Does Your Style Reflect Your AvPD?

PatronSaintHunter wrote:Your piercings are in your ears only? I used to have a monroe but took it out last year. Now I have a small (and seemingly permanent) hole in my face. I try to convince myself that people mistake it for a beauty mark. lmao

Yes my ears are 95% metal at this stage, I used to have a bar in the nape of my neck but it grew out. Now I have two permanent dots on the back of my neck which looks like a vampire bite, but in the wrong place. Its strange! I don't have any tattoos though, I feel like they're too permanent for me. I wouldn't be able to (easily) get rid of it if I decided I didn't like it any more.

So now I dress more "geek chic", which says "Mock me, for I play way too much D&D and video games" rather than "I am dark and accursed and will eat your soul."

I lol'ed at this quote...I wear mostly dark tones, blacks, browns, navy blues......I like hoodies because they cover most of my face.....I like to look good..but not enough to get too much attention.

I don't wear any bright colours at all, mainly navy, brown, black, grey - exciting! I do have naturally bright red hair though so thats been my statement. Also I have a load of piercings, but none on my face (but also none in weird places )

lol All my clothes are in those same colours and my hair is red but fakely so, strangely enough, red is also the only bright colour I will wear. (probably because it is a strong colour and thus I don't feel so vulnerable when I wear it)

Yay for red-heads! I have really bright red hair naturally, also, but I used to dye it black so people wouldn't notice me so much. Now, I've gotten to where I'm more okay with it.

I was thinking about getting an elbow length sleeve tattoo done soon now that I know who the competent tattoo artist in town is. A Norse gripping beast with a Thors hammer. Something I can hide under my clothing when I'm at work or want to be anonymous. Eventually, I'd like to get some more piercings, but I've got to stick with my ears for the moment.

I wear mostly plain alternative I'd say.

So jeans, long-johns, longsleeve and a band shirt, dark socks, all stars & leather jacket. Where the long-johns and longsleeve go away during the warmer times. I do like to mess around with the colors of the long-johns, longsleeves and band shirts. I colored the long johns myself, will buy unusually colored longsleeves and whenever a band has a shirt which isn't black (and the band is at least OK), I'll buy it (I'll also buy black shirts from bands I really like though).

During working days I pretty much always wear regular jeans, but on my free time I will also wear ripped jeans. I do wear everything for a long time, so a whole bunch of wholes don't bother me (holes in shirts, etc. whatever). Only when I go to work I tend to pay a little more attention to it.

I have long hair which I wear loose in my free time but in a pony tail at work. And I hardly ever shave (like once a month), but luckily it doesn't grow very fast, so I guess it looks a bit like somebody who hasn't shaved for a week or so. When I do shave I pretty much always leave a goaty, unless I am feeling too lame to bother making it nice, in which case it comes off completely (like once a year).

I hardly ever brush my teeth, but I do chew whitening gum. Last time they had to drill they had to get the color chart for bleached teeth, so I guess that's cool. Next to that I don't shower a lot (I am really anal about drying myself off afterwards, have to be completely dry, so showering takes me like an hour or an hour and a half). But I do wash my hands quite obsessively...

Yeah, I guess that about sums up my personal appearence.

I got a picture of you in my head now

Ive always dressed relatively bland, I cant imagine myself dressing in an intimidating manner. Its kind of funny too, I think most people think Im a tool

For a long time at school I used to wear only black things, black necklaces, bracelets, earrings, eye-liner, gloves, shirts, sweaters, black convers... I even died my hair black... It didn't mach my personality at all... people expected of course an antisocial girl but the type that would look at you in the eyes and tell you to get lost... while I was the sweet and innocent type of girl, my looks screamed something I was not... With years because of my insane boyfriend who had a need to control my entire life, I had to change my style as well... he asked me not to be so dark anymore and well... I just became a plain looking girl... Always wearing jeans (never skinny jeans!) and a simple shirt of whatever color, tennis shoes and a either black or gray sweater and I did that for a very long time. I never realized how plain looking I made myself look, worst than trying to blend with people around me it was more as if I was attempting to turn invisible

I do dislike grabbing attention because of my looks, I get extremely paranoid if I go outside my house and I feel that something... ANYTHING... is wrong or weird... specially if I am going to a place where I would most likely meet someone I know.

Now because I am starting college and my family got me a whole lot of new clothes I am at least trying to look nice and feminine the first two weeks at least... Now I look like a normal girl, but do I act like a normal person? Nope.

If I wanted to reflect myself with the way I look... I would probably make a cosplay of Hinata from Naruto. Since I am that Otaku and thaaat shy.

PatronSaintHunter wrote:Welcome to the forums! So, you're a bit of a dandy then? I'm liking it. xD Have you always been able to separate your style from your AvPD?

Thank you, kindly.

Perplexed, I don't know what a dandy individual would look like.

Enjoy going out and about with what increases confidence and comfort while mingling within Socialworld. Great conversation starter.

Really, I wanted to be different from the norm. No one does a mix of 1820s and now. And, to answer your question, no I have not. Am trying to now and so far positive results.

Sial Axetder wrote:

PatronSaintHunter wrote:Welcome to the forums! So, you're a bit of a dandy then? I'm liking it. xD Have you always been able to separate your style from your AvPD?

Thank you, kindly.

Perplexed, I don't know what a dandy individual would look like.

Enjoy going out and about with what increases confidence and comfort while mingling within Socialworld. Great conversation starter.

Really, I wanted to be different from the norm. No one does a mix of 1820s and now. And, to answer your question, no I have not. Am trying to now and so far positive results.

G'Day Sial,

1820's dance music would have to be played really loud to be heard thorough those steel helmets>
No?!!... again, that sounded funny in my head.

Dwight

I think it's pretty interesting that so many people have eccentric styles, like brightly colored dyed hair, piercings, leather jackets, etc. (which I would never have the guts to do). It makes me even more curious about the people behind all the usernames.

When I was younger I didn't really care how I dressed, but now I feel more motivated to dress somewhat fashionably. Maybe we should all post pictures of our closets. That would be interesting.