Throwback Thursday: Hair Evolution Turned Fairy Tale

This flashback of immense pride is a post that'll be shorter than my usual. Due to the reoccurring mishaps of trying to upload this as an ideal post on my frustrating Instagram page, which took an unnecessary 2hrs of several attempts. Yet another reason why I hate uploading on social media, it's LONG and usually a waste of my precious time. Whereas writing and posting on my personal blog right here, always feels more fulfilling. I suppose the good thing that came out of that frustration is that it brought me back to my beloved blog to post something new ;-)

It's amazing how my hair evolution made for a good adult fairy tale. This is the "Rolls Royce" of my Custom Poetry Greeting Cards™ thus far people! Took me over 40hrs across 4yrs to make dammit! I had the idea of a 3D (minimal 3D) Black fairy tale to make for a child customer but that opportunity didn't come.

 

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Years later of the initial idea, after achieving my long desired Victorian curls (to resemble Cinderella, Lark in Dru Hill's These were The Times, or better yet to look like Jamelia in the nostalgic music video for  Money Can't Buy My Love) with just curling mousse and plastic straws as opposed to heated tongs, to rockin' my signature dangling "Rapunzel" aka "unicorn" hairstyle, to eventually (perhaps abruptly) cutting off all of my long afro hair for my personal happiness. All of that became the best excuse to make this fantasy birthday card for my adult self and I'm glad I did because it came out beautifully. I AM SO PROUD OF THIS CREATION. 

 

 

Executing this fairy tale idea was indeed worth the wait and all the man-hours I must say. You may notice that the Red Riding Hood page (pg.4) is my same graphic design that I used to go with my Mummy, Wolf! poem. Which was referenced in the poem/story/message to my myself within this six page storybook card, as the debut of the spoken word performance was that same year and quite a monumental performance for me. I kept this design to myself since making it back in December 2019 (my birthday is the anniversary of Brothers' Grimm published folklore collection) and I’m only sharing it now because someone enlightened me about how much it would uplift little Black girls around the world, therefore I should be less secretive about it.

 

 

 

I suppose it would be similar to the feeling that I and many others had when seeing Brandy play Cinderella, and Whitney played the magnificent singing Fairy Godmother in Debra Martin-Chase's version of the Rogers and Hammerstein's musical adaptation for Disney (I'm such a 90's chick). If my card makes at least half of the emotive impact that, that wonderful retelling had- of which I still have on VHS and watched this year with the same big smile on my child-like face, then I would be very happy and less concerned about sharing something that was very personal thus secretive to me.

 

 

  

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Mazel Tov!

I'm really proud of this one...

I made a Wedding card on behalf of a customer congratulating a newlywed Jewish couple. I love to cater to different cultures, learn and experiment. It was a fun challenge and I welcome more.

At first glance the looks for the 'ceremony' side of this card can be deceiving. It may look like the groom's head is missing, when in actual fact his head is there he just happens to be leaning forward to try and break the glass on the floor. Coincidentally enough, the wrapped glass and the groom's kippah are both camouflaged with the background so I fully understand if you were mistaken but if you look closer you'll see it.

This is one of the most difficult cards I ever made. Not due to the request but due to my creative idea- as always. ALL of this card is handmade so needless to say that it took forever to complete, hence why it is more expensive than my other cards. At a total cost of £25, I delivered a completely handmade, personally designed, passionately written with the clients in mind, one of a kind poem folded in a triple sided glamorous greeting card. Original and 100% custom!


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