What are your two favorite things to wear?
I must have not answered this question last year. If I had answered it, I guarantee my answer would be different this year. My first immediate thought, is that my tattoos are my absolute favorite thing to wear.
I’ve been on a tattoo binger this year, which I think, has finally come to a close. Simply put, I’ve run out of room on my arms. I mean, part of my right bicep and shoulder is bare, and the inside of my left bicep is bare, but with what I already have on those arms, it would be difficult to put something in those places that matched or at least didn’t clash with what’s already there. So, when I go back in a few weeks for my artist to finish coloring in what I had done on Friday, I think I’ll be done for a while. I’m not a fan of big leg tattoos, so I don’t feel like I want to fill up my legs. Maybe when there’s a Friday the 13th flash sale going on I’ll go get a small little something to stick somewhere, but until then, I’m happy with what I have.
And what I have is amazing art on both arms. One arm especially represents the freedom and healing I’ve experienced in just this year and a half. My blue flowers in particular are the perfect embodiment of that. When I feel anxiety creeping in about something going on in my job, I give my left arm a little rub and a pat. I think of those blue flowers and I remember that I will never let another job do to me what my old one did.
Those blue flowers took the longest to get done (and took the most money), but they also represent freedom from the longest period of my life. I can’t say it was the worst part of my life, battling out of bipolar hell was pretty bad. My new tattoo, lower down on my arm, represents my healing from that.
I can’t ever take these tattoos off. Not casually anyway. Laser removal is a thing. But aside from that, these are permanent and as such, they are a permanent reminder of who I am now and what I’ve survived to get here.
The other favorite thing I wear is my glasses. I get it, some people hate having to wear glasses. I’m pretty sure my husband is one of those people. He has glasses and I think the eye doctor told him that he has to wear them all the time now. But he doesn’t.
I’ve been wearing glasses since I was in the 5th grade, so I am used to them. I’ve worn contacts off and on throughout my life, but laziness has mostly kept me in glasses. I tried bifocal contacts recently. I gave up on them after a week. They weren’t difficult to wear. My distance vision wasn’t as good as with my glasses which was a bummer because I’m near-sighted and need really good distance vision.
But truth be told, I went back to my glasses because I didn’t like how I looked without them. I don’t know if that makes me vain, but my glasses are almost a part of my identity. I’ve had a variety of glasses over the years.
A pair in my favorite color:
A pair that had a unique shape to them that I got complimented on a lot:
There was a pair in there that was a dark, translucent blue color. There was a pretty standard black pair. And now I have some brown ones to match my hair:
I don’t know what it is about them, but I just like myself better when I wear them.
Without:
Maybe I could get all deep and philosophical about how my glasses have been a constant throughout all the changes I’ve been doing, or something. I don’t think it’s all that meaningful. I think it might just be that I like my appearance better with them.
So, tattoos and glasses are my two favorite things to wear right now. However, honorable mention goes to dangly earrings. I’ve built up quite a collection lately and I am madly in love with wearing them too.
Honestly, what we wear is really all about what makes us feel the most comfortable in our own skin. My husband doesn’t like his glasses and has no tattoos, but I know there are things that he wears that are his favorite. Everybody has their favorites. It’s just a part of being the unique people we are.
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