FayeMay Launch
When you work a 9 to 5 job in the back room of a small charity you very rarely have a chance to show your fashion style to the world……hence my idea for this blog!
Fashion is unavoidable, everyday we are surrounded by advertising on billboards, buses and beyond. The temptation from shop window displays, glossy magazines when you are buying your morning coffee and even the super stylish girl you seem to share a lift with every morning on your way to your office! There is no escape, and for someone who is not really interested in escaping it all becomes an obsession.
The 6 year old inside me who watched in awe as her mum put on her make up and carefully curl her hair each Saturday night loves it all! The polish, the gloss, the attention to each small detail. Women all over the world wake up each day and begin this ritual, but why? Human nature to love the need to do it maybe?
I don’t feel this way every morning, some days the nearest thing next to me seems to end up my outfit of choice for that day. I sit on the back of public transport and put on my make up! But then there are those days when I am back to being 6 all over again but this time I am the girl putting on the gloss, I am the girl painting my nails shocking pink (even when I know I have that meeting with my boss who will inevitably raise an eye brow at my choice of colour!) I do it because every beauty or fashion choice I make is a reflection of me. I look back on pictures and cringe at the reflections of me I was making in 1999 or on my 18th birthday but also feel a small smile at that outfit I just had to have or that hat I never took off.
I think it’s safe to say I will look back at pictures of today or tomorrow and laugh at them in 10 and 20 years to come because that’s the thing with fashion it has a sneaky way of bringing out the real you, whether you want it to or not….. x