13 Times Cookie Lyon Understood Your Daily Struggle With Getting Dressed
Special occasions and regular #OOTDs are the same in one main way: it’s never easy to choose the right thing to wear. How do you know when you’ve hit the sweet spot of showing just enough leg for the business casual function, or the perfect hot-but-sweet first day date look? One way to be sure is to let the fashion gods guide you, and that means letting the goddess Cookie Lyon of Empire teach you a thing or two about the pains of beauty. Step back and let these moments of Cookie wisdom guide you in your journey to slaying your look, even when it feels like you have nothing to wear at all.
1/13When faced with a fashion dilemma, we should all try to remember that we are fly no matter what.
A little attitude goes a long way in a big closet.
2/13But sometimes you can’t, and you just doubt yourself.
It’s not wrong to ask the right questions.
3/13You see an ad or a picture of a celeb who’s killin’ it, and it makes you question everything.
You wonder if you’ll ever achieve that level of fly.
4/13You question everything even more when you have to do a little dance to shimmy into your skinny jeans.
But in the end, you gotta make like Cookie and eat.
5/13In order to sift through your closet, you really have to take a minute and think about your goal.
You plan it out. You strategize. You’re like a composer at the piano, or an engineer at the drafting table: a troubled genius.
6/13Sometimes you feel like you need to be bold and flashy when all you’ve been rocking are sweatpants and hoodies.
You need to feel human again, or like, honestly? Superhuman.
7/13You find the perfect top or bottom, or even a dress, only to realize that the perfect accompanying piece is in your dirty laundry.
The ultimate self-sabotage.
8/13But then you have an idea of how to make it work, and you feel like the queen of everything.
Once again, you’re the genius.
9/13Then you put it all on, but still feel like something’s all wrong, and you look at your reflection for answers.
Like, why can’t we do this?
10/13Sometimes, the help of a friend via text is all you need to figure it out.
A true best friend knows what to do in a real fashion emergency.
11/13Other times, you know your friend is wrong for judging your ‘fit, and you decide to just go with it anyway.
What does she know about your style?
12/13After all, the perfect outfit is mostly about attitude.
A good attitude is like an LBD: never out of style.
13/13And the pains of finding it make it that much sweeter.
Now make like Cookie and work. It. Out!
