kids aren't what they're used to be

I feel like this post is going to be... quite a lot hand-in-hand with the one I did two days ago. It's based on the things I found out that are happening in the Netherlands. Don't shoot me if things are totally different in your own country, I just felt the need to nag about it. I think people from the United States can take child pageants in mind while reading this. 

Nowadays, when I cycle trough the village where I live - and lived from my 1st until my 8th - I see children who wear make-up. And with using the world 'children', I mean those little women that often don't attend middle school yet. And with wearing make-up, I mean they wear a mask of foundation and more layers of mascara than I use in a week. While I was totally in fashion with my pink tee with a glittery image of two horses at that age, I bet they're asking their parents for Abercrombie. The other day, I discussed this with some friends who told me that things aren't that bad where I live since one of them got some terminal diseases, used as swear words, to her. By a girl she guessed that was around ten years old and smoked a sigarette. When the kid went back to her friends - all dressed in tops that showed their breasts, which they didn't have yet - they laughed. The friend I mention is fifteen years old and going into her sophomore year and I think it's already ridiculous that kids that go into the fifth or sixth grade even dare to call her names.

When I was ten, and I remember that myself very well, I felt badass when I was ringing at the door of someone who lived near my school. My best friend threw a pebble at her window and we were both caught and both end up being grounded. After our punishment we had to stop by at the women's house and give her flowers. There we learned that she couldn't see anymore and bothered her a lot. We really felt sorry for her and never did it again.

I think parents don't even think of grounding their children for something like that anymore. You guys heard of Thylane Blondeau, right? The only thing her mother was convinced about was the fact that her daughter wore a millions-worth necklace.It's like the 90's born kids are the last generation with common sense. Or at least, parents who can use their minds. When I think about myself as ten year old, which is only four years ago, I think of a girl who traded Pokemon cards with her classmates and played with marbles. I was a child. Nowadays, the 'children' want to be little adults. I almost start to wonder why it's such a problem that Thylane Blondeau already has a modelling career. At least, her foundation is applied by a make-up artist who knows what he or she is doing. Speaking of her peers..

Of course I know I'm generalizing a lot of things now and maybe this post is a little weird since I had a lot thought but if I had to write them all down, I would still be doing that tomorrow night. This is my opinion, don't shoot me. Maybe the Netherlands has a culture that's really different from that one that's running in other countries but I think a lot of Dutch people recognize what I'm speaking about. Now I'm off, being one of the few teenagers that isn't on a hunger diet. 

all of this is tearing us apart

Hello darlings!

I deleted my older posts, since they were extremely bad-written and ashaming. First posts on a blog are well-known/almost notorious for being bad but I just didn't feel comfortable with having them on my blog; I guess I'm a perfectionist with that; some people might have noticed 'older' blogs of mine. I thought they were just not good enough and didn't feel comfortable with them. Easy. It's an excuse to everything, I should watch out with feeling uncomfortable about my homework and stuff.

I've been really inspired by the whole Japanese fashion thing lately, especially fairy kei. You guys might have heard about that and it's great, it reminds me of Marlena (or Marlena reminds me of it, I don't know) and in case you like what you're going to see here, make sure you follow her.


This one above isn't fairy kei I guess, but it's also Japanese street fashion and I like the layering with the dress(es) so I post it. Don't bother, post nice pictures. After some research I found out it's called Mori. Am I the only one who gets Hawaii-feeling with that? It needs a cooler name.

The thing in fairy kei that attracts me is that it's pretty much like lolita but doesn't include the over the top dresses. I don't feel comfortable (there we go again! I need to expand my English vocabulary.) in dresses, it's just too feminine or something. Skirts are okay, even tough I don't wear them that often. I have one dress that I actually like, it's purple-black knitted and I wear it with high socks, my tartan tights and a purple jacket that's quite hard to describe and end up feeling like a dark harajuku kid. Result: The whole school stares at me (nothing unusual) and people ask me if I have colors in my wardrobe other than purple. I tend to wear that a lot without knowing so a girl who seems to be my friend (I don't know her name but she knows mine) almost got a heart-attack when I wore a blue blouse. I don't like her. She told me it was retarded that I wore scarfs on my legs. Like yóu look decent! None of us do! We're teenagers!


Another great thing about Japanese street fashion is the story behind it. I think most of you know it but they dress like that because society wants them to grow up really fast so they can be part of the working class and adult society. Lolita comes from post medieval children's clothing, the time that children were treated like little adults and had to behave like that. I agree on that; every life has to be the same: You get born, waste a lot of time at school, work, get children (same cycle for them), stop working and die. At least, it's often like that. Another thing that bothers me is that everyone lives in couples and sometimes I get the question "Why don't you have a boyfriend yet?" I'm fourteen. Every fourteen year old that gets in a relationship breaks up after 1, 2 months. If they're lucky. What's the point of having a relationship while you're just going into your freshman year (we don't have that in the Netherlands, 7th -> 12th class is seperated from everything that comes before, but there isn't a middle- and high school. I used that to show you what year I'm going to - 9th) and have to study? I'd rather make career instead of babies.

That was my point of view for today. Bye!

PS. The photos are from this great tumblr.