where the HOOD n high fashion meet....

Sooo I have a really big pet peeve...I hate when ppl call me or refer to themselves (or others) as ghetto or hood.My last blog was aboput being a lady or ladylike.......Then I read a very good blog by my hmegirl nakia (harajuku ishh* look it up) that talked about beyonce vs keyshia cole. In the blog she talked about how some ppl call KC "ghetto". Yes she did use quotations when she said this. So its just reminded me of how i absolutely HATE those words. Hood and Ghetto are the worse way to describe yourself. I mean this made me think of when I was in middle school and one of my teachers actually told me where the word Ghetto come from . So I looked up hood and ghetto. According to thefreedictionary.com:
ghet·to (gt)
n. pl. ghet·tos or ghet·toes
1. A usually poor section of a city inhabited primarily by people of the same race, religion, or social background, often because of discrimination.
2. An often walled quarter in a European city to which Jews were restricted beginning in the Middle Ages.
3. Something that resembles the restriction or isolation of a city ghetto: "trapped in ethnic or pink-collar managerial job ghettoes" (Diane Weathers).


hood 2 (hd)
n. Slang
1. A hoodlum; a thug.
2. A rowdy or violent young person.

[Short for hoodlum.]

hood 3 or 'hood (hd)
n. Slang
A neighborhood, usually in the inner city.
So again who would want to call themselves ghetto or hood?? I hate that word becauseeople try to use it to describe me.People think that just because you are from a bad neighborhood or grew up in an area that is lower class that your ghetto. Well, I have news for you....ghetto is from the holocaust. Its a place where Jewish people had to live. Some were called slums.


I bet that if you go to a desendent of the holocaust they would get absolutely offended if you called someone ghetto around them. I bet they would sit you down and give you a REAL history lesson.

GHETTO is a word that should cauise pain, sadness, or even anger. No one should be proud to be called ghetto. I never say I'm from the ghetto...or that I grew up in the ghetto. It is true that I lived in a single parent home with a mother who struggled everyday to make ends meat. Yes I did live in a lower income part of town. This ladies and gentlemen does not make me or the area I grew up in ghetto.

ok, so now that you have been educatedon ghetto let me talk a little bit about hood. Ok so I kno some people talk aboput how their "from the hood" or they "rep the hood" but guess what you look stupid as hell. Why do you want to "rep" someplace people struggle to make it out of everyday?? SMDH. Then its those who call people hood. Do you know how many times I have been called hood....too many. People say the way i dress or the way I act or talk is hood. How is that?? Hood doesn't even have a real definition. Hood is a slang term used just as ghetto is. Now I kno what many of you are going to say that know me "how you saying all this and on ya myspace you had where thehood and high fashion meet?" So let me clarify something for you...that is part of a song 1. 2. when I put that on myspace I was refering to how I like high fashion, couture clothing but I also like regular stuff you get from target or wal mart. That doesnt make it "hood" but thats the way jay z used it and I liked it. So yea I am very very loud, and yes I do jump around like a "cricket," (friends not me say that lol)I rarely use proper english,i wear weird stuff, i cut and style my hair weird and unfamiliar like lol, and guess what I do this to please me. I don't consider myself hood or ghetto. I consider myself an INDIVIDUAL. Because under all this weirdness I'm a smart ass woman. Yes woman. I have an advanced high school diploma and (even though its taking time) I am working on my b.a. I get good grades and I actually study and do work. Hood...its people in middle class subarbia trying to pull off what they think is hood or ghetto. Instead of glamorizing it we should educate them and let them know what it really is......

What does it mean to b a lady??

Ok so im a twitterer lol n Solange is one of the ppl i follow....so like 2 or 3 wks ago she was talking bout how much she hate hair......long....short....wateva lol. N i totally agreed wit her. Then she talkied about how she cut her hair twice before. ok so fast forward n i c this photo on global grind:

so ppl were goin so hard on her lol.......i mean really talk about her like that? She just dont feel like dealing wit hair no more. I feel her on that bc I feel the same way. LMAO i mean I did the same thing..lol. Sometimes ppl go through things n they dont wanna have to deal wit society's restrictions lol.Who says that girls cant get a ceaser?? Why cant I go to a barber and get an edge up?

So this made em think back to how ppl always say certian things are unlady like. SO really who is the person that says certian shit a lady dont do? So i googled how to be a lady...just to see what I got:

and:

and finally i got:

So this is what I need to be a lady.So this made me look up the definition of lady. There were over 5 definitions in one dictionary. To me thats crazy. When I think of a lady I think of a woman who is taking care of her business and has her priorities straight. SHe fly and she handle her business. I mean some of the people I think of as lady's I looked up and they said they were the most unladylike women. Like are you serious. WHo is the person in charge of saying who a lady and who not?

iono i guess I just feel like calling a person unladylike is just like calling them ghetto...I mean honestly Everyones definition of a lady is different because everyone is different. You shouldnt put anyone down or think of them as less of a lady because they do something that you dont agree with. Thats just brings me back to solange hair. She does what she want to do and others should'nt judge her because of that. Everybody should just worry about if they are doing them or bringing people down with what they say....because honestly if we go by what OTHER ppl say then we wouldnt b INDIVIDUALS!

call me PIN UP wit my shit

Ok kiddies its another day and another blog. So i thought today that I would talk about one of my fav things....pinup girls! So i first got into pin up girls when I was in high school. That's my first time actually seeing them. This was a mistake lol. I saw them looking for something else for an english class. So as I got older I finally found out what they were watching AMERICA's NEXT TOP MODEL. At the time, this was my fav show, and they did a photoshoot where they dressed as pin up girls with modern aspect and they posed infront of a car.

So after that I kinda got hooked lol.

I don't know what it is about them. I love how their sexy but most of the time their face seems to make you think that their not doing it on purpose or its accidential. lol.

SO im the kinda girl that like to know where things come from so i can strongly luv it lol. SO here's a lil history for u: The pinup girl genre has an incredible 150 year history. It is an interesting combination of cultural history and art history starting in the 1860s. As naturally as modern pinups are with their sexuality today, pinup art and the histoty of the pinup girl is tightly connected to the history of feminism.So called carte-de-visite photographs showed burlesque performers; the very first pinup girls included Lydia Thompson and Adah Isaacs Menken. Both of them tried to gain control over their own images for years.Needless to say that they never succeded. Even the most famous pinup of all time - Bettie Page never owned her own image and lived her life in constant financial struggle. We should all learn from the history of the classic pinup girls and be protective of our product and the worth of our own image. Some modern Pinup Girls like Bernie Dexter managed to turn their image into a lucrative profession.Pinup as we generally think of it today, gained popularity in the early 1930s. It was a time in history when the image of a georgious girl took the soldiers mind of the war and reality. Whether it was the classic painted pinup calendar, advertisement, or the pinup photography,most guys in the service had a poster of his favorite taped in his locker lid.These memorialized women were first known as 'Petty Girls', named after the artist George Petty, which were popularized by Esquire magazine during those decades. The ideal depictions of scantily clad and pleasantly voluptuous women were featured in magazine calendars, centerfolds and even painted on warplanes during World War II. And every girl curled her hair in pin curls and dimpled as she smiled hoping to be taken for a pin-up herself. Today pinup girls and pinup art is back in the spot light and strong as ever. The pinup style and pinup fashion is featured once again in movies, magazine ads and got adopted by pop singers and celebrities. History provided by: http://pinuppeepshop.com/page_3.html

Ok so now you have a brief lil history to go on.lol. So me personally I love they way they dress and pics they take. My only problem is that I have seen only 1 african american pin up girl. I would love to see an icon like this in african american form.

So the above pic is my half way impression of a pin up girl.....lol....♥

ur like MY own special DRUG!

ok so i thought i would write abut my fav book n movie at the time TWILIGHT.ok so twilight is a book seris that was so popular they made it into a movie. the movie did so well they decided to do the second book, New Moon.



Well Im not gon tell the story but its basically about how 2ppl frm 2 different worlds find ♥ and maintain their ♥. The twist of the story is that he is a vampire lol. But the reason why I ♥ it so much (the book) is bc they ♥ each other so much. The vampire (edward) does so much for bella (the girl). He wants her to live a normal human life and doesnt want it to get interrupted bc he is a vampire. He doesnt want her to be anything but human. He evn leaves her bc he thinks this is the best thing for her. It kills him not 2b with her but he does wat he thinks is best for her survival.



♥ is a funny kind of theing you know. SOmetimes when you ♥ some1 you have 2 leave them alone so they can become the best person they can be. SO they can spread their wings. It kinda reminds me of that saying, "if you love something let it go...if it comes bakk their yours if they dont they never were." I think thats n awesome way to put it. Because if someone really ♥ you then it wouldnt matter if you have to leave for time then your ♥ shouldnt change. If they let you know y they were leaving and that they were going 2b faithful 2u etc....then they r urs.......I jus ♥ this story. hopefully ill be able 2 finish the saga n c wat happens........if your lookinf 4 a good book...sink ya teeth n2 this !!

ALTER ego

Well after seeing a very nice photo with que frm day26 and dawn richards of danity kane i decided to talk about the concept of the shoot. The picture is seen below:




I think this shows a perfect relationship. A relationship should be like your personality. You should have an ALTER ego. A woman should be a lady....innocent...independent...classy..and caring. This is how the world should see her. As angelic,but that shouldnt be all the time. When she is with her man..boyfriend...husband...whatever title "the one" holds for you....she should be sexy...sensual...basically a freak lol. Your partner should be the same way. Thats why this picture is perfect.....they both have innocent side...then they both have a s&m side lol...n they are all connected....♥

throw it in the bag

Ok so even though I like the regular version i think im liking the REMIX so much better. Its faster and more of a party song to me while keeping the same concept for the song. I wanted to write about this very concept. My fav part of the song has to be when (fabolous if im not mistaken) says "They say it aint trickin if u got it they lying, i say it aint trickin if she gotta u mine yall niggaz aint gotta worry bout me n mines>" thats the flyest shit I ever heard. Fabolous always say really slick stuff thats sweet. But thats how it should b.....you should hold ya partner down..they sghouldnt have 2 worry about anything. That doesnt mean he gon take care of you because you suppose to want a woman thats independent and can handle her own. "I had to ask her wat u doing n that caddy..she said bc u my baby i b stunting like my daddy." See fabolous again..thats how its suppose to be....a man taken care of his woman, but she also taking car of herself....