I live in athletic clothes. I've played soccer since I was three, so for seventeen years I've lived, breathed, slept, and eaten in shorts, a t-shirt, and soccer cleats. I have an addiction to tennis shoes. I can never have enough. I absolutely hate wearing makeup and I don't know how to put it on in the first place-–so that just adds to my hatred of it. I barely wear jewelry just because I think it looks weird on me. My hair stays permanently in a pony-tail, too.

So all in all, today I walked in to boutique.

Boutiques are a far off distant land where you have to be dressed for the Met Gala to get any service or viewed as a human being. What was I wearing? My grey Nike hoodie, Nike leggings, and my new red Huaraches that I love more than anything. I was also wearing my glasses too, which I rarely do since I don't like people seeing me in them. And of course, no make up. I show up everywhere I go looking like I just got done with soccer practice. Maybe minus the sweat.

I barely got a hello compared to the girl that came into the store in front of me. She was wearing a sorority giant T-shirt and black leggings and sandals. Another girl was with her wearing some sweater, about six hundred necklaces and bracelets, earrings, and a face full of makeup. She was welcomed with wine and grapes and given the biggest hello. I'm exaggerating about the food. If she gotten that, I would have been pretty salty. But she did get a huge hello.

As soon as her hand touched a sweater, the worker at the boutique was all up in her face suggesting other clothes and taking the sweater she hadn't even picked up yet to a dressing room. I had about five things in my hands before I had to ask the girl for a dressing room and she looked so surprised. This place wasn't busy, so it's not like she was swamped and just didn't notice.

What I want to know is, why do girls feel like they have to stunt on each other to try and get service in a freaking boutique? Why do girls have to dress up like they have the CMA's that evening? Yeah I understand some days you just want to look cute, or that's your style. I'm not trying to put you down for that. I just want to know why some girls who don't wear all this shit, get ignored? Why does society push that we have to be dressed to the nine's all the time to be considered 'pretty"? All of this didn't hurt my feelings. I didn't go home and cry. I'm just curious. This isn't the first time this has happened to me.

But all I know is it's made me somehow more confident about my style and the way I look. I really want other girls who, like me, don't know how to put makeup on or aren't that good at it, who wear Nike shorts and a T-shirt everyday. The Tomboys of this generation, I thank you for being you. Be confident in who you are and how you express it.

You don't have to be all dolled up for society to see you as "pretty."