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What's stopped you going as far with your 'look' as you might like?

I get to use the beard smiley in a relevant way!

From fashion blog, Face Hunter.

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Anyway, for me it's practicality that stops me dressing the way I want, every time. Can't walk in high heels, live on a muddy marsh and need to cycle to get to civilisation. I work in the fashion trade and it pisses me off that I can't be a fashionista when the weather is shit. I wish Vivienne Westwood would start offering Goretex gowns.
 
Money, mainly. I'm not sure that I have a particular "look", but I do love fashion and clothes, and my friends and work colleagues are always taking the piss about the extensiveness of my wardrobe. :o I work in the media (albeit a quite conservative part of it), so don't have to look a particular way, thank god.
 
I don't think I have a 'look' really. Baldness has meant an end to the hairstyle I used to sport - and which I rather liked - but aside from that I've never really thought about my 'look.'
 
Hocus Eye. said:
Tattoos are very popular these days but I wonder if the people wearing them consider how they will look in a few years time.
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hee hee, I have a mate who when we were younger came very close to getting a loveheart with Teenage Whore in the middle of it. She's now all settled down and sensibe, got a job working with troubled kids and has a baby on the way. She is very relieved she didn't go ahead :D
 
scumbalina said:
hee hee, I have a mate who when we were younger came very close to getting a loveheart with Teenage Whore in the middle of it. She's now all settled down and sensibe, got a job working with troubled kids and has a baby on the way. She is very relieved she didn't go ahead :D
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That was lucky!

I reckon people ought not to be permitted to tattoo band names on anyone under 30. If you still love a band when you're 30, you'll probably love them for life, but I have seen people with 'Korn' tattooed on them and stuff who are now rather sheepish about it.
 
Cloo said:
That was lucky!

I reckon people ought not to be permitted to tattoo band names on anyone under 30. If you still love a band when you're 30, you'll probably love them for life, but I have seen people with 'Korn' tattooed on them and stuff who are now rather sheepish about it.
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I met lots of people in Ibiza who had Cream tattoos. I agree,you should be banned from having bands,clubs and partners names tattooed on you until you are 30 'for your own good'
 
The way I actually look is nothing like how I am in my head. I'd like to be a cartoon but I'm not. I partly blame technology, if I could change my hair and nail colour every day then I would. I'm also fat, which hinders things somewhat. I've got some fantastic boots but they're padded and I sweat...For I while I had black hair and ripped black clothing to showcase my red underwear and matching lipstick. But then, I also had a nice line in blue lipstick.

Also, much as I want to live in dress up land everyone else would have to join me. I can't take the attention. Mainly the male sexual harassment type. :(

I'm mainly at home anyway and tbh, getting further than my dressing gown is frequently a problem. Oh and my dear Grannie didn't approve of the nose piercing so I didn't redo it when it healed over.


Who I am kidding? It's laziness and lack of confidence.
 
Hmm, I was thinking about this this morning. I'd really like to let loose even more with my clothes, but I think age is stopping me a bit now. I already stopped bleaching my hair as light as it could go a few years ago because I decided it was a bit ageing.
Nah fuck it, you only live once - If people comment that I'm wearing too short a skirt or blah de blah, then they are probably only jealous that they don't have the guts to wear whatever they like. I like making people smile in the street by wearing ridiculuous clothes and dressing up is fun, so I reckon I will go even further with my dress sense as I get older.
 
Because I don't want the people around me to look too bad in comparison. I do it all for them really. :(

((((people that aren't me))))

;)
 
cloo..i agree it definately cheers me up when people are dressed outrageously(esp in the daytime):cool:

its difficult to explain what i mean cos no one here knows the people im talking about really..(went to a fancy dress party given by one of them last night in fact)this guy is quite healthy with it..he dresses up for FUN, to enjoy himself..he isnt doing it PURELY to feel ok about himself,he has lots going on in his life aside from the fancy dress..another person i know, well her whole self esteem is TOO bound up in appearance,its her whole life..that can be unhealthy IMHO esp once you are in yr 40s and up it could be good to develop in other areas, be less focusing on the superfical..

i hope none of this sounds harsh its hard to explain if you dont know people this extreme/obsessed.
also its important to say..its not about that im slagging people for dressing up, it can be a very good thing..im slagging someone for being obsessed with dressing up and NOTHING eles
 
I have never developed a 'look' so cannot go very far with it. :rolleyes: :D

However interestingly for me, when I decided to not see my family any more, that was when I got my tattoo, which says 'Respect your past, but create your future' in Japanese. I love it. I hadn't realised that I felt constricted by who I could be whilst having to try and make them love me, so when I decided to give up with that, suddenly I went out and had a tattoo.

Also when I was a corporate, we had to be very sensible and male conscious about what we could wear - down went the skirt lengths and up went the collars, so that men could not accuse us of being cheap because we looked sexy. So when I went to work in a hostel, the staff there wore actual eyeshadow and long earrings to work! :eek: And colours others than grey, black, white! At first I felt like a fish out of water, but I am getting into it now.

Another factor is not really knowing where to go for clothes that are interesting and 'me' but which dont fall apart or are seen on everyone. I would love to be one of those women that find vintage clothes etc that look fab and different, but alas I am not.

Yet another factor is - I dont like tight clothes. They piss me off, get up my arse and irritate me. As soon as I get home I want to take them off and relax. And then I'm like 'Why do other women look more sexy than me? Oh that would be because they wear tighter, shorter clothes.'

I am a work in progress. All advice gratefully received / paid for. :D I wish I had a 'look' that I myself like, that I am comfortable with, that is a bit different etc etc.
 
scumbalina said:
In that you don't want to draw attention to yourself?
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Well yeh.. I mean I do dress pretty unconventionally anyway,


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and I do have my hair all different colours, and my make up 'wacky'. I would love to be more daring with my clothes but I dont feel confident enough, because I am not happy withmy body shape:)

felixthecat said:
Now thats never stopped me - and I bet I'm loads bigger than you.
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:) Yeh I guess I know folks much larger than me who dont do as they wish 'look' wise...and I think they look great.Tis jus a personal thing for me , dunno why!:confused:
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Money & laziness.

I'd love to go all-out and get some neck and hand tats but I'm always broke :( Anyone want to get a tattoo machine and practice on me? :D
 
Nothing really.

Money's never really come into it... how much is a pot of directions (hair dye) and a couple of bics? :D

I've never really given a fuck about what other people think (although looking back at some photo's from the 80's/early 90's maybe I should've :o)
 
Eva Luna said:
I have never developed a 'look' so cannot go very far with it. :rolleyes: :D

However interestingly for me, when I decided to not see my family any more, that was when I got my tattoo, which says 'Respect your past, but create your future' in Japanese. I love it. I hadn't realised that I felt constricted by who I could be whilst having to try and make them love me, so when I decided to give up with that, suddenly I went out and had a tattoo.

Also when I was a corporate, we had to be very sensible and male conscious about what we could wear - down went the skirt lengths and up went the collars, so that men could not accuse us of being cheap because we looked sexy. So when I went to work in a hostel, the staff there wore actual eyeshadow and long earrings to work! :eek: And colours others than grey, black, white! At first I felt like a fish out of water, but I am getting into it now.

Another factor is not really knowing where to go for clothes that are interesting and 'me' but which dont fall apart or are seen on everyone. I would love to be one of those women that find vintage clothes etc that look fab and different, but alas I am not.

Yet another factor is - I dont like tight clothes. They piss me off, get up my arse and irritate me. As soon as I get home I want to take them off and relax. And then I'm like 'Why do other women look more sexy than me? Oh that would be because they wear tighter, shorter clothes.'

I am a work in progress. All advice gratefully received / paid for. :D I wish I had a 'look' that I myself like, that I am comfortable with, that is a bit different etc etc.
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Fucksake Honey, you really are me!

Always thinking, I really should make more of an effort to look all sexy with heels and skirt and that, but really I hate tight clothes and uncomfy shoes and I'm just as happy in a summer dress or jeans and top, so always default.

Never had a 'look'. I think it's a bit strange to have a look, all that identifying with a group business. Not that I'm a radical individualist. More just lazy ;)
 
bluestreak said:
money, friends with sticks, growing up.

that said, i'll still get round to getting my septum pierced one day.
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actually, i was just going to make a quip about how a sternum piercing would look cooler...for a laugh, likes, then i did a google image search and folk do actually have piercings in their sternums.

it looks shit.
 
There is nothing that would stop me changing my appearance in any way at all, especially work, they wouldn't give a fuck. If the Chief Executive can have bright pink hair, a nose ring, eyebrow piercing and a labret then she can't really tell me to tone it down.

So I was thinking the other day about what I'd like to look like. When I was younger I was quite like PieEye in that I never fully committed to a look, I just bought the clothes and the hair gel and then when I was sick of it I changed my clothes and washed my hair.

But now I really want to look different, as a statement about how fucking samey everything feels and because...I dunno, I just want to.

So it's on with the Russian tank commanders helmet aaaaaand that's about as far as I've got so far. But I'm quite liking the look I have in my minds eye. Then again, now I've written it down I'm starting to think I'm gonna look like a reject from M.A.S.H. :(
 
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