Vacay Hair?

I am having a very hard time deciding what i want to do with my hair for this impending vacation. My fellow black girls, i know you are quite familiar with this dilemma. My hair gets very curly when it gets wet. The thing about it is, it doesn't stay as cute and curly when it dries. I absolutely don't want to deal with a mop of bad curls when I'm supposed to be looking like a tropical bronzed goddess.

I did my hair yesterday to see how long it would take and determine whether i should just tough it out and bring the blow drier/flatiron with me and straighten as necessary.

I started here:

(a bad blow dry job that took about 40 min)

and ended up here:

(a flatiron job that took about 45 min)

Now, do i really want to spend almost 2 hours doing hair while on vacay? hell no.

I thought about doing this look (in black of course):

But my mom gave me an ear full about how terrible this look is for me. Yes, i have tried it before.

And god forbid i do typical vacay hair (aka wet and wavy). I need a solution, and fast because it needs to be done today! Suggestions?

Ugh....

Wild Thang

So yesterday at the mall a few of my friends and I were craving a snack after we had lunch. Naturally they headed into Dylans Candy Shop, and i headed into Bebe right next door. We clearly have different perspectives on what a post-lunch snack is.

They came out with bags of chocolate, i came out with a bag of shoes.

Meet my new acquisition:

I call her Nina. Shes a beast. Since I'm a M'uh fuc&in Monsta that's a Monsta shoe!

I also got a hat for vacay. Yesss...

I'm getting ready to hit the city right now because I've been so disloyal to Soho in terms of my sporadic shopping. See you guys tonight with another episode of Lola's mergers and acquisitions.

xoLola

By the way have u guys noticed that i am back to using capital letters? Not capitalizing is too unnatural. Not that it matters.

Mergers & Acquisitions

im prepping for my vacation, so i took a gander at the offerings at saks and nordstrom. i went in looking for a simple pair of flip flops. i came out with all of this (smh).

Take a look at my most recent acqusitions voyeurs:

so i started off on track. i'm usually not much of a Tory Burch kind of girl, but hey; they're flip flops.

i got these at saks. when i have them on you can't see the burberry print so they're actually not all that obnoxious.

here's where things started getting out of hand...

i don't own a pair of rainboots soooo....

i've been stalking these from the time i saw them in the Nordstrom February catalog so i satiated my thirst.

and then came the sams....mmmmm....

i have them in the black leather:

but the nude are pure sex, and sex sells, so now i own them times 2.

i also got these cute little Betsy Johnson shades, but then i realized that Chloe and Michael Kors have a better version, so i think i'll go back for those instead.

shout out to chase for modeling for me xoxo

i now have about 20% of my shopping done and i'm leaving on sunday. :-(

i've got lotsss of work to do.

...sorry again about the camera phone pics...
xoLola

M'uh Fu#%in Monstas

I shoot the lights out
Hide til its bright out
Whoa,
just another lonely night
Are you willing to sacrifice your life?

hello. my name is lola and i'm a m'uh fuc*in monsta.

i've created a few too.

here's why...

im never. ever. satisfied.

im so sick of settling. im sick of thinking 80 20, or 50 50. i want full
hundred.

i want my complete equal. i dont want to win or lose.

i want to go pound for pound and tie every single time.

i dont want to jerk any one around. i dont want to bounce back and forth i dont want to settle.

i wont settle for another daddy, or another baby, i wont settle for a rolling stone, i wont settle with being your secret, i wont be okay with your attitude.

so call me a monster for not being happy.

because when lola's not happy no one's happy.

so there u go. this ring is only open to the boys in my weight
class.

i want this:

meet me here. im moving to this planet:

im here...

i've been gone for way too long; i know.

sorry.

i'm back.

i've missed u. hope that u all missed me. :-)

my last post was on april 19th and since then everything has changed and nothing has changed. i don't think its worth it to cram it all into one post, so we'll take it easy.

let me start with a simple list...

i know i did this in the beginning, but here are a few more things you should know about me seeing as how everything has changed...and nothing has either


1. i got the nickname Lola from my little brother who is fabulous and visionary. much like Prince, when William gives you a name, you take it, you use it and you like it.

2. someone once told me i was dipped in good in the sweetest way. my, how inverted your vision was. ha.

3. if i could make anyone write the story of my life, it would be maya angelou. adele would have to sing it.

4. ATL is still one of my favorite movies. ever.

5. i have mastered stoicism. or maybe stoicism has mastered me, because i am able to surpress my emotions to the point where i sometimes wonder if i still have any.

6. i'm truly, madly deeply in love with a man named Alexander Wang. and im certain that its reciprocal because everything he designs loves my body back.

7. i believe what they say about 2012. so im just trying to get right before then.

8. i have come to know my soulmate

9. this year will be my quarter century b day and i hate it

10. i want to fall head-over-heels, sick-to-my-stomach, forever-and-ever back in love with this one person. i want to fall to that place and never come back.

11. i love rap music. right now im particularly into Kanye. i understand him.

12. i feel that my calling is journalism. im on a career tangent at the moment as i do the fashion thing, but my weapon of choice will always be the pen.

13. i have only one vice: shopping. ('i be killin em' -fab)

14. i've been floating in the atmosphere for this past year. i'm trying to get grounded again

15. my son is my life

16. someone suggested that i am the bitch in the equation below. i want to change that.

so here i am voyeurs. as im sure you've gathered already, im on a quest for love, happiness, fashion and fun. i want to document my journey here, everyday, in every single way so stay tuned.

i apologize for the pic...until i find a real daily photographer its "camera in the mirror bbm pose" (i be killen 'em) :-)

♥ lola