Alix Earle

Yeah, I guess it's a blessing and a curse at times, but I always try to keep it real, especially on social media.

I feel like that's another thing is gets content to get a little fake on there.

So trying to take down that barrier, I think, has been a big thing for me and just saying what I think.

Did I ever try and be someone else?

Yeah, it is.

And I feel like that's a big thing for me.

I feel like in college, I've really, and even after college, every year I change.

I look back at last year and I'm like, I'm not the same person as I was last year.

And I definitely went through a phase though of on social media trying to be not myself.

And it wasn't, it was just not working for me.

I was like, I really want to grow on social media.

Like I have a lot of fun on there, especially on TikTok.

I got on there and I don't know what I was doing.

I was trying to be anything but myself.

And then

When I got to like a really weird place mentally, honestly, it was like when I was really insecure about like my acne is when I was just like, like, I can't even pretend to just be this like perfect, like all buttoned up all the time.

And then that's kind of when I like took down that barrier.

And it's when I started to see growth and I was like, oh, OK, like there's really nothing to be afraid of here.

But I'm so afraid of not being like a perfect social media curated, whatever I thought that was in my head.

I mean, there's a lot of different advice and it is harder now to grow just because there's so much oversaturation on there, which is why I think the most important thing is to be yourself.