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Part 18

Like i've told you, because i was dancing and grew up around guys i knew nothing about clothes. The time when i went to practice dancing i also took photos for few clothing stores so when i went to Singapore i also took photos to earn some money. Everyday, the only clothes that i had were some oversized tees, oversized jeans, shoes and a backpack so large that i could fit myself in there. And one day everything suddenly changed. One day in a summer like another days, year 2010, i was walking by a Sephora store and something inside me changed, and i asked myself what it's like to feel like a girl - to be a girl.

Mother didn't teached me, sister never told me, i learned to become a girl the way i learned other things, on internet. Night by night sitting watching videos and i was surprised as to how many steps and how expensive it is. First time buying make-up happened when i was sixteen, going home and playing, putting it on but no matter how much i tried i looked like a clown. Thinking back it's really funny, because even if my had was chopped i would never believe that later in my life i would ever work in fashion.

Starting to learn to make-up, buy clothes. My first dress in my life was a simple black tube dress for 15 dollars on sale from H&M. So i just went to shoot, learned something new everytime and brought back some clothes home. I went trough the change only in one year and all my friends were surprised. Is it a of course matter when growing up or did i had a turning point in my life? Even when it came to plucking eyebrows, shaving legs everything i had to google.

And then after owning three t-shirts in my wardrobe at the start suddenly i decided to open my own fashion brand. It might sound comical but at the time i could understand part of the fashion industry in Singapore, how vigorous and systematic it is through my shooting experiences. I wasn't different at that time but i knew what to do to be different, i had to sell something different to create different. It's a calculated move not the artist way, from drawing oil paintings then moving to building statues. Moreover, i needed money. I thought simply that i had an idea and that it's better to sell it and then wash dishes for myself rather than washing dishes day to day to someone else and let my ideas die for free. So i learned to sew, to stitch all with the help of teacher Google and teacher Youtube. One month after learning sewing and stitching i learned to create a website. And then i learned to desig clothes. And then i learned about creating a company and company management, how to sell clothes online, how to advertise clothes online. And then i opened my own brand.

I started in 2012, and i smiled to myself at how it went much better than my expectations. Only after one month after i started, my company has become one of the most succesfull online fashion companies in Singapore. Every money that i had i put into work so my capital was always growing twice. Going to school in the morning, going home in afternoon to sell clothes, at night going to dance and at midnight going to wash dishes. At the time i never remembered when was the last time that i went to sleep.

The story being this way, it's just like that. I decided to create a blog about fashion so i can take photos for my shop so i can have both photography and fashion. I started to take photos of myself too, i experimented by using myself for a picture frame, wearing clothes. Taking pictures of myself, editing them myself and then bringing all the equipments home myself.After one year i would becoma one of the most influential fashion bloggers in Singapore. After two years all around Asia. I closed my fashion store and dedicated myself to my blog. I have to say this again but even if someone chopped my head i would have never thought that from learning to do make-up on Youtube could turn into me being a fashion icon.

That's why Tuan Jun always said: „Your life is like a very long comedy."