By Vivian Pham, Staff Writer

Have you ever felt like a hot mess and being frustrated about yourself, but find yourself receiving compliments and praises from other people about how perfect your life appears to be? I’m sure a lot of people would agree with me that they have experienced that feeling at least once in their lifetime. More often than not we assume our life is miserable and other people seem to just have everything together. This familiar phenomenon is known as the “beautiful mess effect.”