Despite loving dresses and high heels, as well as wearing them everyday, I have never been a very girlie girl. To some, that just doesn’t add up or make sense. I’m not saying I was a tomboy. But I just was never that into manicures (mani-pedis), for instance. […]
We all have occasional odd thoughts. I still remember those opening scenes in Sex, Lies, and Videotapes where Andie McDowell’s character keeps ruminating about trash landfills. Odd thoughts can take on an earworm quality just spinning and spinning around in one’s head. I myself recently had such a […]
When I go to get my hair done. It takes a while. I have very curly hair that I, at times, straighten. I have very dark hair for which I get highlights. This all takes time. A lot of time. I get to sit in the salon with […]
For a period of about five years or so, I subjected my hair to Japanese straightening. Lots of chemicals to make my super curly hair straight for about four months at a time. I loved it. Rrally loved it. But I got tired of all the chemicals. I […]
Before I went to watch the movie A Wrinkle in Time, I had heard it was a grand movie about resilience and girl power. When I heard such commentary I just shrugged my shoulders. I think many people thought that I would love this movie by Ava DuVernay […]
I did not have more fun as a blonde. Flat out truth. Of course, it is a stereotype that blondes have more fun. But when I dyed my hair blonde I wanted to embody that stereotype for a bit. But it didn’t happen. Boo on me. It actually […]
When I was a young girl, I had a lot of hair issues. I had very curly hair. Extremely curly hair. Still do. However, my family was, for the most part, a straight hair one. My mother had no idea how to tame my curls. She […]
I like to change up my hairstyle and hair color all the time. Well, not exactly all the time. I did the Japanese straightening to my hair over eight years ago and then I kept doing it for about eight years straight. Then, I stopped straightening […]
I am a brunette with curly hair. Not everyone knows that or has known that. For more than five years, I have straightened out my hair. I utilized Japanese straightening process which really straightened my fierce curls. Thus, for a while not many realized I am a […]
When I lived in Spain many years ago, I was considered exotic by many Spaniards and Europeans in general. I was different looking as I am brown and curly-haired. The fact that I was American bewildered many as I did not fit the images that are often […]
