Hello everyone, welcome to my blog! Let me just say that I'm ecstatic about creating my first fashion, beauty and lifestyle blog! I've been an avid lover of fashion for most of my life. It all started when my sisters began taking me to the mall when I was little, let's say at age 5.
There was a bridal boutique next to the exit of the mall and one day the place just caught my eye and I asked to go in, so my sisters took me inside to look at the pretty frothy, billowy clouds of dresses in satin, lace and ruffles.
Those trips to the bridal boutique pretty much cemented my love of fashion. I'd also collect the bridal catalogs that they had at the boutique every time I’d go in. They would have a new catalog every time I went into the boutique, which was exciting to me as a kid. Most of the catalogs where not your average catalogs but looked more like magazines with the fancy dresses featured in posh mansions and opulent gardens.
As time went, on I graduated up the fashion continuum to using FashionPlates and Wedding Fashion Plates by Hasbro when I was 8-13 years old. Next, I started reading W Magazine when I was about 15 or 16 years old and I started watching all of the shows on TV that had any fashion related topic. I loved the fashion, beauty and lifestyle TV show Main Floor, hosted by Nancy Stafford in the mid 90s and I also enjoyed watching Isaac Mizrahi every time he appeared on Oprah’s show. I remember he often brought Veronica Webb to model different outfits that he put together.
Fast-forward to now, I still love fashion magazines but these days, with the advent of fashion blogs and Youtube.com I’ve become very inspired by the fashion bloggers and fashion Youtubers out there. They are just average people who love fashion and want to talk about it ALL the time, same as me! Some of the top bloggers have become icons in their own right and that is pretty cool.
Without further adieu, I have decided to jump into the fray as well and add to the fashion dialog with my own sense of uniqueness.
The thing about fashion blogging that is most appealing to me is the fact that one does not have to wear Chanel to be liked or listened to and there is a place for everyone to share his or her own individual voice. I also think that more Black women need to be represented in the fashion/beauty blogosphere, especially ones with natural, non-chemically straightened hair :-).
So with that I’d like to thank you for reading my blog and I hope to offer something of value to my future readers.
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