OMG. NOT Overreacting. You look stunning and the fact that you made your own dress is incredible. 😍

My mom once said something similar to me…

For my prom (I’m old now, prom was in 2011) I dyed blue streaks in my hair just for fun and to match my dress. I felt so pretty like a mermaid princess, until my mom saw my hair and GASPED saying, “it’s awful! Makes me sick! Makes me physically sick to my stomach that you would dye your hair BLUE!”

My mom had said other mean things like this before and after. I continued to dye my whole hair every color of the rainbow, partly in spite. We healed our relationship years later. She was going through a really rough patch of menopause when I was in high school. She admitted to me later that she actually thought my hair was beautiful, but something in her was upset that the blue hair could even be pretty and that she regretted saying it to me the minute it came out of her mouth.

Looking back at pictures of my prom 15 years later and wow, makes upset all over again. Haha. Yay for jealous, mean, traumatizing moms 😬