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"Confidence is not, They will like me," says 22-year-old blogger Katy Bellotte. "Confidence is, I don't care if they like me, because I like me." Like many, the college student and member of European Wax Center’s Strut Society has struggled with insecurities and recalls often "shrinking herself" to benefit others around her. While learning to be comfortable in her own skin — with or without makeup — admittedly wasn't easy, there's no way she's turning back now. Press play to get her take on kicking self-doubt to the curb and discovering her unapologetic confidence.

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Transcript
00:00There's definitely days where I won't wear a lot of makeup and I feel just as
00:04confident both ways. My blog is something that I genuinely do not know what I
00:09would do without. I kind of have a digital scrapbook of every emotion I've
00:13felt since I was 14 years old. Even to this day with my YouTube channel I feel
00:16like people are always looking to me and it's a lot of pressure because I feel
00:19like sometimes I don't even know what I'm doing. It almost makes me more
00:22confident because I'm not basing my decisions off of someone else. I'm doing
00:26something completely true to me. In college I feel like school has always
00:30been kind of difficult for me because I do have a really creative brain and I
00:34don't like doing things the right way sometimes and obviously in certain
00:38subjects you have to have the right answer. What my creative side reveals
00:41about me is the fact that I am not afraid to fail and I feel like that's
00:45definitely taken a lot of time for me to adopt. I'm such an over-thinker and I
00:50always imagine myself being more, I don't know, too embarrassing, too loud,
00:55whatever when I'm not being that at all. Especially in college it's a day-by-day
00:59thing like one day I'll feel like really not motivated with life and then the
01:03next day I'm like oh my gosh I'm a million places at once. I always have to
01:06remind myself that everyone feels this. Your friends, people you spend like every
01:11waking minute with, your roommates, your parents, like could be having a bad day
01:14too but people are really really good at hiding it. Confidence is not they will
01:19like me. Confidence is I don't care if they like me because I like me.
01:24Unapologetic confidence to me is just feeling like I can take on the day no
01:28matter what. European Wax Stretch Society is one of my favorite campaigns that I've
01:32ever worked on because it is so uniquely organic to my brand. My brows have been a
01:38big part of my life ever since I literally was born. My mom said I came out
01:43with a full head of hair and a full one brow. At the age of 12 my aunt took me
01:47to
01:48get my brows done for the first time. I remember looking at myself and being like
01:51wow you can really see my eyes. To this day after I get them like nice and cleaned
01:55up I feel like wow you can really see me.
01:57Yeah所有ok book.
01:58That is serious.
01:58Hey looking for my benefit.
02:00Bye bye bye bye bye.
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