The Lost Girl; my experience.

I am rewatching a lot of Rita's videos for the Left quadrant to re-educate myself on my new key and I realise now I have found myself so badly stuck in the Lost Girl archetype. I think I have been overthinking, overanalysing, using too many rules and too many other people's ideas and opinions in a way to help me to feel less overwhelmed but in fact - it's made me feel so overwhelmed and lost and just not myself.

The first for me would be colour analysis - I did my colour analysis and it ruled out most of the colours that I wear all the time and I decided to go fully into it and replace those colours with what I was 'supposed' to wear to look good - denying how I love to feel and what I love.

The second for me would be 'capsule wardrobe' because I don't feel this is every working for me because no one wardrobe of essentials ever works for me - no matter what colours I use or styles - I get bored, it doesn't help me express myself.

There are others like Kibbe and other systems and customers reactions that I also take on board and edit myself for. I feel like when I don't put in as much effort at work - if I'm sick or just feeling like I want to be comfortable and easy over everything, customers will comment and I will take it on board and think I need to change, but why?

I am in a very difficult situation because I have gained a whole dress size due to medication I am on and I need to buy a whole new wardrobe (well almost) and I have decided from this moment to throw all rules to the wayside for this year and just buy intuitively and for myself and myself alone. It doesn't matter if everything in my wardrobe isn't cohesive or a 'signature' or maximising my space etc. I want fashion to be fun and meaningful to me again as it used to be.

This is the ONLY system that addresses that, it's the only one that doesn't feel stifling or restricting in any way so this is the ONLY one I will still be active in as it is the only one that helps rather than hinders which is why I found my way back here in the end.