Right now, including this post, I have 4 drafts waiting to be published; some of them are barely started, others almost completely finished. It's very unlike me to have so much writing on here that hasn't been posted. It's just a testament to how busy senior year has been, and usually it's busy in the fun way. If I blogged about every fun or exciting thing I did this year so far, I'd have written well over one post every week. Some of those things will never get written about, and that's okay. (I promise the California trip will get its own post, though.) I definitely believe that some events happen and it's the experience of them that matters, not recording them.
So here's a post I started weeks ago and am now finally finished with.
Just over a year ago I got new glasses. This was the first time getting new ones since I was about 15. I like to describe my frames in three words: big, black and nerdy. A lot of people call them hipster but that's honestly not what I was going for. Nerd life, guys. It's the best. Trust me.
If I didn't love sports so much, I'd probably wear glasses almost exclusively. It's actually gotten to the point where people don't recognize me without my glasses. What a concept, especially for me, someone who hardly ever wore their glasses in public until just over a year ago. The number of people who saw me in my glasses during my college years, up until last August, besides my roommates? Easily less than 10, possibly less than five. I'm pretty sure there are some people I knew from freshman year, people I saw all the time back then, who barely recognized me when they first saw me wearing my glasses this semester.
The glasses really do cause a big change, not in how I act but in how others perceive me. My black, nerdy glasses combined with dark-washed skinny jeans, Chacos, a baseball jersey and a Wisconsin Badgers hat was my outfit today. (And by "today" I mean when I first started writing this post over two weeks ago. Today's outfit is Sperry's, dark grey straight leg jeans, my Pizza John t-shirt and an oversized grey cardigan, plus, of course, my glasses.) Neither of those outfits exactly send out a clear message. I think it's a good thing, though. From day to day I go from super athletic, to albeit kind of pretty hipster, to California skater, to outdoorsy camper, to straight up nerd.
In the last year I'm pretty sure the question I've gotten asked most often is, "Are your glasses real?" So to clear up any possible confusion: Yes, everyone, my glasses are real. If I take them off and do not put in my contacts, I do not see well. And yes, my glasses are big, square and black, but that does not automatically make me a total hipster. (I'm talking to you, Jordan.) Not that I'm denying my slight hipster tendencies, but my glasses are nerdy. It just so happens the same style of glasses are currently popular with a different fashion scene as well.
Last YouTube video I watched: Six Reasons Neil Armstrong was BA
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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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