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. [...]

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“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 [...]

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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 [...]

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As I write this, I have been in silence for over 24 hours; I haven’t spoken a single word in over a day. It wasn’t something that happened deliberately, but it simply happened because I’ve been in solitude and I rarely answer phone calls unless it’s a client or the BF or a BFF. I [...]

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Last night was one for the history books, and a year from now we’ll all be amazed at how far she’s come from her first live performance in fourteen years. I’m talking about my fierce friend Laura Michelle Clarke, one of the most talented singer/songwriters I’ve been blessed to have in my life. On Wednesday, [...]

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