Countdown to (gulp) prom


Well, as the saying goes, in springtime fancies of the young turn to love, or, something like that. Well, one obvious sign of this is prom, which for me falls on the 16th of May. This elusive event rings int he ears of all females young and old. Don't get me wrong, Im sure that there are guys SOMEWHERE who readily look forward to the notorious event, but mainly dreams of dancing the night away lie in the ever planning minds of the estrogen based sex. Along w/ planning comes anxiety for the big night. So here for you is the month and counting time remaining to prom for a sopomore first timer who is attending the event at her boyfriend's distant school.

4/16 - One month to go
Anxiety level - 1.5 on a 1 to 5 scale, w/ 5 being the worst
I've had my dress for nearly a month. I first bought it w/ my sister, exchanged it for another, but exchanged it back. The dress is eggplant w/ 3 bows, I want 1 removed, and long, necessitating me to acquire 3 3/4" to 4" black shoes, so as to prevent it from dragging. I may end up having to borrow a pair from Summer.

Today I ordered a tiara from a catalog, but am not sure whether to wear that or rhinestone barrettes. One thing I know is that there is no way that my hair will stay up, so I am just going to wear it down. I have a fear of hairdresser but am in desperate need of a trim so Summer, the dear, has offered to take me to her hairdresser and help me through it.

Yesterday I fell down the stairs leaving a patch of skin missing from my right arm, a good reason for gloves, which I was already considering. I want them up to my elbow and black.

As for my makeup I am clueless. Summer is going to pluck my eyebrows and help me w/ eyeliner, maybe even more. She is such a doll, w/out her, I would end up looking like Cinderella post midnight. She's helping two other girls too, but at different times, but has never been to the prom herself, last year she wasn't allowed to, and w/ her boyfriend at college, she's not going this year.But, I have to get ready all by myself and it's gonna freak me out, I am helpless when it comes to that sort of thing, i think i'll have a hair appointment, but then again i don't know any hairdressers there and i don't want to end up looking bad.

I was going to go down and help my boyfriend pick out a tux this weekend, but I couldn't go. He also wanted corsage help but all I could do was tell him the color of my dress. I know that I have to get him a boutanierre or something like that, all I know is that it's a flower thing (right?). As for after prom, we want to go to his house and stay up all night talking and watching tv, but who knows what will happen.

4/25 3 weeks to go
Anxiety Level - 2.5
Well, today is my school's prom and Summer is out helping people get ready. She is going to help me pick out makeup and help me w/ stuff like eyeliner (Im afraid i'll mess it up, let alone poke my eye out, i don't exactly have the steadiest hand in the world). As for my hair I have yet to get it trimmed. I've been experimenting w/ ways to do it, because i think Im going to do it myself w/ help from Ashley's mom. I've been curling it so that it springs back, funny thing is that my hair is already curly, just not springy. If i have the patience I may do it to all my hair. The easy thing to do would be to get a hair appointment but that has it's disadvantages.

One - I wouldn't know what to ask for

Two - His school is big so it would be hard getting an appointment

Three - If i don't like it im screwed

I think I might, might have Summer's hairdresser show me a way to do my hair nice, so maybe i could do it myself, but my trim appointment is only a week before prom and i think that's a little close, and i want to be able to work w/ my hair so i may go somewhere in the mall. I just won't go where i did last time, they always poof my hair and i don't want it poofy. Sadly most hairdressers do that to us curly haired people (if that's happened to you, email me). I just so wish i could find a hairdresser that i liked. I've read that you should get one w/your type of hair and a style like yours, but ive only seen one curly haired hairdresser and i hated it. So, im in a major jam. Another thing w/ my hair is that Im always putting frizz controllers in it, making it look dirty. Also, it's darker at the roots so people think it's dirty anyways! There is just no winning w/ my hair.

Oh yeah, back to prom. I got my shoes, they're just like the ones i was going to borrow off of Summer. Ashley is taking care of the boutanneire for me (Thank Goodness!)

It stinks that prom is today for my school, I've still got three weeks to go, so when i go to talk about it, everyone will be like "Prom?! That was a month ago!" Well, what can you do.
5/2 2 weeks to go
Anxiety Level: 3

Well, was at the mall today and saw some prom goers, why they went to the mall i don't know. i saw one girl who looked like she was wearing my dress, and it was awful! She didn't match at all! Poor doubt. Well, i got my hair trimmed, liked it, got some hair stuff, a really nifty shampoo and other stuff. Im starting to think I will need a hair appointment, it would take forever to do it myself. I just hope I can get an appointment. Im also going to get my nails done. Ashley is supposed to get the corsage this weekend, i hope it's decent. Still need to have Summer do my eyebrows and help me pick out makeup, but really can't think of much else, i just can't wait to see him. I know that i want lots of pictures, but w/ my luck, his parents won't take any, and the one at the prom will be awful, i just know it. You see, I won't have any relatives of mine that will see me at all, Im staying at my sisters' and she's going to be working, so Ashley's mom is helping me get ready, but they don't seem like picture people, and i want pictures damnit!!

5/9 1 week to go
Anxiety level: 4

got my headband, love it, changing my hair. can't wait.

after prom

prom was good, took pictures at his house, they turned out good, the pictures at the prom were bad, i threw them away. the picture at the top is us.

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