Beauty Week has returned to EHS to spread positivity and remind students of their “true beauty.”

Student Council has decided to host Beauty Week for a second consecutive year to prompt people to “be yourself and love who you are,” senior and Student Council Officer Lulu Singh said.

Senior Emily Hayes supports the message behind Beauty Week.

“I think everyone is so obsessed with physical beauty and fitting into the standards of others that they forget that the definition of beautiful is so broad, and it applies to both physical and mental attributes and talents,” she said. “I think the week helps remind people that beauty extends past how they look on the outside, which is something we all need to be reminded of on occasion.”

Each day of the week was dedicated to a unique event or theme “related to spreading the message of inner beauty,” Singh said.

The week began with Student Council distributing name tags with uplifting messages written on them followed by a magic show in the auditorium. On Tuesday, Student Council members handed out pieces of candy with positive messages attached to them at lunch. On Wednesday, Student Council worked to remind people that beauty is on the inside by covering up the bathroom mirrors with paper that had optimistic messages written on it.

The week ended with a Ping-Pong Tournament Thursday night and a spirit day on Friday in anticipation of the basketball game.

Although Hayes recognizes that Beauty Week has had an impact on some of her peers’ positivity, she would like to see more authenticity and inclusiveness during the week.

“It’s hard to feel included in Beauty Week if only a select amount of people are given stickers to wear,” Hayes said. “Maybe passing them out during first hour would be better so everyone would get one.”

Senior and Student Council President Mary Webb understands that Beauty Week is not for everyone, but hopes that Student Council has been able to make an impact, no matter how small, on EHS’s student body.

“EHS is so big so it’s really hard to impact every student,” Webb said. “If even just a handful of students take away something from this week, I would consider that a positive change.”