Here is some number crunching for you: while keeping up with several social media platforms for my actual work I also look at about 125 blogs on a more or less daily basis. For inspiration and in an attempt to at least try to keep up with the erratic to-ings and fro-ings of what is called the fashion industry. My children may call it ‘Mum is doing nothing again’ but looking at other blogs, whether these are fashion blogs or blogs of a completely different nature, is actually an integral part of being a blogger myself.
There are bloggers I admire for their ability to set trends, something I am most certainly not capable of. Other bloggers hit me with pangs of jealousy over their amazing photography skills or beautifully organized blogs. And a sharp sense of humour and killer smile are always a sure thing to get me in a blogger’s corner. But in that long list there is just one who
A happens to have a blog with all of the afore-mentioned traits
B gives me an itch to want move to New York and
C makes me want to be best friends with…or at least share a cup of coffee:
Not only does she, with the help of her team, run an amazingly entertaining multi-level blog, she also has a wonderful tendency to get personal in a very witty and overall honest way that makes her ‘real’. A real woman who seems to be as much attracted to the world of supposed importance of appearance as well as critical of it.
Reading her blog you realize it is just not possible to be perfect all the time and bloggers are just like everyone else: we get lipstick on our teeth, sunburned when we are too stubborn to buy the correct SPF and working from home does make us more of a slob than we care to admit to the rest of the world. Her French way of thinking is a pleasant bonus and the fact that she, at 39, is more ‘my age’ than most other bloggers but without the frumpiness I have seen in other 35+ bloggers makes me return to her blog over and over again.
And I am not alone in this. Reading through her many readers’ comments whenever she writes something personal shows exactly that readers do not just want to see a perfect image on their computer screens but instead want to be made aware that yes, perfection can be achieved but only if you stand perfectly still, sheltered from wind and rain and God forbid without moving or doing anything that will make your heels blister from wearing high heels, run your pantyhose or make you break out in even the mildest of sweats. In others words: without living a normal live. And who wants that?
She is no Kim Kardashian. En there is absolutely no need to be. For anyone.
Sevi
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