mizChartreuse || redefiningSuccess

It’s officially been over a year since my path fortunately merged with a wonderfully talented natural hairstylist. Shanna and I connected after Damon, the owner of the West Town salon where she worked, came into Twisted Spoke (a place where I worked at that time) with flyers to promote his newly opened upscale barbershop featuring spa services. [...]

[Read more →]

“I hate to say this, but hair is the best thing to happen to rhythmless non-blacks.” “Did I die and go to simple bitch hell?” Issa Rae, creator, producer, and star of “The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl,” is hilarious– and onto something. I became aware of the Awkward Black Girl Twitter account several months [...]

[Read more →]

Prompt: Action. When it comes to aspirations, its not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen. What’s your next step? My next step is to write out my twelve next steps: one major goal for each month, which a bunch of smaller ones spread in between. Now I’m finally getting into a good swing of [...]

[Read more →]

Prompt: Writing. What do you do each day that doesn’t contribute to your writing — and can you eliminate it? This question is actually kind of annoying, because most writers know what doesn’t contribute to our writing– it can be anything and everything under the sun. But I’m sure that this specific prompt was chosen [...]

[Read more →]

Do you know what it means to OWN something? I think we all could use a reminder to “own it” every now and again. What we need to stay conscious of in our day to day lives is POWER WIELDING– to stay conscious of our inherent abilities and incredible selves. When I personally am “activated,” [...]

[Read more →]