National Compliment Your Mirror Day
Show yourself some love and support by complimenting your mirror—or the person in it, really. Affirmations can help brighten your day and change your perspective.
Align self-care and wellness products with mental health messaging around self-affirmation and daily confidence-building rituals.
- Share before/after affirmation journeys using your beauty or wellness products
- Partner with mental health advocates to normalize self-love routines and mirror-talk practices
- Create 'confidence starter kits' bundling skincare, journals, and bath products for self-care celebration
- User-generated content campaign: #MirrorCompliments featuring customers sharing their daily affirmations
Depression and broken self-esteem are some of the most dangerous things to leave untreated and unacknowledged. Every year there are people who succumb to these horrible events, and while complimenting yourself in the mirror isn’t a panacea for these dangerous things, it can at least begin the process of building your feeling of self-worth through self-talk.
It’s important to know that National Compliment Your Mirror Day doesn’t just have to do with your physical, outer beauty, such a thing is ephemeral and certainly won’t last into your old age. But the person you are and how you approach the world certainly will, in fact it’s the only thing you’ll keep until your last days. So National Compliment Your Mirror Day means you need to recognize all of your inner strengths and inner beauties.
Mirrors have been around for a long time, time out of mind in fact, and the first ones were made of Obsidian, if you don’t count reflecting bowls as mirrors. They’ve always been recognized as having magical properties, and one of those magical properties involved making statements of intent into them and knowing they’d come true. National Compliment Your Mirror Day is your day to cast a spell over yourself by telling yourself how awesome you are.
Be Kind to Yourself
Well, of course you just need to Compliment Your Mirror on National Compliment Your Mirror Day, tell it how awesome and amazing you are. Everybody has their strengths and today is your opportunity to take some time to learn what they are, and then reaffirm them by pronouncing them clearly into the mirror.
Make It a Habit
Smile, be proud and confident, and make sure to say it like you mean it on National Compliment Your Mirror Day. Then spend the rest of the year doing the same each day, there’s nothing like Complimenting Your Mirror at the start of each day to help change your perspective and brighten your day.
Practice Self Care
There are a lot of different things you can do in order to increase that self-love you have. Why not honor National Compliment Your Mirror Day by doing something fun by yourself? Enjoy your own company, and feel confident doing something on your own. This could be anything from heading to the park and reading a book to enjoying a meal at a restaurant. You may even decide to use this day to travel somewhere completely new on your own. It is up to you! You can also spend the day doing things that are good for your heart, health, and soul. For example, why not have a pamper day? Or, why not run yourself a bath with some scented oils and have a glass of champagne while listening to some relaxing music?
Start a Journal
Another way to celebrate National Compliment Your Mirror Day is by starting a journal. You can write down your thoughts and feelings. You don’t have to only focus on the positive. You can write about negative emotions. In fact, this can be a good way to offload them. However, make sure you also write down how you coped with such feelings and situations. You will then be able to look back on this and realize just how much of a strong person you are. It is all about treating yourself like the king or queen that you truly are! Tell yourself how amazing you are, and give yourself a pat on the back! You deserve it. Take the day to recognize your accomplishments and to award yourself for them. After all, we always say “well done” to others when they succeed, so why shouldn’t you give yourself the same treatment?