Makeover Shows

Although sometimes intriguing, I think that some of the makeover shows on television are just mean. You know the ones I'm talking about...where a friend or relative calls in and asks style "experts" to give someone whom they are supposed to love unconditionally a new look. I don't give a crap about fashion. When I was young and thin I obsessed about how I looked. Now that I'm a little older and overweight, I have decided that I'm done caring about what other people think of my looks. I have enough to deal with in my life; I don't need to spend hours every day picking out the "right" clothes and accessories, getting my hair "perfect", and putting on globs of make-up.

I wear comfortable clothing. It's very cold in the winter, so I wear sweatpants and sweatshirts. It's hot and humid in the summer, so I wear cotton shorts and tops. I wear my winter boots in the winter and my boring black slip on sandals in the summer. I have my hair cut short and I wear my glasses because I got tired of having to put re-wetting drops in my eyes all the time when I wore contacts. The one thing I would like to change is my teeth, I smoke too much and drink too much soda and coffee so I am planning on using an over the counter product to whiten my teeth because they make me self conscious. But that is something I want to change for me, not something that I'm changing for anyone else.

On these shows the fashion "experts" talk so much about first impressions and dressing for success and all of that crap. If I meet someone who is really so shallow that they wouldn't want to be friends with me because I'm not dressed to kill, then I don't want them for a friend. To those of you who are embarrassed about what your friends wear in public...get a life and worry about yourself.