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smudged eye makeup & clean skin at vanessa seward, spring 2016
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chloé hq, paris
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a myriad of lipsticks
lune
Showing posts with label chloé. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chloé. Show all posts
26.4.16
15.4.16
naturel
hello there.
today i'm feeling inspired by the makeup at chloé's
spring/summer 2016 show; smudged eyeliner + curled lashes, natural puckered lips,
brushed up, undone eyebrows.
& a quote that has resonated with me lately.
as a teenager, i was always on the outsides of certain cliques.
whether i was in or out depended almost entirely on the whims of my
classmates. i was the one with acne and glasses, and i felt like i was
at their mercy. i felt uncool. i never felt quite good enough to stand on my own
two feet, and own who and what i was.
in short, i trained myself to feel ashamed of who i was.
it's funny how my high school mentality has stayed with me into my late twenties.
i still feel like that uncool kid, the one who tried way too hard, the one who
wanted other peoples approval.
i find myself, even now, trying too hard to sound interesting when talking to people.
i talk too much, too fast. i say things that, in retrospect, i shouldn't have.
it's a culmination of years & years of conditioning myself to believe that
i'm not pretty, therefore no one likes me and no one will listen to me.
i talk too much because i feel like the other person will quickly tire of me
and stop listening. like their interest will wane, and they will agree with the masses:
yes, she is uncool, she's not worth the attention.
i try and tell myself, now, that i am a different person. my skin has
cleared up, the glasses are gone. but that 'i have acne, i am hideous' mentality
has never quite escaped me. in a way, i hope this blog can help me
recapture that essence of who i am, & the style and aura i have always
wanted to radiate, but never quite figured out how.
but most of all, i hope this process will help to remind me that the only
person i need to impress is myself. the only person whose opinion matters
is my own.
so if that means holding my tongue when i'm way too excited to say something
(inevitably i will stumble over my words) then so be it.
if you don't say something funny or smart, it doesn't mean that you are neither.
it's an attitude of calmness that i need to instill in myself.
an attitude that says: you don't need to impress anyone.
you are enough.
as a teenager, i was always on the outsides of certain cliques.
whether i was in or out depended almost entirely on the whims of my
classmates. i was the one with acne and glasses, and i felt like i was
at their mercy. i felt uncool. i never felt quite good enough to stand on my own
two feet, and own who and what i was.
in short, i trained myself to feel ashamed of who i was.
it's funny how my high school mentality has stayed with me into my late twenties.
i still feel like that uncool kid, the one who tried way too hard, the one who
wanted other peoples approval.
i find myself, even now, trying too hard to sound interesting when talking to people.
i talk too much, too fast. i say things that, in retrospect, i shouldn't have.
it's a culmination of years & years of conditioning myself to believe that
i'm not pretty, therefore no one likes me and no one will listen to me.
i talk too much because i feel like the other person will quickly tire of me
and stop listening. like their interest will wane, and they will agree with the masses:
yes, she is uncool, she's not worth the attention.
i try and tell myself, now, that i am a different person. my skin has
cleared up, the glasses are gone. but that 'i have acne, i am hideous' mentality
has never quite escaped me. in a way, i hope this blog can help me
recapture that essence of who i am, & the style and aura i have always
wanted to radiate, but never quite figured out how.
but most of all, i hope this process will help to remind me that the only
person i need to impress is myself. the only person whose opinion matters
is my own.
so if that means holding my tongue when i'm way too excited to say something
(inevitably i will stumble over my words) then so be it.
if you don't say something funny or smart, it doesn't mean that you are neither.
it's an attitude of calmness that i need to instill in myself.
an attitude that says: you don't need to impress anyone.
you are enough.
7.4.16
chloé
ah, chloé: how do i love thee?
let me count the ways.
'it's wispy wood-nymph stuff that falls loosely on a coltishly
feminine, boyishly rumpled creature that the brand has dubbed the chloé girl'
- desgning beyond chloé: inside clare waight keller's parisian home,
this is definitely one of the best descriptions i've read so far of
the elusive chloé girl':
none of the typical, predictable words throw in
like 'feminine' or 'romantic', but a sentence that gives the reader a
clear impression of a laissez-faire, elegant, done yet undone girl . .
wearing an equally laissez-faire, elegant, done yet undone chloé dress.
images above:
chloé spring summer 2016
from the impression & vogue
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