Re-Introduction to Dark and Bitter with a Spoonful of Glitter

Welcome to Dark and Bitter you guys.

Since living in Mexico and now Europe for just past 7 months, my blog has changed so much and I am actually content with that fact. This blog started out a few years back as a very basic and easy fashion blog. Then my lifestyle completely changed which made fashion take a backseat as the lifestyle I had known was completely flipped upside down. Living in Mexico and writing about the clothes I was wearing there felt really weird. The style I had while living there was not very me. The clothes I was wearing in Cabo didn’t really resonate with my style that much. You would think that living in Vegas I would have had a ton of cute summer weather clothes, but I realized that was not the case. My summer wardrobe in Vegas was so simple and lazy because it was just so extremely hot to wear anything I really liked. When I got to Cabo that showed, especially when living on a very tight budget and not being able to buy new, beautiful clothes. The weather was perfect but my wardrobe was either ugly or too warm. Thankfully, after the few collaborations I had my summer wardrobe improved, but it took time to find out what my unique summer, beach style really was.

Fast forward to our sudden move to Europe. David and I packed very quickly and with only big checked bag and a carry on each + a shared checked bag between the two of us. Needless to say, we didn’t have much. I left more than 2/3 of my closet in Cabo! It SUCKED let me tell you, I do not recommend that if you care about your clothing etc. After months of travel during the wonderful, life changing summer I had, (there will be a video coming on that soon), and the shopping I did along the way, settling here in Poland allowed me to really get back in touch with my style. My closet is quite small still after our move, which is something I would like to change, but I have a lot more pieces that make me happy and make me feel like myself when I wear them.

Regardless of the state of my closet and style, this blog has been neglected during this last 7 months. The first 6 months of 2019 I put a lot of energy into growing my blog, my instagram and my audience. Newsflash, it worked and I was loving the growth. However, after the move, my growth came to a halt, absolutely plummeted and even went backwards. I know that on my Instagram I did a poll and asked you, my followers, what you thought of my page, like what stood out to you & what you thought my page was about. Many of you said that it was my lifestyle and travels that stood out most, not my fashion. As great as it was to get real, honest feedback from some of you, it did kind of hurt because I want this blog and my “platform” to be fashion and style related but I see now that’s not the case.

This leads me to my re- introduction to Dark and Bitter with a Spoonful of Glitter, a lifestyle & fashion blog. Since I really like talking about clothing and style, even if nobody’s listening, i am going to keep talking about it. However, I will be sharing more of my lifestyle with all of you since that seems to be what you guys want to know more about! If you’ve seen some of my recent posts on Instagram, I have shared a bit more about what a perfect Friday night is to me, a little bit about my struggles with depression & my love for coffee shops. I never would have thought any of you would want to know about my lifestyle. I didn’t think it was very special or exciting enough to talk about. Looking back on the last two and a half years of my life, I realize now I have a wild, adventurous, and very different lifestyle that I wasn’t sharing enough of with you.

Going through this whole process of trying to make my Instagram take off, I have realized that I don’t have one specific style I stick to. I don’t have a preset pack of 5 that I use to be consistent, I’m not that consistent in anything I do, and I am a bit erratic in what I want. The one thing I am sure of is, all of this is true. I think in some backwards way, this is my style. I am always growing and changing and so are my photo skills and preferences. I am consistently inconsistent and I am accepting that.

If you’ve made it this far, thank you for following along with my rollercoaster and enjoying all things Dark and Bitter.

Xoxo

Zo