*a-z of me is a weekly series created when i was suffering writers block. i also thought it might be a good way for you to get to know me a little bit better... outside of the general nonsense and backwards mirror pictures. to follow the rest of the series, click here.
if you're new to the blog, there's something you need to know about me; i'm not really... 'normal'. that's not to say i'm weird or particularly strange, it's just.. well, i prefer to err on the side of quirky. mostly for lolz, but also because i find it rather dull being like everyone else.
growing up, i always wanted to fit in but knew there was something wrong with dressing like everyone, in order to look like everyone. after school, and into adulthood, i was all about colourcolourcolour and more colour while everyone else was very much into wearing black. i would wear stupid amounts of cheap costume jewellery, and have no problem adorning my hair with glitter or flowers or bows. the older i get, the more i seem to regress back to this stage of my life!
working at the makeup counter meant access to thousands of different nail polishes and eye shadows, with a different colour lip gloss for every day of the week. i owned hundreds of pairs of shoes, in rainbow brights to wear with my charity shopped dresses and cardigans. the sale rails in the chain stores always had a healthy range of pieces of clothing that no-one else wanted, and strangely (to everyone but me), i wanted them all!
working in retail was hard though. it's hard to be yourself when you're selling someone else's style. i tried my best, but usually just got a lot of odd looks. it's hard to explain your love of black tights in an australian summer! really, the move to london was the best decision i ever made. here, everyone is quirky - or, kooky, usually. here, i'm not the only person dressing like me. there are hundreds and thousands of people walking around the streets dressing like themselves - not each other.
since the move, and the creation of this blog, i have met and made some fabulous quirky friends in this bloggersphere (you can find them all on the sidebar!) after bonding over a mutual love of heavy bangs and thick glasses, and i have come to the conclusion that being quirky is just about the best thing about me.
also: do you have a burning question you wan to ask? do so in the comments, i've got a faq in the works!
