Is there any girl out there who truly enjoys bathing suit shopping? Like most girls, my weight fluctuates up & down, but even when I'm at my skinniest (which I'm certainly not now), standing in that dreaded fitting room light in front of a full mirror in a bathing suit can spiral me into the worst mood in a split second. Even when I'm the happiest with my body, as soon as I try on a bathing suit, everything I criticize about myself becomes grossly exaggerated . . . those bright mirrors are cruel! And mocking!
I'm heading down to the O.C. in a few short hours to visit my dear friend Amyola (and her new baby, Sam!), so yesterday I went to Target to try to find a new bathing suit. Needless to say, it was an unsuccessful endeavor. In my fantasy, I'm wearing a white monokini, big black sunglasses, a floppy hat, and red lipstick. HA! Never gonna happen.
The terrible irony is that the trying-on-a-swimsuit experience isn't nearly as bad in my own house as it is at the store, but it's way too risky to buy a freaking bathing suit without trying it on first, considering I have to try on about 42 of them in the fitting room before I find one that I think actually looks cute on.
Today, though, I stumbled upon this beauty at Anthropologie's website, and it just might be worth ordering (and inevitably shipping it back):
Gorgeous, right??
Anybody have any tricks to making bathing suit shopping any less miserable?
Also: thanks to my sister and stepmom, I'm now obsessed with playing Words with Friends on my iPhone. Who else plays this?! I need to know right away so I can start a game with you! Tell me your username! And if you don't play it yet, please download it pronto. ;)
Wish me luck finding Seth and Ryan on Newport Beach!