Point Dexter Couture

Ladies and Gentlemen,

"I would like to present to you the newest fashion trend to hit mainstream style, Point Dexter Couture."

I wish this was the statement that was made as I walked the "runway" (really it was just a hallway) out of the orthodontist's office that June 3rd morning. But it wasn't, instead I just felt geeky!!!
At first, I felt silly, 22 years old and braces plus I wear glasses 24/7, so I just felt like one big DORK!!! Then I realized that braces among young adults wasn't so uncommon, so I tried very hard to em-BRACE them! (haha).

In July, I was going to visit my friend in Detroit, so for a whole month I tried to practice smiling! But it seemed like I had forgotten how to smile! I would give the biggest, craziest looking smile I could because I thought I had to make up what the braces took away from my smile. But looking back on pictures from Detroit, that was a mistake, my smile looked awful, fake and I don't like how I ended up smiling in the pics, it just didn't flatter me.

So instead of fighting this whole process, I started to make a lighter side to it, I now called my look Point Dexter Couture, and when people would say "oh Ami, your braces..." I would correct them and say, "oh you mean my grill?" Hahaha.

It was important for me to make myself feel as comfortable in them as much as possible, being a person who has low self-esteem, I had to prove to myself that the braces didn't make me look terrible, they just were changing the way I saw myself in the mirror temporally.

They have been excruciatingly painful, exponentially more annoying then imagined and have changed how I feel about bread! I have been unable to eat apples, popcorn, candy apples, and a multitude of other foods, either due to sensitivity or fear of harming a bracket!

But on April 26, 2010, I will dazzle the world with a brand new smile =)
And since I love smiling, and it's like my most favourite thing in the world, I cant' wait.
Oh and I have a date with a caramel apple!

-Love your situation because it could always be worse!

B