Hi, hi, long time no talk.. Let me just get you up to speed with why I've been M.I.A lately. This past month has been one of the most stressful and also rewarding months that I've had to endure. At the start of February, I began working on the concept for my dissertation (little different, in the fact that I had to create a business plan, etc) and for the past few months that alongside all the extra little bits to go with it have been my main focus - utterly and completely in stressville the entire time. In the middle of all this I had to say goodbye to my best friend of 14 years, my beloved westie - which was one of the hardest things I've had to experience. A month on I'm still distraught and miss him everyday but am choosing to remember all the good times we had with him. So I took a little time away from blogging, social media and things like that, to focus on my university work and give myself the time to grieve. Fast forward to the 15th of May and my dissertation has been completed and handed in, and three years of uni has flown by; so I'm getting myself back into the rhythm of social media and blogging; including this new post coming your way. So after the most rambled introduction I've ever wrote (you're welcome) lets get into the post. Personal style is something I've heard bloggers, journalists and other fashion icons talk about since I can remember. From this, I've constantly thought about how I would define my personal style and how it has changed over time. But I'll be honest I'm not entirely sure how I would describe my personal style and yes I can pinpoint huge changes and overhauls but the fact of the matter is that it pretty much changes every single day. So my question is, is it okay that at 22 years old, I still don't have a fully established personal style? I see so many blog posts, videos and articles all about tips for defining our personal style but the problem I find with this, is that we are then typecast into wearing exclusively items and pieces that only fit that style. For many years, as social media has grown and practically taken over our lives at some points I will say that I tried to create my own personal style but it was fixated around what I thought I should be wearing instead of what I wanted to wear. Friends and celebrities has a huge impact in what I was wearing and I kind of lost the sense of who I was dressing for. Then beginning Haute on my Heels in 2015; I started to dress like the bloggers that I was looking up to rather than dressing how I wanted. Personal style shouldn't be a reflection of how society and other people are dressing but instead on how we want to dress and what we feel comfortable in. My relationship has grown immensely over the years with fashion and now I understand that fashion is more than clothes. I adore opening the pages of Vogue to see High Fashion, I enjoy perusing fashion blogs and instagrams to see how people are mixing high end with high street fashion and I'm obsessed with seeing exactly who wore what on the red carpet (particularly the Met Gala) but instead of copying and wishing that I had the exact clothing I see day-in, day-out I take the inspiration and bring it to life in the different styles I wear everyday. The style that I wear everyday is constantly changing, I would say now that I don't have a set style that I follow everyday, instead I wear what fits my mood, what I'm feeling that day and what has been reflected through my inspiration lately. I definitely have core pieces in my wardrobe that I adore (like these mom jeans) but I'm proud that my style changes constantly. I no longer feel like my style choices don't have a personality or add to my own, I feel like my style choices reflect my personality and that's what works for me when it comes to my personal style. People are quick to judge those interested in fashion, but fashion is art and culture and should reflect us personally, including all the changes we embrace daily. So that's why I'm happy that my personal style is constantly changing. Some days I want to dress as chill as possible, and some days I want to reflect the vogue lover inside of me. After all, fashion is about finding what is right for you and that's exactly what I'm doing this year. Get the look.Top - Next (Old, Similar linked here) Jeans - Next Shoes - Missguided (Old, Similar Linked here) Sunglasses - Pretty Little Thing
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