to change,
You all your will,
Come on don’t waste your time,
You’ve got a life,
Go use it,
Stop trying to get into mine,
Like I’ve got any problems of my own to worry,
Why waste your time,
That you can never get back,
You have a full life ahead of you,
Go on and enjoy the sunshine,
I will never follow you advice,
If you dare push,
You will get the horror,
Go on and try I dare you,
And I will fight back,
As a strong person does,
That I look up to,
To never stop,
I have a life,
Get out of it
this is a poem that I wrote for others to see that never let what anyone says hurts you
beautiful poem!
What a great poem! Good job ?
I heard of you by my school posting sticky notes on peoples lockers and I think you are a wonderful program that made people like me happy about themselves,
My friend and I started posting notes on the girl’s lockers at our high school. Then I found this website and I was so excited that someone actually made a website for this. We now are postings post it notes in the girls bathroom and all the girls are wondering whose doing it. A lot of them think some of the senior girls are doing it, but nope it’s two freshman girls that think every girl should know they are beautiful no matter what people say. I believe that God has made each and every one of us perfect and beautiful in our own unique way and he loves all of us!
DO you go to LGHS?
No i go to LHSI
i go to an lhs too! which one do you go to? (mine’s leander)
Lutheran
I’ve been looking at this website for quite some time now, trying to figure out just how to write a note that will mean something, as much as this website means to me. Honestly, without Operation Beautiful, I don’t know where I would be. I used to cut myself because I didn’t think I was good enough. Sure, I’m popular, and all that stuff. But my home life isn’t so great. I’ve been through a lot more than you think a 13 year old should go through right now, or at all. People would always make rude comments to me saying things like I was a whore, a slut, a bitch, that I should die, and a bunch of other disgusting things. After people started finding out that I was cutting, a lot more people found out then intended and I was getting even more hate. I ended up going to therapy, and joining Operation Beautiful. It really helped a lot. I stopped cutting and I haven’t done it in about 5-6 months or so, which is actually really good because I used to do it every day. Then one day when I came home from school, I found a note on my bedroom mirror saying “it gets better, you’re beautiful, no matter what they say”. It was from my sister. Right now, I can honestly tell you that it no longer pains me to tell my story, because I know that somewhere, someone has the same problem. If you are reading this right now, and you have a problem similar to mine, listen up. You may not have someone like a sister, or a mother you can talk to, but you need to talk to someone. Those little flaws in you, that everyone tends to see ? Yeah, well, they make you, you. You just have to think about all the people who care about you and fuck all the one’s that don’t. They don’t deserve you. You are beautiful, amazing, talented, usefull. You are you. Perfectly, imperfect.
You rock!
Your story was so touching.It made me get the chills. I too used to hurt my self in was such as cutting. Thank you for sharing
It takes a strong person to admit to their past. I just wanted to remind you that YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL, STRONG, GOOD ENOUGH, and BRAVE. I understand dealing with things you shouldn’t have to at a young age and I want you to know that you are not alone. You will NEVER BE ALONE. I hope that life has turned around for you. I just ask one thing, please never stop smiling. (: YOU ARE AMAZING!
Beautiful story Sarah. As beautiful as you are. If you tell it with feeling and stay true to yourself, your true beauty with explode for all to see!! Keep going girl!!
YOU ROCK GIRL!!
I’m going through the exact same thing that you are it sounds like… and this made me tear up and smile. Just knowing you think that makes things a little bit easier. <3
Sarah Turner that is the most beautiful thing i have ever heard. And i would know because i have the exact same problem. exept i was never popular. thank you for telling me i’m beautiful
you actually made me cry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :*(
My friend and I this summer decided to stick post-its saying things like “you’re beautiful” and “smile, your worth it” and we’d wait and watch people smile when they see them. Then a couple of weeks ago I went to the mall, and was looking in a store, and there was a boy about my age (16) putting the same type of post-it notes all over the store. It makes you feel so good to read things like that, and to see how happy people get when you do it. Operation Beautiful rocks!
help me i need words of encouragement, im just so depressed on rejection from every guys..
you are beautiful and special
You are perfect. When a door closes, 2 more will open. If they reject you, they’re not worth it. You deserve far better than them, because you are so beautiful.
First thing, No matter what they say YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL! and no one has the right to make you feel like you’re not! Take some time and focus on yourself! Maybe paint your nails, go to Walmart and buy some spa stuff and just have a day or a couple of hours to yourself. When the right guy comes around for you, both of you will know it. Remember, LOVE YOURSELF! and DO NOT CHANGE FOR A GUY!
YOU ARE GORGEOUS!!! And you are you! Don’t let anyone bring you down, be yourself and love yourself. Like Julianna said, you have no need to change for a guy, or anyone! If he doesn’t like you for you, he’s not the one. You will find love, but in order to do that, you must love yourself!!!! STAY STRONG AND SMILE!!!!(That’ll make everyone a little happier)
Angela, don’t be in a hurry to find a guy. It would be awful if you missed out on the guy who was perfect for you and saw your beauty because you settled for someone else.
You are beautiful and special just the way you are. There is a guy out there who will recognize that. Don’t settle for anything less! Hold your head up and know that you are a fabulous person.
Please know how amazing you are. Guys can be really insensitive and hurtful…you are so much better than what they have said! You rock!
Don’t look to a guy to make you happy. Keep your mind occupied with positive thoughts. I guy doesn’t make you beautiful. You are perfect just the way you are. Do something fun. Step out of your comfort zone and try something new.
they dont flirt with u because they dont want to hold you back from meeting the perfect guy
Hey everyone, (:
Tomorrow i plan on going post-it note crazy! But i dont want to be writting the same thing over and over again. Got any unique ideas for my post-its?? I would love to spread the love and word about the website! Great Job to the founder of it, you are my inspiration!
This is making me cry. But not sad tears. Tears of joy. Why did it take me so long to figure this out? I am going through the same issue Sarah Turner went through. I almost started cutting. My sister is thinking about putting me into therapy. I never could say it to myself. I don’t know it I still can. But I can try.
I am fine.
I can’t jump to high, but it can only go up from here.
Oh my gosh I ? this project! I was on iTwixie (kinda like a social network for tween girls), and someone wrote on my wall a note and told me about this web site. So the post-it notes are going digital? I heard about it on Allykatzz.com too! This is inspiring; I’ll be sure to post some at school tomowrow
Anonymous kindness 
OMG! Cindy, THAT WAS ME!!! I started that whole thing, I posted on another girl’s wall, “YOU R BEAUTIFUL, copy and paste to other girls’ walls” and I guess it spread to u!! WOW!
i found this website by seeing a picture on tumblr, i really want to start doing this, there are too many beautiful people out there believing they are worthless – at times i still do, i am a recovering self harmer and if i can stop one person from going through what i have had to it would happily do it
you are all beautiful, and for all you self harmers like me out there stay strong we will beat this together 
All over the lockers in our school had a sticky note on them. A lot of people just threw them away thinking that it was stupid. I didn’t. It really means a lot to me. I just dicovered this site because of that and want to participate. Thanks!
This is very motivating(: ! I’m so exited!
I am going to start Operation Beautiful at my school! And i want every girl to see that they are beautiful! this website has changed my life so much!
I’m so glad my school is letting me do this!!
I’ve asked one of the many assistant principles here and he’s letting me do it.. I’ve already gotten some pictutes on my camera, ready to upload and send.. Can’t wait to show you guys…:)))
I’m so happy our school found out about this. Bullying took the life of someone already, but this project is going to make sure that never happens again
I started writing these quotes and putting them all over the school. I’m the only one who does it so I’m trying to get helpers.
So I’m a senior in high school. I take a public policy class called Peers Reaching Out. Our mission is to have a “Week of Kindess” in our school. Me and a couple of my friends decided that we are going to take it to the next level. We plan on doing exactly what operation beautiful does.
Tell EVERY girl that she is beautiful. Inside and out.
“Every girl is beautiful. Why do I say that? Because if you were to put every person in the world in one room, and pick a random girl and ask, ‘Who thinks this girl is beautiful?’, at least one person will raise their hand.”
– Sarah Renee Cohen
Stay beautiful everyone. Keep that breath-taking smile on your face. Show the world how strong you are. You can do this. x3
Someone left a post it on one of the cosmetics shelves where I work. In fact, the cosmetics dept is my own personal responsibility in the store. I left it there hoping someone who really needed it would find the message
We don’t have to wear dresses and high-heels, or faces full of make up, to be? beautiful. We ARE beautiful when we are ourselves. We can be princesses in jeans & flannel shirts. We don’t have to take this crap that society pushes on us, (trying to look & act older then we are. We are beautiful, when we are us. We can be princesses in glasses, & arms full of books. We are women, not little toys. We have a right, a voice, & we WILL use it. Recognize your beauty, & what you are worth. Show them now
Hi Caitlin
I didn’t confess this in today’s blog, but I did write a sticky note and put it in the bathroom in my workplace. It’s gone now and no one’s mentioned it so I’m waiting for a response – of some sort.
I also wrote about the project today in my blog!
http://dietschmiet.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/awesomeness-and-affirmations/
Deb
I love this idea!
I do this at school and it is fun and great to know that you are helping others! This saying I made is my fave… :
Roses are red,
Vilots are blue,
Dont be anyone else,
Just be you!!
I’m Gabrielle, I’m thirteen years old. My mother died when i was eleven. I could never fill that void. When i was twelve years old i got into bad habits. I would cut myself three times a day. I would starve myself weeks on end, when i actually ate i would make myself throw up. One day i thought that it was going to be the end, but then i got help. I realized what is really important in life. I used to hate myself, but now I’m on my way to loving myself. Someone left a note on my locker at school. It quoted a scripture, it also said that i am truly beautiful. That made my day. Thank-you to the wonderful people who started and keep this foundation going today. Because of you i found hope.
I am so sorry about your mother. Maybe she sent that person to write that note for you!
I got this book from an Operational Beautiful event and have been putting notes in the bathrooms. I also showed my therapist the book and she will reccomened it to her other client(s). This is a great selfi-esteem booster!
Thanks!
Last Friday the mirror and the walls in one of the girl’s bathrooms at my school were covered in post its with sayings about how each and every one of us is beautiful. I’m pretty sure every girl that looked in that mirror on Friday left the bathroom with a smile. This is such a great idea, so much love to you and this organization.
I found a sticky note that said “You are beautiful, inside and out! operationbeautiful.com” in my mall parking lot.
I don’t know where you live, but I’m in Iowa.
It’s a slim chance you live in Iowa as well, so if you don’t great job. Your sticky notes did spread like wildfire!
Good luck in making big changes! <3
-Zoe
oh my gosh this website is perfect!!! i wish every person in the world (including boys) could realize how perfect/beautiful/handsome & unique they are!! just know that YOU are PERFECTLY unquie!!!
I never thought about myself as pretty, now I have a boyfriend who starts every day calling me beautiful. I think there should be an android app that updates every day with the message of the day! I would love new inspiration for my notes!!
I am blessed every day to have found this site so long ago! I thank my heavenly father for showing me!
Thank you to all the beautiful people leaving notes all over creation and inspiring others! Beautiful doesnt cover it!
I found a note at Wal-Mart telling me I was beautiful and had the name of this website on the bottom. I thought it was SO awesome that I started leaving sticky-notes around my school saying things like “You’re beautiful just the way you are” and things like that. I got my friend, J, to do it too, and she’d write things like “Smile.. you are beautiful!” We post them on desks, lockers, in the bathroom, etc. at school. One day I covered the entire top of J’s desk with sticky-notes all saying different things about her being beautiful, then in the center of the desk I left a row of 8 blank ones and wrote “YOU ARE SO BEAUTIFUL!” across them. After she collected them (48 in total) she handed some out to people (and they were so ecstatic to get them, I could tell it made their day).
One day I was waiting for a club to start, but I was the only one there (aside from a teacher, Mr. E) so I took sticky-notes and I put one on every chair in the room that said things like “You’re beautiful” and I quoted scenes from the recent play, Cinderella, which talked about TRUE beauty.
A couple of weeks later I was sitting in another class and we weren’t doing anything. We sit at these really big round tables (like the kinds in some cafeterias) and I wrote on a bunch of sticky-notes and placed them on the edge of the table. I got halfway around before we had to leave. I used over 30 or 40 Post-Its.
One day Mr. E asked if I owned OperationBeautiful.com, I told him I didn’t but that J and I left the sticky-notes for people. He then asked me if a certain blue Post-It Note that said “You are pretty spectacular — operationbeautiful” was mine or my friends — and it wasn’t! Someone else has started leaving sticky-notes, too!
Thanks to you and your website (and all the awesome people who leave these amazing notes for strangers) you have started a change in my school — a much needed change. THANK YOU!!!
P.S. I’m asking for Post-It notes for Christmas this year
That’s awesome! I love reading other people’s stories of how they are joining in with Operation Beautiful! I know when my friend and I post sticky notes at our school all the girls feel special and they should because everyone is beautiful in their own unique way and that’s the way God made us!
Thank you for making this.. I prefer to talk on witty wit you!
This is the greatest thing ever. I think it really inspires people to think of themselves as God’s creation, not how the world sees us. Plus, it’s a lot of fun! I heard about this in the Susie Magazine.
This is so beautiful
I’ve always had a “wall” that I put up when I went anywhere. i made it seem like I was confident with myself, that people’s whispers didn’t affect me. I acted like I would rather be single so I could be free to have fun. I let people think these things so they wouldn’t find the true me out. The one that can’t stand to look in the mirror or hop on the scale for fear of what she sees, the one who crys at night because she heard what they said about her. The one that wants someone to love her, but has the fear of rejection settled into her mind because she isn’t beautiful. I stumbled across this site looking for ways to improve my thoughts about myself. Seeing this made me realize that I AM beautiful, no matter what anyways says. I realized that I could stop others from feeling the way I felt. Now, I always keep a pad of post-it notes around. In my purse, in my backpack, in my pocket! Everytime I go somewhere I know another women is likely to be, I scribble something encouraging out and a link to the website and wait for somene to pick it up. Whether it somewhere common like the bathroom or a door, or the back of a box of “feminine products”, I know a woman will be happy to have that encouragement. She may be more insecure than she lets on. You could save someone’s life by telling them they are beautiful….. Thank you Caitlin for all you are doing.
I love the idea of leaving pot it notes i started doing it!!! u are my inspiration!!!!
ok so i have had a lot of problem in the past including suffering from Anorexia and cutting. i still cut every single day but im hoping to stop. i have never felt pretty in my entire life never mind beautiful. i am insecure and it doesn’t help im 100% single. ive been used, cheated on and im only 14. my mom and dad are getting a divorce so ive been going through a lot. i am the girl that everyone sees with the biggest smile on her face making everyone laugh and smile when i really i hide it all. cutting is horrible for me like i went 2 years without cutting but its gotten worse since i started again! but today ive been clean for 2 days and im hoping to continure i actually just started the butterfly project! but yes i still dont feel pretty or good enough .. :/
I am sorry you are going through so much. DO you have a counselor at school you can talk to?
Even though we don’t know each other I just want you to know You Are Beautiful! Don’t hold in all your emotions, because someday you are going to burst. Here’s a challenge for you! Get a piece of paper and everyday write down just one thing you like about yourself or anything in your life! It will be hard at first but try and maybe you will see how blessed you really are! If you are not a Christian maybe you could try to buy a bible and read it! God created you and loves you! He wants you to have the best life you can and he does have a plan for you! When you wake up in the mornings tell yourself that YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL and don’t let anyone make you feel like you’re not!
I put my first two operation beautiful notes today. Seriously an amazing feeling. I have been reading operation beautiful things for a long time, but never acted on the post-its though i wanted to. After being in the hospital for over a week i knew one of the first things i wanted to do when i got out was to start posting operation beautiful notes up for girls everywhere <3 My sister reminded me everyday i was in the hospital of how beautiful i was. I think we all need those reminders.
What an amazing idea! i am truly inspired.
I just posted my first /OperationBeautiful/-Post-It in the elevator of my block of flats (All the way in Belgium, Europe by the way!!). I felt so excited whilst doing it
. Got some inspiration from one of the previous posts; it said:
Keep that breath-taking smile on your face, yeah that one. It’s pretty spectacular!
I really hope it does put a smile on someone’s face. *And I’m secretly hoping for someone to post one back;)
Sarah
A friend of mine was really depressed, so a group of friends and I posted many, many notes on her locker, on mirrors, in the toilets, just before she went into them for two whole weeks. Each time she came out of the toilet and after she saw the notes, she would look so happy. My friends and I never told her it was us, but in the end, she found out anyways. She was so inspired that she started a club at our school that helped boost other’s self-esteem especially when they were upset. This time, she truly understood how other’s felt.
my two friends and i put up postits at my school and people like it and we feel good doing it!!!
My friend introduced me to Opperation Beautiful today!! I think it is so great!! After school we wrote on stocky notes and put them up in the bathrooms…i feel so great about it!!! (:
Smile. someone out there love you! <3
one of my friends posted one of the videos on facebook and it really touched me! i have been through alot the past 3 years. i am 15 now and have been anorexic since i was 12. i have been in and out of the hospital and to treatment centers all the time. i went remuda ranch and it truly gave me my life back i was there for 4 months and now i finally have my life back!!! i may not be fully recovered and i still am anorexic but i can really let myself go sometimes and do things like this. it is so nice to know that there is an organization like this:) i just posted one at my gym on the scale, i just dont want anyone else to have to go through what i went through! this is truly amazing and i thank everyone of you for participating!
Hi!
My name is Ashlee. I am 11 years old. I was inspired by you, Caitlin. You made me make this page on Facebook: The Power Of Girls.
I want to help get rid of lack of self confidence, ‘fat talk’ and bullying.
I believe that every girl on earth is BEAUTIFUL IN THEIR OWN UNIQUE WONDERFULLY DIFFERENT WAY. I believe that there is NOTHING wrong with being different from others. That who we are. Being who we are is so…..AWESOME.
I posted twenty post-it notes around my High School’s bathrooms today! (: Going in and out of the bathrooms today and seeing people’s faces light up made my day! (: I hope i made a difference. <3
Thanks for this idea!!! I’m so gonna do this now! Every day!
Hello! I am 16 and I have a eating disorder that I am currently trying to recover from. I recently stumbled over this project from another healthy food blog website called Run Eat Repeat
I absolutely love this movement! It really gives me the motivation to be better and feel better about myself. I plan to participate whenever I can! Thank you for inspiring so many people. Everyone is beautiful in their own way.
My School started doing this!!
I found a note in the bathroom at a Culver’s Restaurant. I had to take a picture of it and now it is my phone background. Thanks Caitlyn. Your idea to start this was awesome.
I saw a sticky-note in my schools locker room, and went on this website. It is very helpful. But I don’t think my school will really allow it! It is nice to know that someone else in my school is doing this!! I am gonna start tomorrow! Does anyone have ideas on where I should put them?
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