I haven’t posted since March of last year. The reason for this is that I decided that I wanted to follow the current of where online content has gone since I started my blog 10 years ago. I decided to pivot to YouTube.
I recorded some videos, but they sit on my hard drive, not on my channel. I finally realized a couple of days ago that video content just isn’t what I want to do right now. My goals with this blog have always been to share where I am and what I’m learning in order to both catalog it for myself and to help others where they are with their own journeys. It’s not to become a full-time influencer in the color and style space. Video takes a long time, and time isn’t something I have a lot of right now. I’ve also always been much more comfortable writing than speaking. So I finally decided that, despite the trend for video, I would simply go back to blogging and share that way.
A lot has happened since I last blogged—and I mean a LOT. I finally went to see David Kibbe (and Susan Slavin) in NYC! I went at the beginning of June last year, so I’ve been living in my Kibbe Image Identity ever since. I have so much to share with all of you about this experience, what it’s been like to live as my ID, how I feel about it, what I’ve learned… I also will get into some of my Tawny Spring and seasonal experiences as well, plus some hot takes. Please leave a comment below if there’s anything in particular you want me to cover, and I can’t wait to share all of this with you! (I also will get back into Personality Squared and create content for that.)
MH
February 24, 2024 at 4:28 pmI meant to leave a comment here but accidentally left it in your Zyla post. Anyway, am happy you are going to blog again, and would love to hear more about your Zyla experience.
Urvashi
June 4, 2024 at 7:06 amWelcome back! I think you mentioned on Reddit that David had typed you as a Soft Natural? If so, then congrats! I’m happy that you’re having fun with your Kibbe Image ID! I’ve also realized that I’m a Soft Natural who had previously considered myself to be more Yin than I actually was.
Can you clarify how exactly a Soft Natural expresses her Yin undercurrent, both essence-wise and in planning a head-to-toe outfit? Ever since realising that I’m a SN I’ve come to the conclusion that Kibbe online communities tend to downplay the Romantic undercurrent that SNs have. As someone who is on the very small and soft side of SN, and who also has been associated with very “Yin” essence characteristics of looking/being “dreamy” and “innocent” and “sweet,” I’m honestly very tired of the online assumption that a SN’s Yin undercurrent begins and ends with accommodating curve in the hip area. Surely there must be more to the SN’s Yin undercurrent?
stylesyntax
November 23, 2024 at 2:10 pmI don’t really see David focusing on the “Dramatic” or “Romantic” undercurrent, referring to them rather as yang and yin–you’re not a “combination of types.” I am not that yin as a person, although I have a fair amount physically, so I’m probably the last person who could help you with playing up the yin undercurrent.
Gretchen Morris
July 18, 2024 at 11:48 amGlad to see your finally back! I have followed your style journey for years now! I would love to read about your Kibbe experience!!!
stylesyntax
November 23, 2024 at 2:11 pmThank you! Just posted about it 🙂
Lily
October 24, 2024 at 12:34 pmI want to hear so much about your Kibbe journey!!
Did you share it somewhere I am not seeing?
How was your visit with David?
I love your writing, so emotive and wonderfully put.
stylesyntax
November 23, 2024 at 2:08 pmI just published my blog post about this, finally! 🙂