Rebecca Kennedy is a journalism student in Glasgow who is coping with a fashion and makeup shopping addiction as well as being a professional tea.

Who am I trying to impress?

Every morning getting up at six o’clock is hard enough but I then need to get ready for college, that’s the hard bit. What a pity I need to leave my cosy bed and get dressed to go out into the fresh, cold dark new day.

My morning routine in high school was much more strenuous than it is now. It would take me longer to do things such as physically and mentally wake up for the day.

I would get up two hours before I had to leave just to make sure, for once I wasn’t going to be late and secondly I wanted to look nice.

Why were my looks so important to me at a young age in high school when I was there to learn?

Now, there’s only so much you can do with your hair, makeup and school uniform every day of the week and look ‘different’ from the week before.

It soon became repetitive and by my sixth year in high school I had learned to give up after realising I preferred getting more time in bed than trying to straighten my hair to perfection, only for it just to flick right back out again as soon as I opened the front door.

Today when I think about it, I wonder why for years I slaved over my makeup bag and straighteners for school every day. Do you know how many lie-ins I could’ve had during all that time?  Many more than I did!

College, in my experience is different. Or maybe I’m just older and care less. I don’t feel that I have to make an effort.

I know that on the second day of my first year of college I came in with a plain pair of black Topshop Joni jeans and my high school hoodie on. I didn’t regret a single thing.

Maybe that’s not entirely true. I was left fighting the battle of sleep all day due to the comfy-ness of my attire.

So what do I do now? I just do what I feel like in the morning. I know that leaving high school I left the solid, tension filled and judgemental ‘area’ and moved on to somewhere where everyone feels the same: “It’s early, I‘m here and not in my bed. Who cares?”

Who am I trying to impress anyway? Well no one. That’s the thing, I don’t dress to impress anyone or carefully contour my face to gain compliments. I do it because I enjoy it and have a lot of fun while doing so.

I’m at college to study and that’s what I’ll do every day whether I am dressing rather decently or borderline scruffy.

Whatever I dress like to college doesn’t change my passion for journalism and my motivation to succeed, but sometimes I may as well look good doing it.