HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

Happy Thanksgiving!

This has been the best Thanksgiving yet for me! I am so grateful for my family and friends. This year I helped with the cooking. It was me, my grandma and my auntie having fun in the kitchen! I learned a lot about my family yesterday. We stayed up to about 2am cooking, we were so tired...

My Lovely Family

My cousins and Sister

It was a most lovely day and I am grateful for a WONDERFUL family!!!

Happy Thanksgiving folks!

JustFab Shoes!!

I recently decided to purchase shoes from JustFab! I am so excited about these bad boys!

Daenery

All shoes are $39.95 with free shipping!!! That is what got me was FREE99 shipping!! I'm all in! My first pair was 50% off. 

The shoes were a little hard to put on at first so I am contemplating on if I should get a bigger size. I'm not sure yet! So far.... I love the style and color. I can't wait until I can wear them!

Have you used JustFab before?

Box Braids

 

This weekend I tackled doing box braids!! They are EXTREMELY long! I still have to cut and burn the ends because me and long hair are not friends lol!  For some reason it was harder this time than the first time I did them...smh.  They turned out great. I used 100% Kanekalon Hair. I think it was ModelModel Brand.  Anywho.. I plan to wear these for at least a month maybe longer!
Still pushing through my protective hair challenge!! This is style #5!

Are you protective styling? What style are you rocking this season?

How to do a Donut Bun

Sometimes when I am in-between styles and I don't feel like doing my hair, I do a donut bun!
This is how I do it... You start off with your already made donut (made with a sock and knee highs)

Step One

 Place your hair in a ponytail where you would like your bun to sit on your head.

Step Two

Then, Place the ponytail inside the donut like so...

Step Three

 Take an ouchless elastic band and wrap it around the hair like so...

Step Four

 Tuck hair up to cover elastic band like so... and there you have it. A nice donut bun that's easy to do and sleep in! You can also put a scarf on while you getting dressed to lay your hair down. Dress it up with flowers or other hair accessories! Have fun with your hair!

Step Five

Finished Product

 This is a old style that I like to do to protect my ends. It is great for a protective style because your ends are tucked away!

EAS Lean Protein Powder

Fitness Journey

       As you read from the title, I have started drinking this protein powder. During my 21 day challenge, I inquired some information about protein shakes from the trainer at my gym. I didn't want to build bulky muscles, I just wanted to loose weight. The trainer at the gym suggested that I get LEAN protein. It helps with weight lost from what I read online.


I been drinking these protein shakes for three days now. So far so good. I don't care for chocolate as much but the combinations that I have been coming up with has made the taste so much better!

Here is a receipe of my favorite smoothie combination. Yes, I call them smoothies rather than shakes! lol Smoothies sounds much more tastier!!!

My Peanut Butter Fudge Smoothie

2 scoops of EAS Chocolate Fudge Powder
8 oz of 2% Milk
2 Tbsps of Peanut Butter
1 Tbsp of Apple Butter

Mix in a blender and you have the best smoothie out there! (Well until I find a better concoction!)

Exercise:
As for exercise, I've been working out on my Xbox Kinect System. The game is called EA Sports Active2. More to come in a few days...

My fitness journey has been a long, up and down thing but I believe with a blog and possbility videos I can maintain and reach my goals. I'm excited for this.

-LB-

Voting, Costumes and Hair

What have I been up to you ask?

Well.. it has been a excited past two weeks for me. I went along with my cousins to go Trick-o-treating. The Minnie Mouse is 1 years old and the bumble bee is 3 years old. The night was cold and wet but they had so much fun!

 At work, we had a costume contest. I was "Hawaiian Sophie!" Ha! anyone know that song by Jay-Z? Watch  it here! lol Hawaiian Sopie by Jay-Z

Next, I went to go vote! I went after work and surprisingly the line was not long at all! I felt really good afterwards!! Did you vote?

Now to the HAIR!! As you know, I am doing my protective hair challenge until the end of February. I am thinking about starting my videos to document my challenge. When I did it last time, it helped me stay with it and I learned so much from other youtubers!

So.. I think I will record my styles from now on..HOPEFULLY!

Well that is all for now! 

-L.B.-

Cleveland girl gets uppercut

Hey there!
Something that I read the other day disturbed me. I seen this all on facebook and I just didn't pay any attention to it. So the video below shows a young women harassing a RTA bus driver in Cleveland, Ohio. After being hit, strangled and spit on the driver had enough. The driver gets up and uppercuts the woman. Now the question is:

Did she deserve it or not?

If you look at the video closely, the woman was harassing the bus driver for a good 5 - 7 minutes. There are videos out there with the extended version, which is the one I seen. I have been listening to the radio about the subject and it's crazy how much attention this is getting. Frankly, I think the girl deserved to be put in her place because obviously she thought no one could do anything to her. No, she didn't deserve to be hit in the way he hit her but she deserved to be hit. 

Link to Article

I like the line at the end "If she want to act like a man, she will be hit like a man" That was enough said! Women nowadays think that if they hit a man they won't be hit back! Wrong! Be prepared to be hit back if you hit anyone! Simple as that! Violence is a two way street no matter what the sex, age or race is.

Enough of my soap box. What do you guys think?