Last year I started posting hat selfies now and then. I am 53 years old, always grey roots, head size 58-59cm (big head for the 155cm height), wide freckled face with a flat nose. Also I had to offload the selfie filter app because my phone became too much jammed with memories. But I thought, if you see someone like that wearing a hat and posting selfies unfiltered, you might start thinking ‘If this one can, I might as well try’.
Besides technical supports that I can give (telling you which hat shape can compliment which face shape, or what modification can make a hat shape more suited to specific face shape or providing solution for bad hair days), how much love or at least acceptance you give yourself plays a big part when looking at yourself in the mirror. Basically, you can carry off most of things if you do proper fitting and once it’s done, all you have to do is to own your style and, ideally, enjoy freedom which comes with it. And there is nothing powerful than your quiet confidence, or what I called ‘demure attitude’. I myself struggle with the horrible thought of ‘me looking ugly’ so I totally understand and feel for anyone suffering from insecurity and whenever I welcome a customer to my studio, using my knowledge/skills and experience to help you remove such feeling is one of my priorities.
And if I may say another obvious thing, beauty does not come from something skin deep. It’s about owning whatever you are, and the more unique or ‘different’, the more I like it, personally.
Every time I do these selfies, some kind souls give me kind comments like ‘you look great’ but if anyone really thinks so, it must be my ‘I can’t give an F at this stage in my life’ attitude that gives you that impression, nothing else. And you can and should have the same attitude. I know it’s easy said but certainly easier than losing 10kg in one month right? ;) That’s what I want to say with my hat selfie posts. In my studio, I hope to create a safe environment where we can look at hats from technical points of view and laugh away those silly voices that we hear about ourselves together. See you soon!
