Hello World,
Read the other review by Akisha on Personal Grooming and fancied writing one myself with my own views.:)
Not everyone is born beautiful. But anyone can look smart, sexy, attractive.
For me it all starts and ends with the mind.
As rightly pointed out from the other review, the first impression is constructed from the looks of the person.
So decide on what kind of impression you want to convey. A clean-shaven man with a suit and a tie may convey the impression of being a successful man with from a succesful family. Someone with multi-coloured dyed hair wearing eye-rings may convey the impression of being a weed-smoking party-hopper. But that is not neccessary to say that his look is right and his look is wrong. Our latter friend may be actually more succesful than the former, may be an international ad guru, or a rock star.
The kind of impression you convey also depends on the person concerned. For one person, someone wearing a low waist jeans signals the countries going to the dogs, while for another person, it is fashionable, ’in’ thing. I like girls who have a sort of unique look around them, who look and dress differently from the rest. But I’m sure they are many people who aren’t attracted towards such types of girls.
Generally whatever look you wear, you should wear it with confidence. You should convey the message’Yes, this is me.’.
Personally I can’t wear a shirt, trouser. suit and tie. So usually in formal parties like marriages(even of close relatives), I usually wear my jeans/cargo pants/etc and some flashy T-Shirt. My hair looks horrible uncombed or combed, it usually takes hair gel to fix it. I don’t like the green face look, so I usually shave a day before and let a miniscule stubble grow. Of course I sure as well look like an oddity, everyones is dressed in suits or kurtas, hair neatly combed to one side, freshly shaven, and there I am looking like I’ve just got dressed to go to an 1am rave party.
But simply I don’t care. They now know I don’t belong to this class. I am not attracted towards people who are formal, polite, nicely dressed with an order to their life, so I wouldn’t want them to be attracted towards me. But I as sure as hell have accepted them. They fun is theirs, and my fun is theirs are they are no lesser or better person than me, .
I am fascinated by the 60s. I’m a soft hippie. I want to look hip. I like being adventurous, I like trying new things, I like to experiment. This is me, like me or not, you’ll have to accept me. Replace these with the lines of your personality, dress as you want to be and look confident in it.
Be bold. Be afraid of nothing. Sometimes your style statements can go wrong. I once grew long hair and despite everyone telling me it looked shite on me, I kept it thinking it’d look better as it grew longer. One fine day, I looked in the mirror for the 100th time and decided, aye this is really shite, and got it cut short.
Recently I’ve been keeping a stylish beard. I trim the moustach a little in the centre, so that it looks a bit hip. I once used to keep sideburns beyond my earlobe, but an idiot barber who misunderstood shave a part of them off when cutting my hair lol.
So there, there are no hard and fast rules on personal grooming, no guidelines to follow. As the slogan for one of the ads on TV goes’It’s your life, make it large’.
Okay I lied, there is one hard and fast rule. Whatever look you are keeping, always remember to smile a lot. Even psychopaths smile. Nothing can be more attractive than a smile.
PS: I’ve seen many MS members get a lot of comments, and I’m jealous. Can I have atleast 10 comments, pleassse?:-D