Top 5 AHOLICS [8]

Wigs
Turbans
Dark wash jeans
Curly hair
Jumpsuits [NO not the orange kind]

Wigs! I'm slowly building my collection of wigs, currently I have 4 very different ones. Curly, straight, long and short I want it all! I really want to get a lace front wig, curly and synthetic. Need to really, but in the mean time I've made a quick weave wig. It was on a whim actually, the day before I made it I had been watching Youtube videos [no surprise there] and was inspired to make one. I'm fairly creative, modest aren't I, but I'm not really good with "doing hair"-weaves, extension etc. So I was definitely apprehensive about making this one. But to my surprise it was easy and turned out FANTASTICALLY.

Before

After

Part of my new found obsession with wigs is due to the fact that my friend and I are on a hide you hair challenge. It started January 1st and is ending on the 14th of this month [our graduation]. When we made the agreement I wasn't so sure I could do it, but wigs have been a godsend. My hair has retained so much length from the reduced manipulation, I love it! I definitely will be continuing the low manipulation, wig wearing habit after the challenge is done.

Try challenging yourself to something like this, using braids, weaves, wigs, etc. Do whatever keeps your hands out of your hair and keeps hair on your head!

If you saw my first outfit of the day post/video [here] you'll know I'm loving the turban trend. I feel so, I don't know, cool in it, plus it's a great alternative to a wig or hat! Turbans just make a look that much more fabulous. I especially like using African cloths [Ankara] to tie mine, but anything will work really.

Fashion Turban

My take

Dark wash jeans, what don't they go with??? Honestly I think this particular wash compliments all body types in all cuts. Personal favorite is the straight leg/skinny jean. The best part of this wash is that it really dresses of an outfit but you still get the comfort and versatility of it being a jean.

This next one I don't have much to say, and perhaps in on the list due to my personal bias. But my blog, my list :) . Curly hair, I LOVE it. I cant rave to much about this, but I will say I wish I'd never gotten a relaxer. Honestly until I had to go natural I never really thought of an alternative to getting a perm and having straight hair. Now that I think about it, it's almost unbelievable, not that everyone should be natural, blah blah blah. Just sharing my thoughts.

It could be the 80's baby in me, but jumpsuits will always be in for me. Not that I'm really an avid follower of trends. But regardless I love them. There are so many styles of jumpsuits, and I'm going to include rompers, that everyone should be able to find one that works for them. I love black ones, brightly colored ones and especially ones with fun/bold prints. I picked up one from H & M on sale that's a leopard print so hot!

~A

L. O. V. E.

Have you ever Googled it before, the word love? I was bored one day and did. There is a wealth of info online. Man it’s so easy to find stuff out. But anyway…This is what I found.

Definitions 

Love is the emotion of strong affection and personal attachment. [this is from Wiki, there was a LOT more]

love

 /lʌv/ Show Spelled [luhv] Show IPA noun, verb, loved, lov·ing. –noun
1. a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.
2. a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child, or friend.
3. sexual passion or desire.
4. a person toward whom love is felt; beloved person; sweetheart.
5. (used in direct address as a term of endearment, affection, or the like): Would you like to see a movie, love?
[there was more, as expected, but here’s the link dictionary.com]

i think two is enough, but in my search i stumbled upon a wikiHow to on LOVE…man the internet is such a useful resource, was gonna give examples of love…but i think i’ll just include the how too [and a link at the end]. ok ok i’ll include a couple examples.

How to love

Love is both an action and a feeling. The action of love generates a blissful feeling called by the same name. When the action stops, the blissful feeling is replaced with pain. Every person is capable of great love (and its opposite, fear, which generates all painful emotions such as hate, greed and jealousy).

While there are many different ways to define love and there are many different ways to love someone (or even yourself), here is a general guide to loving.

Steps

1. Say it. When you say the words "I Love You", they should carry with them the desire to show someone that you love them, not what you simply want to feel. When you say it, make sure you really mean it and are willing to do anything for that special person.

2. Empathize. Put yourself in someone else's shoes. Rather than impose your own expectations or attempt to control them, to understand how they feel, where they come from, and who they are. Realize how they could also love you back just as well.

3. Love unconditionally. If you cannot love another person without attaching stipulations, then it is not love at all, but deep-seated opportunism (one who makes the most of an advantage, often unmindful of others). If your interest is not in the other person as such, but rather in how that person can enhance your experience of life, then it is not unconditional. If you have no intention of improving that person’s life, or allowing that person to be themselves and accepting them as they are, and not who you want them to be, then you are not striving to love them unconditionally.

4. Expect nothing in return. That doesn't mean you should allow someone to mistreat or undervalue you. It means that giving love does not guarantee receiving love. Try loving just for the sake of love. Realize that someone may have a different way of showing his or her love for you; do not expect to be loved back in exactly the same way.

5. Realize it can be lost. If you realize that you can lose the one you love, then you have a greater appreciation of what you have. Think how lucky you are to have someone to love. Don't make an idol of the person you love. This will place them under undue pressure and will likely result in you losing them.

6. Never stop loving. Even if you have been hurt before you should not stop giving love.

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Examples of “great” love [fictitious and real]

•  Romeo and Juliet
• GOD and us [his children]
• Jennifer Anisten, Brad Pitt, and Angelina Jolie 
• Jennifer Anisten and all her co-stars [jk]
• Marylin Monroe and JFK [ok that was a joke too]
• your parents [hopefully]

you get my point though right.

my thoughts on all this…love is fricken complicated, and i hope i don’t fuck it up :/ [the internet provided very little help in practice, but research wise it was]

~f3mb0t

Sandra Bullock and "the ultimate betrayal"

WOWZERS
I love all the hullabaloo…and by love i mean HATE.

Especially since it involves “America’s Sweetheart”…

You wonder about the sanctity of marriage and the reality of love and what importance it holds in lives these days.

Cheating is WRONG, but when it comes to celebrities or well known people there are even LESS excuses that can be used. Can you HONESTLY say that you did NOT know that they were married? REALLY?!? Media, America’s life line to the private lives of other people kept NOTHING secret. There would be NO way that you didn’t know someone was seeing, dating, married, divorced to anyone. No way you could miss rumors, speculation, talk etc of any aspect of celebrities every movement.

UNLESS YOU LIVE UNDER A ROCK YOU CAN NOT MISS INTIMATE DETAILS LIKE MARITAL STATUS. Which is why I’m more sympathetic to Tiger Woods, because there is NO way those 14 women didn’t know he was married. What he did was wrong don’t get me wrong. But I’m more concerned about the fact that 14 women can claim they did not know he was married. Just say NO, it wasn’t like he FORCED the women into having sex or an affair with him. Geez.

Americans have nothing better to do that devour ever word and image printed and produced by paparazzi and news media. [We’re a very well informed group of people.]

What happened to Sandra was horrible. That’s as much as I’ll say about that. But I’m glad that she is moving on with her life. Onwards and upwards.

~f3mb0t