This year was the year of the selfie for me, I noticed that folks actually wanted to know more about my skincare and haircare routine and also wanted to see more of my face and hair. I actually put some thought energy behind the the selfie culture and self image and shared regular "chronic selfie disorder" posts. Since selfies were such a big part of Sisterlocked this past year, I decided to share my top selfies of 2015 based on comments, likes, and re-shares.

I learned a great deal about my own ideas of beauty and how little of myself and my life these photos actually capture.

• Monday, December 28, 2015
• Selfies

Top Selfies of 2015

This year was the year of the selfie for me, I noticed that folks actually wanted to know more about my skincare and haircare routine and also wanted to see more of my face and hair. I actually put some thought energy behind the the selfie culture and self image and shared regular "chronic selfie disorder" posts. Since selfies were such a big part of Sisterlocked this past year, I decided to share my top selfies of 2015 based on comments, likes, and re-shares.

I learned a great deal about my own ideas of beauty and how little of myself and my life these photos actually capture.

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Can selfies improve our physical self-image?  I asked myself this very question after one of those epically great selfies; the kind that makes you look twice and ask “is that me?”

To get briefly technical:

Self-image is how you perceive yourself. A person's self-image is the mental picture, usually resistant to change, that depicts not only details that are potentially available to objective investigation by others (height, weight, hair color, gender, I.Q. score, etc.), but also items that have been learned by that person about himself or herself, either from personal experiences or by internalizing the judgments of others. A simple definition of a person's self-image is their answer to the question "What do you believe people think about you?".

I’ve never considered myself beautiful, my mother was always very critical of me as an adolescent and I internalized a great deal of her words for many years. Boys rarely chased me and a select few really sweet guys wrote me love notes or professed their undying teenage crush status to me, but I viewed those as personality not physically driven. Though I’ve kissed half a dozen boys, I’ve only had two real serious relationships my entire life and they affirmed my attractiveness, but I believed their judgement was biased by love.

• Thursday, June 11, 2015
• Selfies

Can Selfies Improve Our Self-image

Can selfies improve our physical self-image?  I asked myself this very question after one of those epically great selfies; the kind that makes you look twice and ask “is that me?”

To get briefly technical:

Self-image is how you perceive yourself. A person's self-image is the mental picture, usually resistant to change, that depicts not only details that are potentially available to objective investigation by others (height, weight, hair color, gender, I.Q. score, etc.), but also items that have been learned by that person about himself or herself, either from personal experiences or by internalizing the judgments of others. A simple definition of a person's self-image is their answer to the question "What do you believe people think about you?".

I’ve never considered myself beautiful, my mother was always very critical of me as an adolescent and I internalized a great deal of her words for many years. Boys rarely chased me and a select few really sweet guys wrote me love notes or professed their undying teenage crush status to me, but I viewed those as personality not physically driven. Though I’ve kissed half a dozen boys, I’ve only had two real serious relationships my entire life and they affirmed my attractiveness, but I believed their judgement was biased by love.

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Busy past few days, with many more to come! I was able to capture a few selfies here and there.

• Monday, June 08, 2015
• Selfie

Chronic Selfie Disorder: 1st Week of June

Busy past few days, with many more to come! I was able to capture a few selfies here and there.

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Some of my favorites from last week.

• Tuesday, May 26, 2015
• Selfie

Chronic Selfie Disorder: 3rd Week of May

Some of my favorites from last week.

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Some of my favorite selfies from the prior two weeks.

• Monday, May 18, 2015
• hair updates

Chronic Selfie Disorder: First Two Weeks of May

Some of my favorite selfies from the prior two weeks.

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Warning this post has a ridiculous number of retail selfies! ☺️

Next year I'm only giving gift cards and saving all of my energy for the post 25th sales! I have such short term memory where retail business is concerned otherwise I would have waited.

(Check out my shopping OOTD)

(I bought a shirt for $15 from Anthropologie, full retail price $118!)

• Monday, December 29, 2014
• fashion

Post Christmas Shopping & Epiphanies

Warning this post has a ridiculous number of retail selfies! ☺️

Next year I'm only giving gift cards and saving all of my energy for the post 25th sales! I have such short term memory where retail business is concerned otherwise I would have waited.

(Check out my shopping OOTD)

(I bought a shirt for $15 from Anthropologie, full retail price $118!)

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