The elusive cool girl: a guide

Everyone wants to be a cool girl. THE cool girl. À la Amy Dunne in Gone Girl. The issue is, how do we define cool girl? How do we pin down what it takes and what it means to be a cool girl? Especially, in a world seemingly full of cool girls.

I literally have a Pinterest board entitled “cool girl shit” and not to be presumptuous but I feel like I know my audience and you probably have some version of this too, maybe just with a different name. Anyway, I have been gathering data, intel even, on things that make a cool girl. Here are some key elements of a cool girl that were pretty mutually agreed upon by my colleagues (aka just my friends and roommates lol)

• has one jacket that is like THEIR jacket

• CONFIDENCE (duh)

• always has multiple crushes

• passionate about a few weirdly specific niche topics

• doesn’t snapchat

• reads

• shits with tiktok on full volume

• is nice (but lowkey comes off as a bitch)

• always has a side quest

• shops secondhand

• doesn’t have a boyfriend (this one may be controversial sorry)

• has a purse to go with her outfit

• probably used to be ugly

• wears a watch

• Irish goodbyes

• laughs/talks during sex

• dances at the function

• plans elaborate trips/parties/events but never follows through

• knows how to use rollers

• has a curated messy room on purpose

• only wears one pair of jeans that you won’t be able to buy anywhere

• loves a bath

• still sleeps with their childhood stuffed animal

• has 20,000+ photos in camera roll

• is good storyteller and somehow always has a story to tell

Anyway, I feel like I could go on and on with this list, and don’t worry I’ll keep updating it as things come to me. But, there was one thing that almost everyone said makes a cool girl which I obviously have to share, which is: A cool girl is 100% herself and doesn’t give one shred of a fuck what people think of her or how she comes off to other people.

Leaving you all on that note. Bye, love you!