It's true. You can even ask Lorraine and Becca, though I guarantee they're lying if they say my name isn't Anna.
As I write this I'm taking a break from checking BYU football headlines & watching another episode of this crazy show. What an odd combination: college football and wedding dresses.
Way back when in the fall of 2010, Lorraine and I were beginning our sophomore year of college. Somewhere along the way that year she pulled me into Say Yes To The Dress. I don't know how it happened or why it happened but it did. I don't particularly like dress shopping in general and I've never been the kind of girl to plan her dream wedding or even to admire dresses. (Here's a list of things I currently know about my future wedding dress: 1) it will have pockets. That's all. I need pockets. The rest I can figure out later.) There is something strangely intriguing about that show, though. Lorraine and I will lounge on the couch for hours at night watching episode after episode when we can.
When people hear how much I like that show, especially when they already know how much I love sports and generally less-girly things, it confuses them, and rightfully so. I remember in a religion class this past junior year the professor always had us talk amongst ourselves for a few minutes at the beginning of class and then share what we've learned about each other. One morning it was my turn to share w/ the kid I was talking to. The topic that day had been guilty/dark secrets. I chose mine to be that I love Say Yes To The Dress. My classmates thought it was quite a funny mix of interests. It was the second class I'd had w/ this particular professor and he knew my personality fairly well and that I wanted to be a sports journalist. So when he learned that I love a show all about choosing wedding dresses of course he laughed but he was also understanding; his oldest daughter, who is a young teenager, feels the same way I do about sports and Say Yes To The Dress.
That show just doesn't fit w/ my fashion personality, or so you would think. (I still don't get how it does, honestly.) I dress comfortably in jeans and t-shirts about 98% of the time. My preferred footwear includes Birkenstocks, Chacos, Sanuks, and obnoxiously bright sneakers. I have no problems matching my Birks w/ wool socks, especially in the dead of winter, a style a lot of people find to be a little, well, ridiculous. Even when I do dress up nice or fancier I still dress as relaxed as I possibly can. Most of my dresses are made of cotton and very summery, and almost all of them, if not all of them, can be matched w/ bright colored shirts, tights, and cardigans. I love stripes and especially plaid. Either a baseball cap or a beanie is a must on a day-to-day basis; and if I don't have a hat, it's all about my black and neon yellow sunglasses. If I had the money, I'd shop at REI a lot more often. Okay, and I'll be totally honest, if I could, I'd probably stay in soccer shorts and stuff like Brewers t-shirts all the time.
Basically, my fashion sense is all over the place. And I'm pretty sure everything I described above adds up to someone who should not like a show about purchasing ridiculously expensive wedding dresses. But people really are greater than the sum of their parts so it works.
I mean, given the choice between watching basically any sporting event or Say Yes To The Dress I'd most definitely still choose sports. I'm not that crazy.
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Make-up from a nerd's perspective
It's not that nerds can't wear make-up or that they even shouldn't (I know plenty of nerdy girls who are absolutely stunning, both with and without make-up) but there's something about being a nerd that gives me an aversion to the stuff. Well, maybe that's not my nerdy side so much as it is my athletic side. Whatever the reason, I find make-up to be, for the most part, pretty unnecessary. Unnecessary might be a harsh word but at the very least people need to lay off a little bit.
Something that astounds me time and time again is the fact that some girls will literally not leave their house/apartment without make-up on, even if they're going to work out or are camping. I understand that make-up can make you look nicer and different and accentuate various facial features but not wanting to even walk outside your door without make-up is a little much. I can hardly comprehend it.
The reason I so greatly dislike that whole notion is because some day those girls will be dating someone, or engaged to someone, or married to someone. And that person will probably see them without make-up. Girls do not like boys to see them without make-up, though. Here's my thing though: If a boy sees you without make-up and is no longer interested in you or does not want to date you or anything like that, do you really want to be dating him in the first place? This is not to say you shouldn't look nice or you shouldn't "try," but I think more girls need to realize that you can look nice not wearing make-up.
People get so used to just wearing make-up that it's unthinkable for them to not wear it. It's kind of the opposite for me. In high school I would wear make-up to school once or twice a week. In college about the same. This year I started wearing it a little more often but even then never every single school day. Last semester I genuinely tried to get interested in make-up too. It didn't work too well. Add the fact that I've never been really interested in it with the fact that a lot of make-up has been bothering my eyes lately . . . The last time I wore any make-up was quite some time ago. I'm sure there are mascaras and such for sensitive eyes but I'm guessing they're also more expensive than normal make-up already is. I've kind of gotten to the point where I'm just not even bothering.
Maybe I'm missing out on some fundamental girl activity by not putting on make-up every morning but I kind of wish more girls would miss out on it. I wish my friends could be as confident as I am without make-up, and I don't know why they aren't, or even why I am so confident that it doesn't matter. It's not like I have striking features or am this natural beauty that everyone is so impressed with all the time, no matter what I'm wearing. I'm just me. I don't get noticed by boys, except for my baseball hats and black, nerdy glasses. I wear jeans and sneakers nearly every day and my usual tops are t-shirts layered with cardigans and plaid button-ups. Most people would probably see me and wonder why I don't dress nicer. But there's something about the way I dress that reflects exactly how I feel about life.
I suppose when girls wear make-up, that reflects how they feel about life, except the sad thing is the way they feel about life often seems to mean wearing make-up or not feeling beautiful; and to me, those two things are not mutually exclusive. I get that some girls legitimately like make-up and think it's fun to put on and experiment with or whatever, but somewhere along the way the lines got blurred between having fun w/ it and becoming so reliant on it that you can't go outside without any on.
This subject has been on my mind lately, mostly because I haven't been wearing make-up because of my eyes. I've always wondered how boys consider this side of me, the side that doesn't care about make-up, or if they even notice when I wear it. Some of me doubts if they do. But whether they do or not doesn't seem to matter because I've had some pretty cute boyfriends dressing and looking exactly like I always have. Just sayin' . . .
Last YouTube video I watched: This Year
Oh, and as a little update on my four-fold mission: I really like how things are working out sometime. I have already had moments where I think "Life is less than ideal right now" and I immediately think instead "Nope, happiness is a choice. Don't forget to be awesome." Little by little the changes will come, I'm sure of it.
Something that astounds me time and time again is the fact that some girls will literally not leave their house/apartment without make-up on, even if they're going to work out or are camping. I understand that make-up can make you look nicer and different and accentuate various facial features but not wanting to even walk outside your door without make-up is a little much. I can hardly comprehend it.
The reason I so greatly dislike that whole notion is because some day those girls will be dating someone, or engaged to someone, or married to someone. And that person will probably see them without make-up. Girls do not like boys to see them without make-up, though. Here's my thing though: If a boy sees you without make-up and is no longer interested in you or does not want to date you or anything like that, do you really want to be dating him in the first place? This is not to say you shouldn't look nice or you shouldn't "try," but I think more girls need to realize that you can look nice not wearing make-up.
People get so used to just wearing make-up that it's unthinkable for them to not wear it. It's kind of the opposite for me. In high school I would wear make-up to school once or twice a week. In college about the same. This year I started wearing it a little more often but even then never every single school day. Last semester I genuinely tried to get interested in make-up too. It didn't work too well. Add the fact that I've never been really interested in it with the fact that a lot of make-up has been bothering my eyes lately . . . The last time I wore any make-up was quite some time ago. I'm sure there are mascaras and such for sensitive eyes but I'm guessing they're also more expensive than normal make-up already is. I've kind of gotten to the point where I'm just not even bothering.
Maybe I'm missing out on some fundamental girl activity by not putting on make-up every morning but I kind of wish more girls would miss out on it. I wish my friends could be as confident as I am without make-up, and I don't know why they aren't, or even why I am so confident that it doesn't matter. It's not like I have striking features or am this natural beauty that everyone is so impressed with all the time, no matter what I'm wearing. I'm just me. I don't get noticed by boys, except for my baseball hats and black, nerdy glasses. I wear jeans and sneakers nearly every day and my usual tops are t-shirts layered with cardigans and plaid button-ups. Most people would probably see me and wonder why I don't dress nicer. But there's something about the way I dress that reflects exactly how I feel about life.
I suppose when girls wear make-up, that reflects how they feel about life, except the sad thing is the way they feel about life often seems to mean wearing make-up or not feeling beautiful; and to me, those two things are not mutually exclusive. I get that some girls legitimately like make-up and think it's fun to put on and experiment with or whatever, but somewhere along the way the lines got blurred between having fun w/ it and becoming so reliant on it that you can't go outside without any on.
This subject has been on my mind lately, mostly because I haven't been wearing make-up because of my eyes. I've always wondered how boys consider this side of me, the side that doesn't care about make-up, or if they even notice when I wear it. Some of me doubts if they do. But whether they do or not doesn't seem to matter because I've had some pretty cute boyfriends dressing and looking exactly like I always have. Just sayin' . . .
Last YouTube video I watched: This Year
Oh, and as a little update on my four-fold mission: I really like how things are working out sometime. I have already had moments where I think "Life is less than ideal right now" and I immediately think instead "Nope, happiness is a choice. Don't forget to be awesome." Little by little the changes will come, I'm sure of it.
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