looking good
I didn’t always take care of my looks which is fairly normal. No one comes out of the womb and asks for hairspray. Except maybe Dolly Parton. Until around the age of 12 I didn’t care at all about how I looked. That is good because at the time I was chubby with braces and was wearing the most hideous glasses ever made. Yes, there’s photographic evidence of this. And to prove how much I did not care about my looks I took every opportunity to make myself look more hideous. It was a defence mechanism I suppose. I still do it, whenever I am uncomfortable or just feeling out of place I will resort to saying something extremely embarrassing to me but hilarious to others.
A couple of years later I started noticing myself and the way I looked and started taking small steps to make myself look a bit more decent. I started using hair gel and made my own choices when it came to clothes and eye wear. I started experimenting with different hair styles but nothing crazy. It helped that my metabolism changed and I lost a lot of weight over the course of one summer and I got rid of my braces. However, it wasn’t until I moved out of my parents’ house that I truly started looking at myself and my image.
Since then I have developed a taste in clothes and style. I have changed my hair a million times and made some embarrassing choices (when it comes to hair style and clothes). The problem now is that I have reached a point where I always want to look my best. Earlier I popped out of the house briefly to get some booze and stuff for dinner (since I was already going to the super market) and while I knew that I only had 30 minutes before the super market closed, I actually took the time to do my hair.
That’s right, I was going to be out of the house for about 15 minutes (since the super market is right around the corner) and yet I actually dried my hair and styled it. I could had popped a hat on and called it a look but I didn’t. The problem is worse in the mornings when I have to get ready with no caffeine in me and not being a morning person does not help. I usually take up to 45 minutes to shower, shave, get dressed and, as you probably already guessed, do my hair. Some mornings it takes longer depending on how slow I move and other times it takes half the time (like if I’m already running late).
Okay, I’ve gotten too drunk to actually finish what I wanted to say in this post so I will stop here while I’m still making sense.
Do you have little obsessions with the way you look, like your hair or clothes?
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Commented on May 14th, 2008 at 6:33 amI don’t mean to giggle at your pictures but you were so cute! I am the opposite.. I just don’t care anymore. I don’t have anybody to impress anymore so I just throw on sweats, pull my hair back and leave.. I SHOULD try to look decent though
Commented on May 14th, 2008 at 6:35 amAt least you haven’t got to do all that AND put on make-up. And then you’ll STILL be criticized by some nasty, skank ho. Oh wait…maybe that is just me. heh
PS–that first picture made me LOL b/c you sorta-kinda look like my little brother did when he was that age. *snort*
Commented on May 14th, 2008 at 6:37 amHeather :: I don’t understand why I care. It’s like I’m trying to impress someone but there’s no one to impress. Ha! I don’t know about cute. Funny? Maybe.
Kentucky Girl :: In the gay world you get criticised. Always. Maybe that’s why I care. It is a LOL-worthy picture.
You look like Harry Potter in that one picture! (Don’t hurt me!)
Sometimes I make a point to look good before leaving the house, but mostly I don’t even wear makeup. Hell, I left the house the other morning and was halfway to work before I realized… I hadn’t brushed my hair! (I combed it when I pulled up, though.)
I should try to look more put together and Lord knows my mother practically drools when I ask her to go shopping with me because she likes all that stuff. I guess I’m just too lazy.
Commented on May 14th, 2008 at 12:49 pmBefore I got married I didn’t give a rats ass how I looked to be brutally honest. I looked the way I looked and to hell with anyone who had a problem with it.
That being said I was a clean person, showered daily, deodorant etc but that’s as far as I went.
Now once I was married my wife introduced to the world outside of Zest and Speed Stick. I go out of my way to dress decently even if I refuse to give up perpetually casual clothes (my excuse/reasoning to my wife on this point is that when I DO dress up people are always “Holy crap! You look good!”) and I have almost as many skin care things as my wife does…well not really…She bought me the Hugo Boss line for the holidays last year and I use it all the time, facial scrub in the AM, Shaving Foam, Aftershave Balm and at night I have this Moisture stuff.
All I know is when I use all that stuff I just plain feel better, especially after a day at work in the Kitchen. That place is hell on your skin.
Commented on May 14th, 2008 at 4:08 pmGreat kid pics! I am sure I have a few from my “Madonna, like a virgin” phase that hopefully will never make it into the blogging world.
Commented on May 14th, 2008 at 4:38 pmI used to care about how I looked and fashion and all that. It was pretty important to me. Then I realized that it wasn’t me. Then I just dressed the way I wanted to, and the way I felt comfortable. I’m totally a t-shirt and jeans kinda guy, or a t-shirt and shorts kinda guy.
As for my hair, I just brush it once after I shower and that’s it. I let it air dry. I’ve used a dryer to dry my hair like twice. and it was just because I wondered what the big deal was. LOL
Commented on May 14th, 2008 at 5:51 pmI am totally the same way. I won’t even drag out the garbage pails without make up on at the risk of running into the trash guys. Yeah know, because they’ll be talking about it all day. “pssst…remember that lady at 23 main? Boy did she look like shit this morning. How can she leave her house looking like that” May not happen but why risk it?
Commented on May 15th, 2008 at 2:33 amAbraxus :: Just don’t use the facial scrub every single day. It’s best if you use it every few days. As for the moisturiser, I have yet to explore that area. I can’t stand creams. My skin is oily enough as it is… I bet working in a kitchen is hell on your skin.
melanie :: Glad you liked the photos. And everyone should share old photos especially if they are embarrassing. *winks*
yoshi :: I blow dry my hair because it’s quicker. To me it doesn’t offer much else. Since it has to be dry before I style it and I’m always in a hurry that’s the most convenient way. Plus, if I let my hair dry on its own it becomes impossible to style. And Colin with no product in his hair looks ridiculous. LOL
Christine :: I know, right? That’s pretty much my thought process too. By the way welcome, I haven’t seen you here before.
I am girly so I generally try to look nice but I’m not overly concerned enough to put on make up or do my hair just to run to the store. Lately I’ve been going everywhere with no makeup, paint in my hair, a denim dress complete with paint spatters…and today, sawdust, and my way cute, worn to be ruined, pink slides.
My husband, on the other hand, cannot leave the house without ‘primping.’ And he absolutely will not leave the house unless he washes his hair “so it doesn’t look messy.”
I call him a metrosexual. He says it’s ok to go out “undone” if you’re already cute with good hair and never smell. Meaning me.
However, we went to home depot today and OMG! I ran into a guy I went to high school with and I had a wicked crush on him in 7th grade…and I looked horrible. I had spackle in my hair. How embarrassing. He said I hadn’t changed a bit. This leads me to believe I always looked messy. Hmmmm.
Commented on May 15th, 2008 at 4:17 amI’m sure that guy didn’t mean you always looked messy. He meant you looked cute like a school girl. *wink-wink*
Oh and the guy who uses Hugo Boss? I adore Hugo Boss woman’s version. I haven’t changed fragrance in freaking 12 years…although I like to spray my pillow cases with that body fantasies spray in the freesia scent. Sleeping on scented pillows just rocks.
Commented on May 15th, 2008 at 4:31 amI haven’t cared much since I was a teenager, I started to wear make-up less and less and now I wear it maybe once a year. However, I color my hair and am mortified if the grays start to show. I pluck my eyebrows and file my fingernails, just about every day. Even though I dress casual, like jeans and t-shirt VERY casual, I would NEVER leave the house in sweat pants or barefoot or without my teeth brushed or anything like that. I mean, I have to look like I showered and put on clean clothes!
Commented on May 15th, 2008 at 4:36 amOMG, I USED to be absolutely horrible about my hair and my friends would get so mad at me cuz it usually took me like 2 hours to get ready! Plus, if my hair didn’t turn out the way I liked, I would rewash and do it all over again. I think my friends were frustrated with me a lot of that time. LOL
Of course, it doesn’t really help when you have fine hair AND natural curl. It didn’t always cooperate and I used to get soooo mad - it’s really quite ridiculous now that I think back.
That’s why I decided to cut it super duper short about 2 years ago, it’s just way easier now plus I actually like it! Now that’s major for me, I usually never like how I look…I’m such a girl sometimes.
p.s. I love your pictures!
Commented on May 15th, 2008 at 5:50 amMeesh :: If I am getting ready to go out like on a night out I take forever to do my hair. I sometimes rewash it as well because as you know there’s a certain point that if you reach it your hair will never look good no matter how hard you try. I actually really like your hair right now. Short hair looks good on you! I don’t like the way I look either. Ever. I only look “good enough” and that’s when I give up and go out. As for the pictures, thanks. LOL
I feel naked without Chanel’s Chance perfume. I also cannot leave the house without a pair of earrings.
Commented on May 15th, 2008 at 11:31 amI don’t usually leave the house w/o makeup, even if it’s just cheek stain & mascara… but that’s cuz I’m a pasty white girl… I have hair that people envy because even when it’s a mess it looks great, so no worries there…
Commented on May 21st, 2008 at 10:29 pmTori :: You’re lucky about the hair. Mine looks like hell when it’s a mess and sometimes it’s not much better when I try to fix it.