Nadia Milan & Amiyah Chanel for Tonnae Cosmetics

These ladies are doing big things and it's so good to see girls from our scene getting some shine.

Chanel goes Shanghai

Ok so this is so fly there are no words.....

I need that Chanel "take out box" purse right now!!!!!!!!!

My Sade love affair

I remember back when I was much younger as a child my mother would be cleaning our home and she would turn on the stereo in the living room, turn down the lights except two lamps in the living room, burn some incense and get to work. I would sit and listen to the music she played which now I'm a fan of because it makes me think of my mother and my childhood.

She would play En vogue, Patti Labelle, Chaka Khan, Anita Baker, Whitney Houston, Jeniffer Holiday, andof course Sade.

My mother didn't play cassette tapes a lot but she would play record albums.

Sade became one of my faves and I remember Smooth operator would come on and my mother would make me dance with her in between her rest breaks...lol.

One of her faves she used to tell me was Pearls. We wouldn't dance to that but she would explain the lyrics and what the song meant and I never forgot them.

I love the Diamond Life Album!!!!!

This was the very first one she made back in 1984 I was only 2 at the time of it's release.

I brought this back when I was about 15/16. I saw it one day when I was in the mall and I brought it as soon as I saw the cover. It's one of may faves. Her look was so fresh to me and I took it home and played it to death. I still have the same one I brought to this day and I still love it.

Some of my fav songs on the album was..

Cherry Pie

Sally

Smooth Operator

When am I going to make a living

And just recently I've found out about 2 songs that were on her first two singles that I've been playing non stop. Back then they were still records and cassette tapes. "Should I love you" & "Love affair with life"

The Best of Sade is another....

I got this through those old CD offers they used to have where you could get those free CD's.

This was one of the ones I picked and I used to play it to death it came out in 1994. My mother used to borrow it a lot to the point where I made her send away to get her own copy...lol

This one has a lot of hits and classics that anyone can just sit play and enjoy.

  

I remember the Promise album as well.

This was the one my mother used to play a lot when I was younger. She would put this record on and play it all the way through.

Some of my fave songs from this album are..

Is it a crime

War of the hearts

Mr. Wrong

Tar Baby

Maureen

Tar Baby

And The Sweetest Taboo

I love Stronger than pride.

I 1st heard this back when I got a copy of the cassette tape when I was in high school.

I even think I still have the tape as well.

My faves of the album are..

Love is stronger than pride

Haunt Me

Keep Looking

Give it up

Turn my back on you

Paradise 

Love Deluxe...

This album is so smooth i love this one.

It came out in 1992.

Some of my faves from this album were..

No ordinary love

Feel no pain

Bulletproof Soul

I couldn't love you more 

Like a tattoo

                                                        Lovers Rock came out in 2000.
At the time I was going through a lot in my teenage life and I remember not being able to keep still when I heard she made a new album. It had been 10 years since she made another album. I recall hearing that she was living in a another country with her husband raising her children and decided to make an album.

She said that she saw no reason to sing if she didn't have anything to sing about.

A lot of people waited a long time to hear her again myself included.

My faves were...

Somebody already broke my heart

All about our love

Lover's Rock

By your side

Soldier of Love came out this you in 2010.

Now just like when Lovers Rock came out I freaked out and called my mother and told her about it.

Everyone couldn't stop talking about the album and when it was coming out.

Sadly it's not one of my faves for some reason I couldn't get into it like the others.

I just thought she might try and give us something more and I found myself longing for her classic sound.

There were a few that I liked a lot.

Even the video for Soldier of Love had me going crazy I love the video it almost looks like a high fashion video shoot. Not to mention it also told a story that went with the song. Very visual.

Soldier of Love

Baby Father

In another time

Family and Friends ball 3-27-2010 (Rewind)

Ok so this is sorta a week late (sue me) but I writing my 2 cents now.

Ok so this ball was last weekend I already had an outfit picked and hair style chosen sometimes I can be pretty last minute with things but not this time. Seeing as I didn't make it to the DC awards I decided to wear the look to this ball that I was going to wear to the DC awards. 

I did my usual ball prep and left my house at about 12:20 it was $20 before 2am and I wasn't about to pay $30 so I got me a ride and headed downtown to the club. When I got there it was a lite crowd so I sat on my suit case and texted my house brother Dvon who was en route.

Since my category was like #7 I just sat back and until about 3am and I left to get dressed.

Let me just say there's nothing fab about getting dressed in a tiny bathroom stall.

I was literally doing a balancing act trying to get dressed, do my make up, and fix my hair.

(This picture isn't great but you get the idea..lol)

As I waited for my cat to be called I sat and watched the girls cut up near the DJ booth. I received complements on my look. There's something about being dressed way up in a club when everyones dressed down that sort of makes you feel like you stepped through the looking glass...lol 

Then it was my turn to walk, they played a beat and I tipped out onto the runway in my Prada sandals to the judges feeling every bit of elegant. And in less then 2 mins it was Grand Prize Garcon. I gave my uncle David a hug a walked away with my trophy to get out of my look. 

The rest of the ball was nice the parts that I saw...It seems like I spent most of the time getting dressed but all in all it was a pretty good night. No fights, all cat's called, all cash given out so it was a success as far as I'm concerned. Much better then the last ball I went to here when I didn't get a chance to walk. 

Also this was my 1st ball walking as a Garcon which was a relief. I've been in my house a year and I finally got my feet wet yay!!!

Erykah Badu New Amerykah Part 2 : Return of the Ankh

New Amerykah Part 2: Return of the Ankh

I'm sitting here as I type and I'm listening to the album now.

I like so many Erykah fans have been waiting for this for a while. I loved the first album and so far I'm loving this one as well. As usual she does a afro-tastic thing and fills the air with those soul filled groves that she's know for. The album has a smooth grove to it something you can put on in the car and just grove to. This lady can do no wrong as I'm concerned. I bootlegged it but as soon as I'm close to a best buy I fully plan on supporting the legit way...lol. 

Brian Lichtenberg

Most of this stuff pictured is sort of old but no less fabulous. I love his dresses, tanks, tees, and tights and I not even going to tell you what I'd do for his shoes. I'm plotting on the Brianel tank as I type it's been kind of hard to find seeing as it's not exactly new any more. But my girl Cassie has one so if it good enough for her it's good enough for me.

M.I.A, Cassie, Ciara, Lady Gaga, Beyonce, and Lil Wayne has worn his clothing.


Some of the more creative pieces such as the "Gizmo" skirt is really cute but the $2,100,00 price tag is a lil much for my pockets.


3 cheers for Brian Lichtenberg!!!!

Lady GaGa ft. Beyonce Telephone Video Premier