an introduction (more like a brain-dump tbh)
Hey, I’m Karli
Not really sure what I’m doing, but I’m just trying to live the dream 💫
Hi there, I’m Karli! I’m not quite sure what I’m doing here but I think it’s going to help me figure out how to connect with all of my creative loves and share them with the world. Maybe even one day start a business.
I have big dreams, but always find them overwhelming. Plus, I’m an Aries so I start 5 million things at once and never finish them. So your expectations for this should be quite low.
I have a lot of interests, but I’m not quite sure how to make them come together. I grew up as a dancer and for a long time I thought I was going to be a professional dancer. Then high school came around and I started getting really into fashion, like REALLY into it. It took over my life. I decided then and there that I was going to work in fashion when I grew up. I cut back my hours at dance, started a fashion club at school, and spent the summer of my 16th year at Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. The passion only deepened. But then it was time to go to college. I wasn’t really interested in Merchandising, and I loved marketing. I wasn’t sure at that point if fashion marketing was even a thing, which I don’t know how I didn’t because I was the PRIME target market of the fashion industry.
So, I decided to go to school for Marketing and thought I would just lean towards fashion in my carrer. I attended Northeastern University which I was drawn to because on the tour I heard that you could get a co-op at Vogue and NARS Cosmetics - score!
I did a co-op in Fashion Merchandising at TJX Companies & a Public Relations co-op at NARS Cosmetics. I liked them both, but still felt like I wanted to make more of an impact. Bewtween work and school, I did makeup for photoshoots for the school magazine, wrote for College Fashionista and started yet another fashion blog of my own. But the spark kind of faded out.
I had a really hard time mentally and emotionally in college. My parents had just gotten divorced and college was harder than I thought it was going to be and on top of that, I liked partying a little too much. Needless to say, I wasn’t taking care of myself very well. This made me feel super off because I had always been so connected to movement and wellness, so I finally realized that I needed those back in my life.
I started working out again, having stints of obsession with SoulCycle, Core Power Yoga, barre classes, pilates and more. I started getting into Meditation, experimented with Reiki and started working towards becoming a Barre teacher.
I LOVE wellness, movement, fashion & beauty and just want them to all co-exist together somehow in my career. So, I guess that’s what this is. An exploration to figure out how I can make my passions into my career. Let’s see what happens.
