So it's almost 2010 right...

In just a few days 2010 will be amongst us. Regardless if your ready or not. I feel like this is going to be the start of something EPIC! I know I have never had more reason, more inspiration, more drive, more to prove. I have a feeling this year is going to be a great one. It's funny, cause when I was little (think circa 95' I was like nine) the year 2010 seemed like the distant future. Even today, I feel as though this is the cusp of the future. This is a new day and I want an improved me, never new. I'm excited for everything this year has in store AND all that its doesn't. I'm in my 23rd year of life and I've never felt so alive. God has almost sprinkled some sage and seasoning salt on my life and caused me to feel this is the year to get my life on the best track possible. One thing I recall loving to do after Christmas was mentally drafting up what I though was going to happen in the coming months.I really want to express the things I want to accomplish and would love to see the things you want to achieve this year.Well here's my top 15 things in no particular order!!!

Chloe's 2010 Goal's (for a better, happier, healthier, more rounded me!

1. Finish up the school (Yippe!!!!)
- keep my GPA up
2. Get my career in order
-art administration/ gallery sales/ art consultations/ art dealer
- expand my jewelry biz
3. Narrow down my law school search.
4. Start my financial plan ( extending my banking plan to include a few specified accounts to help better allocate funds)
5. Eat better (self explanitory)
- cook four times a week
- left over 2/3 days
- eat out (at most) once
- multi-vitamin (daily and hair vitamins)
- bring my own water bottle
6. Nurture my hair!!! (my hair is doing well but the sides could be better)
- every two month latching
7. Workout 3-4 days a week.
- stairs
- walking quotas
- biking
- best: abs; butt; arms of my life
8. Meditate
- breathing/ focus
- chi gong
9. Travel
- to anywhere; I just wanna see more places I've never been
10.Read Read Read!!!
- Stillettos in the Kitchen by Chanel Cooper Sykes
- anything Octavia Butler
11. Creativity abound
- blogging (more)
- scriptwriting (more)
- audio production (more)
- jewelry designs (more)
12. Entrepreneaurship
- my gallery shows
- jewelry web presents
13. Volunteering (more)
- soup kitchen
- shelters
- anything dealing with health and or homelessness
14. Possibly get in iphone???
- keep in-contact better
- more organization
15. Doing it big! Creating a better life then last year! Being amazing!!!

11 month update...OMG

So this is my 11th month..WOW, I know, I know, its already here and next month on this very day I will be unto the ONE YEAR MARK! I can not believe it!!! It's been quite an eventful 11 months full of growth, cuts and a major combine overhaul... But it all been worth it. I literally wouldn't give up even a nano-second. Even the days when my little nubbies at my temples were hardly growing and looking rather ugly AND I though about shaving it off and starting again...even then I still hung in there because I knew my hair would grow and evolve and mature. All of which it has done and is doing and it makes me sooo happy at what I've got. I love love love my hair and can't wait for more years...Thank god for begin a black women, ya digg! NEWHO PICTURES! and check out my youtube channel CHLOE3086










This last one is just funny as hell!!!! lmao!!

Have you seen Mitrice Richardson...

If so, please contact of the many numbers below case she is and has been missing for 3 weeks.
* www.findmitrice.info
* Desperate Search Continues For Young Missing Teacher Mitrice Richardson
* Possible sighting of missing Cal State Fullerton grad reported
* Police believe Mitrice Richardson is alive and not victim of foul play

Mitrice is described as a 5-foot-5, 125-pound African American woman with hazel brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a brown Bob Marley T-shirt and blue jeans. She has tattoos on her lower abdomen and behind her neck. Anyone with information about her whereabouts should contact Detective Kristin Merrill with the Los Angeles Police Department’s Missing Persons Unit at (213) 485-5381, Latice Sutton at (909) 282-9134 or Michael Richardson at (310) 283-4717.

Marge and sista???????

So 1. how disgusting is Playboy for sexualizing a beloved cartoon charter... But my real question is 2. Is Marge supposed to be a sista??? Check it for your self!



This woman below is the First playmate (Ms. Darine Stern 1971) to be featured on the cover... I have to say though the spread was probably raunchy I must say I adore this cover its beautiful. tasteful and the fro is knockin!!!

Thank you subcribers! and a wonderful youtuber!

Hey Hey Hey all! I wanted to start off by thanking all my new followers! In the last few months I've gotten a surge of new subscribers which is sooo cool! Thank you and I always try to make sure I subscribe to you...If I can, that is! So Thank you, for a third time and I really hope you enjoy my posts. I always have something to say so check the updates cause I try to be as avid as possible. Oh and COMMENT! I love feed back...good and bad just to know where I'm at and what you think of what I'm saying. NEWHO....I wanted to stop in and upload theis great youtuber I found...Which reminds me I'm Chloe3086 channel so check me out too! But I love her...she has wonderful insight and speaks so candidly! Loves it! Here's a post of hers that really touched me! Check it out! Muah!

Check her page at: http://www.youtube.com/user/shanelcooper#play/all/uploads-all/2/Jq3PcbUS6Rk



This is the message I first heard of hers that made me fall in love with her message! I can't wait to read her book!!!

Updates 3.0, and inspiration!

My locks are really coming along
















Sometimes I am still; amazed at the progress of my hair. I mean, I knew this all was going to happen, that's what he 2 years of research were for; but nonetheless I am still in awe of black hair. The resilience and transformations out hair can make is really something. I remember being burned out with bald spots and tortured with alcohol induced "cleanses" from relaxers at the tender age of 10 and never thought at 23 I would have the makings of long healthy natural hair and better yet locs. It's very cool to see and I love the process. I say this all the time but I just love to reiterate it: I WILL NEVER GO BACK TO RELAXERS! Hallelujah!


Now to the reason for this post! I was reading an article on Michelle Obama, My love! If you've read post from my archive you know I've highlighted her name a few times! I just adore her. From her style to her "swagger" to sophistication and smarts the women is one point and is a beacon from Hope everywhere! She was the subject of a recent article that I loved. And to top that, she is going to be starring in a comic about raw and organic foods comic! How cool..Especially to an aspiring raw diva. But (back on topic), that got me thinking... Who inspires me... And why? Which further made me wonder..who inspires you? And why are they so inspirational in your life? I decided to stick to the black women that inspire me today because otherwise we'd be here all night!


1. Ntozake Shange, playwrite author



2. Michelle Obama, First Black First lady, lawyer, educator (power player/ role model)




3. Jada Pinkett Smith, director, produer, author, musician, actress




4. Kimberle Crewnshaw and Dr. Joy Degruy, educators




5. Candice Parker, Laila Ali, Serena and Venus Williams, athletes





7. Ayana Byrd, author



9. Janelle Monae, Jill Scott, India Arie and Erykah Badu, Alice Smith, Teedra Mosses, The Noisettes lead singer Shinghai Shoniwa








10. Faith Ringgold, Lois Maillou Jones, Iona Rozel Brown



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Caster all gussied up...And shot outs to slave masters?!?!?

So I'm glad to see that the world can see what a lovely young lady Ms. Castor is...but for what. So the western world can see her and think she's pretty. So men can see her and lust, so she can get endorsements because she sooo pretty to be an athlete. It's really some bull shit! It really goes to show how these things end up doing down. Of course the western world...AKA whites are intimidated by her athletic prowess and have to tear her down to prove a point. And it speaks volumes on women's atheltics. Do you really think it would be sooo easy to go all the way to the international level of sports without someone else doubting her. I think its offensive and disgusting to think that they had to test her gender. Just cause she doesn't have blue eyes, long blond hair and a curvaceous body shes not a lady, furthermore a women. Our standards of beauty and femininity really need to be checked. Now don't get it twisted...She IS NOT the most feminine chick I've ever seen but I know plenty of girls with her body shape and if it weren't for some hair they'd look just like her. I cant imagine the humiliation her parents, friends and most importantly she felt when they asked for such and more so when it was performed. So she's not thick as Serena, stunning like Gabrielle Union or overtly feminine like Tyra Banks but damn. She's a lady! Get over it! Haters! This goes to a long line for western culture trying to slight our people in and offed attempted to assert their concept of Beauty was the only one.I dont know about you but these are the same people who said a women that looked like me was not pretty. Would never be the first wife and titled my hair DREADlocks...Don't be fooled!

And in other gripes...WTF is up with the ignorance and violence of 2009...I may be post-segregationist America but I feel like were still in race wars. Alot of times against our damn selves. Shame!. Black seems to find themselves the bane of the news all the time nowadays! Whats really good. This year started with Chris brown and Rihanna... Mr. Gates...all the racist the threats at our Dear President...YouTube overload of Black women hate...Modeling companies saying they can't find pretty Black girls to fill the black girl market that s booming(due to the beautiful Obama daughters)Mistah Fab...Yung burg...Bow Wow...Omarion...Drake..(who all said something bad to say about black women...Now Solja Boy (Who said " "Shout out to the slave masters! With out them we would still be in Africa. We wouldn't be here to get these ice and tattoos.")

Hello beautiful black people!

I wanted to ask a question and see what you my followers had to say about it.

What kind of man do you attract? Has it changed? Is it the same? Are you married single divorced? How haw your hair journey affected your love life, if at all....

I know me personally I can't speak as well on behalf of this because I went natural at age 13. However, I can say that during my press days I wasn't so much less confident but certainly more cautious of what i did and the limitation on my life led me to have issue with men. As, a cheerleader it was hard for me and my then boyfriend to have intimate encounters (non sexual of course, I was a virgin) but Even simple caressing lead to fear of head touching. the ultimate no no. One particular incident that will forever stick in my mind is one night at a club. It was my freshman year of college and I was back for the summer hanging with my girls in an ultra packed club. I had just gotten my hair pressed earlier that weeks so I knew I was poppin. I was just dancing and chatting and minding my own business when my crush at the time, Calvin H.(Mr. resident everything at Howard; good looking super intelligent, funny and available!!!)who was also from California, walked in. I ran to the bathroom to Gussie my self up only to look in the mirror grief stricken at the unsightly mess upon my head. I was so upset I started hyperventilating and crying.... Yes, crying in the club bathroom on the floor. I stormed out the club as Calvin tried to get my attention. Oh the horror. To add insult to injury, later that night I went to the car, got my flat iron out and began pressing my hair in the ihop bathroom. Not only was it awkward, but the smell was horrendous. After Thai My hair began to break and I started looking for an alternative ASAP! It began with a weave and then liberating myself. It's funny, I stopped crushing on him the next year and he got a girlfriend. A beautiful, chocolate girl, with a TWA!!!!! Yes, had I not been so ignorant I may have learned that he like women the way they are!!! But You live and you learn.

But back onto the men that I attract due to my natural hair. I must say that I've never had an issue since those high school days with a man and my hair... I actually see my permie friends have more issues. Now IDK if its cause I live in DC, IDK if its cause I'm more confident, IDK if its cause I'm in better physical shape but I do know that I'm happily in a relationship with the literal man of my dreams...Who is natural himself, ha a natural family and wants one went we get married. SO, for me natural is a way of life!!!

I'm so excited.. and I just can't hide it!

OK y'all so I'm officially about to explode because of this post I saw on The Young Black and Fabulous blog (YBF aka theybf.com)today... As some of my subscribers know I'm a barbie girl living in an adult world that shuns my barbie addiction. But, the editor-in-chief at Vogue magazine must be feeling my pain because he, Frank Sozzani, just announced that they will be featuring Black Barbies in next months issue. Swelling, swelling, swelling, swelling KABOOM!!!!!!! Excuse me y'all my head just exploded! This is a great feature for the magazine; a magazine of which has been call out for their lack of African American female aesthetic. I'm really happy to see Barbie featured because my grandmother Georgia Von Noble was the model for the original Black Barbies...Some history on the Black doll:

"Colored Francie" made her debut in 1967, and she is sometimes described as the first African American Barbie doll. However, she was produced using the existing head molds for the white Francie doll and lacked African characteristics other than a dark skin. The first African American doll in the Barbie range is usually regarded as Christie, who made her debut in 1968.

Interesting, considering that my grandmother is a proud Black woman with blue eyes, more slender features and gorgeous BROWN skin... I guess they had to cater to a much wider audience though... NEwho I have to feature some pictures and I will keep y'all posted on the Barbie news... I'm going to go collect my self!! (pun fully intended)

My beautiful Grandmother...



























Even though this juxtaposes the point it rings a lot of semblance of truth... Its a wonderful quilt but Kyra Hicks (google her baby)