Ne-Yo: Ms Independent

Music Spotlight- BluePrint 3...You can have whatever you like!

New Joint by Jay Z produced by Kanye for Jay's new album BluePrint 3


BLUEPRINT 3 from kwest on Vimeo.


YOU CAN HAVE WHATEVER YOU LIKE!!!- I know every broke man in America is hating this cut lol

Music Spotlight- N.E.R.D: Everyone Nose its the REMIX bbbabby!

One of my fav videos for the moment



Get into it!!!

Drool 2.0: Mr.Good Good

YEAAAAAA HE COULD GET IT!

Now that we've established the basics... Mr. Good Good aka Ashanti's Man aka whatever else you would like to call him has beefed up to a rather nice size and for his new album BrassKnuckles ...hmmmm I likes I like

And, he is also the new IT boy for the Sean John line! Yea boy he knows what hes doing...ASHANTI DONT SLIP UP, I MIGHT HAVE TO FIX YOUR MISTAKES CHILD! lol ikid ikid

The Queen: Shessss BAAAACCCKKK-BEY

You can LOVE her or HATER! But Mrs.Cater gives you LIFE! Dont deny it! Dont FIGHT IT! Just LIVE!

Tour in 09'

Performance in Sep... Rhi Rhi and Ciara please enjoy your time now and set up for your vacation later...





...SHESSSS BAAAAACCCKKKKKK!!!

Runway:I <3 Christian Dior

Anyone who knows me knows I LOVVVEEE Makeup & Fashion!!! And, Christian Dior gives me what I want EVERYTIME! Christian Dior's haute couture show was focused on intense decoration this time a round. John Galliano played off of styles from the 1960s- BIG WAS MOS DEF IN! Big hair, Big lashes, Big earings, etc.

And, my personal fav as I posted before, THE SHOES! Alot of designers this season have chosen a high heel wedge style that is to FAB for words! Take a look at a few pics I scrambled together...If only we could rock couture every day! ::sigh::

Runway:Fall Fashions

KEEP UP!!!

Mean Shoe Game- Christian Dior

Id live and die in these heels alone...DONT TEST ME!




RIIIIIIIIPPPPP RUNWAY!!!

Designer Watch: ISOUL DESIGNS

For years now I've always had my eye on t-shirts by ISOUL. Their mission is to send the public a message to provoke change through culture, spirit, thought and awareness. I love the unique designs and up lifting messages. 

Check out more designs!

Editors Note: The Illness

For those who check into the blog, I'm sure your aware that we've been on a small hiatus...

WELL ITS MY FAULT! lol

I was recently told I have a brain tumor in the front left part of my brain and therefor had MUCH to deal with... but this is...ME!

I DIG this blog something FIERCE! And, Im determined to make it known! SO WE ARE BACK! With plenty of ideas and goals for the future...stay tuned! SHOW LOVE & COMMENT lol


RUNWAY!!

Stripper, 80, still taking her clothes off

I got this from Hassana, on the Rich Girls Forum...

an oldie but goodie.

"LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AP) -- Tempest Storm is fuming. Her fingers tremble with frustration. They are aged, knotted by arthritis and speckled with purple spots under paper skin.


Tempest Storm at the Burlesque Hall of Fame's annual All-Star Burlesque Weekend in Las Vegas.
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But the manicure of orange polish is flawless and new, and matches her signature tousled mane.

She brushes orange curls out of her face as she explains how she's been slighted.

She is the headliner, you know. She is a star. She is classy.

"I don't just get up there and rip my clothes off," she says.

Indeed, the 80-year-old burlesque queen takes her clothes off very slowly.

More than 50 years ago she was dubbed the "Girl with the Fabulous Front" and told by famous men she had the "Best Two Props in Hollywood."



Since then, Storm saw the art that made her famous on the brink of extinction. Her contemporaries -- Blaze Starr, Bettie Page, Lili St. Cyr -- have died or hung up the pasties.

But not Storm. She kept performing. Las Vegas, Reno, Palm Springs, Miami, Carnegie Hall.

Her act is a time capsule. She knows nothing of poles. She would never put her derriere in some man's face. Her prop of choice is a boa, perhaps the occasional divan.

It takes four numbers, she says adamantly, four numbers to get it all off. To do it classy.

But the producers of tonight's show, just kids, they want her to go faster. She gets just seven minutes.

"I did seven minutes when I started," she says.

They gave her trouble last year, too. They even cut her music before she finished.

There may not be a next time for this show, she says. The threat lasts just minutes.

"No, no. I'm not ready to hang up my G-string, yet. I've got too many fans that would be disappointed."

Dated Elvis, other celebrities

Stardom and fandom feature prominently in Tempest Storm's life -- and in her neat, two-bedroom Las Vegas apartment.

Visitors are greeted by photos of a young Elvis, her favorite rock 'n' roller and, she says, a former lover.

He met her after her show in Las Vegas and fiddled with her skirt as he introduced himself. The relationship ended about a year later because Elvis' manager didn't approve of him dating a stripper, she says.

But she could not change who she was. Stripping already had made her famous.

It put her in the room with Hollywood's heavyweights. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Mickey Rooney, Nat King Cole.

She dated some, just danced for others. The evidence is framed and displayed on tables and the living room wall.

That's Storm and Vic Damone. Storm teaching Walter Cronkite to dance. Storm and her fourth and last husband, Herb Jefferies, a star of black cowboy films who swept her off her feet in 1957 when such unions were instant scandals. They divorced in 1970.

"When I look at this picture I say, 'What the hell happened between this gorgeous couple?"' she says.

The moment is brief.

Storm is rarely wistful. She has no doubt she still is what she once was. Although she performs just handful of times a year, she would do more, if asked. She chides those who think age takes a toll on sex appeal.

"Ridiculous," she says.

There are just as many recent photos in the room: Storm and her daughter, a nurse in Indiana. Storm and her fiance, who died a few years ago. Storm and a beaming older gentlemen, just a fan who approached her for a photograph.

In others, the petite beauty with the long lashes and glamorous hair is alone, out of focus, in full makeup and smiling wide. In one, she is perched on her living room couch in a red hat and low-cut black suit.

"I took that picture of myself," she says proudly. "I have a self-timer. I took these, too."

Sharecropper's daughter fled abuse

"That stage saved me," she says as she leaves a sound check hours before the night's performance.

She had been expecting a much smaller space and she is relieved. She's a "walker," she explains. She needs room to move.

It is a direct and once-racy style, the signature work of Lillian Hunt, the choreographer at the Follies Theater in Los Angeles where Storm became a star.

She was Annie Blanche Banks then. The 22-year-old sharecropper's daughter had fled sexual abuse, two loveless marriages and poverty in small-town Georgia, she says.

She was working as a cocktail waitress but wanted to be a showgirl. First, she needed her teeth fixed.

"Do you think my bust is too big for this business?" she asked Hunt at her audition.

Hunt put her in the chorus line, told her not to gain a pound and called a dentist.

In Storm's telling, she didn't stay long in the background. She got a new name. ("I really don't feel like a Sunny Day.") She took to the spotlight quickly. Then and now, she blossomed to the chorus of hoots and cheers.

The trick is having a warm presence, an inviting smile, she says.

When she takes the stage, she lets her mind float back to "Georgie." She imagines herself as a little girl, in her best dress, running down the road to meet her daddy coming home from work.

"I feel that I am that little girl dressed up out there. I got a picture in my whole mind of it. I can see that little girl," she says.

On stage, the image is frozen there.

But it's not the end of the story Storm tells. If she plays out the memory, the little girl is stopped in her tracks as an aunt blurts out a truth that pains her today.

"That's not your real father."

Doesn't smoke or drink, gets religion on TV

On Sundays, Storm tunes in to a televangelist who tells her anyone can overcome odds. It's the only religion she's ever taken to.

She believes this is the lesson of her life. Be a survivor. Never stop doing what you love, it makes you who you are.

"If you want to get old, you'll get old," she says.

There have been men who disappointed her, financial strain, brain surgery.

After it all, she sits on her couch and exercises in front of the television on a small stationary bike. She doesn't smoke or drink or eat much.

"I'm just blessed, I think. And I know when to push myself away from the table."

If some might see all this as chasing after lost youth, she says she cares little. Younger dancers tell her she is an inspiration to them, and she has no reason not to believe them.

"I feel good about myself. And I enjoy it," she says. "I have fun when I'm onstage, and the audience loves it. Nobody ever said it's time to give it up. Why stop?"

Cheers and whistles

Indeed, no one is dreaming of telling Tempest Storm to give up stripping when she slithers onto the casino nightclub stage for her seven minutes.

"Something in the way she moves ..." pipes through the speakers. Her live drummer, the Ringo Starr on loan from the Beatles tribute show on the Strip, picks up the beat.

The burlesque queen emerges stage right. A slinky purple gown hangs off her shoulders. A rhinestone necklace envelops her decolletage. The snakelike boa pours into her hands.

For a few seconds, her face flashes her nerves.

And then she hears the cheers.

When she performs, Storm smiles, leans back and walks on her heels, leading with her pelvis. Her hands float back and forth as if in water, until they fall below her hips and sweep up in tandem with a full frontal thrust.

More cheers. Whistles.

The boa disappears stage right.

The next number picks up the tempo, letting Storm cock a hip on the down beats. She loses the gloves and steps off stage to put on the negligee. It's gone almost as quickly as it came.

And with two flicks of her orange fingernails, the dress goes, too.

Two-finger whistle. Hollers. Applause.

Staring up at the 80-year-old woman in fishnets, a sheer rhinestone bra and a G-string, a young woman turns to a young man and declares:

"I want to look like that when I'm her age.""

http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/worklife/07/14/stripper.tempest.storm.ap/index.html

Social Gem: Khloe Kardashian's BDAY- Part 2

Here are pics from the Khloe K. party I mentioned before....dign the DG dress!

The Real Housewives of Atlanta

Info on the ladies...

Sheree Whitfield
Single socialite Whitfield, a resident of the exclusive Sandy Springs area of Atlanta, juggles her busy home life with a packed social calendar. She is a busy working mother to three children — Tierra, Kairo and Kaleigh. Whitfield prides herself on her fashion sense, and owned her own upscale clothing boutique — Bella Azul — for years before closing up shop to focus on her next business venture, a clothing line called “She by Sheree.”

NeNe Leakes
Leakes resides in the upscale Sugarloaf area of Atlanta with her husband Gregg, a successful real estate investor and business consultant, and their two sons, 18-year-old Brice and nine-year-old Brentt. Leakes donates her time to various foundations and is the founder of The Twisted Hearts Foundation, which brings awareness to domestic violence against women. Leakes also hopes to open a luxury boutique hotel in the very near future.

Kim Zolciak
Kim is single (but happily dating) and lives in an exclusive gated townhouse community in Duluth, GA with her two children, 11-year-old Brielle and six-year-old Ariana. She also has her sights set on fame in the music business as a country singer, and is currently working with Grammy award-winning mega-producer Dallas Austin and will begin recording an album later this year.

DeShawn Snow
Snow and her husband Eric, captain of the Cleveland Cavaliers, recently moved to their dream home in Alpharetta, GA. Mother to three boys — nine-year-old EJ, six-year-old Darius and five-year-old Jarren, Snow is an active member of the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church. She exercises her faith by running The DeShawn Snow Foundation, a non-profit organization focused on improving self-esteem in teenage girls. She is a regular on the Atlanta social circuit and extremely active in local philanthropy, sitting on the board of three different charities.

Lisa Wu Hartwell
Hartwell, a resident of a luxurious country club community in Duluth, GA, is a busy career woman who wears many hats — she owns her own real estate firm, Hartwell & Associates, a jewelry line called Wu Girls, a baby clothing line, Hart 2 Hart Baby, and juggles budding acting, modeling, and writing careers. She’s a devoted wife to her husband, NFL player Ed Hartwell, and their three children 13-year-old Jordan, ten-year-old Justin and one-year-old EJ.

Runway:Dior Haute Couture

GOSH I LOVE FASHION!...Just a Peek!

Video: Since You've Been Gone-Day 26

HIStory: KICKS

Growing up I used to be the biggest tomboi...yea the girly girl who now cant live without her MAC makeup was a tomboi lol And, eventhough I've traded in my kicks for heels my fetish never left! And as an intro into moving the blog into more of a unisex playfield I had to drop a few styles that caught my eye!

Thank me later guys ;)

Chanel Diane.Billionheiress

Nike: Air Yeezy
First look at Kanye wearing the Air Yeezy's

Tinker Hatfield's Air Yeezy

Nike designer, Tinker Hatfield, version of The Air Yeezys. LOVE THEM!

Supra

Fall 08' collection

If you haven't heard of Supra you clearly arent up on your skateboard game. A premium skate shoe brand, that also includes clothing, uses lots of premium patterns, matterials and graphics.
The high tops by Supra have become a trademark and even compete on a high fashion level, something unseen before.
http://suprafootwear.com/

New Balance 576 "China Mask"

From New Balance Mask Pack, the limited realeased "China Mask" 576. A unique flare included in this release, besides the obvious Chines Influences, is the different colourway for each side.

New Balance 577

Inspired by Rotterdam, who has become a trendsetting city in Holland and the only city with a magnificent skyline.
highsnobiety.com

LUXE Appeal: Ellie Owen

Why be fierce when you can be ferocious?

And this clothing line is just that.

Ellie Owen is a phenomenal, bold, and beautiful style that makes a woman, Ferocious! With unique designs and dresses that any socialite would kill for. This designer is destined to be the next named dropped on the red carpet.

Wanting to dress the likes of Oprah, Beyonce, Paris Hilton, and those alike. With the direction this designer is going in, his goal will one day be reality.

Designs I would KILL FOR! Runway ready, with a cocktail twist. This designer has a booming future. And, I can't wait to see where it all leads!



http://www.myspace.com/ldc86



ENJOY! RIP! RUNWAY!

Art of Words: Miya Bailey

Pictures speak a thousand words and this man's artwork speaks volumes! With artwork that is vibrant, unique, and an artistic clash of creativity, passion, and love for what he's doing. Theres no wonder Miya Bailey is turning into a sought after Artist.

Most known for his creative tats in the City of Ink, Miya has now taken his love for art back to sketching and painting. Miya recently had a showcasing of his artwork at City of Ink May 30th to a GREAT crowd and I'm looking forward to the next showcase of his work.

Whether its tats or paintings hes always creating unique pieces of artwork. Stop by City of Ink to get an appt for your next tattoo or piece of artwork!

Contact Miya Bailey

www. TheCityofInk.com

www. myspace.com/MiyaBailey

www. myspace.com/MiyasArt

Side Note: We are looking to do a live interview with Miya and the rest of the City of Ink family in the near future to showcase all of the artforms that they have to offer. So, stay tuned!




ENJOY! RIP! RUNWAY!

How to Guide: Ladies Guide of Purchasing a Vehicle

No. 1 Rider

The number 1 Ladies Guide to the hottest whips, car toys, and car care.
All you need to know to get behind the wheel of a man’s favorite toy!

Ladies its time for a takeover! No more riding passenger. We’re changing the role of the normal “Trophy Girlfriend” and turning her into a true Lady! Ladies we’re taking over the driver seat in the freshest whips this world has to offer! So, men be prepared to move over to the passenger seat. Or, get to walking while we drive off with our hair blowing in the wind!

The Buying Process
How to successfully get the car you want for a reasonable price

It’s been drilled in our head time and time again that “It’s a man’s world!” well those days are done! Independent women everywhere are stepping out of the shadows of a man and handling things on their own.

While independence is becoming our claim to fame we still need help from our fellow ladies with certain situations, one being stepping into a new whip. The car lot is definitely a man’s territory, a place where in most cases a salesperson can get his highest commission buy selling a car to a woman who isn’t aware of their environment. Well, women that will not be a problem any longer. Because, by the end of this article you will be able to walk right up to a car salesman and tell them what car you want, how much it’s worth, and how much your willing to pay for TT&L. the down payment, and monthly.

The first step to all success is to study! There are plenty of resources for the car buying experience such as, the Kelly Blue Book, a book that calculates new and used car values. And, also websites like autos.yahoo.com and womanmotirist.com to help get an idea of reasonable prices, financing, makes and models, and buying strategies. Once you’ve put in your hours of study time its time to grace the car lot with your presence. But, before you step onto the lot make sure you have all of your facts straight and go in with a common goal so you have something to accomplish. The confidence factor plays a major role in the car buying experience. Any hint of uncertainty will give the salesman ample opportunity to pounce all over you. So, when meeting up with the salesman shake their hand, make eye contact and say “I’m here today because I’m interested in XYZ vehicle can you assist me with locating this vehicle?” Remember ladies you know your facts, so don’t let the salesman sway your decision. Go in knowing what you want and you’ll accomplish your goal.

Now, once you’ve found your vehicle, test driven it and discussed a reasonable price, it’s time to now go back over your goal. Make sure you get everything out of this vehicle that you wanted. Have you found out about any upcoming promotions for that vehicle? Or, discussed the best warranty for the vehicle? If not this your time to get any last minute questions answered. Wait at least 24hrs before buying the vehicle. Impulse buying is never a good thing.

Once you’ve examined the car, interior and exterior, have gone over all the paper work and have worked everything out to your satisfaction. It is time to sign the dotted line. Make sure everything is to your liking. Put the key in the ignition and let your hair blow in the wind.

Quick Links:

http://car-buy-her.com/

http://womanmotorist.com/

http://autos.yahoo.com/

Just a Question: Kelis & Dania, Just friends?

Is it just me, or do you too think something is up with Kelis and her BFF??? I swear my girls and I had a LONG talk about Bi-sexual, Gay, and Lesbian couples in the Entertainment World!(You'd be surprised how many dabble in the Best of Both Worlds.) If, you aren't to familiar with Ms. Dania Ramirez you can check her in Illegal Tender, X-Men: the Last Stand, and the main movie that made us draw this conclussion... She Hate Me! The movie involved her being in a lesbian relationship with DOPE ASS Kerri Washington, which meant nothing but she was an believable actress UNTIL... I kept seeing her with Kelis :/ hmmmm Now, I know I run with a man friend, we hit the club, shop, travel, etc. But DAMNIT if they don't seem like they get down... I could be wrong... Most likely right!

What are your thoughts?

Either way it goes, Kelis has style for days, even with the Halle Berry haircut, and Dania is BAAAD! Get it how you live!

ENJOY IT! RIP! RUNWAY!

Music Spotlight- Leaders of the New School

Leaders of the New School: ATL Addition


Welcome to Black Hollywood High!
By: Chanel Diane. Billionheiress


Lets take a ride, down the southern trail that leads you to the city of your hearts desires. Make a right past your favorite exclusive boutiques, a left past your favorite café, and drift past your night time escapades of the Boom Boom Room and you’ll land in the soul of Atlanta… Music! Atlanta’s song is different to each passer by that enters the city. But, its favorite tune lately is a new school flare all of its on.Some call the music Experimental, or Rock, Electronica, or other forms of music that aren’t too familiar to the Urban culture. I personally call these music seekers Leaders of the New School! It’s time to introduce the World to the Class!

Taking the class rank for “Most Likely to Suceed” Hollyweerd! In a class all of their own the players of Hollyweerd, that consists of Dreamer, The Love Crusader, Tuki and Stago Lee believe weirdos and rejects should reign supreme and their quests for success lead them to bring back that true art form of music back to Atlanta and across the World. Hollyweerd has created a strong buzz by their break through song “Weerdo” that caught a flame and created a quick buzz on the internet and through music fanatics as a whole. Soon, the song became an anthem for most with four local Atlanta natives creating a catchy dance to match the song and others caught on to the Weerdo dance. Creatively transforming music as a whole and bringing true artistry back to Atlanta, Hollweerd will be around for many moons riding high in their spaceship of Artistry.

Next up in our Black Hollywood High school rank, “Voted most Popular”, Muffy Cupcakopia! With a style reminiscent of Andre 3000, she’s in a lane all her own! With song titles” Popular”, “Rich Girls”, and “Sweet” it’s pretty apparent who she caters to. Her presence on a track reminds me heavily of a solo Pharell track, the way she sing talks over the tracks and makes them all her own. I’m never disappointed with a Muffy track. Far from the overly sexy images portrayed nowadays, Muffy gives it her all like only a Popular Girl would!

Voted “Tomboy Fresh” Fiona Simone. Best described as “a little street, and a little rock and roll” Fiona Simone is in a league all her own. Hailing from Miami, Fl, this tomboy fresh critically claimed rapper is a lyrical beast, with kudos from everyone to Label Execs, Radio heads, Mr. Pollow da Don himself, on to the boys in the hood. The love doesn’t end when it comes to her talents or the heights she’s capable of achieving. Her 2007 album, Ladies Room 2.0, paved her way to her righteous path aided by her standout track “Feeling Some Type of Way”. And Ladies Room 2.5 goes even harder! With the track "Limelight" taking over the album, Fiona's guaranteed to be stealing it in no time! Wondering who’s that girl? Fiona “Tomboy Fresh” Simone, none other!

These are just a few of Atlanta’s New School, check back for a few year back signings from those mentioned and a couple more who make the New School Rank.
Until then…

ENJOY! RIP! RUNWAY!

The solution to Lipo or a Scam?

I remember two months ago reading an article about the "new form" of Liposuction. It was called MesoTherapy/Lipodissolve. I first noticed it when the media was Britney Spears crazy and I came across an article. It was rumored that she was spotted in a Las Vegas branch of FIG, a body-sculpting company where is reportedly where she had her first injections.

LipoDissolve/Mesotherapy, originally is to be from Europe it has chemicals that are injected into you to "melt fat".  It's crazy because unlike in the United States we have doctors and nurses doing the procedure on us, while in Europe people are buying the serum and needles and actually injecting themselves! 

The main ingredients in this LipoDissolve/Mesotherapy "chemical" are PCDC, multivitamins, alpha lipid acid, enzymes and plant extracts, but it can vary depending on where you go. I researched about lipodissolve and noticed  MANY cons, but I'm a very stubborn person, I have to try EVERYTHING at least once, and so I did... BAD IDEA.

It was a terrible idea, not only did I suffer the pain of being injected with a needle 50 times, I was swollen like a 7 month year old pregnant woman for 5 days, I probably lost about 10lbs but that was including diet and exercise! I could have done that on my own. I did not notice any changes in my shape or figure-  I was losing weight but only because I kept peeing and passing bowel movements, which could have been done easily with diet pills. The nurse said I wouldn't see results until the third round of injections, so I went for about three more times. By the forth time, I gave up, the consequences of being swollen and punctured 50 times every two weeks were not worth the results. Eventually the Medical Spa I went to stopped doing LipoDissolve and Mesotherapy (And the nurse and doctor that did it no longer worked there) and the body-sculpting Britney Spears went to is being sued by many angry customers. 

My suggestion for getting ANY type of cosmetic surgery visit wwww.realself.com.

Note: I didn't end up paying for the hell of LipoDissolve/Mesotherapy thank goodness, and I ended up getting Tumescent aka Super-Wet Liposuction which had great results and excellent recovery for me.

So ladies do your research and don't be stubborn like me! And in Kimora's words I give LipoDissolve a HELL TO THE NAW!