Is there anywhere that reliably can give good advice on how to do makeup, what haircut would suit you, what clothes to wear, how to wear them, whether jewellery is "right", etc?
I probably sound like some silly 1950s Stepford-wife-in-training here, but I am a bit fed up with always being the ugly one in photos, and the reference point for when people want to talk about someone who really doesn't care about their appearance.
I do care, but would happily wear hiking clothes every day of my life, and I'm generally not pretty - with mole-covered glowing blue-white skin, stringy thin knotty hair so fair I look like I'm bald/ have no eyelashes etc, stringy knotty hair scraped over bald-looking scalp into a ratty ponytail, wonky glasses, holes in shorts/ tshirt and insane looking grin.
In my work environment, I'm surrounded by perfectly-coiffed, demurely-made-up, neatly dressed young ladies wearing the family heirloom jewellery and a 1000-pound pashmina draped over the cashmere tank top and designer jeans... the kind of people who would look good wearing a hessian sack.
I want to look more like them, but haven't got a clue how... and feeble attempts at asking for help in department stores have resulted in makeup that looks like drag, bright orange fake tan, dirty-looking hair that looks like it's been filled with grease and then ironed, vile ugly polyester clothes that make me look like a carthorse, etc etc...
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anonymous4 · 18/08/2009 16:07
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