A few of my readers (readers! I have readers!! Yay!!!) have advised me to try Miss Jessie’s products for maximum curl satisfaction. And oh, how I yearn to. I would buy the Baby and the Curly Buttercreme. I would throw in a jar of Curly Pudding just for fun. And I would fly to New…
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No Surprises Here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17fEy0q6yqc The recent remake of the infamous 1950’s “Doll Test” by an intrepid 17 year old filmmaker, Kiri Davis, has been making waves recently. Davis has been interviewed on CNN and many other mainstream news networks, and the reaction to her film always seems to be a variation on surprise. I found the results to…
Fade Away
If you’re a beautiful cocoa or caramel colored sister, then you already know all about this stuff. I guess the first time I used a fade cream was in high school. I don’t remember if my family turned me on to them, or if it was my school friends. I do recall that most of…
Pretty in Purple
Purple has been my favorite color for as long as I can remember. From lavender to aubergine, it doesn’t matter the shade. My purple passion hasn’t faded with age. When I was little, my parents dissuaded me from having a purple bedroom. Recently, my husband talked me out of choosing a purple car. Every autumn,…
Like a Star, Reincarnated
Is it just me, or does Corinne Bailey Rae look alot like Josephine Baker? They both have wonderfully expressive eyes. Love Josephine’s eyes in this photo. I. Want. Corinne’s. Hair!!! The chic site 55 Secret Street has a styling suggestion for twist outs, and a brush with the chanteuse herself. I love Rae’s delicate songs,…
Meeting Carol’s Daughter
Thursday was like a holy pilgrimage for a product junkie like me. I have wanted to try Carol’s Daughter products ever since Oprah gave them the big thumbs up in her magazine. Then Jada Pinkett, Jay-Z, and Mary J. Blige came on board, and they opened a big store in New York that I yearned…
More on Minerals (avoiding pancake #31, redux)
The New York Times published an excellent article about mineral powders this week, that somewhat related to my earlier post. I am primarily a cosmetics cheapskate, and I try to abstain from Sephora, simply because I always blow at least $100 when I go there. But Southpaw’s glowing reviews of Bare Escentuals (left in the…
Billie Holiday and other rare blossoms
Talk about gorgeous. I know I’m not alone in saying that Billie Holiday is one of my absolute ultimate beauty icons. In her early years, she was as beautiful as the gardenias she wore in her hair. By her forties, she looked like a faded rose. Don’t click that unless you want to see the…
Josephine Baker, beauty eternal
When I was sixteen, I went through a phase where I wasn’t into makeup or looking pretty. I felt unattractive compared to all of my friends, I was desperately insecure. My way of dealing with it was to rebel against my mother’s wishes; go out all night, dress in jeans and teeshirts like a dude,…
Like India Arie said…
When I was three years old, my hair grew down to my back in a thick curtain of curls. At that time, I lived in an old fashioned house in a neighborhood in Trinidad called Belmont. One day, these older girls plaited my hair into the iron chains of a swing and ran away, leaving…