[OrigamiTulip]

I've been a walking fashion disaster my whole life, and for the most part I still am. Some of the real gems from my adolescence:

In 6th grade, I didn't know how to french braid my hair, so I would fake it. I would pull the top part back into a ponytail, then pull a little more back and add it to the first pony tail, and so on down the back of my head. This wouldn't have been TOO bad if I hadn't insisted on wearing a hairbow at every junction of the ponytail.

In 7th grade I would go to the fabric store and pick out the brightest, funkiest, loudest fabrics, and have my mother make me outfits out of them. All outfits included a pair of shorts, a shirt that closely resmebles hospital scrubs, a jacket that resembled a lab coat, hair scrunchie, hair bow and hat. One of them was in painfully bright flourescent yellow with orange, green, pink, and blue paint splatters all over it. Others were tye-dye and floral. This was all topped off with bright flamingo pink lipstick, and fake keds with no socks.

In 8th grade, I decided to attempt goth. Black leggings, oversize black tshirt, black dress flats, a black lace bandana. I also wore, white foundation and black lipstick. Thankfully there are no photos of me from this phase to come back and haunt me.

In 9th grade, I started to dress more normally, in jeans and tshirts. However, I had gotten my hair cut to my jaw and spiral permed. It looked awful, so I insisted on wearing a bandana over my hair every day for 6 months while it grew out. I still wore my shoes without socks, and I stopped wearing makeup (still don't wear it to this day.)

By my senior year, most of my fashion faux pas revolved around carrying a stuffed koala bear backpack around everywhere, and really long necklaces with weird charms on the end, like a peace sign, an ankh, and a skeleton of a fish. I also had this one outfit I loved. My friend had one that matched and we would wear them together. It was a beige sweater, jean shorts, burgundy tights, and a pair of fake doc marten mary janes.