Little Miss Rendell

Hello lovelies! I would like to start by saying thank you for the great response I've received about last weeks post! So many people have contacted me through social media and people in my year at school have said that it was helpful and relatable so thank you! Now as you can probably tell from the title this weeks post is going to be surrounding the subject of sex. Yep, sex. That dreaded word. For some people the topic is easily approachable and they have no problem with communicating their feelings about it. However some find it a taboo subject and it's difficult to convey what they want to say without being judged. This is what I want to talk about this week; to begin a discussion about sex and the pressures that it brings to young people. For me personally it's not the people I interact with sexually that pressure me, I feel pressure from social expectation. I got to the age of around 14/15 and people in my year at school started to experience it and I started to qu...

Hello lovelies! I'm really sorry for the lack of posts lately! I've had writers block and I've been revising for my upcoming A-level exams! But this week I'm back and I've chosen to speak about insecurities. Earlier this week I read Louise Pentland's AKA Sprinkle of Glitters new blog post called 'Be your own kind of beautiful' which you can read here - sprinkleofglitter.blogspot.co.uk. This made me start thinking about what I consider to be my insecurities and if they are even noticed by other people. When I look in the mirror I only ever point out the negatives that I see rather than the positives. I see a massive forehead, eyebrows that grow back way too fast, chubby cheeks and the ugly scars I have on my forehead. To test this hypothesis; that others don't see as many negatives that you as an individual do, I had a conversation with one of my best friends Becky. I told her about my list of insecurities and she completely disagreed with me. Sh...