ALICE
08 07 2026
Could you tell me the story of a few things from your room?
ie the elephant tapestry / the black jewellery box / black alligator textured box (sat on top of the cupboard) / the flags / the charm on the bathroom handle
ie the elephant tapestry / the black jewellery box / black alligator textured box (sat on top of the cupboard) / the flags / the charm on the bathroom handle
I was planning on that being my only bit of decoration cos I didn’t want it to be super crowded but then everything on the pin board was slowly added throughout the year
Like the posters we ripped off the walls and that on the way home from the club one night
And then the drawings in the top right corner were from the first art social I went to where I met Kiah for the first time
I sewed the bunting myself using all my spare fabric from my art project at A Level so it’s the same colour theme and stuff as my final project in that
And the rosary on the bathroom door was given to me by my RE teacher as a good luck charm before my first A Level exam and I kept it hanging in my car before uni but brought it with me cos like sentimental value and all that
And then the blanket on my bed was given to me by my grandma that she’d had for ages
But ya I think that’s like everything that has meaning to me in there
Oi actually yk that little yellow like fluffy toy thing by the lamp I found that in a puddle on the way back from the club in freshers and it’s been my room mascot since lol
Was wondering how / when you got into doing your hair routine?
I was like, no, babe, like, you’re wrong.
But then it was going curly, and it started off as just like really deep waves and it was really fucking stubborn. So I tried out different products and stuff and I just basically gave up and it like just like tie it back all the time.
And then I didn’t start like putting, trying with it, and like putting actual product in it.
Until probably like year 11 summer. Cos I was like you know when you see someone you’re like oh I love their hair. Like I want that. So then I started trying to do the same thing. And I was like trying out like all curly cuts and all different products and stuff. But it wasn’t really working because like I wanted it to look like a certain way but like do you know when you’re just like fighting your curl pattern?
Anyway and then that like the whole thing for like year 12, thirteen because obviously like pre-occupied in it. And then it was literally not until like at like year 13 summer that I started actually trying it. Like until year 13 summer I flipping hated that shit okay. I hated it so much. But yeah like I’ve literally only been embracing the curls for like a year before that. I was like scraping it back. And like pinning it down and it just like it was not good okay. But yeah.