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#126| Authentic Beauty

May 6, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway 1 Comment

Now, don’t get me wrong; I’m totally here for a killer lipstick and great mascara. A light dusting of blush on the apples of my cheeks gives a subtle flush of color.

Combine those elements with my natural curls and I’m pretty much good to go.

Whether you add a few more steps (or none at all) the important component to always have on point is the inner self.

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes.

~Sophia Loren

Real beauty – or should I say, authentic beauty – shines from within.

Shine on.

Brenda Thompson, today’s featured model, was recently a guest on the podcast. She swirled with Rock Stars! To read more about Brenda and listen to her interview (and see a vintage photo of her with one of her rock star loves), click here.

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Why You Need L.C. Johnson’s Red Lipstick Manifesta in Your Life!

March 15, 2013 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway Leave a Comment

I’m a huge fan of L.C. Coleman Johnson’s Colored Girl Confidential blog and read it regularly.

This week, fresh after marrying the love of her life and getting back into blogging, LC launched a YouTube video entitled The Red Lipstick Manifesta.

When describing the Manifesta, LC says,

“The Red Lipstick Manifesta is a love note to every woman who has ever felt overwhelmed or discouraged or just plain not good enough; a love note to every woman has been told not to speak until she is spoken to… and then is never spoken to; a love note to every woman who, despite all odds, refuses to believe that she is less than or somehow undeserving of love, success, and happiness. It is my gift to myself and to you.”

THIS is why I believe you need The Red Lipstick Manifesta in your life!

LC continues,

“If you believe, like I believe, that women – smart, sassy, determined, ambitious, perfectly imperfect colored women – have the power to change the world, to do work that they love, to dream a bigger dream than the one that has been handed to them,
then The Red Lipstick Manifesta was written and produced with you in mind.

I may have written the manifesta, but it will always be OUR message.”

I LOVE the Manifesta, and I believe you will, too.

Please check out the video, give it a Like, and pass it on!

Join in the Fray: What’s YOUR mantra for life?

How to be Wild and Woolly

November 29, 2012 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway 2 Comments

Ever feel like your life has gotten a little too humdrum and predictable? Ever want to break out of an self-inflicted molds, defy your own conventions and norms, and otherwise shock the heck out of the people who think they know you best?

(People like my Mother – but shhh! I’m not supposed to write about her!)

I mentioned Monday that my technical difficulties threw a serious monkey wrench in my Cyber Monday plans. Alas, poor me – I was only able to snag one item. Not just any old item, mind you.

MAC’s Grey Friday.

When I first viewed it on the Temptalia website (and shout out to make-up maven extraordinaire, Christine Mielke who runs that awesome beauty blog), I was drawn by the seeming contradiction of the fierceness and awfulness of this product.

Think about it: Grey . . . . lipstick.

Fierce . . . . and . . . . awful.

I had to have it.

Thankfully I was able to snatch it up (which, unbeknownst to me at the time, would be my final act before my computer and my phone decided to go on vacation without informing me).

This fiercely awful lipstick represented an escape from my normal make-up looks; my ticket out of the boundaries of what I formerly deemed good taste.

Grey Friday was to be the vehicle I used to go way, way, WAY out there: My chance, Ladies and Gentlemen, to walk on the wild side.

To go out into the light of day (actually, night) in all my goth and glory.

To be wild. And woolly.

And fierce.

Wanna know how to be wild and woolly?

Step out of the boxes that you have created. Do something that is wildly and wonderfully different from those things that constitute your normal. Something that, if your friends and family see you do it – or see you in it – their sensibilities and preconceived notions of who “you” are will be utterly and totally shattered.

Go ahead, do it! Be wild and woolly.

I dare you.

Join in the Fray: What can you do (or wear) to be wild and woolly? Tell me about it!

I’m blogging every day in the month of November as a participant in NaBloPoMo. Thanks for reading and feel free to comment!

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