Graciously Tenacious

So I have recently fallin in love with crop tops and though in the past I would have never dared to wear one, I have decided to just wear them with confidence. I never thought I had the body type to wear crop tops but if I wait around to have that "ideal body type" I will end up never wearing the clothing that I want to wear.  Today I decided to wear a crop top.  I have gotten over the body type issue but another issue popped up. As I looked in the mirror I saw them...stretch marks. I have always known that I have stretch marks but they never showed before because I was wearing full lengths shirts.  I looked at my stretch marks on my stomach and smiled.  Yes, I smiled.  I love my body, my body type and my stretch marks. I realized that in that moment I made a decision to love myself instead of criticize. I know that this is a daily battle for everybody but how you feel about your body is in your hands, so today look at yourself in the mirror and smile. Do n

After a week of celebrating the iconic movie Mean Girls and dressing like the characters of Mean Girls, I started thinking about the rules I live by in my own fashion choices. If you are not familiar with the movie, it is about a new student who gets sucked into the popular clique at school and learns about "girl world" and the rules and drama that are involved. In the world of mean girls, they can only wear jeans on Friday, they can only wear their hair in a ponytail once a week and on Wednesdays they wear pink. And if you break any of these rules than you cannot sit with the clique, you are banished for the day. These rules are silly  and controlling but some friends and I thought it would be interesting to live out the rules for a week. As I was following the Mean Girl's rules, I realized that I have been dressing by a set of rules in my real life that I did not set for myself. It was not until I moved to Los Angeles and going through this week that I realized I was ba