Sean Bell's Family gets 3.25 million from the City...

Remember that shooting that took place back in 2006 in front of night club, where a young black man was shot 50 times by police officers on what was supposed to be his wedding day? Three out of the five officers who were responsible for the shootings were acquitted an the other two officers were not charged. Sean Bell's family has now been awarded 3.25 million dollars after a federal lawsuit was filed by his family. 3.25 million dollars as alot of money, and of course we already know that no amount of money can replace a life but lets not forget that this man was shot 50 times, has justice been served? what do you think... The New York Times has an article about the settlement: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/28/nyregion/28bell.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=sean%20bell&st=cse

Quote for Today

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. By: Albert Camus

Perm Free!!!

So I did it, I cut the last of my permed ends off. I'm definitely no professional because my hair is uneven now:-( I'm a little disappointed about that, but at least all the perm is gone and I'm a full blown naturalista now:-)

Before

After

Sick of trAnsiTioninG!

Seems like forever, I lost track but here is how my story goes. I was wearing my hair short ever since I graduated from high school, that was back in 2004. I think I cut my hair short in 2005, I don't really remember so let's just say I started wearing my hair short between 2004 and 2005.

I stopped cutting my hair and decided to let it grow out naturally in 2008 because, I hardly ever touched up my perms often and my hair was thin in my eyes. So I let it grow for a while on its own and once it got to that weird length I started wearing tracks and such occasionally, not often, probably two times and the rest of the time I just dealt with the weird lengths.

By May 2009 my hair was about chin length straightened with a flat iron (one thing I forgot to mention is that from 2008 to 2009 I flat ironed my hair on a weekly basis simply because I had no interest at all in wearing my hair in its natural state at that point).

In May 2009 my college graduation was approaching and I didn't want my hair to frizz up like a poofball on that day so I decided to perm my natural tresses for the big day nonetheless, my hair still poofballed because, the perm didn't get through fully on all of my strands but, it was poofy wit some style;-) because it looked decent for some strange reason.

In June 2009 I went to Florida for my bday we went on a water ride at Universal Studios and my sister from another mother Cheralyn Nimrod, noticed my hair in its natural state, she told me never to perm hair again...that was my first natural hair compliment as an adult (who knew?). From that point on I started paying a little bit more attention to wearing my hair in its natural state, and I gave the flat iron a rest temporarily.

Even though my curls showed I still had perm in there and, as my hair grew longer my permed strands became more noticeable and tacky looking:-( I refused to chop the permed ends off because, I wanted to see some length in my hair.

It is now July 2010 and I've trimmed my hair probably twice for the 2009-2010 time period and frankly, this transitioning thing is starting to annoy me. So, the moral of my story is...I'm cutting off all of my permed ends today:-D!

Positve Quote for today

Walt Disney said, "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." I like this quote, way too many people are out here on the streets "signing their shoulda' coulda' woulda's". We all have regrets and are guilty of wasting time talking about what we wish we could do. Once we find ourselves talking about it, that should be the point where we put our words to action. You know what NIKE said "just do it". Have a safe and blessed day.