Its coming! The first annual Charleston Caribbean Jerk Festival! So for those of you who like your food spicy, love reggae music, and can’t wait to have a good time…this is the event for you. Stay tuned for more details!
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You don’t want to miss this event! I love when people create events that stray from the norm, and gives people a reason to go out and DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT. The Lowcountry Daddy Daughter Dance is going to be an awesome way for Fathers to celebrate Fathers Day. No, its not actually on Father’s Day, but we think the entire month of June should be dedicated to men. It’s so common to have people get on social media and bash dads, well this is an opportunity for Fathers to be celebrated. What better way to celebrate than by spending an evening of elegance with your lovely Daughters. Listen, ladies – this is a great gift for your guy and a great reason to celebrate. Log on to www.lowcountrydddance.org for details and tickets!
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Go vote for John Christopher Wright, a Summerville, SC 7th grader from Rollins Middle School of the Arts who has been chosen as 1 of 50 students nationwide to have a chance for his sketch to appear on Google.com; log on to http://www.google.com/doodle4google/
The name of the sketch is “The J Nation Recycling Machine”; Google will choose five finalist and the winner will be named next month at the Google headquarters in Silicon Valley. The winning student will win a $30,000 scholarship, $50,000 grant for the school and a chance to work with Google’s professional doodlers!
Voting is available until May 9th!
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Lately, we have all been seeing these Nicki Minaj selfies hitting the internet and, I must say, they are flawless! Personally, the made-up Nicki Minaj is cool, but I’m really digging this natural look she’s putting on for the city. For whatever reason, especially in the afro-american community, many of our sistas have felt the need make it a trend to wear, what I call Drag makeup. The damn eyelashes, shaved off-painted on eyebrows, foundation, blush, powder, concealer, on top of the weave! It’s just too damn much! Look, I’m not exactly #TeamNatural, but hell I’m not #TeamFaceBeat either; and why do we call that ‘face beat’. Anywho, our girl NIcki Minaj is proving that natural is beautiful, and I have proclaimed her the Queen of the Selfies…whaaaat…
As a graphic designer and self-proclaimed photographer (when I want to be), I have to say that 90% of the selfies I see from “friends” on Facebook and Instragram are a hot ass mess! I’ve decided to do my community a favor and provide 5 Important Tips for Taking the Perfect selfie….Like Nicki!
In the photo industry, most photogs will tell you they love working with light. Light is very important. Look at people who take great selfies – they are usually in the front seat of the car OR in the bathroom. Natural light works best – if you look at Nicki, most of her Selfies are outside, or they appear to be taken by an open window. Natural sunlight on black skin is THE BEST. Also, your phone can focus better with more light, so get out that bunker you call a living room for goodness sake.
You ever scrolled down the timeline and some big face person took a Selfie that took up the entire window of your phone. Good lawd, back away from that shit, especially if your head is ginormous! Put some neck in there, let’s see what your shirt look like. If your head weighs 30 lbs or more, you just need to back the eff up and stop scaring people with your big ass face. The bigger the circumference of your dome, the farther away you need to be from the camera. #ExtendArm
If you have dirty draws on the floor, dirty walls, your kid pissed up in the background, you are banned from taking Selfies until you can do better! Nice backgrounds only, cause trust me – people are watching and a lot of yall are slipping!
Yeah I applauded Nicki for taking a natural pic, but umm it’s not $% natural – and most of you all don’t need to be going 100% natural either! Those of us with great skin and jeans can make that happen. The rest of us may need some help. So yes, put on a little concealer and handle those dark circles and acne scars, put on some lip gloss just so your mouth aint looking ashy like Pookie. Its ok to get a little help, your girl Nicki has on some light foundation, a little earth-tone lipstick and some eyeliner and she’s rocking her shit! But don’t overdo it!
Lol, sorry but if every Selfie you take is Filtered, you obviously have personal issues with yourself and you may need to seek some help. Especially my darkskin sistas; ya’ll gotta stop making yourselves look lightskin in every Instagram pic with those brightening filters – that’s just sad. See Tip 1 – sunlight on black skin is way better!
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The Internet is “Banning Bossy” ! Everyone has seen the hashtag across the web and at first, I thought it had something to do with bullying. How IRONIC that my first assumption was to place a negative connotation on the word “bossy”. However, upon further research I found that I was way off on my assumptions.
I visited www.BanBossy.com and the first statement you see on the site is a sentence that states, “When a little boy asserts himself, he’s called a “leader.” Yet when a little girl does the same, she risks being branded “bossy.”” Hmmmm, never really gave this issue much thought, so then I kept reading and the site goes on to explain how the word BOSSY sends messages to our girls that they shouldn’t raise their hands or speak up. I was like, REALLY?
Now this takes me back to childhood and I just remember relating the word BOSSY to being mean. The www.BanBossy website goes on to say that this word affects girls and by middle school they are less interested in being leaders which leads to how they behave as adults. OK, this is deep, right? But then, I had to start looking at this from the eyes of an adult and how women who are more “assertive” are more likely to be labeled Bitches, or perhaps something worse, and we all know men are never insulted for practicing their assertiveness.
The site has the following statistics:
· Girls get less airtime in class. They are called on less and interrupted more.
· The confidence gap starts early. Between elementary and high school, girls’ self–esteem drops 3.5 times more than boys’.
· Bossy holds girls back. Girls are twice as likely as boys to worry that leadership roles will make them seem “bossy.”
The site also had an interesting graphic, It displayed a picture of a little boy that said, “I don’t know any boys called bossy” – and I was like, hell me either! So now I completely get it, its encouraging leadership in our young girls. Also, when I think about it, this is probably another reason why the gap in managerial positions, pay/wages, business start-ups, continue to be an issue, even in 2014. Men still surpass women in these areas and the reason may be because women do internally have an issue with speaking up and taking on this assertive roll.
So check it out, www.banbossy.com and let me know what you think about this #BanBossy Campaign!
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