Memoirs of Summer

Memoirs of Summer

This summer was spent with family – could be an uncle from the US who hasn’t visited for ten years now; or maybe with friends for a trip that you have been planning since the cool months; or maybe that one special person who is also your lifelong travel buddy.

And it was a summer unlike any other.  The sweltering heat, the sparkle of the sand, the crowd all makes up for a collage worth of memories.

There were nights spent in revelry along the bars on the beachfront; or, nights where you surround a bonfire with friends and stories for a relief against the chill of the sea wind.  

Sometimes it doesn’t even matter if it’s fine white sand or a beach peppered with round pebbles.  Nor does it matter that the ocean is calm or the waves come crashing where you lay down sunbathing.  

These memories of summer are more precious than memories of previous summers.  In today’s busy world, the values of relationship are oftentimes replaced with online communication and the distraction of technology.  And it comes to this – that summer is that escape where we all go back to only the basic and the bigger importance of the things that are much simpler than our everyday routines.

Summer

Swimwear Shopping is Really Fun

Surfer girl Ikit from Siargao Island
looking great in a pink Sundae Supreme one-piece
Photo (c) @leagoeson 

“I have cellulite. I admit it. But sometimes I just say, ‘Screw it, I am going to wear a bikini.“ - Cindy Crawford

Shopping for a swimsuit can be a nightmare for some women.   And there seems to be an equivalent dread to just the thought of it – swimsuit shopping is unequivocal questioning of weight and self confidence.

“I look so fat!”

“My cellulites are all over.”

“Weird bulges are showing, hmm.”

“Wait!  What is THAT?  Is that even my body part?”

If any of these sounds familiar to you, then you are not alone.  Many out there are fighting the same fight of getting that perfect swimwear.  There’s too much pressure in the summer with some invites from your girlfriends to go on a beach spree.  And you can imagine how awkward it would be in your group’s jump shot picture with the others in bright bikinis, while you are in your floral shorts and tops you normally wear at home.  With this thought, you just wish the rainy season is here when hoodies just spell comfort.

However, this doesn’t have to be a nightmare.  Instead we may take it as a challenge.  A challenge of doing what we think we can’t do.  A challenge of confidence and acceptance of our bodies.

Would you rather - than hiding what we think the world doesn’t want to see - we show what we believe the world doesn’t really care about too much.

And there’s one more important thing worth mentioning.  Not all swimsuits are created equal. 

You see an ill-fitting swimsuit in front of a mirror in a mall with a $ 15 tag on it and you instantly blame it on your body.  Sometimes it is what it is – it’s ill-fitting.  The quality put in its production is worth less than its cheap price.  Go figure.

It is a fact – women do not need to be as skinny as VS models.  There are great brands that you just need to look out for.  One of which, Sundae designs bikinis that are both sexy and sophisticated at the same time that it is hard to look wrong in one.

More so,  given that you have the perfect fit of bikini – no, it doesn’t really matter if you are overweight – it is how we wear it that is most important.  And the sad truth is we give too much weight on what others think of us.  The truth is everybody else in the beach is there not to ogle at you but to spend good time with family and friends, and just lay down on the fine sand while looking out at the ocean and horizon thinking how life can be so perfect as it is.

 

 
Sundae Swimwear one piece #wearsundae