Trying Not to Scare People

I feel like my blog posts should have opening music. Is that weird? Like, “dunun dunun blog post, da da da ratatata ta! Blog post!” I guess we’ll just have to pretend. 

So I was on Pinterest (big surprise) and someone was talking about how they smoke but no one calls them trashy. Which got me thinking about something I have had in my brain before. Let me try to organize this properly. So some people smoke, like Jennifer Aniston, and Natalie Portman. But no one calls them trashy for smoking. That’s because the image they project is not a trashy one. Some people I see smoking, and I’m like, “Maybe you should stop.” But! I feel like this judgement is based on the whole package of a person. 

Jennifer Aniston, who I believe recently quit smoking, and Natalie had a baby, so she probably doesn’t smoke, seem pretty classy. They both do. They wash their hair, and they don’t throw bottles at people, and they don’t have fifty tattoos to go with their fifty piercings to go with their ripped, dirty clothing and bodies. They look pretty nice and put together. You probably wouldn’t be afraid that they’re going to cut you. 

Okay, Natalie might.

So, if you look like your mother did meth when she was pregnant with you, I don’t understand why you don’t try to look your best, to offset that. I don’t mean wear thousand dollar clothes, or get professional hair and makeup done daily. I mean, wash your hair and clothing. If a nose or lip or eyebrow piercing is a cute addition to your face, that’s great! If your hiding the toll your drug use (or your mother’s) has taken on your face, then maybe you won’t look so nice. 

Maybe you should hold off on getting those nose piercings, Right.

Personal appearance is important in many ways. It expresses who you are (are you a trashy, trashy vagrant? No?) and it’s something people use to judge you by. Which isn’t always fair, but if your teeth are rotted, I might think you do meth. And if you don’t have clean clothes and hair and you’re hiding behind your snakebites and facial tattoos, don’t sit there and wonder why people won’t talk to you. 

Everyone should try to look their best. When you look your best, you feel your best. No, really. I’m sorry I’m so cliched. Say you have a bad haircut. Then you feel bad and are all upset, right? But if you have a well done haircut that flatters your face, then you feel pretty good, at least about your hair! If you have clothes that fit you well and aren’t falling apart, then you don’t have to worry too much about how your clothes look. You can worry about other things. It’s like when you have to go to something important, but you’re kind of sick. You try to make yourself look nicer to offset that. So you put on nice clean clothes, and you wash your hair (not in that order), and maybe you put on some makeup. You look nicer than you did, and people aren’t so concerned about you. 

But hey, do what you want. I’m just here to vent my feelings and occasionally show you pretty pictures. 

Such pretty, pretty pictures.