Hot Mess

For as long as I can remember, I have defined myself with my unique sense of style (as many youngsters do--lol). However, when I started college I was unsure what I wanted to declare as my major and I really had no idea what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. I found myself at the university in the town I've lived in my entire life, and suddenly felt like I was in the middle of a style/identity crisis. I didn't know who I was anymore. To the untrained eye, it may seem like I have my life under control, but the truth is, I, Clarae J Smith, am a hot mess. I'm a scatter-brained, distracted disaster. During the winter term of my freshman year (literally less than three months ago) in the middle of my existential life crisis, my hot messiness kept getting hotter and messier, so I decided the only logical way to combat this was to start a blog. In order to sort out my thoughts on my life and feel like I really know myself again, I need to reinvent my "style" and write about it. I will share my observations, experimentations, trials and tribulations here as I develop and evolve into the new, semi-adult me who will once again feel properly represented by my aesthetic choices and self-expression.