Hayley DiMarco - Sexy Girls. How Hot Is Too Hot?

2006 by Hungry Planet

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INTRODUCTION

You might not claim to be sexy. You might not even want to be sexy. But if youre a normal, red-blooded girl, then I bet you want to be attractive to the opposite sex. You want the attention of guys, and you do certain things to get it. You wear that cute baby doll top. You pick jeans that make you look just so. You know exactly what to wear to accentuate your good parts. Its natural, you know, to want to attract the opposite sex. The trouble is that sometimes we dont really realize what we are doing to the opposite sex in this dance for attention. Sexy Girls is all about helping you understand your body and how guys look at it. Its not an attempt to tell you not to be cute and stylish and hip. And its not an attempt to make you a sexy bombshell. But it is a place for you to start to better understand your sexuality and how it impacts the guys around you.

I want you to be the best that you can be, and I wont ask you to join the army to do that. But I will ask you to consider how you are currently dressing and acting and to think about how you might want to change to create a better overall package that fits your life goals. Sexy Girls is a book that will help you better define who you are and how you can attract the opposite sex without losing sight of your faith and your commitment to purity. So are you ready to find out how hot is too hot?

Its hard to speak to your hearts when all I see is your parts.

Confessions of a Youth Pastor

chapter 1

CREATING THE

PERFECT
IMAGE

So whos your agent?

What is sexy? Are you? Do you wanna be? Should you be sexy? And ultimately what is the goal of being sexy?

On my first day of first grade, my mom let me pick out my outfit. It was the end of summer, so I had all these cute summer clothes that I still loved. I chose a cool little outfit that was made of a little bitty skirt and a top that was really short, like a bathing suit top. I was only five, remember, so all I thought about was how much I liked that outfit. I was a clotheshorse even then.

Well, when I got to school and got into my classroom, a memory became forever etched in my head. My teacher took me aside and told me to go to the principals office. I was improperly dressed, and my mom needed to come get me. I remember being completely embarrassed. Would I forever be the outsider now that I had made the fatal mistake of misdressing? I mean, I was five, how was I to know what was appropriate for school and what wasnt? My sole goal was to wear my favorite outfit, and so thats what I did, without having a clue that it was inappropriate for school. Ah, the tragedy of youth!

Things didnt get much better from there. My sophomore year in high school, I decided that it was time for a change. Up until then I was the nerd. I wore two long, blond pigtails every day. And I only wore pink. Every single day of my life, only pink. But my sophomore year I got tired of being the fluffy pink geek, so I went for a more sexy look. I wasnt trying to be a sex queen or anything. I just wanted to be cute and to be thought of as hip. So I hit the stores running.

My mom gave me $400 to revamp my wardrobe, and thats what I did. I remember the first day of school that sophomore yearsuddenly all the guys were looking at me. They had never looked at me before. I was suddenly in, or so I thought. I was now the hip dresser. Styles were different then, of course, but they were still designed to make girls sexy. And so I became, without giving much thought to the ramifications, a sexy girl. I started on a kind of campaign to remake my image, but the trouble was that I didnt really realize what I was now advertising. My newfound sexiness did get the attention of many a boy, but then what? I didnt know what to do with it. So I got labeled a tease (more on that later). I had advertised something I couldnt deliver. Trouble was, no one explained sexiness to me. I had no idea what it was doing to the guys in my rearview mirror. I didnt know the message I was sending. Lets face it, I was clueless when it came to sexy.

In Hollywood every starlet knows you have to have an image consultant. You have to hire someone who will help you craft an image that you want the rest of the world to buy. You want the world to get who you are as a star by how you dress, where you go, and who you are seen with. An image consultant, together with a PR agent, is the starlets best friend.

But starlets arent the only ones who have an image to sell. Every day, whether you know it or not, you put together your own PR package. You decide every morning what image you want the rest of the world to see in you. You say to yourself, Fancy or casual ? Sporty or revealing ? You make choices that define your image. Everyone has onean image, that is. And if you dont get it yet, think about it like this.

Think about all your friends, enemies, acquaintances. Think about all the girls you know, and then start to think about what image they project. Your image is what other people think about you when you arent around. Its that impression you leave them with when you walk out of the room. And everyone has one. Whether you show up buttoned up and covered up or looking like you just jumped into the laundry basket and came out all dressed, you project an image that other people are picking up on. Like most people, you probably dont have the benefit of a full-time image consultant, but hold on, because Sexy Girls is comin to the rescue! I want to help you figure out your imagewho you are, who you want to be, and who you want others to think you are. After that well craft a look that will present you to the rest of the world just the way you want to be presented. Your PR agent will be yourself. No exorbitant fees! No kissing up to you because youre loaded! Just a great PR package that will help you define who you are and how you want others to respond to you.