Heat Wave

Damn, is this an extreme heat wave!!! Summer decided to go full force this year. She sure is in a MOOD.
So the bikini here is Love Shack Fancy and the glasses are Chloe. The float is from Target. Now that we got that out of the way, this post really isn’t about that. It’s more about how I’ve never done a blog shoot like this before. I’ve posted on Instagram maybe 3 bathing suit shots from vacations over the past 5 years, but I never felt comfortable making it official. There were various reasons for that; mom reasons, community reasons, to name a few. It hit me like 5 minutes ago that I’m over that, which was genuinely liberating. Style, as we know, is only somewhat about clothes. Someone wearing a fabulous outfit will not carry it off if they aren’t owning it from within, just like someone wearing basic jeans and a t shirt will look amazing if they exude confidence. I’m sure we all know people in either direction. There’s nothing wrong with not wanting to post pictures like this; everyone has a different comfort level. It’s just that I reached a place where it simply didn’t feel forbidden to me anymore and I wanted to embrace that. You know what’s hot? Releasing constrains and judgements that come from both myself and others. Cooling that shit down is one of my themes this summer. To all things a season.