One of the reasons why people struggle to change and live their best lives is the fact that its not easy to change the inside. The external, what people see you can easily change. That is why people put on make up, change hairstyles, or even modify their bodies pleasing the world and yet internally they are suffering or struggling to change or they are empty.
That is why the good book says, Be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Meaning what you feed your mind leads to the transformation you are looking for. It also says, Faith comes by hearing. Meaning what you feed your ears will definitely ignite faith inside you. Internal transformation needs more work than external transformation. That is why you will see beautiful people and when you compliment them, instead of appreciating the compliment, they dont see because they dont feel beautiful on the inside. Even when some people try to body shame others and instead of them succumbing to such negative words they have the most confidence because of the strength they have on the inside. If you can work on building the inner person in you, no external people or words can harm you because you are strong when you have inner strength. Dont associate yourself with what you dont identify yourself as internally.
Instead of focusing on your external beauty, why dont you work on building the inner beauty within yourself so that you can never be defined by what people say but what your inner person says about you. Start loving the inner you and the external world will not have a choice but to love you because of the great love you have for yourself internally. Make time to daily transform yourself internally.