Say it with me: awwwwwwww… The littlest afrobella in my family is growing up so fast! I’m so excited, I get to see her this week! My whole entire family is coming to Miami to celebrate our fifth wedding anniversary with us. I’m psyched to see everyone, and super duper psyched to see little Dominique….
Lips
Worth a Click
Heavy sigh. Here we go again… Oh Akon. I was so happy and proud when you incorporated Trinidadian rhythms into your video for “Don’t Matter.” So you can imagine how disappointed and disgusted I was to see this article in the Trinidad Express. And then the video of you practically mauling a fourteen year old…
Ask Afrobella: The $100 Sephora Shopping Spree
Look at it. So cold, so clean, so sterile. So jam packed with things you want to get your well-manicured hands on. The latest in mineral concealer technology. The new hot lip gloss. Enough eyeliner and mascara to make Tammy Faye Baker faint. Powders and potions and perfumes, oh my! Sephora is toyland for women…
My Lip Gloss Is Poppin’
What is it about lip gloss? I can’t get enough of the stuff. Recently, I was encouraged to take a picture of that lipgloss collection I take with me everywhere — the one I mentioned in my recent interview with YMIB. And this is what weighs down my knockoff Prada purse every day. I actually…
Her Majesty
Quite a few of you were all kinds of pissed after Queen Latifah’s poorly managed Cover Girl auditions. I had more than one righteously angry reader e mail to tell me that they would never buy Queen Latifah’s products, threatening to get together a petition and everything. But months have passed, and hopefully time has…
Besame Mucho!
Valentine’s Day is around the corner, and word to the fellas, your girl doesn’t want a Whitman’s Sampler or that played out diamond pendant that’s in every JC Penney ad. If you want to delight the bella in your life on this most commercial of faux-holidays, I’ve got some brilliant suggestions. Starting with Besame Cosmetics….
Ask Afrobella – Advice for the Makeup Newbie
I’ve been letting the Ask Afrobellas stack up to a frightening level, and now it’s reckoning time. This question came from a real life friend o’ mine, WLRN jazz DJ and sagacious sistren Tracy Fields. Lovers of straight-ahead jazz and women with soothing, melodic speaking voices can give her a listen on Weekend Jazz, every…
The Best of 2006
Greetings from sunny Trinidad and Tobago! The temperature here is 30 degrees Celsius. I guess that’s in the 80’s, in Fahrenheit speak. Our vacation is flitting by in a blur of family, friends, cocktails, and fabulous food. I’m collecting quite a bit of material to write about when I return, but I have hardly had…
What’s Your Holiday Look?
‘Tis the season, bellas! I have two holiday parties to attend in Miami (sad to say, both on the same day. Every year, both of our office parties are on the same day! So we have to go to one first, then spend the rest of the night at the other. So annoying) and at…
Tea Amo
If it’s Monday morning and you’re reading this, odds are I’m hustling to get ready for a stressful day at work, and I am drinking a strong cup of tea. I believe I made mention of my love for tea before, but bear with me while I gush for a moment. There are few beverages…