Baby Bat

A lighter post for today considering I'm in a pretty good mood and wide awake.

So I was going through old pictures of myself and couldn't help but laugh and grimace at the sight of my...

*ahem* Baby-batness *ahem*

We all have to start somewhere!
Unfortunately though, the goth fairy came and sprinkled morbid glitter all over my head a little late.
I see pictures of other so-called "goths" and they looked absolutely gorgeous when they were baby-bats,

while I just looked mismatched and retarded.
I'm glad I came such a long way though.
So today's post is about critiquing some of my old photos.
Very fun and delightful!
(all of the baby-bat photos are from when I was aged 12-13)

So for the first one!

Okay so, can you tell I was fond of purple?

It still remains to be one of my favorite colors, but purple shirt, purple eye-liner, purple lipgloss, purple bow....

A bit too much me thinks.

Luckily you cannot see the bottom half of the photo...purple tights as well.

Hair is bland (granted I wasn't really supposed to dye it at the time) but I have some blonde highlights

Which kinda just added to the mismatched affect since I had a prepsters hair, yet dressed oddly.
Also, I didn't fill in my eyebrows back then with makeup, though I would pluck them really thin... 

which just resulted in hardly visible eyebrows.
The only thing I do give myself kudos on is my wrist cuff.

So in conclusion to this picture
Friends don't let friends look like plums or overly fill their wardrobe with hottopic merchandise

Now off to the second picture!

This one, I would like to say is not quite as bad.

Still have my horrible highlights, but hey look! My first studded choker! Awe how cute.

(Now I have so many that I can't fit them into two jewelry boxes!)

But LOOK.

Horrible horrible horrible TAN.

Don't get me wrong, I think people of any and every color are beautiful but here's the blasphemy in the situation....

I was TRYING to be tan. 

Yup! That's right. The girl who walks around with a parasol and 80 spf sunscreen used to lay on her roof in a bikini!

I know, I know. and I bow my head in shame now. But we live and we learn, and I have learned that a pale complexion looks MUCH better on me.

I do give myself credit for adding a bit of weirdness by making my bangs look a bit spikey, but I hated wearing my hair down at the time, so my hair always looked rather bland.

Also, notice safety pin in my ear? Common Baby-Bat theme. Obsession with safety pins.

I still love safety pins, but there are other pieces of decoration that can be added in order to stylize. Oh how close minded I was back then.

Off to the next photo!

I apologize that this was tilted sideways.

SO. Can you point out what the obvious "don't" here is?

I sure can.

Gothy tears??

This photo is a bit newer than the other old ones.

The other three were from the 6th and 7th grade, while this one is from the beginning of 10th.

This is just after I was allowed to dye my whole head for the first time!

Oh how I loved my long black hair *sigh*

But yes, anyways, a lesson to all baby-bats...

Don't try to pull off the gothy tears unless you're super imaginative and are convinced that you can make it cooler than the photo above.

We all have to start somewhere and practice makes perfect, but atleast don't go out after experimenting with this type of makeup like I did

*facepalm*

And now for the last photo!

Now this is more like it!

Black and white to create ambiance, and get rid of that nasty orange tan look

and pigtails (always a win in my book)

Not much else has changed besides that, but yet, what an improvement.

Okay and now for the improvement picture!

*drum roll*

Ah, there we go! Much better!

Pigtails, of course with non-boring hair

Along with a fishnet shirt that was NOT bought from Hottopic, but instead made from an old pair of leggings.

 A proper choker which I put together myself.

A criss cross patterned corset along with a velvet vest that went half way down to my knees.

Proper "gothy" makeup with fake stitches

and of course, a more pale complexion.

Thankfully, I have come along way in the past 6 years in terms of finding myself and finding what I feel the most comfortable in.

Now if only I could have gone and told my baby-bat self that I looked very, erm....mistmatched or that I was trying too hard.

Oh and look! 

Grown up gothy girl has a gothy boyfriend to match.

Awe how cute.

Once again, I'm gonna get a big

"FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU"

reaction out of him for exposing his pale face all over the interwebs

But hell, I can't help it if this is one of my favorite photos of him!

And besides...He should be proud of this picture considering his baby-bat pictures are much much much worse than mine!

But anyhow, that's my post!

Are there any photos you look back on and just facepalm??