In an effort to do more blogging I'm trying to come up with themes that I know I can build post from.
Thrifty Tuesday are going to be post on items (makeup, skincare, clothing, food, gadgets and maybe even some toys) I that love that won't deflate your wallet.
Today we are talking about makeup (one of my first loves), specifically powder foundation.
I had been on the hunt for a new powder foundation once I realized I wasn't in love with my Sephora Collection MircoSmooth Baked Foundation Face Powder in the color #56Maghogany. First few times wearing the powder was fine but somehow it developed a hard film on top that for the life of me I could not scrap off.; making application a chore.
At $22 I don't feel I should have multiple steps that include a small knife to get product on my face. I told myself just go back to your one true love MAC StudioFix. For maybe a decade all I wore was StudioFix. Liquid or cream foundations held no interest because StudioFix did it all.
Buuuuuut, I'm a product junkie. I will try the newest thing for no other reason than...it's a novelty item...
I didn't want to shell out $27 for my beloved StudioFix. I love it, and it would last forever...eh...money is tight for me and I had just wasted $22 at Sephora I'm saving to move, I want to go on vacation...I keep doing new protective styles ;-) I looked for a cheaper alternative.
NYX Stay Matte But Not Flat Powder Foundation in the color Tawny (SMP12) has the right price at $9.50. The powder is soft, provides great coverage yet at times will feel heavy. I have dry skin and I seem to get a nice glow once the powder settles. Downside is I have already hit pan and it has only been maybe a month and a half. I purchase this at a local beauty supply store.
Another powder that love and often forget about is Ruby Kisses No More Blemish Powder in Toasted Almond. I don't use it for blemishes. I picked it up on a whim years ago. Since then whenever I go to the BSS I think fondly of how it worked well (no heavy transferring on clothing or paperwork- sometimes MAC and NYX do) At $4.99 I really have no complaints. Picking a color might be hard. In the case they can look the same. My BSS had testers but they looked the same there too. I picked based on what I saw through the little window in the compact.
Out of the two I'm happier with my $5 powder. I would go as far as to say to is up there with my StudioFix in terms of HOLY GRAIL status.
*Sorry for the lack of photos. I did this post of on the fly and didn't have a chance to gather any.*
Do you have any thrifty products that you love?
Until next time,
xo
Showing posts with label African American. Show all posts
Showing posts with label African American. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Monday, April 28, 2014
Diluted- Shana Elmsford
I am a child of the 80's. As such I grew up watching some pretty cool cartoons...Josie and the Pussycats, Scooby Doo, Tom and Jerry, Smurfs. One of my all time favorites was Jem and the Holograms. I LOVED me some Jem with her hair and bright colors, and cool group of friends, her bandmates...Jem was a rockstar, an alter-ego of Jerrica Benton.
I even owned a
(I was never able to find all of them...especially Shana)
When I heard talks of a live version being made I was all smiles.
On Friday, the 25th the cast was announced. I quickly posted the link to an article on my FB feed and went about my day. It was a busy day. On Saturday I woke up to further investigate...i.e. I click on my own link and I read the article.
I couldn't wait to see who was chosen.
Everything is...looking...ok...wait!!!!
HOLD UP!!!
Why is the actress cast as Shana (the dark skin, purple afro wearing Hologram on the far right) about four shades lighter than my cartoon version?
I know there are talented brown skin (cocoa, chocolate, hazelnut) actress that can sing.
Why wasn't one of them chosen? If not for talent for keeping honest to the damn cartoon.
Growing up Shana was one of the few ( I think of 3) characters that looked like me :-)
I have nothing against Aurora Perrineau. I can't I know nothing about her. Apparently she had a role on Pretty Little Liars ( I love and watch) but I don't remember her.
Her father is Harold Perrineau. Now him I know...him I love...He played Augustus Hill in Oz and Damon Pope in Sons of Anarchy.
Good acting runs in the family but my beef isn't about acting.
I'm pissed and so are some other people that here was a perfect opportunity to show true diversity while staying true to the original character.
My first thought when I saw her was "Is she mixed?" then I said "REALLY? You gonna do Shana like that!!!"
Integrity Toys got the memo that Shana is of the darker complexion.
The director, Jon M. Chu held an open casting call (social media at it's best)
[youtube=http://youtu.be/yzVnNVrunAE]
Not one of entries had a hopeful wonder that looked like Shana?
The director was wants to "reinvent" Jem for a current audience?
Current audience devoid of color? When the past audience did just fine with it?
I don't buy that Aurora Perineau was the BEST choice.
I do buy that Aurora Perineau is the Hollywood standard of the easiest and safest way to say "we have a diverse cast".
While she may be half white (her mother) and half black most of the world sees her as Black.
That's all we need.
But it isn't because that isn't all there is.
Our First Daughters of the White House
are beautiful shades of brown.
Lupita Nyong'o
named People magazines Most Beautiful Person of 2014 (days before the cast was revealed) is gorgeous shade of chocolate.
Hollywood needs to let go of it's "safety net" and take the rose tinted glasses off.
What I see in that cast line up is NOT diversity. I see a group of young, beautiful women who kinda look the same, save for eye and hair colors...
I don't even think their hair textures are different!
Brown and dark skin women deserve to be represented in films and TV shows because we exist. Not enough is being done to show that.
We don't deserve a diluted version of us.
This casting choice is a diluted version.
People are going to say "It isn't that serious. It's just a movie...The girl is BLACK."
To quote a friend that posted a comment on my FB page regarding the link to the cast article, she said "Where is the Black girl?"
Sometimes what is seen on the surface is what matters.
~Until Next Time~
xo
I even owned a
(I was never able to find all of them...especially Shana)
When I heard talks of a live version being made I was all smiles.
On Friday, the 25th the cast was announced. I quickly posted the link to an article on my FB feed and went about my day. It was a busy day. On Saturday I woke up to further investigate...i.e. I click on my own link and I read the article.
I couldn't wait to see who was chosen.
Everything is...looking...ok...wait!!!!
HOLD UP!!!
Why is the actress cast as Shana (the dark skin, purple afro wearing Hologram on the far right) about four shades lighter than my cartoon version?
I know there are talented brown skin (cocoa, chocolate, hazelnut) actress that can sing.
Why wasn't one of them chosen? If not for talent for keeping honest to the damn cartoon.
Growing up Shana was one of the few ( I think of 3) characters that looked like me :-)
I have nothing against Aurora Perrineau. I can't I know nothing about her. Apparently she had a role on Pretty Little Liars ( I love and watch) but I don't remember her.
Her father is Harold Perrineau. Now him I know...him I love...He played Augustus Hill in Oz and Damon Pope in Sons of Anarchy.
Good acting runs in the family but my beef isn't about acting.
I'm pissed and so are some other people that here was a perfect opportunity to show true diversity while staying true to the original character.
My first thought when I saw her was "Is she mixed?" then I said "REALLY? You gonna do Shana like that!!!"
Integrity Toys got the memo that Shana is of the darker complexion.
The director, Jon M. Chu held an open casting call (social media at it's best)
[youtube=http://youtu.be/yzVnNVrunAE]
Not one of entries had a hopeful wonder that looked like Shana?
The director was wants to "reinvent" Jem for a current audience?
Current audience devoid of color? When the past audience did just fine with it?
I don't buy that Aurora Perineau was the BEST choice.
I do buy that Aurora Perineau is the Hollywood standard of the easiest and safest way to say "we have a diverse cast".
While she may be half white (her mother) and half black most of the world sees her as Black.
That's all we need.
But it isn't because that isn't all there is.
Our First Daughters of the White House
are beautiful shades of brown.
Lupita Nyong'o
named People magazines Most Beautiful Person of 2014 (days before the cast was revealed) is gorgeous shade of chocolate.
Hollywood needs to let go of it's "safety net" and take the rose tinted glasses off.
What I see in that cast line up is NOT diversity. I see a group of young, beautiful women who kinda look the same, save for eye and hair colors...
I don't even think their hair textures are different!
Brown and dark skin women deserve to be represented in films and TV shows because we exist. Not enough is being done to show that.
We don't deserve a diluted version of us.
This casting choice is a diluted version.
People are going to say "It isn't that serious. It's just a movie...The girl is BLACK."
To quote a friend that posted a comment on my FB page regarding the link to the cast article, she said "Where is the Black girl?"
Sometimes what is seen on the surface is what matters.
~Until Next Time~
xo
Monday, August 26, 2013
Twenties half of a perfect 10...
After yesterday's post on there being no predominately black cast drama shows I felt I should showcase what is being shopped around in Hollywood and why I think it it deserves the spotlight even though I think it falls flat.
I'm always on the hunt for new content to view and draw from. I'm a writer that one day hopes to see my words come to life on the screen- big or small. It is full on inspiration to see other writers, especially African American writers making waves being seen and heard.
I came across talk about a new Lena Waithe show, that Queen Latifah's production company is trying to sell to the networks. It's called "Twenties" about an African American female in her 20's.
Twenties- Part 1
In the article written for Clutch Magazine I learned that there are 4 parts i.e. scenes taken from the pilot and edited together to give the viewers a sense of what the show is about.
Great idea. I knew of Lena Waithe from Sh*t Black Girls Say. She wrote it. I was happy and intrigued to read she was behind this.
I clicked on the videos in the article and sat back.
Twenties is NOT slated or does it want to be slated to be a WEB SERIES!!!! Lena wants this on a network. That disclaimer is in the "info box" on YouTube- with every clip.
I was a little miffed by that. An audience is an audience. To me it felt that she was saying Twenties was too good for the web...I don't know this is my opinion.
I do know that Lena partnered with Issa Rae on The Michelle Obama Diaries. I do know that Issa Rae is currently working with Shonda Rhimes on an upcoming sitcom, and is in development with HBO for a new comedy show...I do know that Issa Rae got her start with a web series... Awkward Black Girl
But I digress...
In the first clip Hattie (the protagonist) is uploading a vlog, and then exits her apartment to find an eviction notice. The last clip reveals that Hattie is gay and is staying with a friend because of said eviction. In between you are introduced to some of her friends at a birthday party where Hattie is "sitting court" as her friends flock around her listing what she is doing wrong in her life. There is a weird scene with her friends and a tampon. Nothing else caught my attention.
I wouldn't run home to watch this. The writing fell flat. I can't tell if it is a comedy or drama...both. The acting was unnatural hence unbelievable.
Learning that Hattie is gay didn't register with me because in real life I wouldn't care. I wanted to know more about how this 20 year old got evicted because she "liked to eat out a lot". So do I but I still know to check my account balances and make sure rent is paid and I knew that at her age.
I'm one potential viewer...so what I'm not able to identify with a lesbian vlogger, in her 20's, sleeping on her friend's sofa.
I'm sure other potential viewers can identify. Most in their Twenties ;-) no doubt.
Pushing aside my reasons on why I don't love it... I do like that it was created (mainstream entertainment needs more gays and lesbians on TV- yes I said it.) and I want to see what it can become with the proper backing.
Already it has been dubbed as the "black Girls". I hate that type of association. I wish newly developing shows could gain a foothold without being labeled after what came before them.
I see where it can be thought of as a "black" version of Girls. But since the protagonist is gay and openly so networks have been shying away from the show, IMHO
Hollywood is barely ready for black cast dramas...throw an openly gay character in the mix...Oh lawd...
Regardless African Americans NEED a show that isn't Love & Hip Hop Atlanta. Or a show that doesn't place them as only the sidekick.
I know that Lena doesn't want her show to be a web series. But she is using YouTube to gain interest and asking viewers to share the clips via their social networks hoping that enough talk of the show will make it easier to pitch to the networks.
We can work the internet but not be on it....another topic for another day...
Check out the clips and comment below and let me know what you think?
Is Twenties a show you would tune in to watch?
I'm always on the hunt for new content to view and draw from. I'm a writer that one day hopes to see my words come to life on the screen- big or small. It is full on inspiration to see other writers, especially African American writers making waves being seen and heard.
I came across talk about a new Lena Waithe show, that Queen Latifah's production company is trying to sell to the networks. It's called "Twenties" about an African American female in her 20's.
Twenties- Part 1
In the article written for Clutch Magazine I learned that there are 4 parts i.e. scenes taken from the pilot and edited together to give the viewers a sense of what the show is about.
Great idea. I knew of Lena Waithe from Sh*t Black Girls Say. She wrote it. I was happy and intrigued to read she was behind this.
I clicked on the videos in the article and sat back.
Twenties is NOT slated or does it want to be slated to be a WEB SERIES!!!! Lena wants this on a network. That disclaimer is in the "info box" on YouTube- with every clip.
I was a little miffed by that. An audience is an audience. To me it felt that she was saying Twenties was too good for the web...I don't know this is my opinion.
I do know that Lena partnered with Issa Rae on The Michelle Obama Diaries. I do know that Issa Rae is currently working with Shonda Rhimes on an upcoming sitcom, and is in development with HBO for a new comedy show...I do know that Issa Rae got her start with a web series... Awkward Black Girl
But I digress...
In the first clip Hattie (the protagonist) is uploading a vlog, and then exits her apartment to find an eviction notice. The last clip reveals that Hattie is gay and is staying with a friend because of said eviction. In between you are introduced to some of her friends at a birthday party where Hattie is "sitting court" as her friends flock around her listing what she is doing wrong in her life. There is a weird scene with her friends and a tampon. Nothing else caught my attention.
I wouldn't run home to watch this. The writing fell flat. I can't tell if it is a comedy or drama...both. The acting was unnatural hence unbelievable.
Learning that Hattie is gay didn't register with me because in real life I wouldn't care. I wanted to know more about how this 20 year old got evicted because she "liked to eat out a lot". So do I but I still know to check my account balances and make sure rent is paid and I knew that at her age.
I'm one potential viewer...so what I'm not able to identify with a lesbian vlogger, in her 20's, sleeping on her friend's sofa.
I'm sure other potential viewers can identify. Most in their Twenties ;-) no doubt.
Pushing aside my reasons on why I don't love it... I do like that it was created (mainstream entertainment needs more gays and lesbians on TV- yes I said it.) and I want to see what it can become with the proper backing.
Already it has been dubbed as the "black Girls". I hate that type of association. I wish newly developing shows could gain a foothold without being labeled after what came before them.
I see where it can be thought of as a "black" version of Girls. But since the protagonist is gay and openly so networks have been shying away from the show, IMHO
Hollywood is barely ready for black cast dramas...throw an openly gay character in the mix...Oh lawd...
Regardless African Americans NEED a show that isn't Love & Hip Hop Atlanta. Or a show that doesn't place them as only the sidekick.
I know that Lena doesn't want her show to be a web series. But she is using YouTube to gain interest and asking viewers to share the clips via their social networks hoping that enough talk of the show will make it easier to pitch to the networks.
We can work the internet but not be on it....another topic for another day...
Check out the clips and comment below and let me know what you think?
Is Twenties a show you would tune in to watch?
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