A Work in Progress

This is the blog of a tomboy turned girly girl.  I've gone from not wearing makeup and not being fashionable to spending my weekends shopping at malls and creating different makeup looks in my free time after work.  

A month ago I hated shopping, six months ago I couldn't put an outfit together, a year ago I didn't know there were different cuts for different body types, two years ago I barley knew what foundation was, and four years ago I didn't know or care about any of the above.  In fact, I all but hated myself.  Something had to give and with a boyfriend in my life for the first time it was my tomboy side that began to collapse. 

 I've spent four years learning to love a side of myself that I have always shunned.  Don't ask my why I was a tomboy; I don't have an answer.  I was afraid of changing at first, afraid of not being what I have always been.  It took three years for me to get a good idea of what I wanted to become.  I really began working on changing about six months ago.  I've made a great deal of progress and I have a great deal more to do.  Although I'm four years into my journey I'm also just beginning.  I turn 26 in fifteen days, and I made a promise to myself about three months ago that I would not live the rest of my life as I have lived the first quarter of it.  And so I bought makeup, I learned to enjoy shopping, and I said goodbye to the timid tomboy that I've always been.  

As the name of this blog suggests, I'm changing ways. 

Something I've learned the hard way is that what you've always been doesn't have to be what you become.  

This is my journey from who I thought I had to be to the person I really am.  I'm peeling off layers of biases, envy, resentment, anger, old dreams, other's expectations, and false images of myself.  It's hard work but it's also an exciting time!

The purpose of this blog is to share with others what I've learned the hard way.  You will find everything here from makeup tips and reviews to recent styles and my favorite stores and fashion websites.  Learn from these posts what I learned the hard way from a lot of trial and error.  As the title of this post suggests this blog is a work in progress, as am I.  You will find successes, mistakes, and some embarrassment  here but no apologies, regrets, or excuses.  

Lastly, this blog is dedicated with much love and thanks to my boyfriend for tearing down a very thick and stubborn facade, to my mother for accepting and loving what was discovered beneath it, and to them both for helping a phoenix rise from the ashes.

I'm changing ways.