Mondays are a little easier to get through when it’s Derby week! I’m showing off an all pink outfit that would be perfect for Kentucky Oaks with Lauren James plus I’m sharing some real life talk about how we’re all faking it & why it’s okay not to be the cool girl. Grab your breakfast and let’s jump on in!
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Why It’s Okay Not to Be the Cool Girl | I Wasn’t a Cool Girl
I think most of us at some point in our teen years feel distressed about not being cool enough. What’s funny now is realizing that we all feel “not cool” for different reasons. I didn’t feel cool because I looked different than everyone else, my mom wouldn’t buy me a whole wardrobe of Hollister and Ralph Lauren polos {looking back — this was wise}, my acne was horrible, the list goes on. I don’t think it was until I was in college that I started to figure out that everyone feels this to a degree and that we’re all just faking it until you make it.
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Why It’s Okay Not to Be the Cool Girl | Learning to Fake It
It was around my freshman year of college that I learned that most people have faces; it isn’t so much about being fake, it’s more of the fact that most of us are scared of being completely transparent and vulnerable with our personalities and interests. Here’s a secret: anyone can be cool. We all have interesting things about us. There’s always going to be something you wish you could change about yourself; learn to embrace what you love.
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Why It’s Okay Not to Be the Cool Girl | And Then I Accidentally Became a Cool Girl
Years after faking being a cool girl, I somehow became a cool girl. I’ll be honest, I don’t really worry about being a cool girl anymore; I’m not entirely sure when it stopped being something that I gave space in my mind and heart, but it’s really not. It still is kind of shocking to think about being a cool girl in the aspect that there are people that listen to my recommendations and actually take them.
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Why It’s Okay Not to Be the Cool Girl | The Outfit
Lauren James is a women’s clothing brand that focuses on bold colors and fun prints that are perfect for the Southern woman. I chose the Lola swing dress in the pink flamingo print, Ruffle Some Feathers. I knew this print would be perfect for Kentucky Oaks, which is pink out with a portion of funds going to breast cancer research. From there I went with all the pink I could get my hands on. A bright pink fascinator, a fun pink clutch and pink drop earrings complete the look along with of course, my favorite hot pink lipstick.
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I love this post! Ha in high school I begged my mom for hollister jeans, but she would never buy me anything that already came with holes because that’s for crazy people. I think you start to become cool when you just starting doing what you like and not what you think everyone else is doing.
I love that dress! So perfect for Derby and summer time!
Great Derby and Oaks outfit! Thanks for sharing truth. That purse is everything!
1. LOVE the bag. 2. RT RT RT to this post! There has been nothing more freeing than as an adult not caring what others thought of me and being confidant in the person I am. As always thanks for being real and sharing with us!
LOVE this whole outfit! I can never get enough pink. This is perfect for Oaks! And, yes. One of my favorite things about getting older is that I care less and less about what people think.
Your purse is to die for!
Well first off… LOVE the dress!! And I think we’ve all been there… trying to fit in with the cool crowd! I wish I would have focused more on realizing how cool and unique I already was! Thanks for sharing!
That dress is pretty and I love that fascinator! I don’t think I became “cool” until about 5 years ago lol!
🙌🙌🙌 Yes! As I’ve gotten older, I’ve found that those “cool girls” were often not so nice and didn’t learn the value of being an individual. Yay for being yourself!
This toucan clutch is soooo adorable!