Birthdays, Curls & Cocktails

Sorry it’s taken so long to post something. My son has been one sick miserable teething baby and I had to handle some bizznazz! I hope everyone had a fantastic weekend! Mine was a very pleasant weekend annnnd my mama was in town!!! When mama’s come to town, life is ALWAYS great! Cuz I swear when you become a mom you somehow gain super strength powers but your powers increase once you’re a grandma! My mom’s powers puts my super mom powers to shame!

You see folks there’s me…

But then there’s grandma! ***SOUNDS AIRHORN***

Ok back to my story (focus Suze)

This weekend I partied like it was 1999. Two of my most dearest friend’s Karina and Natalie celebrated birthdays, as well as Curls & Cocktails winning weekend with the fabulous Miss Kenya aka Halfietruths on IG and her blog www.halfietruths.wordpress.com). Miss Kenya hosts and throws an event called Curls & Cocktails where curly girls meet up.

With my mom, niece and baby boy in tow, we headed to Cruzado on a wonderful Saturday afternoon to meet Curly headed beauties from all over Atlanta to discuss NATURAL HAIR! I met Miss HalfieTruths for the first time and she is a sweetheart and looked just as amazing as she does in her pics! She and her hair can do no wrong! I tried to convince my hubby to stay but he fell asleep just by me asking. He and my stepson opted for the Wolverine flick instead.

All in all I had a great time and look forward to the next natural hair meet up!

My Dominican Cuban sister Karina who also launched her Purple Heart Company did it big! I only managed to make it to 1 of the 5 events this chick had going on (Bennihanna). And of course my other fabulous Jamaican Chinese sister Natalie over at Metro Fuxon! Lots of wonderful culture, great music, good food and curls all mashed up into one!

CARNIVAL SEASON!

For those of you who do not know, I’m a million percent West Indian! And in pure Caribbean culture, we love us some Carnival!!!

For all y’all who don’t know what carnival is, it’s an annual celebration of life and independence found in many countries of the world.  Trinidad's carnival is a beautiful example of how carnival can unite the world. People from ALL OVER THE WORLD flock to the island of Trinidad just to participate. Just think of a HUGE moving block party full of happy people (playing MAS), women in beautiful feather costumes, great music, dancing and most importantly, RUM! Yeah, I said rum, we love rum dammit, don’t judge us! Wonderful, beautiful meet for the very first time and have the BEST TIME EVER. At carnival, you leave all your worries behind. No one cares about your financial status, what you do, where you live or what you drive. People are there to just have a good time.

From cooler fetes, flag parties, to Jouvert, to carnival day, it’s literally a five day non-stop , back to back celebration! This is the time, some of us hit the gym to get our bodies right to endure the long day in the heat while drinking and dancing, in addition to wearing those tiny outfits! It is by far one of the BEST times of my life since I was a child! So enjoy the pics below, of all the carnivals my friends and I have participated in all over the world. **WARNING** This blog is full of pics…

Blogger much anyone???

Apparently a nice chunk of my friends and family members are bloggers. GTFOH! I musta been living under a big ole rock cuz I sho nuff didn’t know!

 

Any who, my fabulous cuz has an awesome blog called "The Vixen Box"! She is a ca-ca-carazy Aries like me and she continues to spark up a debate with her strongly opinionated status updates on her Facebook page. Miss Bee def thinks outside the "box"! I just thought I'd share!

www.thevixenbox.com

Enjoy and Have a fantastic weekend y’all!

Flyyyyyyy Gurl...

I'm taking a break from being a minor activist to promote world peace so that I can blog about more fabulous hair and fashion! One can never get enough of big hair and sexy fabulous boho styles! I mean ca'
mon man, big hair rocks! Just call me Freddie!

Hair talk normally puts my hubby to sleep, as do the reciprocal car talk he has with me, so I need y'all to be my audience! My current new regimine is wash and condition with some fab products. Then I add unrefined castor oil, leave in condition onto damp hair. I then braid into 7-8 chunky braids, air out. I then take out the braids once done and finger comb and "walla" magic!

The curls and waves usually last 3-4 days depending on whether or not my child don't jack it up and if I sleep with my bonnet.

This ponytail was done using a dollar store banana clip folks!

With all that being said, enjoy the wonderful imaginary hair and closet I have in my head :) I'll try and make sure I notate all sources of the pics. Enjoy...

Pic sources:

kinkycurls.tumblr.com, mimigoodwin.blogspot.com , vanillafringe.com, styletracker-na.tumblr.com, weheartit.com, jadedbohodreams.tumblr.com