15 February 2012
15.02
My very first bracelet. A relic preserved for nearly three decades by my parents. So cute !
I grew up again , it’s my birthday. I’ve been tagged by my friend D. so I am going to tell you 15 things about myself :
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1. I feel a kind of discomfort seeing caged animals.
2. However, I have a terrible fear of pigeons. Facing them, I no longer have any dignity.
3. I can do the whistle voice like Minnie Ripperton and Mariah Carey. Hello dolphins!
4. I can not throw food.
5. I ran away from the nanny’s home on my pink bike to join my father during his lunch break. I was 6.
6. I always adds spice to my dishes.
7. I hate the mess, it paralyzes me. But I’m messy, sometimes.
8. I cry easily and I think it’s good in a certain way.
9. I hate my cell phone. It is ALWAYS on the silent mode. My family curses me for that.
10. Whenever it’s possible, I never touch the bar in the subway. And I always have my hand sanitizer in my bag.
11. In relation with my 10, when I’m outside, I open the toilet doors … with my foot!
12. I cannot swim. Finally though, but not more than 1 minute and 30 only in a straight line!
13. I spent a part of my life in Martinique.
14. I love long nails. So I bite them.
15. My little brother and I have learned to read with my Dad … in comics!
Kisses!
23 January 2012
Azis – Tolerance
I discovered Azis thanks to the intolerance of the Internet. There was that video that circulated, everyone was laughing, others was vomiting, so I clicked. I laughed a lot and then I changed …
After a first viewing mouth open and eyes bulging, and even if I my heart beats for Soul and bleeding voices, I loved it !
Azis is a Bulgarian singer. It is a Superstar in his country. He sings with a soft voice, dressed as a chick (a chick who would not have chosen the elegance) with a mouth full of gloss. Sometimes he dressed-up like Rihanna and launches fiery glances with his false eyelashes.
So, yes he waddles with small pouches of silicone on his chest, heels of 15 … and a goatee! Because, yes, there, is the sinews of war, on his chin. We have not even finished with the trans / travestiphobia and he comes with its strangeness. With a flick of buttock, he sweeps the stammering acceptance. He needs us to have a flexible tolerance. But we, need easy to read, easily decipherable codes. In the popular imagination, a guy who dressed as a woman is a transvestite. But if he wears a mustache, actually what is he looking for ?
Well yeah, Azis dodges labels. He decided to redefine his own meaning of gender. We are still there with our need to categorize everything. And so, a bunch of rednecks on Youtube says he should die.
In the videoclip, a guy is dancing for dear life. At the crossroads of the Dancehall Queen, the Mutuashi dancer * or Shakira , he gives everything. Some, they get angry and insult him. Maybe because its swayings make them stir a bit more than necessary …
Despite promises of openness and modernity, the Internet never ceases to catalyze the wanderings of our society, making them more vivid, available at all times. Too often, it subtracts, divides, categorizes instead of gathering. I realise that, every day a little more bitter. It selective indignation, leaving only to Black people the task to revolt for this racist “Elle” post (that has been modified at this point) even though other less subversive posts reaped the general disapproval (and it was right). I do not want to live in this kind of World.
I definitely think that to carry out our differences , force others to accept us as we are. They don’t have the choice. Or maybe, it’s the Bulgarians, but am not sure. It must require a great deal of courage to decide not to lie and say NO to conformity. Others laugh, I do not care. I want to take my own way, to be like him: FREE.
13 January 2012
Mòa : The Green Balm
I want to share with you my attraction to things of beauty, and by extension my favorite beauty products. This balm is one of them. I buy it again and again. I love this kind of product, natural, economic, and close to people. Getting closer to nature, it’s being closer to ourselves and our organic essence. It is manufactured in England…
There is something very British in this holistic approach to cosmetics. The Body Shop is a perfect example. Only with their name and campaigns, you see the idea: the apprehension of the human’s body and its environment as a “All” (even if their products are not always that wholesome. Moreover, now Bodyshop = L’oréal, and L’oreal ≠ ethics and fairness). There is also Lush, with its openly green and “pro-veggie” policy. I am very attracted to that multidimensional “cosm-ethics” that makes people more beautiful but also healthier. A beautiful frame is good. A beautiful and functional frame on a healthy Earth is even better.
And so The Green Balm, in addition to make skin looks beautiful, relieves aches and pains of everyday life. The first time I used it to treat a sore throat! Let me explain:
Inside the Green Balm, you’ll find organic Yarrow, a medicinal plant.
- The Natives used it to amplify «mystical connections”.
- Achilles, Greek hero, to heal the wounds of his cronies during the Trojan War.
- And my mom to make herbal teas against colds.
Nothing but beautiful people.
I do not mention its super nice composition. The Yarrow is a powerful healing herb (not only), Tea Tree a deemed natural antibacterial, and vegetable oils of coconut and sweet almond are nourishing and softening agents. With a teaspoon of balm in my tea, and a touch of honey, I smashed a nascent angina. If you are looking for a green alternative to the Elizabeth Arden 8 hours super balm, with no petroleum smell and no propylparaben, this is the balm you need.
You can use it to overcome cold sores, but also to soften the cuticles, remove makeup, fix split ends, make grog … The list is not exhaustive, there’s a lot of more glamorous uses like the treatment of interdigital mycoses. This is only a preview. Go to the website and you’ll know.
