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!)
