This is a little help guide for when the going gets tough on Stardoll, for those times when you put all of your effort and time into this site and seemingly get nothing back, for those days when you want to quit and give up. I was inspired to write this post after getting myself worked up and upset over things on here, lately with the MSW competition i was very let down when i didn't get into the finals after all of the work i put in and the other day i was extremely upset when i spent hundreds of stardollars broadcasting, and therefore loads of my own money to become Halloween CG and didn't even get NCG. I hated that all of the hard work and money i was putting into this site was getting no recognition and no reward, to me it looked like the actual winners hadn't put anywhere near as much effort in as i had and i felt cheated and conned. I wanted to quit. I wanted to cry.

Then i looked back and then i realised, i'm not the only one and hopefully if i keep trying my day would come. I looked on the broadcast list and noticed a friend of mine had spent around 5000sd on broadcasting and she wasn't even in the Covergirl top 5, whilst the people in the CG top 5 i hadn't seen broadcasting at all so musn't have spent any money for publicity whilst she had, so then i realised my situation wasn't the worst and that i wasn't the only one being let down. Luckily she did win NCG and she was extatic about this which taught me to forget about my goals that i hadn't won and to think about and remember what I had actually achieved, and that really helped. I looked at my suite and doll and thought "Wow, even if my success isn't getting rewarded, look what i've achieved since first getting my doll! Look how far I've come" and that's what you should all do if feeling like this too. Look at your suite and doll, even if you only have one or no items you've still achieved a start which is something to be proud of even if you're the only person that knows about it :)

Here are 2 photos to show you:

One of the first photos on Stardoll i took, of me in a party with a Kurt Cobain doll :)

And now a recent photo of me, a couple of years later - look how much i've grown in this time. I've went from being embarrased of taking photos in my suite and only photographing the top half of my body as i didn't have the clothes i wanted, to a 8 times NCG winner, writer for the Starblog, 2 times MSW Semi-finalist with thousands of friends who i love dearly; I know I've got a lot to achieve yet but for the minute i'm proud of myself, and you should be proud of yourself too; This shows just how much you can grow, just like i did!