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Self Care Sunday- Dealing with insecurity and negative thoughts
My story- My most recent experience dealing with insecurity and negative thoughts: While writing about my experiencing the Miss Back to the 50s pageant, (those posts are still forthcoming.) I couldn’t help but think about some of my feelings during the experience. One thing that came up repeatedly was feelings of inadequacy and insecurity. Feeling like I wasn’t a real pinup and that what I was doing wasn’t good enough. These feelings surfaced especially when I saw some of the other women and their outfits and hairstyles. I also had some of these feelings while preparing for the contest and had a hard time imagining myself winning. This was not…
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Preparing for a Pinup Contest
I competed in my first pinup contest last month and even thought I didn’t win I had a good time and I learned a lot. The first thing I learned was all the preparation that was necessary. For any pinup contest there are a number of things you need to think about. The Basics: Then there are the specifics for each individual contest. Thankfully, if there is a specific theme besides rockabilly/pinup it will usually be announced before or at the time that contest applications open. Should give you plenty of time to prepare. The theme for the contest I was in was Vintage Prom. At first I wasn’t sure…
