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Prom dress shopping is tons of fun, but it can be super stressful. You have to search through hundreds of dresses to find “the one” — a dress that will make you feel gorgeous on prom night and that you’ll still love when you look back at your prom pictures someday. For me, all the stress over the price, designer, or availability was taken away. As you saw in the Ultimate Prom video series, I went prom dress shopping with JoJo at the Betsey Johnson store in SoHo!! It was crazy!

When I got to the store and met JoJo, we started the looking through all the dresses. This season Betsey has a line called “Prom Queen,” so it worked out perfectly. All the dresses resembled prom dresses from previous generations (there’s a runway picture to the right). The store was filled with dresses: poofy, short, long, pink, black, sparkly, shiny. It was like a prom dress wonderland! I tried on so many dresses with JoJo. We were in and out of the dressing room. Every time we came out of the room, the salesgirls put different jewelry on us and handed us shoes. It was like playing dress up. The camera crew filmed the whole experience. I felt like I was in a movie!

When I tried on one particular dress, I knew it was the one. It’s so beautiful and so different from anything else I have worn before. Since I’ll get to walk the red carpet with a celebrity at prom, there was a little more pressure to dress to impress. JoJo made my choice a lot easier. She encouraged me to try on things I would have never even thought of looking at. She kept telling me, “It’s not the dress you wear, but how you wear it.” She told me to be confident in whatever I choose.

The whole day was amazing and it was one day that I will always remember and want to relive. JoJo was the sweetest person in the whole world to me that day. Make sure to check out the video. It takes you on my prom dress shopping experience. BUT, I can’t tell yet which of the dresses I picked — it’s a surprise for prom night!