Another decade of decadence...

Well today is the first day of the new year, and with it comes a new decade.

When the millennium came around i was only 15, and had a terrible problem with confidence because of some less than positive influences in my life. I grew up in the country, and although i would read fashion magazines behind closed doors, it wasn't an environment where i could try things out for myself. My terrible confidence meant that the pull to fit in was always greater than the pull to stand out.

I didn't really come out of it until i was 21, and that's when i began to experiment! I frantically started making up for lost time! My hair went every colour under the sun, and backcombed coiffed and sprayed to within an inch of its life! I got pierced and tattooed, i dipped my toe into cyber, industrial, new rave, punk, goth, rockabilly, emo, decora and lolita, 40's, 50's, 80's, mashing completely random things up together, much to the amusement of my friends - and i quote "I've seen you wear some bloody awful stuff!" - but isn't that the nature of experimentation? You'll always look a prat to someone, and you'll get it wrong sometimes, but the feeling when you get it right is .

Anyway, here's to another decade of decadence, and trying new things! I started the new year dressed, ridiculously, as a granny for a party, so start as you mean to go on eh?...