I don’t think I should be sharing this with you

Successful success stories are wonderful. Seems like a phenomenon that happens overnight to some girl or boy or a person named Lucky.

Me, on the other hand, prefer to know the full story before jumping to any conclusions though sometimes I am guilty of that too.

Sabrina Carpenter, for instance, started her journey somewhere around 4 years old. Now she is 25 years old and finally has been enjoying her hard-working results aka successful success while on Short’n’Sweet tour. We don’t know what she’s been through to get where she is right now. I can only hope she was never in the same room as P you know who (currently my favourite rabbit hole to explore).

There are plenty of stories like that. It got me thinking about my still a journey to successful success. I made leaving corporate look fabulous. And as much as it is true (I receive so many compliments that I am even glowing differently now) the lack of savings in my bank account often gets me to question whether I’ll eat tomorrow and how to pay my London rent.

Please don’t take it as a hysterical cry for help, meaning I am opening donations to my name, or a pity party. It is simply my reality that I decided to share. It is not all front-row fashion shows (please do yourself a favour and just take a look at Schiaparelli’s latest fashion show) and tons of clients who want to pay me right away. It is mostly tons of work and, a creative approach followed by discipline and rules, plus figuring out how to break those rules innovatively.

My wardrobe is not that huge to become a content creator like my favourites Izzi, Sammi, and Wisdom Kaye. I work with what I have. And I am well aware of their journey too, it inspires me. I work part-time at a place that is fine but drains a lot of my time and energy. Covers the bills though. I resent that place so much that on the bright side it flairs the fire underneath me that I am pouring so much time into my multiple businesses.

I still have bad styling days where my mood just doesn’t connect me to wonderful ideas. Or I simply have nowhere to go. Doesn’t make me a bad stylist. Makes me human.

And how many times I had to defend my styling services and the fact that I wouldn’t erase anyone’s style and create another version of myself. Instead, I focus on bringing the inner worlds of my clients and aesthetics to life. You don’t have to have an enormous budget to look stylish. For what it’s worth, you don’t even have to have a stylist or a style itself to be what you want to be, but damn being stylish helps. But I guess that is a part of a job and the journey itself. Take Corporate style as an example. Of course, you can go with whatever you want, but the power suit comes with styling, good fit, and correct proportions.

Anyway, I know I promised you less gibberish talk, but I just really felt saying some of those things here and soft of document the journey as well as remind you and myself that there is sometimes a struggling reality behind successful success that we all in a way want to achieve overnight.

I personally don’t view struggle as something bad. In fact, I don’t think I like the word struggle, it is more of a “it is what it is” vibe at the moment, I am grateful for all of it even though I would like this to be short and sweet. And to close this I will confess, no matter how hard and frustrating I feel sometimes, I haven’t cried myself to sleep since I left corporate which translates to my soul being on the right path and journey.

If you have read this far, I highly encourage you to simply tell a friend to tell a friend, like, comment and share my social posts/pages. It will help me a great deal without spending a fortune on not that great ad system on Mеtа.

In addition, my guilty pleasure this past week has been Netflix’s newest “Monsters”. Not for everyone, but damn good.

That’s all.

Okay, love you, bye xo

Your slightly nonchalant fashion stylist,

Aya x