Hi everyone (I say, confident that I may be the only person who reads this),
Recently I've been doing some blogging for university and although I enjoy writing, I prefer writing about things that I really want to write about. Not that I don't enjoy writing for uni, but I thought it might be fun to start doing some little posts here just because I can.
Don't ask me "Hey, Laura, why are you writing down a bunch of random stuff that you're thinking about that potentially a) doesn't matter to anyone else and b) doesn't make any sense?", because I can't answer you. Or maybe I can - writing is like talking but you don't have to make awkward eye contact and you can ramble however much you want and you feel like you've said what you need to say whether anyone reads it or not!
So anyway, I've been thinking a lot about my personal style lately. It changes a lot, quite often from day to day or week to week - one day I'll be feeling like I want to wear really bright colours and fun accessories and massive earrings etc. and the next I'll just want to wear a massive black band t-shirt and my Docs. I'm totally comfortable with this and I'm very happy to just wear whatever I feel like wearing whenever I feel like wearing it.
But the problems come when I start trying to define myself - and I think a lot of us do this, try and put ourselves in a category or pigeon-hole so that we feel more organised and comfortable in ourselves. But this doesn't work for me, really. I've been into many different "styles" - kawaii/j-fashion, goth, what I like to call the "would be trendy/Instagram worth piece paired with something really ugly" style. And yes, I know that last one probably doesn't make any sense, but it does to me.
I have seen my friends doing the same thing as well as people I look up to on social media, trying to define their own style and struggling the more they think about it. I've come to the conclusion that maybe it just doesn't matter. Your style will evolve and change as you grow and are influenced by different things around you, from obvious things like clothes in the shops where you live, to things like movies that you've seen and fallen in love with. The same goes for your work, if you do anything creative, you can't force your work to stay within a certain "style realm" forever. It will change, and it will do you good to change.
I guess I'm really writing this for myself to say, "Hey! It's okay if you dress like a weirdo and you can't put a label on it, and two days are never the same. Carry on!"
Thanks for reading (especially if you got this far!!) and maybe there'll be more posts soon!
Laura xox
p.s check my insta (linked below) to see some of my dumb outfits/looks !!
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