| I've come up with a few things that will help you | | | | to go somewhere 'normal', and then go all out |
| add a bit of edge to your style. I'd advice having | | | | with a band buckle or my favorite cat-face one. |
| a look through these ideas, picking just one or | | | | DIY, customize, invent. Try grabbing a handful of |
| two and then adding more if you still feel a bit | | | | cheap, brightly colored beaded necklaces and |
| lacking. | | | | wearing two or three at once. Fill up your arms |
| Firstly, a haircut and possibly a color as well is a | | | | with ethnic-inspired jeweler (try a local market!). If |
| great starting point. Find a half-decent salon - it | | | | you have a couple of pairs of Converse (as I do) |
| doesn't have to be one of those salons that cost | | | | wear a pink one on one foot and a black one on |
| you an arm or leg, but the more up market | | | | the other - or simply buy some rainbow colored |
| places tend to have stylists skilled in helping people | | | | shoelaces. |
| find their best style. Consider a color change - if | | | | Do your hair differently one day: pull it into a high |
| you're blond, go for highlights or lowlights | | | | ponytail and tie it with a scarf. Buy some new |
| depending on your preference. If you're a | | | | glasses - or, if you don't need specs, buy some |
| brunette, try red tones. This will make you feel | | | | with no glass or plain glass in and wear them |
| like a new woman, and can really change the way | | | | anyway. Paint your nails a random color. Buy pink |
| you look. | | | | eyeliner and draw a little heart on your cheek. |
| Make-up is the other obvious starting point. There | | | | A great tip to start with - and something I say to |
| are hundreds of sites on the Internet that will give | | | | absolutely everyone looking to change their style - |
| you basic make-up advice. If you do a search for | | | | is this: think about what direction you want to go |
| 'makeup' and you'll find dozens of communities | | | | in (so in your case a little more edgy, a touch |
| where makeup aficionadas compare styles. Go for | | | | chic, a bit different), and buy some basics, then |
| something a little more radical than usual. Here's | | | | accessories. Got jeans and plain skinny fit t-shirts? |
| one of my favorites: a nice bright green across | | | | Okay! Wear a lightweight scarf through your belt |
| the lid, with a bright blue accent at the outer | | | | loops, wear stripy socks, get some fabric pens |
| corners of your eyes and some bright blue | | | | and draw a personal design on your shirt, and add |
| eyeliner. Draw attention to a particular feature | | | | some necklaces. |
| with something bolder than you might usually | | | | It is not really up to what people think about you, |
| consider. | | | | but what you think about yourself and how your |
| Take inspiration from other styles. Okay, you | | | | new look makes you feel. If someone doesn't like |
| don't describe yourself as an outsider, but maybe | | | | what you are wearing then it is just too bad for |
| add some punk style to jeans with a studded belt | | | | them. It is not up to them what you wear, but up |
| and invest in a detachable belt buckle. I'm a big | | | | to you what you wear. |
| fan of these as I can wear a boring one if I have | | | | |