Ok, ok I confess there was a time that I was all into my make-up, hair, clothes and nails. However,  it was when I was in high school and my fashion consisted of black finger nail polish on my toes, my great grand fathers boxers and button up shirts, along with my lead into the big hair band obsession then into my black era and slowly into my semi-goth state. I actually did all of that mixed up depending on the mood I was in, but the majority of my wardrobe consisted of black, leather jackets and knee-high boots. My hair took me about an hour to get just right and it was about a mile high, actually a mile in all directions. I did dye my hair black as well.

I do like having my hair black.

I am a natural brunette but my hair is a mix of auburn, brownish so I look kind of natural with black hair. Anyway, when I was little I did love Barbie, I usually would just dress them, lay them in rows when I was finished getting them all dressed, then I would fix their hair (cut it and get in trouble) and then sit them or stand them in rows so when they were all finished I could look at them and leave them be. I also would stage them in the Barbie houses I had, but there wasn’t much “playing” with them. I did do this for hours though and took great joy in what I had accomplished. I had a ton of Barbie’s, one Christmas my mother had gone to Goodwill and purchased a ton of used Barbie’s, she then made a ton of Barbie clothes and packaged them all up, except the Barbie’s. The Barbie’s she hung all over the tree so when I woke up the next morning I had a Barbie tree.

I thought that was pretty awesome.

As I got older I collected Barbie’s, I didn’t take them out of their box, I had a whole Barbie room with shelves from the top of the ceiling to the bottom of the floor. I didn’t like Barbie because I thought she was beautiful or because I wanted to be her, I just liked having these dolls all dressed perfectly, their hair perfect and they had never been out of the box. The boxes were all even, I loved the boxes. I enjoyed going in there sometimes looking at the perfect dolls in their perfectly straight boxes and feeling a sense of peace from the complete order in my Barbie room. That was the only thing that was like that in my life at the time, when I met David and we got married, I gave my Barbie’s away. I was no longer attached to them, I didn’t even feel that deep loss that I usually feel with things that I give up.

I had found my order for the time being and didn’t need to have my Barbie room.

It is the same thing with make-up and clothes, I never was into those things that much. I always picked out strange clothes and my mother would comment about it and as my sisters got older they did too, it was the family joke. (not a mean one) I would leave the house with vampire boxers on, socks, and a tank top. I didn’t like wearing shoes, I still do not but I collected them and at one time I had over 80 pairs of shoes. I LOVE boots but I have no need to wear them anymore. When I lived far down south in the hot baking sun I wore boots. Work boots were my favorite and I wore those all the time with my shorts and skirts to work, that too was a running joke with my friends and co-workers.

I didn’t mind no one was making fun of me they just didn’t understand and thought it was one of my great quirks.

I do like looking at fashion but not for the same reasons as others, I like looking at make-up and nail polishes and things like that but I like to look at it. I like the colors, styles, how things fit on people, the different shapes of faces and what the colors do when they have a lot of stuff on their face and I also wonder why. When I see certain women and they are wearing a lot of make-up I wonder why, why do they need all of that on their face. How can they wear all of that on their face, unless they are under cameras or going on stage or something. I really think people look a lot better without it.

I am a light make-up wearing kind of gal.

I wear foundation now because I have a bit of dark spots from the sun but not all the time only when we go out. I like to get dressed up once in a while, I like wearing dresses but I always have shorts on underneath them and you can be guaranteed in about 15 minutes I will be bare footed unless I am wearing boots. I used to collect clothes too, all kinds of clothes but I wouldn’t wear the majority of them because they didn’t fit right and they drove me crazy. I stick with a certain style and then buy as many as possible and in different colors so that I will have plenty around because it is very hard to find things that fit just right. I had one shirt style in about 8 different colors and some of them were a slightly lighter or darker shade of color. I can’t wear certain clothes because the design or colors feel like they are glowing and the whole world is noticing how bright they are and staring at me.

I also can’t wear certain colors or designs because they feel loud on my body.

The fashion world of Angel is pretty simple, easy, and is able to be complete in about 20 minutes max. (Excluding shower because when I take a shower, well that is a whole other story.) I had written before that I am not into girly things but that doesn’t mean that I don’t have girly things or that I am all boy or something. The same goes for Ariel. We are girls who can look nice, who like to paint our toes, (she likes her in multiple colors) we enjoy playing with dolls and such, but we also like to play with action figures, love Star Wars, silly dragons, reading all kinds of books and wrestling with the boys! Ariel said that she wanted rings and things the other day so I took her out to the Dollar store. We got some little girl finger nail polish, princess rings, some hair thingy, and pink jelly shoes that light up when you walk.

She was excited about them for about a week and I haven’t heard anything about them since.

She is now wanting some Strawberry Shortcake stuff, me too!! I did so love Strawberry Shortcake and I had a ton of them as well. I like the way they smelled and I played with them much like I did Barbie, dressed them up and staged them. I had the small plastic ones too in a cool strawberry case and I would put them in rows by their height and their colors. I have such fond memories of those, I kept them until I was 25 yrs and I finally parted ways with them, but I did tear up a bit. (Update added 2/13/2012: I had forgotten why I parted with them, they were ruined in a water pipe flood in the storage room. My mom reminded me of that.) I teared up a bit giving away all the things I have collected throughout the years. I had Marilyn Monroe everything, posters, movies, books, vampire stuff, black cat stuff, gargoyles, books, stuffed animals, cows, masks, cd’s, and on and on. I won’t tell you all of the things I have right now. (books mainly)

I know I just went into a whole other thing, so back to the fashion thing, I am just really into my own fashion thing. As it should be for everyone.

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