Mean Girls Week: Monday

A few coworkers decided to do a Mean Girls week from October 23-26 because we all loved the movie and I was down.

Welcome to Mean Girls Week. Here are the Rules:

• Don’t wear a tank top two days in a row
• You can only wear your hair in a ponytail once a week
• On Wednesdays, we wear pink
• You can only wear jeans or track pants on Friday
• Be effortlessly plastic

You must take a photo of your outfit every day and share your thoughts.

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I worked from home – normally I am in my PJs a little longer as I roll into the day but I got up to make sure I had time to dress the part and do my hair and makeup. I'm a Plastic this week!

Cold, Shiny, Hard, PLASTIC!

I was reminded of when I freelanced and at one point I was working like crazy and not showering and eating nothing but marshmallows with chopsticks as I slowly lost my grip on reality to the saccharine sounds of QVC in the background…

We talk about self-care as something that looks like massages and fitness and family. Today felt a little like a type of self-care that I might have been missing. In having to get dressed up on a day when I didn’t have to made me feel like I was doing it for me.

Like I did something unnecessary for myself that made me feel…nice.

The effort also changed a little of my “lazy” mindset and got me in a groove where I felt more like I could take on challenges with some sass and creativity.

Since it’s cold and my warm stuff is dark and “old lady” looking (black turtleneck and navy pants) I needed to find a way to pop it. And my choice was not by accident.

One of the bases of the costumes in Mean Girls was the mixture of retro styles such as preppy knitwear and patterns based roughly on styles throughout the 1940-1950 with tighter fits and midriff cuts that were modern in the 2000s. The concept of the Rules is based on a time when you did dress up to go to school – fetch retro.

My sweater and pants are modern-classic so I added teal. Teal was used a lot in the 1950 and into the 1960 as a color of trend. BOOM! 

Since I later had to rush a lethargic kitten to the vet – I was also the fanciest cat-lady in the waiting room…