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The key to successful GLAM practice is knowing exactly what you're doing, why you're doing it, what the desired eddect is, and how to achieve it. If you want to know what you're doing by wearing what you do, pay attention to what you like. Figure out what you like about it. Try to understand the relationship of your desire to the tools available to you. Try to understand what's expected of you, and how you don't meet that expectation. Everyone is deviant in one way or many. GLAM requires that rather than hideing your deviance, you flaunt it. Pop Culture is full of holes. This is where the opportunity for GLAM lies. If you're any one of many varieties of deviant, the holes are the only space you're given, and you can use Pop Culture itself to widen them. Remember that calculating your desired effect, message, or transformation is necessary if your personal GLAM takeover is to be successful. Loudness is good, but anyone can be loud. Subtle attention to detail is the difference between effective, powerful GLAM that will make people listen, and a transgressive act that will do nothing to stretch the boundaries of the space you are in. Knowing exactly what you're doing who you want to be is the difference between merely appearing glamorous in a way that leaves you open to objectification, and being GLAM and actively beautiful.