It’s turquoise, and you know what? Off the rack it’s actually cute. Not flashy cute, definitely not compliment worthy but it’s a passably cute t-shirt that I bought for three dollars from Forever 21.
But when I put the shirt on, the shirt’s secret powers of ugliness release. I’m not sure why the shirt is so ugly, but I am certain that it is. Still, I wear it, maybe because I only have few t-shirts for hot days, or maybe because turquoise is so “in” right now, maybe because I deep down believe that it will look better today than it has the past fifteen times I’ve worn it. In theory the shirt should work. It doesn’t hug the curves I try to hide, it doesn’t come up too short or plunge too low. In all fashion theory, the shirt should work.
Since it doesn’t, I am led to conclude: the shirt is cursed. The shirt is not one that I would wear to an occasion that would require me to do my hair, so you can bet that I will leave my hair wavy on days like this. I call wavy hair my “50-50 Hair” because you have a 50% chance that it looks good (even with the exact same amount of mousse and the exact same towel drying), and there’s nothing you can do to control the outcome. It’s chancy, but on occasionless days, turquoise shirt days, I wear it wavy, and 99% of the time with the turquoise shirt, my wavy hair looks terrible.
And because I promised myself that I would never go out in public with wavy hair AND no makeup at the same time because the world can’t handle the ugly, I do my make-up on days like today. And when I wear the turquoise shirt, my eyeliner inevitably goes on too thick and one eye looks bigger than the other. At the end of it all, I look worse than when I started.
I’m sad that I tried marginally hard just to look this ugly.
Do ugly days also happen to you?
Ten bonus points if you can guess which movie my title came from.
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I hate it when I don't know movie quotes, so I googled yours and just came up with poultry-raising websites. You will be amazed at how much chicken farmers have to say on the internet.
Never been kissed 🙂 And yes, I absolutely have ugly days! plenty! (also I have wavy hair, and I think it is a fact that it cannot be controlled or predicted. Ever. Will it look hideous or fantastic? It's all up to chance.)
I definitely have ugly days. They usually happen when my personality is being ugly, too. unfortunate.
oh yes to ugly days! I have days where my hair is too flat or crazy to wear down so I wear it up. Then i wear more makeup to compensate. inevitably I end up looking like a mismatched dirty kid with too much makeup on. And why is it that we keep the "ugly days" shirts around and continue to wear them even when we know we hate how we look when we put them on? maybe it's just a shirt to fit the mood…
I'm going through a phase where every day is an ugly day. Seriously. I feel like my face is changing, aging, and it's just at an awkward phase. I hate every picture of myself so bad that I avoid the camera at all costs. And honestly, it's not like me to be this way. I used to be that obnoxious girl that took pictures of myself and posted my favorite (of the 132 taken) on FB. Cringe. Now when girls do that, I hate them, forever. But maybe if I wasn't always having an ugly day, I'd still be that girl. I don't know. This has been way too much "full disclosure" for one blog post that isn't even mine. I apologize. I don't know why it is that I always disclose my minds thoughts and feelings to you. Why is that? I think I offer myself up to you seeking some sort of psychoanalysis. Strange. Very strange. Maybe it's that your posts are very real, and I like that.Or maybe you were my therapist in another life. Yes, that's surely it.