Scarlet Hiltibidal

When Scarlet Hiltibidal was a teenager, plastic butterfly clips were all the rage. She couldn’t understand why they didn’t look the same in her “frizzy, bulbous hair” as they did on the blonde whose mom was a professional hair stylist. Back then, she would have sanctioned the destruction of scores of actual butterflies just to own the label "pretty butterfly clips girl." And so it goes for many girls like Scarlet who strive for self-worth yet struggle to find it. He Numbered the Pores on My Face is for teens who long for beauty, love, and rest. Any labels you long for today might as well be “looks good in butterfly clips” if you are not rooted in who Jesus says you are, because any self­-centered identity is going to leave you in the same place: unfulfilled and unhappy. Girls will relate to Scarlet’s stories as she discusses hottie lists, eating disorders, and haphazard beauty in a way that is both humorous and thought provoking. Through it all, she describes how she found peace by learning to see life not through a mirror but through a Savior who shapes who we were, who we are, and who we will be.

He Numbered the Pores on My Face

Claudine

We’re not asking, “How does she dance so well?” We are asking, “Does she really get to be happy and safe forever?”

My oldest daughter, Ever, has spent the past few years try ing to figure out what sarcasm is. I tried to explain it by something that they don't really mean, but they say it with a certain tone or in a certain way that conveys that it's a ioke without saying, Just kidding.” 

She asked me how to tell, what the tone sounded like, and I wasn't really sure what to tell her. It's hard to explain and because deciphering social subtleties requires prior experience with different people and communication styles, and it requires general understanding of the world and what's true, and youre just not born knowing very much. So, you accumulate all these clues over time. We have to learn how to be made fun of. 

You might notice that when people talk about this or that certain thing, and they do it in a certain tone of voice, everyone laughs. You put together that one type of thought, followed by this other type of thought, and it's funny to most people. Eventually you figure out that all that laughing can be used to hurt people. 

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