It can be hard to feel your best when you don’t look your best but it can be just as hard to look your best when you don’t feel your best. Here are seven tips that should help you look and feel your best no matter what.

Build Confidence

If you’re tired and worn out, you may find it hard to put any time at all into your appearance. When you haven’t put time into your appearance, it’s hard to feel confident, and in turn confidence is sexy. Even if you only have fifteen minutes to spend on your appearance, that’s better than nothing. Starting small is better than never starting at all, and building confidence is perhaps one of the most lasting ways to help yourself look and feel better.

Highlight Your Best Features

A quick way to put time into your appearance and boost your confidence is by strategically highlighting your best features. If you have beautiful eyes, an eyelash perm kit can help you emphasize and draw attention to that. Certain makeup styles will highlight good bone structure. Certain colors will bring out the tone of your skin or the color of your eyes or hair. If you have a narrow waist, you can choose outfits that accentuate that.

Dress the Body You Have

On that subject, dress for the body you have right now. If you’re trying to lose weight, that’s great! When you succeed, you can buy new clothes for your new look, but there’s no sense in wearing clothes that don’t fit or putting off buying clothes you need based on the fact that you’re planning to lose weight or get in shape some day. Buy clothes when you need them, and buy clothes that fit. Any body can look fabulous, if only it’s dressed appropriately.

Take Time For Yourself

Dressing appropriately, highlighting your best features, and building your confidence is all about taking time for yourself, and that is what really matters. When you don’t take time for yourself, you subconsciously tell yourself that you’re not important. It’s hard to look good and feel good if you don’t think you matter.

Practice Self-Care

Taking time for yourself is a form of self-care, but it isn’t the only form of self-care. There are lots of ways to take care of yourself and lots of ways to practice self-care. Setting boundaries with work and making time for friends is just as important as indulging in a spa day or practicing mindfulness. Only you will know what kind of self-care works best for you.

Develop Personal Style

Knowing yourself also means expressing yourself. Looking good by someone else’s standards isn’t as important as looking good by your own standards. Think about the impression you want to create, but also about how you want to stand out from the crowd. A sense of personal flair is what will elevate your style from the everyday to the extraordinary. Style isn’t just about clothes; it’s also about how you carry yourself, how you do your hair and makeup, even how you talk. Style is, to a certain degree, performative, but it’s more important to be self-expressive.

Have Fun

This may seem like a long to-do list of things you already don’t have time or energy to do, but it’s more of a list of helpful suggestions to help you brainstorm your own list. If this becomes yet another task, another set of chores to do, it won’t really make you feel better about yourself, and you’ll have a tough time maintaining it. So make sure, while you’re taking time for yourself, that you’re also enjoying yourself. A self-care routine that you enjoy is a self-care routine that’s easy to maintain.

It’s important to remember that even if you’re working from home or a stay-at-home parent, looking your best can help you feel better, and feeling better helps you look your best. It’s about doing whatever you can to create and maintain a positive cycle that will improve your life.