Welcome!

Okay, so everybody is doing this blog, log, facebook, myspace, twitter-ditter thing. So, I give in or give up (don't know which yet). I'm an Image Consultant. I own a fun company called ImagiNess Style! We help women express their best self with life coaching, wardrobe consulting, skin, makeup and hair consultations. It's a blast!

How did that happen? Well, with three successful careers as a Make Up Artist, Event Planner and Recruiter(sometimes all at once) and years of creating and conducting workshops and seminars to empower women, it became apparent that I had also become the unofficial or official (according to my devoted sisters and girlfriends) "Queen of Style", the Weave Queen, the Fashionista, you get the picture.

I eat, breathe and sometimes dream hair, makeup and fashion since I was about four. Once I "borrowed" my mother's Maybelline black Eye Pencil, lined my eyes, lips and anything else "lineable", used baby powder for eyeshadow and applied it on the school bus. This of course required a mandatory trip to the stinky girls bathroom for a rough paper towel and some cold water to remove it (yes on the delicate eye area). This is a no no women. One day I was late for the bus, missed my trip to the "Evidence Removal Chamber" and got caught. My mom had a fit (for real, I was 10) and I was hooked.

If there is a wig, weave, ta ta tape, undergarment, shoe, shadow, or applicator that creates a better look, feel, fit, I'm on it. I want to try it all and probably have or will soon.

Enough about me, we'll get to know each other along the way. Style is personal and not at all about the latest fashion trend. It is attitude, understanding oneself and being comfortable with that and then expressing it to the world. It's our language to the world. It's not just about clothes, hair and makeup either. It's the way we speak, the way we enter a room, our body language.

We're gonna have some fun discovering each other. I want your opinion, your new finds, what works, what doesn't; keep your girl informed. I can't be everywhere at once. If you've got advice, I wanna hear it. Keep your comments real but civil, after all, we are ladies, and we'll get along great. You don't have to agree with me; I love a challenge. That's how we grow. I'll introduce you to some fabulous women. I've got one who has a salon dedicated to nothing but getting your hindparts, side parts and ta tas smoothed down and lifted up! You'll learn that I am the "ta ta police" and I don't play about a good foundation (undergarments that is).

Gotta run. I've got two wigs to soak in a little Woolite and I'm packing for a trip. So many choices, so limited the room in my truck. Maybe I can combine the bag with shoes and sandals with my reading material? Hmmm. The weather could change, my mind will change and a girl needs options. I know you know what I mean. Don't front.

So,what's it gonna be? Long, lightly-layered wig 1B/33 , or the straight one with the great bangs, 1B? For the newly initiated, those number/letter combinations are hair colors for weaves, wigs and braiding hair. Let me know if you need a course. School is open! Anyway, I'll let you know what I chose and will post an occasional photo or two so you can get some guts and experiment. Gotta go, I'm gonna clean out my trunk so my husband won't notice my extra bag. Sshhh.

Smooches!

Ness