Top: H&M (similar splurge, similar save); Shorts: Forever 21 (similar splurge, similar save); Shoes: Unisa via TJ Maxx (similar 1, similar 2); Scarf: ScarfObsessions
On my slow-carb diet, I've been thinking a lot lately about weight and problem areas. If you hadn't already guessed, my problem area is my least-favorite-spot, constantly-disappointed-in, envious-of-anyone-with-better-ones thighs. I am guessing you're right now thinking "psh, they look just fine." But you, the fashion blog observer/reader/bystander hasn't had to live with these thighs (identified as a problem area in high school) their whole life. And yes, maybe "psh, they look just fine" to everyone else, but to me it's never a "psh, they look just fine" situation. They're behemoths, look-bad-in-jeggings (is that a bad thing?), are worse from the back, don't fit with my body goals, can't look good in mini-skirts, make me need to wear heels for outfit photos, don't lose weight ever, stupid thighs.
But that's the thing about our problem areas, they're our problem areas. I don't think people are walking down the street gasping and staring at the thighs I personally hate. I'm 100% sure they're thinking about their own problem area and hoping I'm not noticing it too! If you hate your hair, I bet someone else thinks it's lovely. I have a colleague with the prettiest hair and lovely, dainty fly-away curls and she's often commenting on how she'd love different hair. Naturally, I'd love some sweet flyaway curls! You may hate your stomach, or the backs of your arms (who doesn't), but it's pretty likely someone else out there hates theirs even more than you do and can't get that off their mind long enough to notice you all that much.
Sometimes I wish I knew all of this in high school when I was wandering around in a hormone cloud making weird decisions about fashion and boys and not trying hard enough in my service club. I would have loved my thighs and flaunted them (they were decidedly less of a problem in high school, I now realize). I'm trying to take that vision and apply it to myself right now. In 20 years, I am going to feel like I wasted a lot of bare-thigh opportunity worrying about disliking my thighs. So here they are, in all their glory, my problem area thighs. I challenge you to do the same - flaunt your problem areas (as long as they're appropriate problem areas!) and see if anyone can even tell that they're your least favorite attribute.
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Enter the Datevitation giveaway here! Linking up with WIWW, Random Wednesday, and Keeping It Casual.