Being You
Author and I were chatting today about how being told what we could and couldn't do with our appearance changed how we viewed the basics of being "girly". Things like makeup, hair, nails, and clothes. As a kid there was many times I was told by several individuals I looked horrible or, and I quote, "like a prostitute" because of something I was wearing that they didn't like. Come to think of it prostitute was thrown around a lot. For example, I was once told that only prostitutes wear red shirts and jeans. That I looked like one because I was wearing red lipstick, or that I looked "hard" because I put on black eyeliner. That hookers wore heels not respectable Christian women and definitely not country girls. That country girls don't do makeup or hair because it's pointless and stupid. Only jeans, t-shirts, and boots are allowed. Oh, and one of my favorites, "you aren't a true country girl if you like girly things." For the rec...