How to Be a Hipster Quickly
Choose your type of 'hipsterdom'., Dress for success., For your hair, try the bedhead look: Tease your hair, or just don't brush or wash it for a bit., Remember these words if you want to be a hipster.
Step-by-Step Guide
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Step 1: Choose your type of 'hipsterdom'.
You can't be a hipster without knowing how you're going to do it.
You need these steps to figure it out. (Or you can be a TRUE hipster and not take advice from a website as mainstream as LifeGuide Hub.
Your choice.) The Typical Hipster:
This is the type of hipster to sort of 'run with the crowd'
as much as you can as a hipster.
They prefer to wear normal Ray Bans (or the knockoffs, since name brands are WAY too mainstream.) and red lipstick for females.
The personality associated with this hipster 'breed' includes a local cafe rendezvous at least weekly, scoffing at 'Ignorant, self(ie)-obsessed mainstream girls who only wear makeup and name brands'
and shopping at thrift stores.
The Artsy Hipster:
Favoring the beret, black-and-white striped shirts, suspenders, and red skinny jeans, these hipsters are more likely to be at a Poetry Slam than to be writing a Sci-Fi or a romance novel.
They're easy to spot, and you'll know them when you see them.
The 'Granny' Hipster:
This hipster ONLY shops at thrift stores, ONLY buys antique furniture, and prefers tea over coffee.
These ones are stupidly mistaken by the mainstream world as 'Tumblr Hipsters'.
As a bonus to all of the vintage décor, these hipsters like standing up for the environment, and will also most likely have their head in a book at the park. -
Step 2: Dress for success.
Look like you just threw something random on and walked out the door as soon as possible.
Here are some tips.
Mismatch things.
It's perfectly fine to wear shorts, a vintage or flower-print blouse, and 80s style leg warmers: that's PERFECT.
Try also:
Skinny jeans, a striped shirt with wild-patterned suspenders, and combat boots.
Be creative.
And remember, if everyone takes advice from the same website, it's no longer hipster: it's just mainstream. *Shudders* Grab some old, beat-up Converse, Toms, or Vans to wear with anything.
Literally.
When in doubt, just wear something off-brand:
No hipster will ever be caught wearing Under Armour. , Put it in a messy bun.
Try ruffling it or doing pinup curls.
Maybe braid it overnight. , Mainstream:
The worst possible thing you could do or be as a hipster.
Starbucks, loop 'buns' (in Step Three of Part One), and on-brand things like Victoria's Secret are examples.
Fixie:
A bicycle Java:
Coffee -
Step 3: For your hair
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Step 4: try the bedhead look: Tease your hair
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Step 5: or just don't brush or wash it for a bit.
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Step 6: Remember these words if you want to be a hipster.
Detailed Guide
You can't be a hipster without knowing how you're going to do it.
You need these steps to figure it out. (Or you can be a TRUE hipster and not take advice from a website as mainstream as LifeGuide Hub.
Your choice.) The Typical Hipster:
This is the type of hipster to sort of 'run with the crowd'
as much as you can as a hipster.
They prefer to wear normal Ray Bans (or the knockoffs, since name brands are WAY too mainstream.) and red lipstick for females.
The personality associated with this hipster 'breed' includes a local cafe rendezvous at least weekly, scoffing at 'Ignorant, self(ie)-obsessed mainstream girls who only wear makeup and name brands'
and shopping at thrift stores.
The Artsy Hipster:
Favoring the beret, black-and-white striped shirts, suspenders, and red skinny jeans, these hipsters are more likely to be at a Poetry Slam than to be writing a Sci-Fi or a romance novel.
They're easy to spot, and you'll know them when you see them.
The 'Granny' Hipster:
This hipster ONLY shops at thrift stores, ONLY buys antique furniture, and prefers tea over coffee.
These ones are stupidly mistaken by the mainstream world as 'Tumblr Hipsters'.
As a bonus to all of the vintage décor, these hipsters like standing up for the environment, and will also most likely have their head in a book at the park.
Look like you just threw something random on and walked out the door as soon as possible.
Here are some tips.
Mismatch things.
It's perfectly fine to wear shorts, a vintage or flower-print blouse, and 80s style leg warmers: that's PERFECT.
Try also:
Skinny jeans, a striped shirt with wild-patterned suspenders, and combat boots.
Be creative.
And remember, if everyone takes advice from the same website, it's no longer hipster: it's just mainstream. *Shudders* Grab some old, beat-up Converse, Toms, or Vans to wear with anything.
Literally.
When in doubt, just wear something off-brand:
No hipster will ever be caught wearing Under Armour. , Put it in a messy bun.
Try ruffling it or doing pinup curls.
Maybe braid it overnight. , Mainstream:
The worst possible thing you could do or be as a hipster.
Starbucks, loop 'buns' (in Step Three of Part One), and on-brand things like Victoria's Secret are examples.
Fixie:
A bicycle Java:
Coffee
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