About bright red hair and style "experiments".

Found this polaroid from my late teens the other day and thought I'd share!

This is definitely the one of the many hair colors I've tried that I miss the most. After about a year, I got seriously tired of having to dye it every other week - the color simply refused to stay in my hair! - and went back to black. (I had black hair most of the time between the ages 15 and 25, though I did try purple, blonde, orange and every shade of brown. Now I haven't dyed it for years and have no artifical color left in it - though I sometimes think about going a little bit darker.)

But gooosh, did I love the bright red! I always walked around in a thrifted blue jacket that I adored because it looked just like the one Kim Kelly wears in Freaks and Geeks, and I thought the clash between the flaming red and the blue was suuuuper fabulous. I probably still would.

If there's one thing I'm jealous of when it comes to teenagers of today, it's all the possibilities of digital photography. I got my first digital compact camera when I was 20 - it sucked so hard it was ridiculous and I was oh so grateful if I could even make out what (or who) was in the photos. This means that the few photos I have from my teens are mostly ones like this one above: polaroids from when the photographers I worked with checked the lighting before starting to shoot and that I managed to steal when noone was looking. Still, they say nothing about my (lack of) style - trust me, I would never have worn something this sheer, floral and romantic when I was a teenager. I was more into... ummm... okay, come to think of it, maybe I should thank the higher powers that my horribly confused teens were very seldom captured on camera!

Oh, and I'm so tired of all the "how to become a successful fashion blogger"-tips that say "you should end every post with a questions to your readers, that will make them much more active and loyal because they feel like they're contributing". That just makes me think "screw this, I'm not a puppet!" every time I see a blogger end a post with a question - and it sort of makes me not wanting to ask you things at the end of the posts. I want you to know that I think you're awesome and that I love hearing your thoughts and opinions even if I don't constantly ask you what you did this weekend or what color your nails are at the moment! But, I really do have a question, and it's not because I want you to become more loyal, but because I'm truly curious:

Have you guys gone through any phases, style-wise, that you wish had been captured in photos - or maybe that you wish hadn't? Tell me tell me tell me! 

(And maybe, if I feel like giving you all a good laugh one day, I could actually try to dig up proof of some of my own teenage "style experiments"! Not that it stops the moment I turn 20, gosh no, I can howl hysterically at photos that were taken only a few years back. Just like I know that in a couple of years,  I'll be on the floor laughing 'til my stomach hurts at some of the outfits I think look totally fierce right now. Who cares, that's what makes fashion fun!)