Hot Topic had a Princess Tiana bow so now it’s a thing in my life <3
A collection of me, my cosplay, my make up, clothes, just snippets of 2014.
This year has been quite the adventure. I traveled more than I ever have in my life. I met so many amazing people. I got my books and my crafts out there. I spoke up more than I ever have before about a variety of topics. It’s just been amazing.
To be honest, I never, ever expected to have fans, or be asked to be a guest anywhere, or anything like that. I never imagined having people who want to meet me, and who look up to me. All of you are so incredible, and are so important to me. Thank you all so much for supporting me and everything I do. I love you all <3
And, as always, if you take any cosplay message from me, it’s this: to love your cosplay is to love yourself. It’s so important to love yourself. There may be negative people out there, and what they say can, and does, hurt. But don’t let them stop you. Don’t let them keep you down. Don’t let them define who you are. YOU define who you are. You decide who you are. You hold your life in your hands and you have the power to make the very best out of it.
I believe in you :) Let’s have a great 2015!
I usually don’t do this but we’re going out to see Big Hero 6 and when I got out the shower my hair did a thing and I said, “Welp, dry it and go with it.” So embracing the fro today!
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burned my hand curling my hair today
worth it
Man listen….
i already reblogged this set once and i don’t even care, she’s a fucking pixie goddess and i CAN’T TAKE IT.
I reeeeeeeeeally want my hair to be purple not even kidding.
I am super excited for the new Sailor Moon, so I wanted to share some pictures I don’t think I’ve shared yet. When I decided to do asieybarbie’s version of Neo Queen Serenity, I had to add buns to the wig I got. So here’s how that whole thing happened ^__^
1. Got some blonde hair pieces from Sally’s Beauty Supply (blonde/light blonde works best since the color is going to be changed)
2. Got two sharpies that matched to the color of the wig then started to color to make sure it stuck to the hair. It did ^__^.
3. Colored the heck out of the hair with the sharpie.
4. Once a bit of the hair was colored I made sure it matched the wig after it was dry.
5. When done (and the hair was dry), my partner and I pinned it to the wig to see what it would look like.
6. Once we were pleased with it, we took a round hair bun (the ones you use to create a bun with your hair) and put the newly color hair around it to make a solid bun. The wifey then sewed the hair to the bun so that it would stay. After that, she hot glued some comb pieces so it could be put into the wig.
7. Ta da :)
Extra note: Your fingers will get messy, but don’t worry, you can get it off your hands pretty easily with just soap and water. Also, I recommend coloring by sections, and when you’re done go back in to check parts you missed. Be sure to flip the hair piece over to get the back side of the hair, and check the inner top parts too. I actually ended up only needing one sharpie, but get two just to be safe because I worked that one sharpie to death.
Photo credit goes to DWB Photography.
Fanart is by asieybarbie.
My cosplay page is here.
Recently I was in the shopping mall and I happened to hear a conversation between some people discussing their dislike for this black girl’s hairstyle who had just previously walked by. One of them called the girl’s hairstyle “ghetto”, then followed up by saying “I hate when black girls put all them colors in their hair”. It led me to ask this question, what is ghetto really? Because I have seen similar hairstyles with Caucasian women never labeled as ghetto. The word “ghetto” has a negative stigma attached to it and it seems like ghetto has become synonymous for “Black People”.
What determines whether something is Ghetto or not? Why do some people consider one ghetto and not the other? Is being crafty with the supplies available to me ghetto? Is being creative while black unacceptable? Does the price of something determine whether you should consider it ghetto or not? Or maybe I’m wrong…. Please do share your thoughts….
@hated_logicYou’re exactly right. Just like when Black people improvise, it’s ghetto, but let a middle-to-upper class white person do it, it’s a lifehack, or being thrifty, or economical, or thinking out of the box, or brilliant, or whatever.
THIS FOR ALL OF ETERNITY
O.K. wow can we talk about this? Because this is totally true. Back in high school there was a girl who would color her hair based on the shirt she wore, and so she was, obviously, “ghetto” right? But even we believed it to be true because that’s pretty much what we’re told, that this is “ghetto.” But then I went off to college and got older and I would see white girls with the same colors in their hair but for them it was “cool,” “hip,” “unique,” and it never really occurred to me that, wow, that’s the same thing this black girl was doing back in high school. Hell, I’ve had colors in my hair and want more colors in my hair and as cute as I think it will be and as cute as my wifey thinks it’ll be I wonder how many people are going to be like, “Ghetto.”
And it’s crazy because it’s not just white people discriminating, in fact, I grew up in Chicago so all of the comments about color in hair = ghetto came from black girls, they were the ones giving that girl a hard time. The only thing I ever got was when I had braids in college and the, “Wow can you actually wash your hair like that?”
It’s crazy and I hate the hair standards (that’s what I call it), like I remember coming home from college one year after I got rid of the braids and just stopped caring about my hair because, who has time for that in between classes, and being told my hair was jacked because I didn’t have it “done,” and I was like, “I was busy at school, that’s kinda more important,” but no, still got the, “Well damn couldn’t you find SOMEONE to do your hair?”
