Do you not care about how you look?

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I don't think "not care" was ever the phrase, but "not realize how silly I look" is more like it.

When I was younger I couldn't wear much else other than stretch pants and t-shirts due to hypersensitivity issues and I really didn't think at the time that I stood out because of it (wrong!! !) and still can't wear half the things women wear today.

I do care how I look but I'm not always sure if I look descent enough...and my hair never really stays kempt.

This describes me well.

I use to go around with messy hair and strange clothes. But got tired of being picked on so I dress like everybody else now. I have become obessessed with keeping my hair clean and putting on all sorts of deoderants and spray on body sprays. I love hot showers to the point people have to yell at me to get out. I went from being a grungy looking freak to a clean freak.

I don't particularly care what I look like, so long as it's not the "Hey, I just rolled out of bed" look.
Wash and wear is my hairstyle, no matter how long or short it is

I care what I look like, but I have my reasons, and even with "maximum effort" I will still not be able to quite pull off what others seem to somewhat effortlessly. My hair is always a mess...I had someone who was cutting it for a while until she overstepped my boundaries and I had a meltdown on her and now I can no longer speak to her....It takes a lot of effort on my part to manage to shower every day...I am a little neurotic about my lipstick and figure just so that I don't look completely plain...I am slightly overweight, and feel more comfortable when I am wearing shape-wear...I am a little neurotic about wearing a little bit of makeup, otherwise I don't feel like I look like a girl.
My clothes are frequently a mess...compared to the norm, but they are comfortable to me, paint splatters and all...My business partner always said that he didn't care how i looked and he cheated on me to the point where it really messed up the romantic part of our relationship and we are now platonic.
My romantic partner makes no secret of being really attracted to really hot girls, the kind that with his shyness, are somewhat difficult to obtain, but we talk about them a lot...leaving me with the impression that no matter what I did, I would never come close to his notion of "ideal"....but it keeps me on my toes so that I don't completely let myself go....
As a kid, I had a REEEally hard time dressing myself.....I mean...I was extremely awful about it into my teens...then gradually improved over time...to my current state of slatternly neurosis..

i care how i look, i dont care what people think on how i look

I take great pains to look exactly how I want to look. It's just not how other people look. So yea, I suppose I care about how I look, but I don't care how other people interpret that look.

I have three army green shirts, two pairs of black cargos and a pair of black/white chucks. That's my daily outfit, end of story. I'm rather poor as well, so the lack of variety keeps me from wanting the new things I know I caint afford. I do have a few other random clothes in the drawer, but those are for laundry days.

My hair is short and spiky, so it's pretty wash and wear. Right now though I've got a horribly short crew cut... long story. Actually, my whole 'image' is male.

I care how I look. I hate acne and I wash my hair everyday most of the time and brush my hair, I brush my teeth everyday and shower everyday most of the time. I also wear clean clothes and I like them to match. I also care about my weight.

I hate acne too. More for how it feels than how it looks. I can feel this huge lump on me and look in the mirror and it's tiny and barely noticeable.
I prefer my hair to be messy and only brush it to give my head a bit of a massage. I didn't brush it at all today. I usually put wax in it to exaggerate the messiness.
My clothes are usually jeans, shirts and jackets along with my weird looking MBT's on my feet.
I don't really care what people think. I also have thick glasses that make me look nerdy.
I'm really attached to certain clothes and will wear the same type of clothes again and again. Even the same design. It's not fashionable but I just get obsessed with certain types of clothes.

The only thing that matters to me is that my hair is not oily and I don't smell. I don't see the need to shower everyday, rather showering every second day and I wear plain clothes. No multicolored polos, just plain black or white polos with black dress pants. Everyday. Other than that I dont care how I look. Oh yea and short hair is nice.

I shower every second day too. I started doing that because of water restrictions but now it's just a part of my routine.

I have a weird relationship with myself, that part on the outside I see in the mirror, I don't go all out like I used to with that, I relate to it less and less, specifically with gender, maybe it's because I've been single for so long, it just doesn't feel like the real me, my brain does, so I would literally forget i'm a gender unless I looked in the mirror. the older I get the less I want to be a gender

my hair, I hate to admit it, but I only brush it about once a week. I wear it pulled back in a bun, which just gets more and more tangled up every day. I wash it but I hate hate hate brushing it, so about once a week or so I glop on a bunch of conditioner and sit there untangling it for a half a painful hour. I used to have dreads so it's no big deal to me but it would horrify some people. I am trying to break myself of this habit because I pull so much out when i do it this way.

I care a lot about how I look. My obsessiveness is extended into almost all that I do, and my appearance is definitely not an exception. I don't go all out like many ladies with tanning, nails, highlights, and all that, but I do wear make up, fix my hair, shave and shower often, as well as dress nicely. I also exercise to keep myself trim. I also care what others think of my appearance. I have always had a very, very bad self image problem, so for me it's kind of like an obsession. My appearance can be a fixation for me, but not in a good prissy way, but in a bad negative self esteem kind of way.

Also, smell is one of my biggest sensory issues. I would never let myself get all smelly, because I find it intolerable when other people around me do it.

Clothes are interesting but I don't have enough patience to use it all and care a lot. I can't manage with accessories, shoes, bags, jewellery etc. I can't also get up early enough. So I dress what is close. If I buy one trousers, I use them to damage (ofc I wash them, but I forget about other). I have few pairs of shoes. If I have one jacket, I wear it to every clothes. I can wear formal clothes and wear sport jacket and baseball cap on them, because I think it's only a cover, I will take it off.
I have problems with clothes, because they always look like too small. They look like stolen from younger sister's room. I'm tall, so I often buy clothes for men. I like men clothes, they're more practical, longer, darker and don't have glittery pictures. I prefer simple clothes and I don't like to remember I have them. If sth bothers me, I don't wear it. I hate most accessories. I use lenses, because I hate touch of glasses. And glasses like to be dirty. I have to wash them 10x a day.


I only wash my hair, I don't dry it and I don't use any styling products. Brush only! And it looks quite good, because it's healthy.
I don't remember I have nails, so I don't paint them or sth. I find make-up kind of Art and I like to do it, but not every morning! I love to sleep! And I think make-up looks stupid with casual, even grunge clothes. Philosophy of my make-up is panta rei So I only cover my acne and use waterproof mascara (and I have black circles anyway). I don't like broken lips, so I use gloss during the winter. I wash it off when I'm indoors, because I hate oily things.


I'm very clean. I wash my body every day. I don't go to bed if I'm not clean. I wash my hands very often. I brush my teeth at least 3 times a day. I often wash my clothes.

I care about how I look. At one time I was considered to be quite pretty. I have gained 90 pounds that interferes with that now. I am working on getting it off but I'm struggling with that.

I hate washing my hair though and do not like water on my face. I do these things often enough, but I truly hate them.

I do not care about how I look, and this is a problem.

I can close my eyes and see most of the objects I own in inane detail, however even concentrating hard I cannot see my own face or body as more than a faceless mannequin. I have very little sense of what I look like to other people.

AdmiralCrunch wrote:

for me this is good advice, I already systematize the process, however I allow the rules to become too lax

by far the worst of which is my hair. which I allow to grow into an afro with a radius of about a foot and a half (yes it is almost a perfect sphere) and then cut it back very short. The main reason I ever cut it is that it has become large enough that random people on the street start to stop me so that they can comment on it .

going to a barber is a trifecta of fears: sit perfectly still, make small talk, let someone touch you. doing this once every 6 months is about as often as I can handle

people asking me wither I have done anything to make it look like this is always annoying. Why would I do that?