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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As I’ve shared before, I enjoy photography– the art of capturing moments, especially when taking walks with the intent of simply being open. In the way artists sometimes don’t know what they’re going to create until they’re in the moment, creating, I don’t usually know what I’m going to capture until that certain subject or [...]

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I’m a flower-loving, nature-seeking girl at heart, but who doesn’t love natural beauty? I don’t think there are many humans who prefer manufactured concrete and welded metal over living mountains and water. I strive to travel and disconnect from the grid as often as possible, but that doesn’t always have to entail a $400 plane [...]

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For me, the blustery, Chicago-cold new year of 2010 rang in with my head feeling a whole lot colder than I’ve EVER been used to. On December 31, 2009, I stripped my hair of all the weaves and extensions and wigs and relaxers and products that I have used for pretty much my entire life. [...]

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The first time my family and I went to Disney World was back in 1998 or so; I was about 10 or 11 years old and my little brother was just an infant; obviously he doesn’t remember that vacation. Hence, it was a lot of fun to go back and experience the Most Magical Place [...]

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