I absolutely love youtube. If you need to learn how to do something and don't know how or where to get started I'm sure youtube has a tutorial for it. I love all the natural hair tutorials they have. I have done two styles already. I uploaded one not to long ago. I just did another one this afternoon. I will try to do a new hairstyle from one of the videos I find on youtube a week. I will also do my nails once a week from either something I found on youtube...giving credit where credit is due of course. Or just changing my color or type of nails I'm wearing.
I have also made myself a youtube channel. For what? Because I wanted to! LOL. It's in its cheezy stages right now but I am working on making it fab.
I also am trying to learn photoshop....they're tutorials for that. I watched some youtube video to figure out how to make a quick video with Windows movie maker. Super easy! Well here it is! Let me know what you think.
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Friday, July 29, 2011
Alternative Minority Girl...the minority report
AMG Baby!!!! AMG 4 Life! ( yea yea!....in my best Mack 10 voice) LOL!
Ok so let me explain. Alternative Minority Girl is something my friend Genene made up with some of her friends. I was over her house doing her nails and we were listening to her amazing playlist of music and I realized she liked the same type of music I liked. Not just r/b and rap, but folk, soft rock, pop, metal rock, electronic, shoot whatever sounded good! So I said to her that I should make a club for black girls who like all kinds of music and movies and what not. She said she already had a club. LOL...AMG....alternative minority girl! I fell out laughing. "I love it! I wanna join!" So I guess Im in. We havent had any meetings. I haven't meet her other friends that are in this wonderful group. (btw....its for all minorities, you don't have to be black.) I have a few friends that want to join too. LOL.
This is my vision for AMG. AMG is a group of women that do not want conform to typical stereotypes of their particular race. AMG's pretty much live life to the beat of their own drum. We date outside our race if we like one month and date inside our race the next. LOL! We will listen to Goodie Mob one minute and James Taylor the next. We will not let the color of our skin define us. We are individuals. We have friends of all nationalities and enjoy living life outside of the box society would love for us to stay in.
I guess since I am blogging about this wonderful group we should meet up and have our first meeting. (sending Genene a text when I'm done.)
Now what prompted me to write about this is the fact that I hate when my people...black people say that I am trying to act white or be white because I'd rather watch "its always sunny in philadelphia" than "the game." Or that Id rather go see the Foo Fighters than Trey Songz. I like what I like and I am comfortable in my own beautiful dark skin. So leave me be. Mainly its ex-boyfriends that say that. Boy stop! I date one guy that said that I was trying to assimilate because i straightened my hair. I press my hair because I want it to blow in the wind and bounce around and look pretty. I love my nappy hair. I just choose not to wear it curly at times. Its in its natural state now!
Now the white guys I have dated would never say that because they know that it would be upsurd! Yes, I speak proper and correct english but I can get "ghetto." When I'm proper no one takes me serious. When I let the "hood" out people listen. It shouldn't have to be that way. LOL.
If people would just learn to enjoy life and what God has blessed them with and stop worrying about what others think they would be fine. I could care less. Because if you cared about me it wouldn't matter anyway. Real talk! (oops, thats my hood speaking.)
For your entertainment here are some of my random top movie and music picks.
Music
http://youtu.be/ccenFp_3kq8 (hall and oats)
http://youtu.be/4JkIs37a2JE (jamarquai)
http://youtu.be/EPfmNxKLDG4 (beck)
http://youtu.be/mQZmCJUSC6g (carly simon)
http://youtu.be/XeJLZi0uyJw (sheila e)
http://youtu.be/34QVPwRLRKU (klymaxx)
I could go on and on with my music....its so all over the place.
Movies
http://youtu.be/ltjOydHAO0M (the heiress)
http://youtu.be/o2XADAhBAwE (cooley high)
http://youtu.be/BPvZlsj4nfQ (inception)
http://youtu.be/qFWgxOHN9JQ (beaches)
http://youtu.be/oabGaaCLZ5g (lil miss sunshine)
same with my movies!
Enjoy.
Ok so let me explain. Alternative Minority Girl is something my friend Genene made up with some of her friends. I was over her house doing her nails and we were listening to her amazing playlist of music and I realized she liked the same type of music I liked. Not just r/b and rap, but folk, soft rock, pop, metal rock, electronic, shoot whatever sounded good! So I said to her that I should make a club for black girls who like all kinds of music and movies and what not. She said she already had a club. LOL...AMG....alternative minority girl! I fell out laughing. "I love it! I wanna join!" So I guess Im in. We havent had any meetings. I haven't meet her other friends that are in this wonderful group. (btw....its for all minorities, you don't have to be black.) I have a few friends that want to join too. LOL.
This is my vision for AMG. AMG is a group of women that do not want conform to typical stereotypes of their particular race. AMG's pretty much live life to the beat of their own drum. We date outside our race if we like one month and date inside our race the next. LOL! We will listen to Goodie Mob one minute and James Taylor the next. We will not let the color of our skin define us. We are individuals. We have friends of all nationalities and enjoy living life outside of the box society would love for us to stay in.
I guess since I am blogging about this wonderful group we should meet up and have our first meeting. (sending Genene a text when I'm done.)
Now what prompted me to write about this is the fact that I hate when my people...black people say that I am trying to act white or be white because I'd rather watch "its always sunny in philadelphia" than "the game." Or that Id rather go see the Foo Fighters than Trey Songz. I like what I like and I am comfortable in my own beautiful dark skin. So leave me be. Mainly its ex-boyfriends that say that. Boy stop! I date one guy that said that I was trying to assimilate because i straightened my hair. I press my hair because I want it to blow in the wind and bounce around and look pretty. I love my nappy hair. I just choose not to wear it curly at times. Its in its natural state now!
Now the white guys I have dated would never say that because they know that it would be upsurd! Yes, I speak proper and correct english but I can get "ghetto." When I'm proper no one takes me serious. When I let the "hood" out people listen. It shouldn't have to be that way. LOL.
If people would just learn to enjoy life and what God has blessed them with and stop worrying about what others think they would be fine. I could care less. Because if you cared about me it wouldn't matter anyway. Real talk! (oops, thats my hood speaking.)
For your entertainment here are some of my random top movie and music picks.
Music
http://youtu.be/ccenFp_3kq8 (hall and oats)
http://youtu.be/4JkIs37a2JE (jamarquai)
http://youtu.be/EPfmNxKLDG4 (beck)
http://youtu.be/mQZmCJUSC6g (carly simon)
http://youtu.be/XeJLZi0uyJw (sheila e)
http://youtu.be/34QVPwRLRKU (klymaxx)
I could go on and on with my music....its so all over the place.
Movies
http://youtu.be/ltjOydHAO0M (the heiress)
http://youtu.be/o2XADAhBAwE (cooley high)
http://youtu.be/BPvZlsj4nfQ (inception)
http://youtu.be/qFWgxOHN9JQ (beaches)
http://youtu.be/oabGaaCLZ5g (lil miss sunshine)
same with my movies!
Enjoy.
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Two strand twists and lasagna!
Today is National lasagna day! Woohoooo! I love lasagna! Once again Jenny from Southern Savers has posted another awesome deal for the day! You can go to www.southernsavers.com and check out all the Italian restaurants that are participating. Hopefully I will be able to make it to brio. I have a couple of clients scheduled this evening. Maybe I can squeeze in a quick bite. I need some me time while the niece is spending time with her mommie. A glass of wine and lasagna sounds just fine. That will be an awesome treat, especially if my hair turns out right today...
I have been on youtube checking out some natural hair tutorials and I ran across this chick "Jerseystylez". She made it look so easy. Very informative. All her styles were really nice. Im pretty creative and have been doing my own hair when I have to since the age of 9. At 40 Id rather have someone else do it for me but if I can save some money I will do it myself. So I'm trying a style I saw on her youtube channel and we will see how it goes. My flat twist on the side already look nothing like hers but Im sure with some practice I will have it down. (Im sitting under the dryer right now) I will post a pic and a video of my completed hair. (good or bad) and I will upload her video as well.
I have been on youtube checking out some natural hair tutorials and I ran across this chick "Jerseystylez". She made it look so easy. Very informative. All her styles were really nice. Im pretty creative and have been doing my own hair when I have to since the age of 9. At 40 Id rather have someone else do it for me but if I can save some money I will do it myself. So I'm trying a style I saw on her youtube channel and we will see how it goes. My flat twist on the side already look nothing like hers but Im sure with some practice I will have it down. (Im sitting under the dryer right now) I will post a pic and a video of my completed hair. (good or bad) and I will upload her video as well.
Monday, July 25, 2011
Woe is me....and the poor little baby!
Here is another post of many about my little niece Gia. She is teething and she is not a happy camper. Her teething woes definitely have not kept her from trying to crawl all over the house, bed and me! Last night she gave me the blues for sure. I have never seen her fight sleep for 3 hours. I thought I had done a good job in getting her to go down pretty early last night for her to sleep for 10 minutes! So ensued the drama! After about 2 hours of trying to play with her, rock her and sing her to sleep I just gave up and shot a quick video with the blankest expression on my face.
A good friend and I were laughing about this book I saw in borders a while back called "Go the F@#$ to sleep!" https://www.facebook.com/G
Oh...btw...she finally went to sleep and slept a pretty long time. Thank goodness!
A good friend and I were laughing about this book I saw in borders a while back called "Go the F@#$ to sleep!" https://www.facebook.com/G
Oh...btw...she finally went to sleep and slept a pretty long time. Thank goodness!
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Bloggin for dummies
This is my very first blog that I am actually proud of. Yes, it is a work in progress but I am enjoying it. Everyday I am learning and understanding more about this blogging world. As I continue to write I will also update my blog to make it more attractive to my readers. Im just so amazed at all the blogs that are out there.
I used to keep a journal about 10 years ago. I don't know why I stopped...life I guess. I think I will use my blogs like my journal. I wont be so personal like what I used to write in my journal but this will be very therapeutic for me. Next thing to do on my list....drive more traffic to www.thepolishedauntie.com.
I used to keep a journal about 10 years ago. I don't know why I stopped...life I guess. I think I will use my blogs like my journal. I wont be so personal like what I used to write in my journal but this will be very therapeutic for me. Next thing to do on my list....drive more traffic to www.thepolishedauntie.com.
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