Because vanity makes no excuses

Posted on Tuesday, 08.18.2009 03:05 PM

What is The Reluctant Stylista?

You know how it is, fashion is intimidating to most people. Either they claim not to care about it, or they're afraid any attempt to spruce up will fail miserably. Yes, fashion is intimidating--but it doesn't have to be. Forget all your preconceived notions about the well-dressed because style is not a privilege. Everyone deserves to look good and be able to define that for themselves. Fashion is supposed to be about fun and expression when you get to the bare bones of it, and The Reluctant Stylista wants to do just that. This is, after all, pretty much a sandbox for my styling endeavors. It's not a bible, it's a diary of a not-quite-so-little girl who discovered she likes playing dress up.

Who is talking about what?

I was a regular tomboy when I was a kid. I'm still one, pretty much--only now I appreciate looking good as opposed to the childish protestations to make-up and frills I used to possess. People get this idea that if you're boyish, athletic or adventurous and free-spirited, that you automatically don't care much about your looks. I was like that, once. And I must admit, it was partly due to people's expectations that I naturally turned away from anything that would make me look vain.

"I see, you think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select out, oh I don't know, that lumpy blue sweater, for instance, because you're trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on your back." --Miranda Priestly's scathing reply to Andy Sach in The Devil Wears Prada

But the truth is, no girl--when left to her own devices--will pass up the chance to look prettier. Every girl has that inner cheerleader, Victoria Secret Angel or Dita Von Teese. Whatever she may be, unless she wanted a sex change, is NO exception.

What other people might consider frivolous and vain, I view as a smart choice and investment. You've heard complaints that pretty girls get all the perks? Well pretty AND smart will pay off so much more. That 10 minutes you've been reluctant all this while to add to your morning routine will get you pretty far in anything like you wouldn't believe. It doesn't even cost as much time or money as you think it would.

And if, like Andy Sachs, you might be thinking "Oh I don't want to primp because I want to be taken seriously." But hey--if you really wanted to be taken seriously, then you have to look like you mean business.

So go ahead, pick up that mascara. You know you want to.

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Alvin
posted on 2009-08-18 00:47:41

I liked "The Devil Wears Prada." It's one of the few chick flicks that I enjoyed. It had nice metaphors that parallel fields other than fashion.

And Anne Hathaway being smoking didn't hurt either :P

Leki
posted on 2009-08-18 00:58:41

Actually, yeah. I don't care what they say about Anne Hathaway being in another ugly duckling role. I loved Meryl Streep there (soooo many quotables)! She makes other boss-from-hell characters seem cliche and over the top.

Kat Chua
posted on 2010-02-25 11:47:14

hi! stumbled on your site while surfing, and i'm super glad i did :D

Alexandra
posted on 2010-02-25 20:21:14

Thanks Kat! :D That just made my day.

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