Trimming & Dusting

Hello there! And Happy Black Friday! lol

Hope you guys are getting it in with all the shopping!

Just checking in with a link ; )


Thought I'd post a link to a lil post on trimming and dusting hair.... I just washed my hair this a.m. and was thinking that I haven't trimmed my hair in a loooooooong time! But having looked at this article, I looked at my hair and the ends look pretty healthy, niceee

So here, have a looksy on the difference b/w trimming and dusting hair, before you next visit to the salon:

Lola's Curls

Designers for Less!

Thought I'd just post some link to these sites where you can get different name brands in apparel, shoes, jewelry & accessories, as well as home goods, all for less than you'd find them elsewhere.

Click my links to join GILT, ideeli, and HauteLook for lots of sales on things you want and love.

 http://www.gilt.com/invite/welcome2miami04

www.ideeli.com/invite/welcome2miami04

http://www.hautelook.com/invite/welcome2miami04

Shadeism

I thought I'd post this video of a short documentary, because it's something I have a problem with... and that  is shadeism. Watching this video made me ask myself, Am I a "shadist" ?

For example I am more attracted to lighter skinned guys, even white guys, than dark skinned or brown skinned men. There is the occassional dark skinned guy that I find attractive, but in general, I don't pay them attention. My one friend sometimes makes fun of me for being racist against my own race [being that she loves a dark skinned guy, and I just don't], but it's not even like that [because  at the same time, she doesn't like light skinned guys, specifically because she says, they think they're "better than"], because I don't even go out of my way to associate only with all light skinned people over darker skinned people; after all, I myself am brown skinned. But I find my obsession crazy to the point that, I envision a future of having children that are NOT dark like me. [Isn't that wrong? Or is it just a "preference"?]

However, I do find myself having an innermost issue with skin color/shade. Like this: my mother is fair skinned, whereas my father is dark skinned. And I came out a brown baby from that mix. I'm one of five, and two of my brothers are light skinned, while my sister, other brother and I are all darker. [Maybe I should 'insert family photo here' lol] Most of my maternal family is light skinned, and my paternal side is mostly dark skinned. I've often wished that my skin was lighter; [I'll be quite honest, since it is MY blog]. Even to the point where, when I was entering into high school, my mother bought me Fair & Lovely fairness cream [see it in the video below]. Not that I asked for it, but I accepted it without any questions. Although I haven't used it for a while, because she stopped buying them when they got expensive... Why is it that I want to be a lighter complexion? Do I really think that being dark is ugly?

Anyways, several issues stem from this thing called shadeism, including being racist amongst your own race, such as lighter skinned people only choose to be with lighter skinned people [because they are "better"]. I see this everyday too, where often a group of lighter skinned girls always hang together, with no dark skinned girls, save for that ONE dark skinned girl. They see themselves as better looking, classier, prettier, BETTER than anyone darker than them. And it's not even only girls that do this, men do it too, to the point that they WON'T date/marry a darker skinned woman. This probably isn't always true, as some people may say that I am assuming; but I think it's actually quite true. You can even see it in social networking sites like Twitter, where people will tweet #teamlightskin, #teamredbone. I often roll my eyes, because I'm wondering, What does that mean? Are light skinned people supposed to be better?

I'm going to stop there, because this issue can be delicate, and all over the place. Peep the video.

update

oh my God. it's been wayyyyy too long! my poor blog, i'm sure you feel like i've been neglecting you :(

not really.

i've been tryna get my life in order *sigh* it's my last year [and a half] of college so i'm tryna make the most of it! which is both fun and stressful! particularly stressful on the part of this accounting class i have to take for my major :(( as of today, i've dropped that damn class, twice in two semesters. smh, big smh. i just can't deal with that class, hence i've decided to just take it over the summer, where it can be the one class i'm taking, and i can FULLY concentrate on it *sigh*

no only i have i been neglecting MY blog but my Google Reader is filled with 1000+ posts i need to look at!!!

well, i guess i shld stop here.. tootles for now

Ode to JC

HeyNow, IGotMyNewShoesOn... Well, I wish I had new shoes, but not at the moment. But with winter rollin in pretty soon, I'm gonna have to change that.

Well, what I wanted to say is that, I feel like this season, Jeffrey Campbell is putting out new shoes before you can say 'yellow'! yeah, that was quite random.

I think it's  mostly in part due to the fact that new colors/fabrics of the Lita shoes and its sisters, are popping up here and there!I'm not a fan of the Lita's and I feel like I liked JC shoes before EVERYONE started really wearing them sometime this year.

I spotted a new design on Solestruck just now, it's called XXL.

All I can say is wow. And it's not a 'oooh'-type of wow. I'm tryna figure out why this shoe is like a 3-in-1 thing.  I feel like some of these JC shoes are stating to be all over the place. For one, we have this XXL shoe that's like  a leather sock, layered under a cheetah print sock, under what looks like suede PLUS a lil leather piece and buckles in the back, and a Clinic-wedge metal heel side. Well damn! just throw every style in there why don't ya!

I love you JC, but I'm not IN love with you anymore. Sorry.



photo via Solestruck

Homecoming!

So, It's Homecoming Week at my school, the ever so great, Penn State University!

Now it's bout to get real crazy in this b*ch as soon  a hump day [Wednesday] is over! Lol

I was waiting for the bus this evening, coming from my accounting exam X-( , when a groups of kids starting coming around looking for someone with red hair, or who could fake a punch at them. Haha, apparently they were on a treasure hunt or something, and I later learned that they were morale for THON! Sounded like some fun haha. Some guy said they were a bunch of freshman, I bet.

Then when I got on the bus, a bunch of girls were all dressed up colorfully, one had butterfly wings, one had a bathing suit bottom on top of like hot pink biker shorts and bright green tights, yikes! They were also on their way to a social, as one of the new sorority pledge classes. Made me wished I pledged, they are forever having tons of fun!

But yeah, I'm on the Homecoming Parade Committee, so be sure, if you're in State College this weekend to come down and watch the parade! Also go to the pep rally too for the coronation of the Homecoming King & Queen! And try to hit the game Saturday, Us v. Illionois's Fighting Illini!

For The Glory

Balmain SS '11

I think I should just come out with it. Balmain has to be my fave designer!

I may not have the money for Balmain just yet, but I can admire from a distance : )

Last year, Decarnin gave it with the military trend, and this year, he's def giving it to Rock 'n' Roll. Who dares challenge him.

Here's the looks I liked, but you can peep the rest at Style.com

Missed the Fashion Shows?

Catch up on all the latest fashion shows and SS '11 RTW on Style.com!

I have a lot to catch up on :)

Who's That Chick?

I think it's safe to say that Rihanna's latest studio album will be taking an electro-pop sound.. you know kinda like the kids from across the pond lol. I think this type of pop sound is becoming more popular over here anyways, so I wouldn't be surprised if Loud sells good, even if she JUST released Rated R less than 1 year ago. Lots of artists don't release albums back to back like that.. not many at least, I guess there's an abundance of material that Rih-Rih wants us to hear huh?

Well, I'm just starting to like 'Only Girl (In The World)' [my 1st listen was kind of 'meh'], but I think 'Who's That Chick' is too, even though I only watched the video twice. It's not bad, and I actually wanna hear more of this new cd to come.. unless its all garbage *blah.

*btw, I'm sort of a Rihanna fan. #dontjudgeme lol. Maybe not a stan, but I like her style alot, even though I have disagreed with some things.


**UPDATE: According to Rihanna via Twitter, the video was actually shot for a Doritos commercial,and is "in no way connected to Loud" see here.

**UPDATE: There is also a "night version" video for this song. The purpose of that? I don't know. check it here.

Got Bored?

So I was a lil bored in between studying and tryna figure out what the Redskins game score is... And I ended up creating an outfit on Macy's Find Your Magic page.

I guess they have a daily style challenge... So I played along.. and here's what I came up with for:

Cute & Simple.. no?

I called it New Vintage Touch.

If you care to vote for it, or play around on the site, visit here.

Other sites where you can do this sort of stuff is Polyvore, Couturious and my fave, Looklet ;-)

Visit my Looklet page too, http://looklet.com/user/51396