Last month, the Lululemon store at Legacy place in Dedham, Massachusetts created an awesome Operation Beautiful window display. Melyssa, the Key Leader of the store, wrote, “We decorated our main window Operation Beautiful-style and stuck post it notes with positive messages all over the store – every mirror, every dressing room, on mannequins, in the bathroom mirrors, in our team’s cubbies, you name it! I have 4 stations set up around the store with a framed description of Operation Beautiful and with markers/post-it notes so that people can fill out notes to themselves. We are asking guests to stick their notes in the window themselves after they write them down!”
Here are the final results of the Lululemon display! Isn’t it wonderful?
Kirsten wrote, “I discovered this site through tumblr. Someone posted a picture of this post-it note. Just reading through people’s notes on Operation Beautiful I was so inspiring. Immediately, I started writing positive messages on post-it notes. Thank you Operation Beautiful! This has helped me gain confidence and inspired me to help change other people’s lives!”
Kate wrote, “Even the super skinny have body issues. I have always been very thin no matter what or how much I eat, and in middle school and high school girls used to bring me down by constantly asking me straight up if I was anorexic. The answer was no, and I have never in my life had an eating disorder. However, their words still hurt. Regardless of who the main target of Operation Beautiful is, it is very inspiring. Tomorrow when I am at my college campus I will post notes around to let other women know they are beautiful just the way they are.”
Meagan sent in this note:
If you want to participate in Operation Beautiful, post a note, take a picture, and e-mail it to Caitlin at seebriderun@gmail.com. Spread the love!
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Great work at Lululeman! Love the display – so preeetty
How wonderful is this message…I just love it!
wow great job i never got goosebumps this big!
I LOVE MY THUNDERTHIGHS TOO!<3
I love this – Just love it!
Thank you for posting!
I am currently in an IOP program at Hershey Medical Center, we decided to participate in this and it was amazing how it made girls jump into action. I think we sent in a photo (we had like 40 post-its on a table) in to the site. After taking a picture of all of them, we went all over the medical center and posted them; on the scales, in the bathrooms, on therapists doors, etc. That night I left and put them on Panera’s front door and bathroom mirror. The next day, my best friend and I put a couple on diet pills and other diet products in the Walmart in the town I go to school, it was wonderfully empowering, even for my friend who doesn’t struggle with an ED. Such a small gesture with such a powerful message. Amazing.
That is why Lululemon clothes only go up to a small 12 and their running skirts/booty shorts don’t go past an 8. I always get so frustrated w. them. I am a size 12 and run a bunch. I want some booty shorts to show off my hot gams, but apparenlty Lululemon thinks I’m too fat for them. I won’t even get into the time a salesperson there directed to me to the “plus sizes”.