How my journey started…

I’d love to tell you a story about dressing up in my mom’s clothes as a child and instantly falling in love with couture, but that, my dear, is not my blog origin story. Thanks to bad astigmatism and some horrible genetics, I had both glasses and braces for two rough years in middle and high school, leaving me not so confident in my appearance. After I got contacts made specifically for my astigmatism and the braces came off my freshman year, nothing changed. I may have looked completely different but I still felt just as insecure. I picked apart my body and found flaws in nearly everything. I also got obsessive about counting calories and tracked my weight every single day. Even though I was a successful student, over-involved and taking loads of AP classes, I was being a version of myself that I thought others wanted me to be.

It took a long time, and most of my college years, for me to realize that these methods would not help me feel better about myself, or help me to evolve. This blog and every high and low associated with it has helped me immensely to not only develop my personal style, but also grow as a person. Sophisticaition.com was created in July 2015 for a class assignment at Purdue. I went public with my blog in 2016, which I look back on as a defining moment in my life. It’s when I chose my happiness over other’s opinions, and as Taylor said, let the rest go.