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The Stages Of Getting Ready For A Night Out

To go out, or not to go out. That is the question.

Alexandra Simon
Mar 23, 2015
University of Maryland College Park
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The Stages Of Getting Ready For A Night Out

It's Friday. Everyone is going out. And you're really just in the mood to throw on some sweatpants, grab a pint of ice cream and binge-watch Netflix until the next morning. But literally, everyone is going out. So okay fine, you give in to the peer pressure and growing FOMO, but not without putting up a fight.

1. It's 9 p.m. There is definitely not enough time to get ready before everyone leaves. You need to shower, blow dry and curl your hair, do your makeup and find something to wear. Oh, no one is leaving until 11? Okay, fine.

2. But showering? Come on. Such. A. Hassle.

3. You know what? My legs haven't been shaved in like way too long and I don't want to risk cutting myself with the razor and having one of those cuts that bleeds for 20 minutes. It's at this point you're reminded it's only 30 degrees out and jeans are acceptable. Plot foiled.

4. So you shower. But remember that you meant to call your grandma today! Sorry guys…need to give her a ring. But she's probably in bed and it would weigh too heavily on your conscience to worry her this late at night. Alright, no grandmom.

5. Hair, done. And it looks good. Okay okay, maybe it'll be a good picture night. I WILL ONLY GO IF SOMEONE DRESSES ME. So you wait until someone brings you a shirt and shoes to go with your jeans

6. As you're getting your outfit together you steady yourself on your bed. Wait, my bed…there's still time to spend my entire night in my bed. But the hair is done. The jeans are on. There's no turning back now.

 

7. Makeup. Check. And it looks great. Do you have any idea how you got it to look so good? Nope. Will you ever be able to repeat the perfection that is your face right now? Probably not. Like we said, good picture night.

8. And now the waiting game. No one wants to be the first ones to show up at a party. So everyone wanders around in their hotness all dressed up with somewhere to go, but alas, we do not go just yet.

9. Take a few pictures. Pregame a little bit. Daydream about the ice cream date that could have been.

10. And then your song comes on Pandora. YOUR song. IT'S ON NOW. Forget Netflix, someone is about to get danced on by your fine self and there is nothing they can do about it.

The stages of making it home the next morning? Now that is a completely different story.

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